Name: ACAT 2019
Start: 2019-03-10T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2019-03-15T13:45:00+01:00
Location: Steinmatte conference center

ACAT 2019

from Sunday, March 10, 2019 (7:00 PM) to Friday, March 15, 2019 (1:45 PM)

Monday, March 4, 2019
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Friday, March 8, 2019
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Sunday, March 10, 2019

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Monday, March 11, 2019

8:00 AM Registration desk opens
Registration desk opens
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Opening
Opening
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome to ACAT 2019 in Saas Fee! - Federico Carminati (CERN)

9:10 AM Denis Perret-Gallix (1949-2018) - Monique Werlen (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

9:30 AM Computer algebra in physics research: algorithms, systems and modern developments - Stanislav Poslavskii (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (R)

10:00 AM Using Deep Learning in Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Experiments - Oleg Kalashev (Institute for Nuclear Research RAS)
10:30 AM Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Machine learning for an X-ray FEL - Daniel Ratner (Stanford University)

11:30 AM Computations in Laser Particle Acceleration: heterogenous, parallel computing for physicists - Bussmann Michael (HZDR, Dresden)

12:00 PM Implicit cause models - Rajesh Ranganath (New York University)
12:30 PM Break / Lunch
Break / Lunch
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM The Practitioner’s C++17 and 20 News - Axel Naumann (CERN)

3:50 PM The NanoAOD event data format in CMS - Marco Peruzzi (CERN)

4:10 PM A more Pythonic, Interoperable and Modern PyROOT - Stephan Hageboeck

4:30 PM ROOT Based Analysis: From Data to Plots, Expressive, Easy and Fast - Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

4:50 PM New ROOT graphics language - Iliana Betsou (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

5:10 PM DataForge: declarative approach to scientific data processing automation - Alexander Nozik (INR RAS / MIPT)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM Parallelized Kalman-Filter-Based Reconstruction of Particle Tracks on Many-Core Architectures with the CMS Detector - Mario Masciovecchio (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

4:10 PM ConformalTracking: a geometry agnostic tracking library - Marko Petric (CERN)

4:30 PM HEP.TrkX Charged Particle Tracking using Graph Neural Networks - Jean-Roch Vlimant (California Institute of Technology (US))

4:50 PM A 3D Track Finder for the Belle II CDC L1 Trigger - Sebastian Skambraks (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

5:10 PM Charged Particle Tracking as a QUBO problem solved with Quantum Annealing-Inspired Optimization - Jean-Roch Vlimant (California Institute of Technology (US))
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Riemann-Theta Boltzmann Machine - Stefano Carrazza (CERN)

3:50 PM Numerical multi-loop integration on heterogeneous many-core processors - Elise de Doncker (Western Michigan University)

4:10 PM Machine Learning helping Monte-Carlo collider simulations - Valentin Hirschi (ETHZ)

4:30 PM In-situ analysis and visualization of massively parallel computations of transitional and turbulent flows - Anne Cadiou (CNRS)
5:30 PM Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Automated and Intelligent Data Migration Strategy in High Energy Physical Storage Systems - Zhenjing Cheng (INSTITUE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS)

6:20 PM Using DODAS as deployment manager for smart caching of CMS data management system - Mirco Tracolli (INFN Perugia)

6:40 PM Cross-domain Data Access System for Distributed Sites in HEP - Qi Xu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

7:00 PM Federated data storage evolution in HENP: data lakes and beyond - Andrey Zarochentsev (St Petersburg State University (RU))
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM hls4ml: deploying deep learning on FPGAs for trigger and data acquisition - Jennifer Ngadiuba (CERN)

6:20 PM Real-time reconstruction of long-lived particles at LHCb using FPGAs. - Michael J. Morello (SNS and INFN-Pisa (IT)) Riccardo Cenci (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) Andrea Di Luca (Universita degli Studi di Trento and INFN (IT)) Federico Lazzari (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) Giovanni Punzi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

6:40 PM A hybrid deep learning approach to vertexing - Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))

