9th EIROforum School on Instrumentation

from Monday, 1 June 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 5 June 2026 (17:15)
EMBL / ILL / ESRF - EPN Campus, Grenoble

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jun 2026
2 Jun 2026
3 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026
5 Jun 2026
AM
08:00 Registration  
08:40 Welcome to ESI 2026  
10:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
10:30
System, Integration and Instrument Design - Steffen Hauf (XFEL) (until 12:00)
11:00 Mechatronic for synchrotrons : from quasi-static systems to high dynamic positioning stages - Francois Villar (ESRF)  
11:30 Cryogenics & Vacuum Technology - Matteo Accardo (ESO)  
08:30
Control, Data acquisition and High Data volumes - Joao Figueredo (EUROfusion) (until 10:00)
08:30 Software testing - Anna Klimovskaia (EuXFEL)  
09:00 The Potential of AI In Instrument Control - Paolo Mutti (ILL)  
09:30 Beamline control, data acquisition and data management at the ESRF - Vicente Rey-Bakaikoa (ESRF) Lucas Felix (ESRF)  
10:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
10:30
Radiation Damage - Paolo Mutti (Institut Laue-Langevin) (until 12:00)
10:30 Introduction to radiation effects in electronics and detectors - Giulio Borghello (CERN)  
11:00 Electronics reliability in the nuclear fusion radiation environment of tokamaks - Martin Dentan (EUROfusion)  
11:30 The JUICE spacecraft and its instrumentation: overview and challenges - Fabrice Cipriani (ESA)  
08:30
Project Day (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee / tea ---
10:30
Project Day (until 12:00)
08:30
Optics - Gergely Papp (EMBL) (until 10:30)
08:30 X-ray optics - Thomas Roth (ESRF)  
09:00 Optical Design Principles - Johannes Kolmeder (ESO)  
09:30 Combining Light and Sound for Deep Tissue Microscopy - Frederik Görlitz (EMBL)  
10:00 Neutron Optics - Pierre Courtois (ILL)  
10:30
group photo (until 10:35)
10:35 --- Coffee / Tea ---
11:00
Machine Learning and Data Analysis - Angela Cortes (ESO) (until 12:00)
11:00 A General Overview of Vacuum Technology and Instrumentation for Research Environments - Raul Villanueva (EuXFEL)  
11:30 Leveraging Machine Learning Techniques for Predictive Maintenance in Large-Scale Scientific Facilities - Amna Majid (EuXFEL)  
08:55
Poster prize - Gergely Papp (EMBL) (until 09:00)
09:00
Detector Design - Gergely Papp (EMBL) (until 10:30)
09:00 Megahertz imaging with pixel detectors - Marco Ramilli (EuXFEL)  
09:30 Data analysis of large and diverse experimental data at a photon science facility - Ivette Bermundez (EuXFEL)  
10:00 Thermal neutron detectors, readout electronics and signal processing - Patrick Van Esch (ILL)  
10:30 --- Tea / Coffee ---
11:00
Detector Design - Thibault Prod'homme (ESA) (until 12:00)
11:00 Tracking and calorimetry for particle detectors - David Barney (CERN)  
11:30 Imaging Sensors For Space Applications - Thibault Prod'homme (ESA)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
System, Integration and Instrument Design - Dave Barney (CERN) (until 15:00)
13:00 Improving vitrification of biological samples using liquid ethane jets - Gergely Papp (EMBL)  
13:30 Project Management and Systems Engineering for instrumentation - Lorenzo Pettazzi (ESO)  
14:00 Integration challenges in collider detectors for particle physics: the examples of the CMS experiment Tracker and High-Granularity Calorimeter for High-Luminosity LHC operation - Karol Rapacz (CERN)  
14:30 Design and verification basics for space instrumentation - Thibault Prod'homme (ESA)  
15:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
15:30
ESRF/EMBL visits (until 18:30)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Hands-on session 1 (until 15:00)
13:00 AI-assisted Coding - Steffen Hauf (EuXFEL)  
13:00 Impactful presentation - Dave Barney (CERN)  
13:00 Rapid prototyping - Karol Rapacz (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
15:30 Flash oral presentations - Dr Christine Darve (European Spallation Source)  
17:00 Poster session  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Project Day (until 15:30)
15:30 --- Coffee / tea ---
16:00
Keynote talks - Thibaut Prod'homme (until 18:00)
16:00 Keynote lecture #1 - ML training for FPGAs: the techniques of pruning and quantization; technology ingredients for putting ML models on FPGAs; how you balance size with quality - Roope Oskari Niemi (CERN)  
17:00 Keynote lecture #2 - When Accuracy Isn’t Enough - AI/ML for Particle Physics - Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University (DE))  
18:00 Reception  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Hands-on Session 2 (until 15:00)
13:00 AI-assisted Coding - Steffen Hauf (EuXFEL)  
13:00 Impactful presentation - David Barney (CERN)  
13:00 Rapid prototyping - Karol Rapacz (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
15:30 Flash Oral presentations 2 - Paolo Mutti (Institut Laue-Langevin)  
17:00 Poster session 2  
12:00 Closing remarks and farewell  
12:20 --- Lunch ---