ISOTDAQ 2026 - International School of Trigger and Data AcQuisition

from Wednesday, 1 July 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 10 July 2026 (15:30)
Bucharest, Romania

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026
3 Jul 2026
4 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
6 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026
AM
08:30 --- Registration ---
09:00 Welcome and Introduction  
09:10 Introduction to data acquisition - Andrea Negri (Pavia University and INFN (IT))  
10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Introduction to trigger - Gokhan Unel (University of California Irvine (US))  
11:30 DAQ hardware - Vincenzo Izzo (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
09:00 TDAQ design: from test beam to medium size experiment - Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT))  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 GPU in HEP: online high quality trigger processing - Gianluca Lamanna (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
11:30 Networking for data acquisition systems - Petr Zejdl (CERN)  
09:00 PCIexpress - Alberto Perro (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Programming for today’s physicist and engineers - Philipp Brummer (CERN)  
11:30 TDAQ for space experiments - Valentina Scotti  
09:00 Optical links - Alberto Perro (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Frontend electronics & ADC’s (zoom lecture) - Suerfu Burkhant  
11:30 Introduction to Neural Networks - Satchit Chatterji  
09:00 --- Free Day ---
09:00 Trigger hardware - Tigran Mkrtchyan (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Introduction to FPGAs - Hannes Sakulin (CERN)  
11:30 DAQ software - Enrico Pasqualucci (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
09:00 Advanced FPGA programming - Manoel Barros Marin (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Microcontrollers (zoom lecture) - Efren Rodriguez Rodriguez (CERN)  
11:30 Machine learning - Thomas Owen James (CERN)  
09:00 A scalable, portable DAQ system design - Martin Lothar Purschke (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:00 Timing for DAQ - Mehmet Ozgur Sahin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30 Lab 11  
09:00 Design and implementation of a monitoring system - Serguei Kolos (University of California Irvine (US))  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 An Introduction to medical imaging devices - Martin Lothar Purschke (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
11:30 Quantum Key Distribution - EuroQCI - Mihai Carabas (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))  
09:00 Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana - Karol Bunkowski (University of Warsaw (PL))  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Modular electronics - Markus Joos (CERN)  
11:30 T/DAQ for the LHC experiments and upgrades - Francesca Pastore (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Introduction to detector readout - Gokhan Unel (University of California Irvine (US))  
14:30 Introduction to VME bus - Markus Joos (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Storage - Enrico Gamberini (CERN)  
17:00 LabVIEW - Adriaan Rijllart (CERN)  
18:30 --- Welcome Drink ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Lab 1  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Lab 2  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Lab 3  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Lab 4  
19:00 --- Social Dinner @ Caru' cu Bere in the Wine Cellar (CRAMA) ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Lab 5  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Lab 6  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Lab 7  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Lab 8  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Lab 9  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Lab 10  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Lab 12  
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 Secret LAB - Ioannis Xiotidis (CERN)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Lab 13  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Lab 14  
12:30 Closing Ceremony