Fellows Lightning Talks

Wednesday 22 Jul 2026, 11:00 → 13:55 US/Eastern

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11:00 → 11:10 HEP-Quantum-sim: Quantum Simulation Modules for HEP Event Generation

Mentor: Brij Kishor Jashal

Speaker: Devon Bontrager (IRIS-HEP)

11:00 → 11:10 Towards Interpretable Machine Learning in High-Energy Physics

Mentor: Liv Vage

Speaker: Bornik Nag (Purdue University (US))

11:10 → 11:20 Using an agentic harness to write the AGC

Mentor: Gordon Watts

Speaker: Matthieu Foresi (University of Washington (US))

11:20 → 11:30 AutoDQM

Mentor: Indara Suarez

Speaker: Ava Catherine Faubus (Boston University (US))

11:30 → 11:40 Developing a queue-based task distribution system

Mentor: Peter Fackeldey

Speaker: Michael Noamesi (CERN)

11:40 → 11:50 Differentiable Modeling of Systematic Uncertainties

Mentor: Gordon Watts

Speaker: Cody John Tanner (University of Washington (US))

11:50 → 12:00 darkmatter-live

Mentor: Brij Kishor Jashal

Speaker: Danylo Yehorov (IRIS-HEP)

12:00 → 12:10 Overcoming Vertex Reconstruction Limitations under the High-Density HL-LHC Pileup Environment

Mentor: Ariel Schwartzman

Speaker: Roman Petrov (IRIS-HEP)

12:10 → 12:20 Software for Detector Design for future wake-field based colliders

Mentor: Angira Rastogi

Speaker: Andrii Pauchkov (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (UA))

12:20 → 12:30 ATLAS-event-generation

Mentor: Brij Kishor Jashal

Speaker: Bohdan Ivan Wynnyckyj (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

12:30 → 12:40 Benchmarking and Optimizing PyHS3

Mentor: Giordon Stark

Speaker: Daryna Shevchuk (IRIS-HEP)