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40/S2-A01 - Salle Anderson (CERN)

40/S2-A01 - Salle Anderson

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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.

   
 
 
 
  • Wednesday 8 July
    • 1
      Welcome and Organization
      Speakers: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University (DE))
      welcome slides
    • 2
      Introduction to challenges - and current status
      Speaker: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))
      EPIGRAPHY_July8.pdf
    • 3
      Introduction to the Dataset - and current status
      Speaker: Eric Anton Moreno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US))
      Collide2V_EMoreno.pdf
    • 4
      Icebreaker
      Speaker: Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University (DE))
      icebreaker slide
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • Challenge infrastructure: Where we at?
      Convener: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))
    • Learn about FPGA development: Introduction to FPGA and hls4ml
      Convener: Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)
      Epigraphy_workshopPDF.pdf
    • Training and Compression strategies: Overview and startup phase
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
    • Learn about FPGA development: Interactive session
      Convener: Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)
      Epigraphy_workshopPDF.pdf
    • Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time
    • 5
      Wrap-up for the day, and goals for tomorrow
  • Thursday 9 July
    • Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
    • Training and Compression strategies
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
    • Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
    • Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time
    • 6
      Wrap-up for the day, and goals for tomorrow
  • Friday 10 July
    • Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time
    • Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • Challenge infrastructure: Hacking time -- collection of results for final wrap up
    • Training and Compression strategies: Hacking time -- collection of results for final wrap up
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • 7
      Wrap-up of the hackathon
      Speaker: Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University (DE))
      EPIGRAPHY_fpga_hackathon_outro.pdf
    • 8
      Next steps