Third UK meeting on enabling AI in HEP experiments and theory

Thursday 26 Mar 2026, 10:30 → 17:00 Europe/London

539 (Blackett Laboratory)

This is the third workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) and Emerging Technologies in particle physics, after successful events last year at UCL and Liverpool.

The meeting is sponsored by STFC and will discuss the scope and aims of the group, with a focus on barriers/needs/opportunities in terms of enabling AI in HEP experiments/theory, and how to best engage with future funding opportunities in this area further to the publication of the document "Enabling AI for High Energy Physics Experiment and Theory"  as outcome of the previous discussions. The meeting will be held at the Imperial College with coffee at 10.30am and the meeting being held  from 11am-5pm, with a lunch break.

Zoom is available here: 

https://cern.zoom.us/j/67959048795?pwd=6otbIx77ZBMDdVZVDhUXGAQA95d4aT.1

The following day there will be a tutorial on Fast Machine Learning tools, principally for FPGA platforms. Registration is available here:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1641573/

For in-person participation, the registration will close on 19 March.

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:20 Introduction

Welcome, what we have achieved since last time etc.

Speakers: Alex Tapper (Imperial College London), Davide Costanzo (University of Sheffield (GB)), Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB)), Dr Timothy Paul Scanlon (UCL)

11:20 → 11:50 STFC AI Strategy & Plans

Speakers: George Madden (Science and Technology Facilities Council), Sarah Garlick

11:50 → 12:20 RAL SCD AI group plans

Speaker: Alastair Dewhurst (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

12:20 → 12:45 RAL PPD plans

Speaker: Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB))

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:00 Follow up discussion

14:00 → 15:00 Reports from projects funded

14:00 AI Inference as a Service deployment at a WLCG Tier-2

Speaker: David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

14:10 AI-enhanced 2D to 3D pattern recognition in LArTPCs

Speaker: Dominic Bevan Brailsford (Lancaster University)

14:20 PHAZE-1: Validating Early Predictive Sufficiency for Low-Latency Foundation Models

Speakers: Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB)), Pratik Jawahar (University of Manchester (UK - ATLAS))

14:30 Smart Monitoring: AI-Driven Analysis of Distributed Systems

Speaker: Robert Fay (University of Liverpool (GB))

14:40 Talk 5

14:50 Talk 6

15:00 → 15:10 FastML Foundation

Speaker: Alex Tapper (Imperial College London)

15:10 → 15:40 International updates

Genesis?

15:40 → 16:00 EU updates

EUICAF, COST etc.

Speakers: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))

16:00 → 17:00 Closeout discussion

Theory, nuclear?

Next steps?

Delivery plan?