ISOTDAQ 2026 - International School of Trigger and Data AcQuisition

Name: ISOTDAQ 2026 - International School of Trigger and Data AcQuisition
Start: 2026-07-01T08:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-07-10T15:30:00+03:00
Location: Bucharest, Romania

1 Jul 2026, 08:00 → 10 Jul 2026, 15:30 Europe/Bucharest

Bucharest, Romania

Support: Kate ROSS (School's Administrator)

isotdaq.schools@cern.ch

Wednesday 1 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 08:00 → 08:45
  
  Registration 45m
- 08:45 → 09:00
  
  Welcome and Introduction 15m
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Introduction to data acquisition 1h
  
  Speaker: Andrea Negri (Pavia University and INFN (IT))
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:30 → 11:30
  
  Introduction to trigger 1h
  
  Speaker: Gokhan Unel (University of California Irvine (US))
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  DAQ hardware 1h
  
  Speaker: Vincenzo Izzo (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  Introduction to detector readout 1h
  
  Speaker: Gokhan Unel (University of California Irvine (US))
- 14:30 → 15:30
  
  Introduction to VME bus 1h
  
  Speaker: Markus Joos (CERN)
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 16:00 → 17:00
  
  Storage 1h
  
  Speaker: Enrico Gamberini (CERN)
- 17:00 → 18:00
  
  LabVIEW 1h
  
  Speaker: Adriaan Rijllart (CERN)
- 18:30 → 19:30
  
  Welcome Drink 1h
Thursday 2 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  TDAQ design: from test beam to medium size experiment 1h
  
  Speaker: Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT))
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:30 → 11:30
  
  GPU in HEP: online high quality trigger processing 1h
  
  Speaker: Gianluca Lamanna (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Networking for data acquisition systems 1h
  
  Speaker: Petr Zejdl (CERN)
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Lab 1 2h
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 16:00 → 18:00
  
  Lab 2 2h
Friday 3 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  PCIexpress 1h
  
  Speaker: Alberto Perro (CERN)
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:30 → 11:30
  
  Programming for today’s physicist and engineers 1h
  
  Speaker: Philipp Brummer (CERN)
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  TDAQ for space experiments 1h
  
  Speaker: Valentina Scotti
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Lab 3 2h
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 16:00 → 18:00
  
  Lab 4 2h
Saturday 4 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Optical links 1h
  
  Speaker: Alberto Perro (CERN)
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:30 → 11:30
  
  Frontend electronics & ADC’s 1h
  
  Speaker: Suerfu Burkhant
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Introduction to Neural Networks 1h
  
  Speaker: Satchit Chatterji
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Lab 5 2h
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 16:00 → 18:00
  
  Lab 6 2h
Sunday 5 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 18:00
  
  Free Day 9h
Monday 6 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Trigger hardware 1h
  
  Speaker: Tigran Mkrtchyan (CERN)
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:30 → 11:30
  
  Introduction to FPGAs 1h
  
  Speaker: Hannes Sakulin (CERN)
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  DAQ software 1h
  
  Speaker: Enrico Pasqualucci (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Lab 7 2h
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 16:00 → 18:00
  
  Lab 8 2h
Tuesday 7 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Microcontrollers 1h
  
  Speaker: Efren Rodriguez Rodriguez (CERN)
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:30 → 11:30
  
  Advanced FPGA programming 1h
  
  Speaker: Manoel Barros Marin (CERN)
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Machine learning 1h
  
  Speaker: Thomas Owen James (CERN)
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Lab 9 2h
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 16:00 → 18:00
  
  Lab 10 2h
Wednesday 8 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Detector Control Systems 1h
  
  Speaker: Paris Moschovakos (CERN)
- 10:00 → 11:00
  
  Timing for DAQ, 1h
  
  Speaker: Mehmet Ozgur Sahin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee 30m
- 11:30 → 13:30
  
  Lab 11 2h
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 14:30 → 16:30
  
  Lab 12 2h
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 17:00 → 19:00
  
  Secret LAB 2h
  
  Speaker: Ioannis Xiotidis (CERN)
Thursday 9 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Design and implementation of a monitoring system 1h
  
  Speaker: Serguei Kolos (University of California Irvine (US))
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:30 → 11:30
  
  An Introduction to medical imaging devices 1h
  
  Speaker: Martin Lothar Purschke (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Quantum Key Distribution - EuroQCI 1h
  
  Speaker: Mihai Carabas (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Lab 13 2h
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 16:00 → 18:00
  
  Lab 14 2h
Friday 10 July
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- Sun 5 Jul
- Mon 6 Jul
- Tue 7 Jul
- Wed 8 Jul
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana 1h
  
  Speaker: Camilo Carrillo (Imperial College (GB))
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:30 → 11:30
  
  Modular electronics 1h
  
  Speaker: Markus Joos (CERN)
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  T/DAQ for the LHC experiments and upgrades 1h
  
  Speaker: Francesca Pastore (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Closing Ceremony 1h