Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School 2026

from Monday, August 10, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Friday, August 14, 2026 (2:00 PM)
BNL

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 10, 2026
Aug 11, 2026
Aug 12, 2026
Aug 13, 2026
Aug 14, 2026
AM
8:00 AM Introduction - Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))  
9:00 AM Level up your python - Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 AM ScikitHEP - Andres Rios Tascon (Cornell University) Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
9:00 AM Tools to write better code - Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 AM Agentic AI - Andres Rios Tascon (Cornell University) Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University) Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
9:00 AM LLMs and Prompt Enginering - Mohammad Atif (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Kriti Chopra (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 AM RAG, API and extending tools - Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Mohammad Atif (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Kriti Chopra (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
9:00 AM Introduction to Deep Learning - Michelle Kuchera (Davidson College)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 AM Advanced Deep Learning - Michelle Kuchera (Davidson College)  
9:00 AM Debugging - Scott Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 AM
Big Picture Talks (until 12:30 PM)
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Parallel Processing - Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Andres Rios Tascon (Cornell University) William Axel Leight (University of Massachusetts Amherst)  
3:00 PM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
3:30 PM Workshop Participant Introductions  
4:30 PM Tours  
6:00 PM --- Evening Plans ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM CI/CD & Testing - Michel Hernandez Villanueva (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
3:00 PM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
3:30 PM
Scientific Communication (until 6:00 PM)
6:00 PM --- Evening Plans - Port Jefferson ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Containers - Michel Hernandez Villanueva (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
3:00 PM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
3:20 PM --- Beach Excursion & Social Event ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM C++ Programming - Scott Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
3:00 PM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
3:30 PM
DOE Perspective & Career Panel (until 5:00 PM)
3:30 PM DOE Perspective + Q/A - Jeremy Love (U.S. Department of Energy)  
3:50 PM Career Panel  
5:00 PM --- Evening Plans - Networking Event ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Departure