Sherpa Collaboration Meeting 2026

Mar 8, 2026, 6:00 PM → Mar 13, 2026, 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

E19 (ASB)

The 2026 edition of the annual Sherpa Collaboration meeting will take place at TU Dresden, Germany.
Previous meetings have been held at

• The University of Sussex (2025)
• Jagiellonian University Krakow (2024)
• Noordwijk (2023)

MenuBistroLunch.pdf

Sun, March 8

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM Reception

Mon, March 9

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Short introductions - Juniors only

• One slide with favourite plot from your work
• Juniors only

aprice_one_slide.pdf

CE_Intro_Dresden.pdf

Dresden_HarryGraham.odp

Dresden_HarryGraham.pdf

DRESDEN_PPT_SAYANTAN.pdf

dresdenPresentation__REnew.pdf

Ekrem_dresdenPresentation.pdf

Florens_Foerster_1Slide.pdf

IntroductionLeon.pdf

Intro_Federico_Silvetti.pdf

Intro_JX_Sherpa_20260309.pdf

Joanne_Sherpa_intro.pdf

LF_One_slide_Sherpa_Meeting_March_26.pdf

Mareen_Hoppe_Sherpa2026.pdf

Matyas_sherpa_intro.pdf

max.pdf

Moritz_Pabst_plot.pdf

Peter_Meinzinger.pdf

SherpaMeeting_2026_DReichelt.pdf

TimHerrmann.pdf

Zara_SHERPA_meeting_2026.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Hadronization and tuning

Convener: Steffen Schumann

11:30 AM Status update

Speakers: Frank Martin Krauss, Max Knobbe (Fermilab), Steffen Schumann

SherpaDD_Tuning.pdf

12:00 PM Outlook and work plan

Speakers: Frank Martin Krauss, Max Knobbe (Fermilab), Steffen Schumann

bsm_reweighting_foerster_slides.pdf

Moritz_Pabst_Presentation_Sherpa_Meeting.pdf

12:20 PM Discussion

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Sherpa future: Overview

• Discussions / presentations with focus on collaboration opportunities

Convener: Frank Martin Krauss

2:00 PM ML for Phase Spacing in Sherpa

Speaker: Steffen Schumann

SherpaDD_ML.pdf

2:10 PM HPC developments and opportunities

Speakers: Chris Gutschow, Enrico Bothmann

slides.pdf

2:20 PM Fixed targets etc. for Sherpa

Speaker: Frank Siegert

20260309-Sherpa-Dresden-FixedTarget-1.pdf

2:30 PM Sherpa as Neutrino Generator

Speaker: Zara Graham-Jones

main.pdf

2:40 PM Low-energy e^-e^+ (up to ~10 GeV)

Speaker: Alan Price

aprice_future_cut.pdf

2:50 PM Sherpa 4 EIC

Speakers: Frank Martin Krauss, Peter Meinzinger

Sherpa-future-EIC.key.pdf

3:00 PM Sherpa 4 Belle/LHCb

Speaker: Frank Martin Krauss

mKpi.pdf

mPipi.pdf

SHERPA_Future2026.pdf

3:10 PM Discussion

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM → 5:45 PM Release planning

• Presentations & discussion of features to be included in Sherpa 3.1 and 4.0

Convener: Enrico Bothmann (CERN)

4:00 PM Release 3.0.4

https://gitlab.com/sherpa-team/sherpa/-/milestones/19
https://gitlab.com/sherpa-team/sherpa/-/wikis/changelogs/rel-3-0-4

Speaker: Enrico Bothmann (CERN)

4:30 PM Release 3.1.0

https://gitlab.com/sherpa-team/sherpa/-/milestones/15

Speaker: Enrico Bothmann (CERN)

5:00 PM Alaric MC@NLO

Speakers: Daniel Reichelt (CERN), Peter Meinzinger (Zürich University), Stefan Hoeche (Fermilab)

5:10 PM HDF5, HPC and GPU

Speaker: Enrico Bothmann (CERN)

5:20 PM Beyond

• Collect and discuss ideas

Speaker: Enrico Bothmann (CERN)

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Location: Café aha, Kreuzstraße 7, 01067 Dresden

https://maps.app.goo.gl/odjmNwjFteqiWjwg9

MenuAha.pdf

Tue, March 10

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Junior meeting

• Exchange of perspectives on Sherpa developments
• 10 min physics presentations

Conveners: Diana Mareen Hoppe (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE)), Lois Flower (University of Liverpool), Max Knobbe (Fermilab)

DPG_2026_260310.pdf

DRESDEN_PPT_SAYANTAN.pdf

Dresden_talk.pdf

Ekrem_DresdenPresentation.pdf

In-person Sherpa-Meeting 2026- MareenHoppe.pdf

Joanne_Sherpa_Dresden.pdf

Quarkonia_Production_in_Sherpa (1).pdf

ResummationLeon.pdf

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Senior meeting

• Exchange of perspectives on Sherpa developments
• No presentations

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Informal exchange over coffee back in plenary

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Other sessions: Hackathon planning

Convener: Peter Meinzinger (Zürich University)

Hackathon planning doc

Hackathon planning doc

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch and group picture

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Physics modeling in Sherpa 3.0: Reports from experiments

Convener: Christian Gutschow (UCL (UK))

2:00 PM CMS report (incl. discussion)

Speaker: Jie Xiao (Imperial College (GB))

CMS_Sherpa_JX_20260310.pdf

2:45 PM ATLAS report (incl. discussion)

Speakers: Erik Bachmann (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE)), Ynyr Harris (University of Bonn (DE))

2026-04-07 Sherpa meeting (no skipped slides).pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Physics modeling in Sherpa 3.0: Challenges and Opportunities

Convener: Christian Gutschow (UCL (UK))

4:00 PM Bottlenecks preventing certain use cases in experiments

4:30 PM Creation of a priority list

4:45 PM Breakout sessions

7:30 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Location: Altes Wettbüro, Antonstraße 8, 01097 Dresden

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kJuPhv9qU7bqL1vq7

MenuAltesWettburo.pdf

Wed, March 11

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Breakout sessions

9:30 AM Process selection and coverage in Physval

9:50 AM NNLL / uncertainty quantification with Alaric

10:10 AM Fusing status and plans

10:30 AM EW shower & decays

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Sherpa future: Concrete ideas

• Discussions / presentations with focus on collaboration opportunities

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM Hackathon

Thu, March 12

9:30 AM → 1:00 PM Hackathon

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM Hackathon

Fri, March 13

9:30 AM → 1:00 PM Hackathon

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM Hackathon