ACTS Workshop 2026 @NIKHEF

from Monday, April 20, 2026 (10:00 AM) to Friday, April 24, 2026 (9:00 PM)
NIKHEF

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 20, 2026
Apr 21, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
Apr 23, 2026
Apr 24, 2026
AM
10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
10:30 AM
Presentations (until 12:00 PM) (Colloquium)
10:30 AM Introduction - Pierfrancesco Butti (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:45 AM Project Overview and Status - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
11:05 AM ColliderML dataset overview - Doğa Elitez (CERN)  
11:15 AM pip install (py)acts - Benjamin Huth (CERN)  
9:00 AM
Experiments (until 10:30 AM) (Colloquium)
9:00 AM SHiP - James Maitland Webb (University of Freiburg (DE)) Oliver Lantwin (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
9:25 AM Experiment 320 experience with Acts planar geometry tracking - Roman Urmanov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
9:45 AM ACTS at the proposed Lohengrin experiment in Bonn - Cedric Carl Breuning (Universität Bonn)  
10:05 AM CMS - Lorenzo Damenti (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee ---
10:50 AM
Presentations (until 12:00 PM) (Colloquium)
10:50 AM traccc integration - Neza Ribaric (Duke University (US))  
11:10 AM Integration of new Graph Based Seeding Algorithm in ACTS - Jasper Preston (University of London (GB))  
11:30 AM Vertex fitting in the variable magnetic field - Dr Vadim Kostyukhin (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
9:00 AM
Presentations - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM ACTS ❤️ MILLEPEDE - Maximilian Emanuel Goblirsch-Kolb (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
9:30 AM Global alignment with tracks fitted with a Kalman filter - Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
9:50 AM Alignable (super) structures - Knut Zoch (CERN) Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee ---
10:50 AM
Hands-on (until 12:00 PM) (Electron, Library, Positron)
9:00 AM
Experiments (until 10:15 AM) (Colloquium)
9:00 AM STCF - Hao Li (Zhengzhou University (CN)) Xiaocong Ai (Zhengzhou University)  
9:25 AM LUXE - Yufeng Wang Thomas Madlener (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))  
9:50 AM ALICE - Igor Altsybeev (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)) Pierfrancesco Butti (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:15 AM --- Coffee ---
10:35 AM
Presentations (until 12:00 PM) (Colloquium)
10:35 AM Transformer tracking - Sebastien Rettie (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
11:05 AM Hybrid pattern recognition for charged particle tracking: Hough transform and convolutional neural networks - Carlo Varni (AGH University of Krakow (PL))  
11:35 AM GUNTAM: A Transformer for seed reconstruction - Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)  
9:00 AM
Hackathon (until 12:00 PM) (Electron, Bottom, Positron)
PM
12:00 PM --- Box Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Hands-on (until 3:30 PM) (Electron, Library, Bottom)
3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Hands-on (until 3:30 PM) (Electron, Library, Bottom)
3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
4:00 PM
Hands-on (until 5:30 PM) (Electron, Library, Bottom)
4:00 PM ACTS Governance Discussion - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Hands-on (until 3:30 PM) (Electron, Library, Positron)
3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
4:00 PM
Experiments (until 6:00 PM)
4:00 PM sPHENIX - Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
4:25 PM EPIC - Barak Schmookler Wouter Deconinck (University of Manitoba (CA))  
4:50 PM LDMX - Mathew Graham (SLAC)  
5:15 PM Muon Collider - Samuel Ferraro  
5:40 PM ATLAS - Noemi Calace (CERN)  
7:30 PM --- Social dinner ---
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Hands-on (until 3:30 PM) (Electron, Library, Bottom)
3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
4:00 PM
Presentations - Benjamin Henry Hooberman (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)) (until 5:20 PM)
4:00 PM Large Impact Parameter Track Reconstruction in ATLAS Using ACTS (25+10) - Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US))  
4:35 PM Combined primary and secondary vertexing at future colliders (25+10) - Dr Vadim Kostyukhin Dr Vadim Kostyukhin (Universitaet Siegen (DE)) Vadim Kostyukhin (Bonn)  
5:10 PM Close-out - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Hackathon (until 4:00 PM) (Electron, Bottom, Positron)