EPIGRAPHY Kickoff School & Workshop (Lisbon)

from Monday, January 12, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, January 15, 2026 (6:00 PM)
Instituto Superior Técnico (Pavilhão de Química, QA 1.1)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jan 12, 2026
Jan 13, 2026
Jan 14, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
AM
9:00 AM
General (until 9:30 AM)
9:00 AM Welcome & Introduction - Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
9:30 AM
WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques (until 12:00 PM)
9:30 AM Introduction to LHC data with ML and FastML - Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)  
10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Neural network quantization with Brevitas - Giuseppe Franco (AMD)  
9:00 AM
WG2: Advanced compression with XAI (until 11:30 AM)
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 ---
9:00 AM
WG1 (until 10:30 AM)
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 ---
11:00 AM
WG4: ASIC-for-AI design (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM AI on ASICs: SmartPixels - Danush Shekar (University of Illinois Chicago (US))  
9:00 AM
Learning from other communities (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Next-Generation Trigger - Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))  
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
Learning from other communities (until 12:00 PM)
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))  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM Introduction to FPGAs & hls4ml - Christopher Edward Brown (CERN)  
3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
WG1: Architecture-specific compression techniques (until 6:00 PM)
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))  
12:30 PM
WG2: Advanced compression with XAI (until 1:30 PM)
12:30 PM XAI: An outside perspective - Marte Eggen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)  
1:30 PM
WG4: ASIC-for-AI design (until 4:30 PM)
1:30 PM Introduction to ASICs - Marcelino dos Santos (IST)  
2:45 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM ASICs at CMS - Davide Ceresa (CERN)  
4:30 PM
Outreach (until 6:15 PM) (Anfiteatro Abreu Faro)
4:30 PM Fast Artificial Intelligence to solve the mysteries of the Universe - Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))  
5:15 PM Panel Discussion  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
WG4: ASIC-for-AI design (until 2:00 PM)
1:30 PM Towards ASICs for the FCC-ee - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
2:00 PM
WG1-5 (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Transformers on FPGAs - Arianna Cox (Imperial College (GB))  
2:30 PM PQuantML - Roope Oskari Niemi  
3:00 PM
Industry (until 3:30 PM)
3:00 PM Fast Decision Forests (Google) - Richard Stotz  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
WG1-5 (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM Data challenge ideation & creation - Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Sioni Paris Summers (CERN)  
7:00 PM --- Social dinner ---
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
General (until 2:30 PM)
1:00 PM WG1: Next Steps - Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Sioni Paris Summers (CERN)  
1:15 PM WG2: Next Steps - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN Roma (IT)) Santeri Laurila (CERN & Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
1:30 PM WG3: Next steps - Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE)) Ines Ochoa (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))  
1:45 PM WG4: Next steps - André David (CERN) Nuno Roma  
2:00 PM WG5: Next steps - Felice Pantaleo (CERN) Deniz Sunar Cerci (Yildiz Technical University (TR)) Salim Cerci (Yildiz Technical University (TR))  
2:15 PM EPIGRAPHY: Next steps - Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH)) Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
2:30 PM --- Coffee break ---