Name: July 2026 Joint ePIC/EICUG Meeting
Start: 2026-07-11T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-17T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Glasgow

July 2026 Joint ePIC/EICUG Meeting

from Saturday 11 July 2026 (08:00) to Friday 17 July 2026 (18:30)

Monday 6 July 2026
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Thursday 9 July 2026
Friday 10 July 2026
Saturday 11 July 2026

09:00

09:00 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 17:00
Sunday 12 July 2026

09:00

09:00 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 17:00

Monday 13 July 2026

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Joint EICUG/ePIC Session 1
Joint EICUG/ePIC Session 1
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 University of Glasgow Welcome from the Vice Principal and Head of College for Science and Engineering - Eric Yeatmen (University of Glasgow)

09:15 Local Welcome and Logistics

09:30 EIC Users Group Status - Anselm Vossen (member@duke.edu;faculty@duke.edu) Douglas Higinbotham (Jefferson Lab) Or Hen (MIT)

10:00 EICUG/ePIC Outreach - E. C. Aschenauer (BNL) Marta Ruspa (University of Eastern Piedmont and INFN Torino)

11:00 Early Science Whitepaper Report - Rachel Montgomery Salvatore Fazio (University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza)

11:30 The EPIOS Consortium - Zein-Eddine Meziani (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 The AI Revolution and Nuclear Physics - David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Joint EICUG/ePIC Session 2
Joint EICUG/ePIC Session 2
13:30 - 17:30
Contributions

13:30 DOE Status - Paul Mantica (DOE HENP)

14:00 EIC Project Status - Jim Yeck

14:30 EIC Project Detector Status - E. C. Aschenauer (BNL) Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab)

15:30 EIC Collider Status - Sergei Nagaitsev

16:00 Connecting the Dots: Polarimetry from the BNL Booster to the EIC - Evgeny Shulga (BNL)

16:30 Detector-II Summary Report - Cheuk-Ping Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
18:30 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
18:30 - 19:30
Tuesday 14 July 2026
09:00 EICUG
EICUG
09:00 - 12:40
Contributions

09:00 Summary of Early Career Workshop

09:30 Award Ceremony

10:00 Talks by Awardees

11:00 Elections Committee Report - Nicola Rubini (University and INFN of Bologna, CERN)

11:20 AI4EIC Report - Cristiano Fanelli (W&M)

11:40 2nd Detector WG Report - Pawel Nadel-Turonski (CFNS Stony Brook University)

12:00 ePIC: Physics Analysis Coordination Status and Priorities - Rachel Montgomery Salvatore Fazio (University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza)

12:30 Discussion
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40
13:40 ePIC Plenary Session 1
ePIC Plenary Session 1
13:40 - 18:20
Contributions

13:40 Technical Coordination Status and Priorities - Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)

14:10 Discussion

14:40 Software and Computing Status and Priorities - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

15:10 Discussion

16:10 New Monte Carlo samples for inclusive QCD final states - Frank Krauss (Durham)

16:30 Validating new samples with old data and new analyses - Andy Buckley (member@gla.ac.uk;staff@gla.ac.uk)

16:50 Professional Conduct and Collaboration Culture Training - Francesco Bossu (CEA-Saclay) Susanna Costanza (University of Pavia)
Wednesday 15 July 2026
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 225 (Humanities LT)
Contributions

09:00 Introduction & Streaming DAQ: Overview, Requirements and Timeline - Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:35 Echelon 0 - Echelon 1 Interface, Status and Open Questions (Discussion) - Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Marco Battaglieri (Jefferson Lab) Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab) Taku Gunji (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo) Taku Gunji (Quark-Nuclear Science Institute, the University of Tokyo)

10:10 Echelon 2 Participation Model (and Discussion) - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 NP-HPDF Project - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab) Torri Jeske (Jefferson Lab)

11:20 Streaming Readout Background Suppression - Dmitry Romanov (Jefferson lab)

11:40 BNL Orchestration Testbed - Dmitrii Kalinkin (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:00 Streaming Reconstruction - Takuya Kumaoka
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Theatre 466
Contributions

09:00 EDT NIM Paper Updates - Latest Status - Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)

09:10 Muon Identification in the ePIC Detector Using the XGBoost Toolkit - Maciej Blaut

09:25 Exclusive Production of Electron and Muon Pairs in Electron-Proton Collisions with the ePIC Detector - Kacper Kopeć (AGH University of Krakow)

09:40 Exclusive Production of Tau Lepton Pairs in Electron-Proton Collisions with the ePIC Detector - Karol Ożóg

