Sherpa Collaboration Meeting 2026

from Sunday, 8 March 2026 (18:00) to Friday, 13 March 2026 (18:00)
ASB (E19)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Mar 2026
9 Mar 2026
10 Mar 2026
11 Mar 2026
12 Mar 2026
13 Mar 2026
AM
09:30
Short introductions - Juniors only (until 11:00)
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30
Hadronization and tuning - Steffen Schumann (until 13:00)
11:30 Status update - Frank Martin Krauss Steffen Schumann Max Knobbe (Fermilab)  
12:00 Outlook and work plan - Frank Martin Krauss Steffen Schumann Max Knobbe (Fermilab)  
12:20 Discussion  
09:30
Junior meeting - Lois Flower (University of Liverpool) Max Knobbe (Fermilab) Diana Mareen Hoppe (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE)) (until 11:00)
09:30
Senior meeting (until 11:00)
11:00 --- Informal exchange over coffee back in plenary ---
09:30
Breakout sessions (until 11:00)
09:30 Process selection and coverage in Physval  
09:50 NNLL / uncertainty quantification with Alaric  
10:10 Fusing status and plans  
10:30 EW shower & decays  
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30
Sherpa future (until 13:00)
09:30
Hackathon (until 13:00)
09:30
Hackathon (until 13:00)
PM
18:00 Reception  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Sherpa future - Frank Martin Krauss (until 15:30)
14:00 ML for Phase Spacing in Sherpa - Steffen Schumann  
14:10 HPC developments and opportunities - Chris Gutschow Enrico Bothmann  
14:20 Fixed targets etc. for Sherpa - Frank Siegert  
14:30 Sherpa as Neutrino Generator - Zara Graham-Jones  
14:40 Low-energy e^-e^+ (up to ~10 GeV) - Alan Price  
14:50 Sherpa 4 EIC - Peter Meinzinger Frank Martin Krauss  
15:00 Sherpa 4 Belle/LHCb - Frank Martin Krauss  
15:10 Discussion  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Release planning - Enrico Bothmann (CERN) (until 17:45)
16:00 Release 3.0.4 - Enrico Bothmann (CERN)  
16:30 Release 3.1.0 - Enrico Bothmann (CERN)  
17:00 Alaric MC@NLO - Daniel Reichelt (CERN) Stefan Hoeche (Fermilab) Peter Meinzinger (Zürich University)  
17:10 HDF5, HPC and GPU - Enrico Bothmann (CERN)  
17:20 Beyond - Enrico Bothmann (CERN)  
18:30 Dinner  
12:00
Other sessions - Peter Meinzinger (Zürich University) (until 13:00)
13:00 --- Lunch and group picture ---
14:00
Physics modeling in Sherpa 3.0 - Christian Gutschow (UCL (UK)) (until 15:30)
14:00 CMS report (incl. discussion) - Jie Xiao (Imperial College (GB))  
14:45 ATLAS report (incl. discussion) - Ynyr Harris (University of Bonn (DE)) Erik Bachmann (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Physics modeling in Sherpa 3.0 - Christian Gutschow (UCL (UK)) (until 17:30)
16:00 Bottlenecks preventing certain use cases in experiments  
16:30 Creation of a priority list  
16:45 Breakout sessions  
19:30 Dinner  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Hackathon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Hackathon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Hackathon (until 18:00)