Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School 2026

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

BNL

Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)), Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin (US)), Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

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 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: Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)), Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)), Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

09:00 → 10:30 Level up your python

Speaker: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 → 12:30 ScikitHEP

Speakers: Andres Rios Tascon (Cornell University), Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Processing

Speakers: Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Andres Rios Tascon (Cornell University), William Axel Leight (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 → 16:30 Workshop Participant Introductions

16:30 → 18:00 Tours

18:00 → 20:00 Evening Plans

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 (Cornell University), Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 CI/CD & Testing

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

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 → 18:00 Scientific Communication

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 → 15:20 Coffee/Tea Break

15:20 → 20:00 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 C++ Programming

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

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 → 17:00 DOE Perspective & Career Panel

15:30 DOE Perspective + Q/A

Speaker: Jeremy Love (U.S. Department of Energy)

15:50 Career Panel

Panelists:
- TBC

17:00 → 19:00 Evening Plans - Networking Event

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 Big Picture Talks: Computing in HEP Outlook

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Departure