Name: EPIGRAPHY Kickoff School & Workshop (Lisbon)
Start: 2026-01-12T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-15T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Instituto Superior Técnico

EPIGRAPHY Kickoff School & Workshop (Lisbon)

from Monday, January 12, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, January 15, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, January 12, 2026
9:00 AM General
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome & Introduction - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)) Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))
9:30 AM WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

9:30 AM Introduction to LHC data with ML and FastML - Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)

11:00 AM Neural network quantization with Brevitas - Giuseppe Franco (AMD)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
1:30 PM WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

1:30 PM Introduction to FPGAs & hls4ml - Christopher Edward Brown (CERN)
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
3:30 PM WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

3:30 PM Quantization for FPGAs - Chang Sun (California Institute of Technology (US))

5:00 PM An example from A to Z: Jet tagging with quantised GNNs and Transformers - Lauri Antti Olavi Laatu (Imperial College (GB))
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
9:00 AM WG2: Advanced compression with XAI
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

9:00 AM An introduction to XAI - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN Roma (IT))

10:15 AM Tutorial & Practicals on Knowledge Distillation - Andrea Ciardiello
11:30 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
12:30 PM WG2: Advanced compression with XAI
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

12:30 PM XAI: An outside perspective - Marte Eggen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
1:30 PM WG4: ASIC-for-AI design
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

1:30 PM Introduction to ASICs - Marcelino dos Santos (IST)

3:30 PM ASICs at CMS - Davide Ceresa (CERN)
4:30 PM Outreach
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Anfiteatro Abreu Faro
Contributions

4:30 PM Fast Artificial Intelligence to solve the mysteries of the Universe - Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))

5:15 PM Panel Discussion
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
9:00 AM WG1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

9:00 AM Challenges & Opportunities in CMS - Emyr Clement (University of Bristol (GB))

9:30 AM Challenges & Opportunities for ATLAS through the NGT Project - David Reikher (CERN)

10:00 AM Challenges & Opportunities in Edge Inference for Belle II - Isabel Haide
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
11:00 AM WG4: ASIC-for-AI design
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

11:00 AM AI on ASICs: SmartPixels - Danush Shekar (University of Illinois Chicago (US))
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
1:30 PM WG4: ASIC-for-AI design
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

1:30 PM Towards ASICs for the FCC-ee - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))
2:00 PM WG1-5
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

2:00 PM Transformers on FPGAs - Arianna Cox (Imperial College (GB))

2:30 PM PQuantML - Roope Oskari Niemi
3:00 PM Industry
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

3:00 PM Fast Decision Forests (Google) - Richard Stotz
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
4:00 PM WG1-5
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

4:00 PM Data challenge ideation & creation - Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Sioni Paris Summers (CERN) Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
7:00 PM Social dinner
Social dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2026
9:00 AM Learning from other communities
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

9:00 AM Next-Generation Trigger - Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
10:30 AM Learning from other communities
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

10:30 AM EuCAIF - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

11:15 AM CA24146 - Machine Learning and Quantum Computing for Future Colliders (MLQC4FC) - Riccardo Torre (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università di Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa) Riccardo Torre (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
1:00 PM General
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1
Contributions

1:00 PM WG1: Next Steps - Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Sioni Paris Summers (CERN) Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

1:15 PM WG2: Next Steps - Santeri Laurila (CERN & Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN Roma (IT))

1:30 PM WG3: Next steps - Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

1:45 PM WG4: Next steps - André David (CERN) Nuno Roma

2:00 PM WG5: Next steps - Deniz Sunar Cerci (Yildiz Technical University (TR)) Felice Pantaleo (CERN) Salim Cerci (Yildiz Technical University (TR))

2:15 PM EPIGRAPHY: Next steps - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)) Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))
2:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1

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