09:55 DVCS Analysis - Latest Progress - Oliver Jevons (staff@gla.ac.uk;member@gla.ac.uk)

10:10 eD TDIS - Latest Progress - Jan Vanek (University of New Hampshire)

10:45 Diffractive DIS - Latest Progress - Arjun Kumar (CFNS, Stony Brook University)

11:00 eA Phi - Latest Progress - Maci Kesler (Kent State University)

11:15 DVMP J/Psi - Latest Progress - Olaiya Olokunboyo (UNH)

11:30 Kaon SF - Latest Progress - Baptiste Fraisse (The Catholic University of America)

11:45 e3He Double Tagging - Latest Updates - Win Lin (Stony Brook University)

12:00 DVPi0P - Latest Progress - Li Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:15 Upsilon Analysis - Latest Progress - Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 1A The Square

12:30 Collect Takeaway Lunch
Collect Takeaway Lunch
12:30 - 12:50
Room: 1A The Square

13:00

13:00 - 17:00
Thursday 16 July 2026

09:00

09:00 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Theatre 466
09:00 - 12:40
Room: Humanities Lecture Theatre (225)
Contributions

09:00 Summary of ASIC Internal Reviews - Fernando Barbosa (JLab) Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:20 CALOROC Status - Pedro Pablo DUMAS ZIEHLMANN (Omega Microelectronics)

09:40 ASIC 65nm / 130nm Fabrication for CALOROC / EICROC - Frederic Dulucq (OMEGA - Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)

10:00 Generic RDO Status - Miklos Czeller

10:20 dRICH RDO - Alessandro Lonardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Roma) Pietro Antonioli (INFN - sezione di Bologna)

10:40 Coffee Break

11:00 GTU - William Gu (Jefferson Lab)

11:20 How to best Collaborate on DAQ Hardware / Software (Discussion) - Taku Gunji (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)

11:40 SRO Calibrations - Marco Battaglieri (Jefferson Lab) Taku Gunji (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 1A The Square

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 1A The Square
13:30
13:30 - 17:45
Room: Humanities Lecture Theatre (225)
Contributions

13:30 Workfest introduction and agenda - Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University)

13:35 AC-LGAD QA and testing - Simone Mazza (University of California - Santa Cruz)

14:00 EICROC testing and QA - Jennifer Ott (University of Hawaii Manoa)

14:25 EICROC1 and EICROC2 status and plans - Christophe de la Taille (OMEGA CNRS/IN2P3-Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

14:50 EICROC2 digital architecture - Alexandre SOULIER (member@cnrs.fr;employee@cnrs.fr;staff@cnrs.fr)

15:15 (time permitting) EICROC and AC-LGAD testing status (various institutes) - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Dominique Marchand (IJCLab Orsay)

15:45 Strip AC-LGADs - testing, status, plans - Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University)

16:10 FCFD - status, plans - Artur Apresyan (Fermilab)

16:35 FCFD variant for RICH detectors

17:00 Further Discussion
13:30 - 17:00
Room: Lecture Theatre 466
Contributions

13:30 MPGD: geometry, timing, efficiency, purity, resolution effects - Matt Posik (Temple University)

13:50 Pathlength & position resolution - Barak Schmookler (University of Houston)

14:05 ACTS-related plans - Wouter Deconinck (University of Manitoba)

14:25 TOF impact on tracking efficiency, purity, resolution - Kentaro Kawade (Shinshu University) Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University)

14:45 Muon ID with tracking + calorimetry - Alex Smith (University of York)

15:35 Benchmark development for tracking with backgrounds - Jeetendra Gupta

15:50 SVT noise simulation and reconstruction effects - Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:05 Electron finding with tracking + calorimetry - Stephen Maple (University of Birmingham) Stephen Maple (University of Birmingham)

16:25 Particle finders & particle flow - Derek Anderson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

16:45 Next steps - Barbara Jacak (UC Berkeley and LBNL) Barbara Jacak (faculty@berkeley.edu;employee@berkeley.edu;member@berkeley.edu)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 1A The Square

18:00

18:00 - 21:00
Room: Humanities Lecture Theatre (225)
Friday 17 July 2026

09:00

09:00 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Theatre 466

Review Result
Review Result
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Humanities Lecture Theatre (225)

10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 1A The Square

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 ePIC Plenary Session 2
ePIC Plenary Session 2
13:30 - 18:00
Contributions

14:00 Photo Contest Prize Ceremony - E. C. Aschenauer (BNL)

14:15 ePIC Collaboration Status and Priorities - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab) Rachel Montgomery Salvatore Fazio (University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza) Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)

14:45 Discussion

15:30 Collaborator Contributions