ACAT 2014

Scientific Programme

The workshop builds bridges between computer science, experimental and theoretical physics in three topical areas.

Although mainly focusing on high-energy physics, talks related to nuclear physics, astrophysics, laser and condensed matter physics, earth physics, biophysics and other physics sciences, are most welcome.

Plenary talks are for 30 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. Parallel talks are for 20 minutes with 5 additional minutes for questions.

There will also be a poster session. The recommended format of the posters is A0. The board size is 125cm (w) x 185cm (h).

Poster to board number assignment table: PDF

Tracks:

Computing Technology for Physics Research

1. Languages, Software quality, IDE and User Interfaces
   • Languages (new C++ standard, Java, ...)
   • Software quality assurance; code reflection; documentation, performance and debugging tools
   • IDE and frameworks
   • User Interfaces, Common Libraries.
2. Distributed and Parallel Computing
   • Multilevel parallelism
   • Distributed computing
   • GRID and Cloud computing
3. New architectures, many and multi-cores
   • Many-core
   • Accelerator-based computing (GPU, etc)
   • High precision computing (hardware)
4. Virtualisation
5. Online Computing
   • Advanced Monitoring, Diagnostics and Control
   • Scalable distributed data collectors
   • High Level Triggering (HLT)
   • Stream event processing & High Throughput Computing (HTC)

Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools

1. Machine Learning
   • Neural Networks and Other Pattern Recognition Techniques
   • Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms
   • Automation of Science: Data to formula
2. Advanced Data Analysis Environments
   • Statistical Methods, Multivariate analysis
   • Data mining
3. Simulation, Reconstruction and Visualisation Techniques
   • Detector and Accelerator Simulations, MC and fast MC
   • Reconstruction Algorithms
   • Visualization Techniques; event displays
4. Advanced Computing
   • Quantum Computing
   • Bio Computing: life process simulation, brain simulation, Quantum biology

Computations in Theoretical Physics: Techniques and Methods

1. Automatic Systems
   • Automatic Computation Systems: from Processes to Event Generators
   • Multi-dimensional Integration and Event Generators
   • Intensive High Precision Numerical Computations: Algorithms and Systems
2. Higher orders
   • One-loop event generators
   • Multi-loop Calculations and Higher Order Corrections
3. Computer Algebra Techniques and Applications
4. Computational physics, Theoretical and simulation aspects
   • Lattice QCD,
   • Cosmology, Universe Large Scale Structure, Gravitational waves
   • Nuclear physics N-body computation,
   • Plasma physics,
   • Earth Physics, climate, earthquakes