7:00 PM Selective background Monte Carlo simulation at Belle II - James Kahn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Martin Ritter
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Toward an efficient evaluation of two-loop massive scalar integralss - Jean-Philippe Guillet (LAPTh CNRS)
7:30 PM Welcome drinks / reception
Welcome drinks / reception
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Keynote talk: Probabilistic Programming and Inference in Particle Physics - Atilim Gunes Baydin (University of Oxford)

9:40 AM HEP.QPR Project: Quantum Pattern Recognition for Charged Particle Tracking - Heather Gray (LBNL)

10:10 AM RISC-V based, silicon proven open-source processors from the PULP project - Frank K. Gürkaynak (ETH)
10:40 AM Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Generative Models - Danilo Rezende (DeepMind)

11:30 AM GPU usage in theoretical calculations - Stephen Philip Jones

12:00 PM Decoding the nature of Dark matter at current and future experiments - Alexander Belyaev (Southampton University)
12:30 PM Break / Lunch
Break / Lunch
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM The computing model of the LHCb Upgrade - Marco Cattaneo (CERN)

3:50 PM The core software framework for the LHCb Upgrade - Niklas Nolte (CERN / Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

4:10 PM An analytics driven computing model for HL-LHC - David Lange (Princeton University (US))

4:30 PM The ATLAS EventIndex and its evolution towards LHC Run 3 - Miguel Villaplana (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

4:50 PM Machine Learning Techniques in the ATLAS TDAQ Network Monitoring System - Oskar Wyszynski (CERN)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM Recurrent GANs for particle-based simulation at the LHC - Thong Nguyen (California Institute of Technology (US))

4:30 PM Electromagnetic-shower generation with Graphical GANs - Vladislav Belavin (CERN)

4:50 PM Fast Data-Driven simulation of Cherenkov Detectors Using Generative Adversarial Networks. - Artem Maevskiy (National Research University Higher School of Economics (RU))

5:10 PM Towards the Increase in Granularity for the Main Hadronic ATLAS Calorimeter: Exploiting Deep Learning Methods - Philipp Do Nascimento Gaspar (Federal University of of Rio de Janeiro (BR))
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM QED and electroweak radiative corrections to polarized Bhabha scattering - Andrey Arbuzov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

3:50 PM MCSANCee generator with one-loop electroweak corrections for processes with polarized e^+e^- beams - Renat Sadykov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

4:10 PM Recent developments of GRACE system - Yoshimasa Kurihara (KEK)

4:30 PM Data-driven Monte Carlo Generator for Low Energy e+e- Annihilation to Hadrons - Alexandr Korobov (BINP,NSU)
5:30 PM Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Heterogenous computing for the local reconstruction algorithms of the CMS calorimeters - Andrea Massironi (CERN)

6:20 PM A 30 MHz software trigger and reconstruction for the LHCb upgrade - Conor Fitzpatrick (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

6:40 PM Continuous Analysis in ATLAS: Running User-Defined Container Images on the Grid - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (New York University (US))

7:00 PM FPGA-accelerated machine learning inference as a solution for particle physics computing challenges - Jennifer Ngadiuba (CERN)
6:00 PM - 7:40 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Electromagnetic calorimeter reconstruction in Belle II - Torben Ferber (DESY)

6:20 PM Energy reconstruction of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter under high pile-up conditions using the Wiener filter - Dayane Gonçalves (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

6:40 PM Reinforced Jet Grooming - Frederic Alexandre Dreyer (Oxford)

7:00 PM Physics inspired feature engineering with Lorentz Boost Networks - Yannik Alexander Rath (RWTH Aachen University (DE))

7:20 PM Belle2VR – An Interactive Virtual Reality Visualization of GEANT4 Event Histories - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:20 PM Numerical calculation of high-order QED contributions to the electron anomalous magnetic moment - Sergey Volkov
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Keynote talk: The future of HEP computing - Rene Brun (CERN)

9:40 AM Computing Architectures in the HL-LHC era - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory )

10:10 AM Making HPC friendly for scientists - Sadaf Alam (Swiss Supercomputing Center (CSCS))
10:40 AM Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM The STEM paradox: Factors affecting diversity in STEM fields - Isabelle D Cherney (Merrimack University)

11:20 AM Round table discussion

12:00 PM Neuroscience and the Future of Computing - Felix Schuermann (EPFL, Blue Brain project)
12:30 PM Break / Lunch
Break / Lunch
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Simulating Diverse HEP Workflows on Heterogeneous Architectures - Charles Leggett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US))

3:50 PM The Central Hint and Information Processor system for automation, error detection and recovery in the ATLAS TDAQ Controls framework - Giuseppe Avolio (CERN)

4:10 PM The “FELIX” detector interface for the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition upgrades and its deployment in the ATLAS Inner Tracker demonstrator setup - Carlos Solans Sanchez (CERN)

4:30 PM The second generation of the ATLAS Production System: expertise and future evolution - Misha Borodin (University of Iowa (US))

4:50 PM Fast Deep Learning on FPGAs for the Phase-II L0 Muon Barrel Trigger of the ATLAS Experiment - Simone Francescato (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

5:10 PM Towards a heterogeneous High Level Trigger farm for CMS - Andrea Bocci (CERN)
3:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Incorporation of Systematic Uncertainties in the Training of Multivariate Methods - Thomas Alef (University of Bonn (DE))

3:50 PM Machine Learning on sWeighted data - Nikita Kazeev (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

4:10 PM Adversarial Neural Network-based data-simulation corrections for jet-tagging at CMS - Benjamin Fischer (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

4:30 PM INFERNO: Inference-Aware Neural Optimisation - Pablo de Castro (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

4:50 PM Constructing mass-decorrelated hadonic decay taggers in ATLAS - Andreas Sogaard (University of Edinburgh (GB))

5:10 PM Weak signal extraction using matrix decomposition - steven prohira (The Ohio State University)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Trilinear Higgs boson coupling variations for di-Higgs production with full NLO QCD predictions in POWHEG - Ludovic Michel Scyboz (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))

3:50 PM Double Higgs boson production in the high- and low-energy limits - Joshua Davies (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

4:10 PM Three loop QCD corrections to heavy quark form factors - Narayan Rana (INFN Milan)

4:30 PM Ntuples for NNLO processes - Daniel Maitre

4:50 PM HepMC3 Event Record Library for Monte Carlo Event Generators - Andrii Verbytskyi (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))
5:30 PM Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM CMS Software and Offline preparation for future runs - Collaboration CMS Tommaso Boccali (INFN Sezione di Pisa, Universita' e Scuola Normale Superiore, P)

6:20 PM Deep learning for certification of the quality of the data acquired by the CMS experiment - Adrian Alan Pol (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

6:40 PM Real-time cluster finding for LHCb silicon pixel VELO detector using FPGA - Federico Lazzari (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

7:00 PM Migrating large codebases to C++ Modules - Yuka Takahashi (University of Tokyo)
6:00 PM - 7:40 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Global fits of BSM physics models with Gambit - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB))

6:20 PM Uncertainty reduction by gradient descent - Victor Estrade (LRI)

6:40 PM Excursion Set Estimation using Sequential Entropy Reduction for Efficient Searches for New Physics at the LHC - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (New York University (US))

7:00 PM Full Event Intepretation at Belle II - William Lawrence Sutcliffe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Renormalization of gauge theories at five loops - York Schröder (UBB Chillán)

6:20 PM Algorithm to find an all-order in the running coupling solution to an equation of the DGLAP type - Igor Kondrashuk (UBB)
8:00 PM Social Event -- Conference Dinner
Social Event -- Conference Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:40 PM
Thursday, March 14, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Keynote talk: Constraining effective field theories with machine learning - Johann Brehmer (New York University)

9:40 AM Beyond the Roadmap: HL-LHC HEP Software - Gordon Watts (University of Seattle)

