EPIGRAPHY Kickoff School & Workshop (Lisbon)

from Monday, 12 January 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 15 January 2026 (18:00)
Instituto Superior Técnico (Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Jan 2026
13 Jan 2026
14 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2026
AM
09:00
General (until 09:30)
09:00 Welcome & Introduction - Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
09:30
WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques (until 12:00)
09:30 Introduction to LHC data with ML and FastML - Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)  
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Neural network quantization with Brevitas - Giuseppe Franco (AMD)  
09:00
WG2: Advanced compression with XAI (until 11:30)
09:00 An introduction to XAI - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN Roma (IT))  
10:15 Tutorial & Practicals on Knowledge Distillation - Andrea Ciardiello  
11:30 --- Lunch ---
09:00
WG1 (until 10:30)
09:00 Challenges & Opportunities in CMS - Emyr Clement (University of Bristol (GB))  
09:30 Challenges & Opportunities for ATLAS through the NGT Project - David Reikher (CERN)  
10:00 Challenges & Opportunities in Edge Inference for Belle II - Isabel Haide (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
WG4: ASIC-for-AI design (until 12:00)
11:00 AI on ASICs: SmartPixels - Danush Shekar (University of Illinois Chicago (US))  
09:00
Learning from other communities (until 10:00)
09:00 EuCAIF - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Learning from other communities (until 12:00)
10:30 Next-Generation Trigger - Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))  
11:15 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))  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques (until 15:00)
13:30 Introduction to FPGAs & hls4ml - Christopher Edward Brown (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques (until 18:00)
15:30 Quantization for FPGAs - Chang Sun (California Institute of Technology (US))  
17:00 An example from A to Z: Jet tagging with quantised GNNs and Transformers - Lauri Antti Olavi Laatu (Imperial College (GB))  
12:30
WG2: Advanced compression with XAI (until 13:30)
12:30 XAI: An outside perspective - Marte Eggen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)  
13:30
WG4: ASIC-for-AI design (until 16:30)
13:30 Introduction to ASICs - Marcelino dos Santos (IST)  
14:45 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 ASICs at CMS - Davide Ceresa (CERN)  
16:30
Outreach (until 18:15) (Anfiteatro Abreu Faro)
16:30 Fast Artificial Intelligence to solve the mysteries of the Universe - Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))  
17:15 Panel Discussion  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
WG4: ASIC-for-AI design (until 14:00)
13:30 Towards ASICs for the FCC-ee - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
14:00
WG1-5 (until 15:00)
14:00 Transformers on FPGAs - Arianna Cox (Imperial College (GB))  
14:30 PQuantML - Roope Oskari Niemi  
15:00
Industry (until 15:30)
15:00 Fast Decision Forests (Google) - Richard Stotz  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
WG1-5 (until 18:00)
16:00 Introduction to dataset - Philip Oliver Ploner (ETH Zurich (CH))  
16:30 Data challenge ideation & creation - Dorian Sloot (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)) Christopher Edward Brown (CERN) Arianna Cox (Imperial College (GB)) Ioannis Xiotidis (CERN) Akseli Suutari (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (FI)) Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Sioni Paris Summers (CERN)  
19:00 --- Social dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
General (until 14:30)
13:00 WG1: Next Steps - Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Sioni Paris Summers (CERN)  
13:15 WG2: Next Steps - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN Roma (IT)) Santeri Laurila (CERN & Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
13:30 WG3: Next steps - Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE)) Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))  
13:45 WG4: Next steps - André David (CERN) Nuno Roma  
14:00 WG5: Next steps - Felice Pantaleo (CERN) Deniz Sunar Cerci (Yildiz Technical University (TR)) Salim Cerci (Yildiz Technical University (TR))  
14:15 EPIGRAPHY: Next steps - Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH)) Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
14:30 --- Coffee break ---