Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School 2026

10 Aug 2026, 08:00 → 14 Aug 2026, 14:00 US/Eastern

Berkner Hall B (BNL)

Welcome to BNL, we are meeting in Berkner Hall B!

The badging/GUV center opens at 7AM, please allow time to get your badge processed. The lectures start at 9AM but please arrive early on the first day.

Please note that lunch is not provided, we will get it from Berkner Hall which also has a cafeteria

 

Summer school for graduate students in the DOE Traineeship in Computational HEP programs TAC-HEP, WATCHEP and C2-THE-P2 and LGT4HEP. The event will be hosted at BNL starting from the morning of August 10th and ending on August 14th around lunchtime.

This training event is supported by Department of Energy grants DE-SC0023528 (TAC-HEP), DE-SC0023527 (WATCHEP),  DE-SC0023524 (C2-THE-P2)  and DE-SC0024053 (LGT4HEP), in collaboration with the Department of Energy funded High Energy Physics Center for Computational Excellence (HEP-CCE) and the National Science Foundation cooperative agreement PHY-2323298 (IRIS-HEP).

This is the fourth event, following the first traineeship school held in 2023 at Princeton University, the second school held in 2024 at Fermilab, and the third school held in 2025 at UC Berkeley/LBL.

Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the developers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Energy or the National Science Foundation.

Monday 10 August

08:00 → 09:00 Introduction

Also allowing time for access to the lab

Speakers: Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)), Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

Introductions

Welcome CompHEP Traineeship BNL 2026.pdf

09:00 → 10:30 Level up your python

Speaker: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

iSciNumPy

Level Up

SDCC

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 → 12:30 ScikitHEP

Speaker: Andres Rios-Tascon (Princeton University)

Binder (backup)

Materials

SDCC

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Processing

Speakers: Andres Rios-Tascon (Princeton University), William Axel Leight (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Coffea-Casa docs

Coffea Docs

Coffea notebooks

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 → 17:00 CI/CD & Testing

Speaker: Michel Hernandez Villanueva (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

CI/CD in GitHub

17:00 → 18:00 Workshop Participant Introductions

18:00 → 20:00 Evening Plans - Southpaw Brewing (next to the home2 hotel)

Tuesday 11 August

09:00 → 10:30 Tools to write better code

Speaker: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 → 12:30 Agentic AI

Speakers: Andres Rios-Tascon (Princeton University), Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Scientific Communication

Convener: Alan Alda Center for Science Communication

15:00 → 15:15 Coffee/Tea Break

15:15 → 16:45 Scientific Communication

Convener: Alan Alda Center for Science Communication

17:00 → 18:00 Tours

18:00 → 20:00 Evening Plans - Port Jefferson

Wednesday 12 August

09:00 → 10:30 LLMs and Prompt Enginering

Speakers: Kriti Chopra (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mohammad Atif (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 → 12:30 RAG, API and extending tools

Speakers: Kriti Chopra (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mohammad Atif (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Containers

Speaker: Michel Hernandez Villanueva (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 → 19:00 Beach Excursion & Social Event

Thursday 13 August

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction to Deep Learning

Speaker: Michelle Kuchera (Davidson College)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 → 12:30 Advanced Deep Learning

Speaker: Michelle Kuchera (Davidson College)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 BNL Perspective & Career Panel

13:30 BNL Perspective + Q/A

Speaker: Dmitri Denisov (Brookhaven National Laboratiry)

14:00 Career Panel

Panelists:
- Meifeng Lin (BNL)
- Michelle Kuchera (Davidson College)
- Ofer Rind (BNL)
- Henry Schreiner (Princeton)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 → 17:00 Tours

17:00 → 19:00 Evening Plans

Friday 14 August

09:00 → 10:30 Debugging

Speaker: Scott Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 → 12:30 C++ Programming

Speaker: Scott Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

12:30 → 13:00 Closeout

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch & Departure