WG1 Organisation Meeting

Thursday 12 Mar 2026, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Zurich

Please fill the questionnaire from WG5: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9i-ZN9ewVcoqMC-T71gvsMM4EELtHW4Ld4Ae5q7Oyjb5kSg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

1 Conferences / Workshops to target for data challenge

Homework from last time: identify some conferences and workshops to target for creating engagement with the data challenge

Speakers: Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)), Sioni Paris Summers (CERN), Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

• Advertise in existing talks / posters
  • CHEP (Bangkok, end May)
  • IEEE RT (Elba, end May)
  • Future Colliders (Corfu, April)
• Targeted abstracts:
  • FastML (San Diego, August 31-September 4)
  • ML4Jets (Vienna, 14-18 September)
  • IEEE ASAP (London, 3-4 September)
  • IEEE SoCC (Heidelberg, September 30-October 2)
• To check:
  • Neurips datasets benchmarks 2026 (Australia, May submission deadline)

2 Travel grants announcement

Speakers: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Sebastian Dittmeier (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)), Sioni Paris Summers (CERN), Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH)), Torben Ferber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

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Grants will be announced next week. See the attached document for full details.

First round of applications will be opened soon.

Conference Grants

• depends on acceptance to a specific conference

 

Short Term Scientific Mission

• upper reimbursement limit around €2-3k (to be checked next week)
• up to around one month (to be checked)
• the host needs to provide a letter of invitation
  • grant applicants need to contact a potential host before applying for a grant
• to be checked: the host needs to be a member of the COST Action

3 ATLAS Delphes card

Speaker: Stylianos Kostakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))

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