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Differentiable Analysis Blueprint

from Thursday, 5 March 2026 (14:00) to Friday, 6 March 2026 (19:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026
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PM
14:00 Welcome & Introduction to Workshop - Lino Oscar Gerlach (Princeton University (US)) Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US))  
14:10
Foundations and Scope (until 15:10)
14:10 Automatic Differentiation in HEP and Differentiable Systematics [30' + 15'] - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
14:55 Differentiating Discrete Operations [10' + 5'] - Annalena Kofler (Technical University Munich)  
15:10
Foundations and Scope (until 15:50)
15:10 Discussion  
15:50 --- Break ---
16:00
Conceptual Challenges (until 16:30)
16:00 Everything that can go wrong [10'+5'] - Frederic Renner (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
16:15 Adoption of Automatic Differentiation in HEP [10' + 5'] - Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
16:30
Conceptual Challenges (until 17:20)
16:30 Discussion  
17:20 --- Break ---
17:30
Technical Landscape (until 18:15)
17:30 Tooling for Differentiable HEP [10' + 5'] - Lino Oscar Gerlach (Princeton University (US))  
17:45 Differentiable Binning Optimization [10' + 5'] - Nitish Kasaraguppe (RWTH Aachen (DE))  
18:00 Awkward Arrays and JAX [10' + 5'] - Ianna Osborne (Princeton University)  
18:15
Technical Landscape (until 19:00)
18:15 Discussion  
19:00 Closing and Summary - Lino Oscar Gerlach (Princeton University (US)) Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US))  
14:00 Introduction to the day - Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US)) Lino Oscar Gerlach (Princeton University (US))  
14:10
Technical Landscape (until 14:55)
14:10 Differentiable Statistical Ecosystem with JAX [10' + 5'] - Peter Fackeldey (Princeton University (US))  
14:25 Differentiable Programming in C++ and ROOT with Clad [25' + 5'] - Jonas Rembser (CERN) Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))  
14:55
Technical Landscape (until 15:25)
14:55 Discussion  
15:25 --- Break ---
15:40
Beyond LHC (until 17:00)
15:40 Differentiable Detector Simulation with GEANT [15' + 5'] - Jeffrey Krupa (SLAC)  
16:00 End-to-End Differentiable Analysis in IceCube [20' + 10'] - Oliver Janik (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE))  
16:30 Automatic Differentiation Beyond HEP [20' + 10'] - Giacomo Acciarini (European Space Agency (ESA))  
17:00
Beyond LHC (until 17:45)
17:45 Closing, Call for Action and Future Steps - Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US)) Lino Oscar Gerlach (Princeton University (US))