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

1 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))

2 Level up your python

Speaker: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

10:30 Coffee/Tea Break

3 ScikitHEP

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

12:30 Lunch

4 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 Coffee/Tea Break

5 Workshop Participant Introductions

6 Tours

18:00 Evening Plans

Tuesday 11 August

7 Tools to write better code

Speaker: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

10:30 Coffee/Tea Break

8 Agentic AI

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

12:30 Lunch

9 CI/CD & Testing

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

15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

DOE Perspective & Career Panel

10 DOE Perspective + Q/A

11 Career Panel

Panelists:
- TBC

18:00 Evening Plans

Wednesday 12 August

12 LLMs and Prompt Enginering

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

10:30 Coffee/Tea Break

13 RAG, API and extending tools

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

12:30 Lunch

14 Containers

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

15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

15:20 Beach Excursion

Thursday 13 August

10:30 Coffee/Tea Break

12:30 Lunch

15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

Friday 14 August

Third Session Block

10:30 Coffee/Tea Break

Third Session Block: Computing in HEP Outlook

12:30 Lunch

15 Departure