EPIGRAPHY FPGA Hackathon

Name: EPIGRAPHY FPGA Hackathon
Start: 2026-07-08T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-10T16:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

8 Jul 2026, 09:00 → 10 Jul 2026, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

40/S2-A01 - Salle Anderson (CERN)

40/S2-A01 - Salle Anderson

CERN

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Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH)), Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University (DE))

Description

The first EPIGRAPHY (Edge deeP learnInG foR pArticle PHYsics) FPGA hackathon on the data challenges and FPGA model compression will be hosted at CERN, July 8 - 10, 2026.

Participants should sign up ahead of time to the following e-group:
https://groups-portal.web.cern.ch/group/fastml-tutorials

People without CERN site access will be granted a visitor pass and picked up at CERN Entrance B at 8:30 on July 8.

Mattermost channel: https://mattermost.web.cern.ch/epigraphy/channels/hackathon-2026_edition

IMPORTANT: Friday the room will be Salle Andersson.

For organizational questions, reach out to benedikt.maier@cern.ch and sebastian.dittmeier@cern.ch.

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Sebastian Dittmeier

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Wednesday 8 July
- 09:00 → 09:15
  
  Welcome and Organization 15m
  
  Speakers: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University (DE))
  
  welcome slides
- 09:15 → 09:45
  
  Introduction to challenges - and current status 30m
  
  Speaker: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))
  
  EPIGRAPHY_July8.pdf
- 09:45 → 10:15
  
  Introduction to the Dataset - and current status 30m
  
  Speaker: Eric Anton Moreno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US))
  
  Collide2V_EMoreno.pdf
- 10:15 → 10:30
  
  Icebreaker 15m
  
  Speaker: Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University (DE))
  
  icebreaker slide
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Challenge infrastructure: Where we at?
  
  Convener: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Learn about FPGA development: Introduction to FPGA and hls4ml
  
  Convener: Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)
  
  Epigraphy_workshopPDF.pdf
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Training and Compression strategies: Overview and startup phase
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Learn about FPGA development: Interactive session
  
  Convener: Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)
  
  Epigraphy_workshopPDF.pdf
- 13:30 → 15:30
  
  Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Wrap-up for the day, and goals for tomorrow 30m
Thursday 9 July
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Training and Compression strategies
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:30 → 16:00
  
  Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
- 13:30 → 16:00
  
  Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Wrap-up for the day, and goals for tomorrow 30m
Friday 10 July
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time -- collection of results for final wrap up
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time -- collection of results for final wrap up
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:30 → 14:15
  
  Wrap-up of the hackathon 45m
  
  Speaker: Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University (DE))
  
  EPIGRAPHY_fpga_hackathon_outro.pdf
- 14:15 → 15:00
  
  Next steps 45m