Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School 2026

from Monday, 10 August 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 14 August 2026 (14:00)
BNL

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Aug 2026
11 Aug 2026
12 Aug 2026
13 Aug 2026
14 Aug 2026
AM
08:00 Introduction - 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 Level up your python - Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)  
10:30 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 ScikitHEP - Andres Rios Tascon (Cornell University) Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
09:00 Tools to write better code - Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)  
10:30 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 Agentic AI - Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University) Andres Rios Tascon (Cornell University) Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
09:00 LLMs and Prompt Enginering - Kriti Chopra (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Mohammad Atif (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:30 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 RAG, API and extending tools - Kriti Chopra (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Mohammad Atif (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
09:00 Introduction to Deep Learning - Michelle Kuchera (Davidson College)  
10:30 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00 Advanced Deep Learning - Michelle Kuchera (Davidson College)  
09:00 Debugging - Scott Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:30 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:00
Big Picture Talks (until 12:30)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Parallel Processing - Andres Rios Tascon (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Andres Rios Tascon (Cornell University) William Axel Leight (University of Massachusetts Amherst)  
15:00 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
15:30 Workshop Participant Introductions  
16:30 Tours  
18:00 --- Evening Plans ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Scientific Communication (until 15:00)
15:00 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
15:30
Scientific Communication (until 17:00)
18:00 --- Evening Plans - Port Jefferson ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 CI/CD & Testing - Michel Hernandez Villanueva (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
15:00 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
15:30 Containers - Michel Hernandez Villanueva (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
17:00 --- Beach Excursion & Social Event ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 C++ Programming - Scott Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
15:00 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
15:30
DOE Perspective & Career Panel (until 17:00)
15:30 DOE Perspective + Q/A - Jeremy Love (U.S. Department of Energy)  
15:50 Career Panel  
17:00 --- Evening Plans - Networking Event ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Departure