Third UK meeting on enabling AI in HEP experiments and theory

Thursday, 26 March 2026 - 10:30
Blackett Laboratory (539)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Mar 2026
AM
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Introduction - 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 RAL SCD AI group plans - Alastair Dewhurst (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
11:50 FastML Foundation - Alex Tapper (Imperial College London)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 UKRI AI Research and Innovation Strategic Framework - James Dracott Sarah Garlick George Madden (Science and Technology Facilities Council)  
14:00
Reports from projects funded (until 15:45)
14:00 Cross-experimental Tools and Open-source Datasets - Jackson Barr (UCL)  
14:10 AI Inference as a Service deployment at a WLCG Tier-2 - Albert Gyorgy Borbely (University of Glasgow (GB))  
14:20 Smart Monitoring: AI-Driven Analysis of Distributed Systems - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Liverpool (GB)) Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB)) Robert Fay (University of Liverpool (GB))  
14:30 FastML studies and plans - Lauri Antti Olavi Laatu (Imperial College (GB))  
14:40 --- Break ---
15:10 PHAZE-1: Validating Early Predictive Sufficiency for Low-Latency Foundation Models - Pratik Jawahar (University of Manchester (UK - ATLAS)) Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))  
15:20 Pandora Deep Learning for Interaction Vertex Reconstruction in LAr neutrino detectors - Alexandra Frances Moor (University of Sheffield (GB))  
15:30 AI-enhanced 2D to 3D pattern recognition in LArTPCs - Dominic Bevan Brailsford (Lancaster University)  
15:45 International update -- US - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))  
16:00 International update -- EU - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)) Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))  
16:20 Closeout discussion