IRIS-HEP Institute Retreat 2026

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


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Sept 2026
10 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
AM
08:30 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Plenary (until 11:00)
09:00 Agentic MCP tooling for IRIS-HEP ecosystem - Dr 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 - Samuel Albin (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US)) Sam Albin (UNL)  
09:20 Agents for analysis parallel discussion  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Plenary (until 12:30)
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))  
08:30 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Plenary (until 10:45)
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 ---
10:50
Plenary (until 12:00)
11:15 Opportunities  
11:45 Closeout - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))  
PM
12:15 Registration / Lunch   (IJ-Lounge)
13:00
Plenary (until 15:00)
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 - Oksana Shadura (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US)) Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin (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 ---
15:30
Plenary (until 17:00)
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 - Louis-Guillaume Gagnon (Stanford University (US)) David Lange (Princeton University (US))  
16:40 Consolidate… …and Go Bigger - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))  
19:00 --- Reception - Andaz Hotel (Prinsengracht 587) ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary (until 15:30)
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 ---
16:00
Plenary (until 17:00)
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) ---