10:10 AM Automatic Differentiation and Deep Learning - Soumith Chintala (Facebook AI Research)
10:40 AM Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM TrackML : a tracking Machine Learning challenge - Jean-Roch Vlimant (California Institute of Technology (US))

11:20 AM Round table: Machine Learning

12:00 PM Higher-order QED contributions to the lepton anomalous magnetic moments - Makiko Nio (Mishina Center, Riken)
12:30 PM Break / Lunch
Break / Lunch
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Design Pattern for Analysis Automation on Interchangeable, Distributed Resources using Luigi Analysis Workflows - Marcel Rieger (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

3:50 PM RooFit parallelization efforts - Patrick Bos (Netherlands eScience Center / Nikhef)

4:10 PM Core software challenges of the GPU High Level Trigger 1 of LHCb - Daniel Hugo Campora Perez (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

4:30 PM Highly performant, Deep Neural Networks with sub-microsecond latency on FPGAs for trigger applications - Noel Aaron Nottbeck (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))

4:50 PM Nested data structures in array and SIMD frameworks - Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)

5:10 PM Vectorization of random number generation and reproducibility of concurrent particle transport simulation - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM Accelerating dark matter search in emulsion SHiP detector by Deep Learning - Sergey Shirobokov (Imperial College (GB))

4:10 PM Air shower reconstruction with hexagonal convolutional neural networks - Constantin Steppa (University of Potsdam)

4:30 PM Deep Learning based Algorithms in Astroparticle Physics - Jonas Glombitza (RWTH Aachen)

4:50 PM Submanifold Sparse Convolutional Networks for Sparse, Locally Dense Particle Image Analysis - Laura Domine (Stanford University/SLAC)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM New Features in FeynArts & Friends, and how they got used in FeynHiggs - Thomas Hahn (MPI f. Physik)

4:30 PM Updates on SModelS - Wolfgang Waltenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

4:50 PM Further developments of FORM - Takahiro Ueda (KEK)
5:30 PM Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 8:10 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Performance results of the GeantV prototype with complete EM physics - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

6:20 PM Generative Adversarial Networks for fast simulation: generalisation and distributed training in HPC - Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

6:40 PM Multi-threaded Event Reconstruction with JANA - David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab)

7:00 PM STAR Data Production Workflow on HPC: Lessons Learned & Best Practices - Michael Poat (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Jefferson Porter Jan Balewski
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Particle Identification In PICO Using Semi-supervised Learning - Gevy Cao (Queen's University)

6:20 PM Reinforced Sorting Networks for Particle Physics Analyses - Dennis Noll (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

6:40 PM Variational Dropout Sparsification for Particle Identification speed-up. - Artem Ryzhikov (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

7:00 PM Variational Autoencoders for New Physics Mining at the Large Hadron Collider - Olmo Cerri (California Institute of Technology (US))
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Rings: an efficient library for polynomial rings - Stanislav Poslavsky (IHEP, Protvino)

6:20 PM reFORM: designing a new symbolic manipulation toolkit - Ben Ruijl (Nikhef)

6:40 PM STR: a Mathematica package for the method of uniqueness - Michelangelo Preti (Ecole Normale Supérieure - CNRS)
Friday, March 15, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Machine learning in cosmology - Francois Lanusse (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory )

9:30 AM Computational challenges for Generators - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB))

10:00 AM Machine Learning in Neutrino Physics - Kazuhiro Terao (SLAC)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Best Track 1 poster: Physics and computing performance of reconstruction algorithms for the GPU High Level Trigger 1 of LHCb - Dorothea Vom Bruch (LPNHE Paris, CNRS)

11:10 AM Best Track 2 poster: Tracking performance for long living particles at LHCb - Luis Miguel Garcia Martin (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

11:20 AM Track 1 summary - Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN)

11:35 AM Track 2 Summary - Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

11:50 AM Track 3 Summary - Ben Ruijl (Nikhef)

12:05 PM ACAT 2019 Summary - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))

12:20 PM Thank you and good bye - Federico Carminati (CERN)

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