Name: IRIS-HEP Institute Retreat 2026
Start: 2026-09-09T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-11T16:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

IRIS-HEP Institute Retreat 2026

from Wednesday, 9 September 2026 (12:00) to Friday, 11 September 2026 (16:00)

Monday, 7 September 2026
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Wednesday, 9 September 2026

12:15 Registration / Lunch
Registration / Lunch
12:15 - 13:00
Room: IJ-Lounge
13:00 Plenary: Session 1
Session 1
13:00 - 15:00
Contributions

13:00 Welcome - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

13:10 Overview - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

13:25 Analysis Systems - Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin (US))

13:50 Analysis Grand Challenge - Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin (US)) Oksana Shadura (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

14:15 DOMA - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin (US))

14:40 OSG-LHC - Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Plenary: Session 2
Session 2
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Scalable Systems Laboratory - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))

15:55 Training, Education and Outreach - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US))

16:20 Innovative Algorithms - David Lange (Princeton University (US)) Louis-Guillaume Gagnon (Stanford University (US))

16:40 Consolidate… …and Go Bigger - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))
19:00 Reception - Andaz Hotel (Prinsengracht 587)
Reception - Andaz Hotel (Prinsengracht 587)
19:00 - 21:00
Thursday, 10 September 2026

08:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary: Session 3
Session 3
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Agentic MCP tooling for IRIS-HEP ecosystem - Giordon Holtsberg Stark (University of Chicago (US))

09:05 SSL Deployment Factory - Farnaz Golnaraghi (University of Chicago (US))

09:10 AI-Assisted AF Operation - Fengping Hu (University of Chicago (US))

09:15 Coffea-casa - Sam Albin (UNL) Samuel Albin (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

09:20 Agents for analysis parallel discussion
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Plenary: Session 7
Session 7
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Effective Onboarding for Projects: A ServiceX case study - Roger Janusiak (University of Washington)

11:35 ServiceX in the Integration Challenge [for IDAP] - Artur Cordeiro Oudot Choi (University of Washington (US))

11:40 A Catalog for the ServiceX Client - Peter Onyisi (University of Texas at Austin (US))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Plenary: Session 5
Session 5
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Statistical tool (including adoption) - Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US))

14:05 SBI tool adoption in CMS and ATLAS - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin (US)) Jay Sandesara

14:10 Awkward v2 migration for coffea analyses and histserv development - Peter Fackeldey (Princeton University (US))

14:15 JAX ecosystem adoption in CMS and ATLAS - Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US))
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Plenary: Session 4
Session 4
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 LST adoption in CMS - Andres Rios-Tascon (Princeton University)

16:05 PVFinder adoption in LHCb - Micol Olocco (University of Cincinnati (US))

16:10 Logic Neural Networks - Lino Oscar Gerlach (Princeton University (US))

16:15 Triton + statistical inference for Integration Challenge [for IDAP] - Miles Cochran-Branson (University of Washington (US))
19:00 Dinner - Indonesisch Restaurant Long Pura (Rozengracht 46-48)
Dinner - Indonesisch Restaurant Long Pura (Rozengracht 46-48)
19:00 - 21:00
Friday, 11 September 2026

08:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary: Session 8
Session 8
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Data Challenges - Diego Davila Foyo (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

09:05 OSG-LHC Operations & Agentic AI - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin (US))
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
10:50 Plenary: Session 9
Session 9
10:50 - 12:00
Contributions

11:15 Opportunities

11:45 Closeout - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))