Name: July 2026 Joint ePIC/EICUG Meeting
Start: 2026-07-11T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-17T21:55:00+01:00
Location: Glasgow

July 2026 Joint ePIC/EICUG Meeting

from Saturday, 11 July 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 17 July 2026 (21:55)

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 ECR Morning Day 1

09:00 - 12:00

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

13:00 ECR Afternoon Day 1

13:00 - 17:00
Sunday, 12 July 2026

09:00 ECR Morning Day 2

09:00 - 12:00

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

13:00 ECR Afternoon Day 2

13:00 - 17:00

Monday, 13 July 2026

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Monday Plenary - Morning: 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 - 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 Monday Plenary - Afternoon: 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 Free Welcome Reception: Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
18:30 - 19:30
Tuesday, 14 July 2026
09:00 Tuesday Plenary - Morning: EICUG
EICUG
09:00 - 12:40
Contributions

09:00 Summary of Early Career Workshop - Gary Penman (University of Glasgow)

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 Tuesday Plenary - Afternoon: 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 Electronics, Readout and DAQ and Streaming Computing WG Joint Workfest Session 1
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 255 (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 SPINDLE: Streaming Physics INtelligence and Data Lifecycle Engine - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab) Torri Jeske (Jefferson Lab)

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

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

12:00 Streaming Reconstruction - Takuya Kumaoka
Exclusive, Diffraction and Tagging PWG
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 Wednesday - Excursion

13:00 - 17:00
Thursday, 16 July 2026
09:00 AI Town Hall
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Theatre 466
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

09:10 AI-Based Multi-FPGA Data Reduction for DCR Noise Filtering and Bandwidth Control in the dRICH DAQ Stream - Cristian Rossi (INFN Sezione di Roma)

09:20 Discussion

09:25 CNN-Based and Vision Transformer-Based PID for the ePIC dRICH System - Deepak Samuel (Central University of Karnataka)

09:35 Discussion

09:40 FastML Applications for the EIC - Ming Liu (Los Alamos)

09:50 Discussion

09:55 AID(2)E: AI-Assisted Detector Design for the EIC - Derek Anderson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

10:05 Discussion

10:10 AI Smart Search - Alexandr Prozorov

10:20 Exploring Usage of Agents for Data Analysis - Henry Klest (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:00 AI for Event Building - Oliver Partridge (Tokyo City University)

11:10 AI/ML for Jet Energy Reconstruction - Hemalata Nayak (William & Mary)

11:20 AI/ML for Imaging Cherenkov Reconstruction and Simulation - James Giroux (member@wm.edu;student@wm.edu)

11:30 AI/ML-Assisted Optimization of B0 Tracker and Calibration of the Backward EMCAL - Baptiste Fraisse (The Catholic University of America)

11:40 GNN + Attention-Based Cluster Finding in Live Experiment - Chi Kin Tam (Catholic University of America)

11:50 AI-Ready Data for BIC - Maria Zurek (Argonne National Laboratory) Zhiwan Xu (Argonne National Lab)

12:00 Deconvolution of Momentum Transfer Distributions Through Deep Learning - Maci Kesler (Kent State University)

12:10 Hydra - Thomas Britton (JLAB)

12:20 FM4NPP - Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Electronics, Readout and DAQ and Streaming Computing WG Joint Workfest Session 2
09:00 - 12:40
Room: 356
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:05 Streaming Reconstruction - Takuya Kumaoka (The University of Tokyo, QNSI) Takuya Kumaoka

09:25 Summary of ASIC Internal Reviews - Fernando Barbosa (JLab) Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:40 CALOROC Status - Pedro Pablo DUMAS ZIEHLMANN (Omega Microelectronics)

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

11:20 GTU - William Gu (Jefferson Lab)

11:40 How to best Collaborate on DAQ Hardware / Software (Discussion) - Taku Gunji (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)

12:00 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
13:00 VIRTUE Tutorial - Sean Preins (University of California, Riverside) Sean Preins
VIRTUE Tutorial
- Sean Preins (University of California, Riverside)
- Sean Preins
13:00 - 13:30
This tutorial will cover how to convert EDM4eic ROOT files into the JSON file format VIRTUE accepts to be animated. We will also describe the JSON file format for data, detector geometry, and tours within VIRTUE for further customization. No VR equipment is required. The VIRTUE app executables, an example ROOT file, and Jupyter Notebook converter are all located at: https://github.com/SeanBP/VIRTUE A recording will follow shortly.
13:30 AC-LGAD Sensors and ASICs Workfest
13:30 - 18:05
Room: Room 356
Contributions

13:30 Workfest introduction and agenda - part I - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University)

13:35 EICROC and AC-LGAD testing status - some new results - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Dominique Marchand (IJCLab Orsay)

13:55 AC-LGAD QA and testing - Simone Mazza (University of California - Santa Cruz) Simone Michele Mazza

14:20 EICROC testing and QA - Jennifer Ott (University of Hawaii Manoa)

14:45 EICROC1 and EICROC2 status and plans - Christophe de la Taille (OMEGA CNRS/IN2P3-Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

15:10 EICROC2 digital architecture - Alexandre SOULIER (member@cnrs.fr;employee@cnrs.fr;staff@cnrs.fr)

15:50 Workfest introduction and agenda - part II - Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University)

15:55 Strip Sensor Test Beam Results and Plan - Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University)

16:10 First Results of TCT Scan Measurements in Japan - Kanato Matsutani

16:20 FCFD - status, plans - Artur Apresyan (Fermilab)

16:45 FCFD variant for RICH detectors - Brian Page (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:10 Further Discussion
Tracking Workfest
13:30 - 17:40
Room: Lecture Theatre 466
Contributions

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

13:50 SVT noise simulation and reconstruction effects - Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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

15:25 TOF impact on tracking efficiency, purity, resolution - Kentaro Kawade (Shinshu University) Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University)

15:45 Muon ID with tracking + calorimetry - Alex Smith (University of York)

16:05 Low-momentum particles studies and pathlength & position resolution - Barak Schmookler (University of Houston)

16:20 Benchmark development for tracking with backgrounds - Jeetendra Gupta

16:30 Electron finding with tracking + calorimetry - Stephen Maple (University of Birmingham) Stephen Maple (University of Birmingham)

16:50 Particle finders & particle flow - Derek Anderson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

17:10 Next steps - Barbara Jacak (UC Berkeley and LBNL) Barbara Jacak (faculty@berkeley.edu;employee@berkeley.edu;member@berkeley.edu)
14:30 Tutorial - AI/LLM Usage Through MCP

14:30 - 16:30
Room: Room 255 (Humanities Lecture Theatre)

15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 1A The Square

18:00 Collaboration Council Meeting

18:00 - 21:00
Room: 466
Friday, 17 July 2026
09:00 AI Workfest
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Theatre 466
Contributions

09:00 Global AI Activities - Introduction - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

09:10 Q&A

09:15 AI Activities in Italy - Domenico Elia (INFN Bari) Marco Battaglieri (Jefferson Lab)

09:30 Q&A

09:35 AI Activities in Japan - Taku Gunji (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)

09:50 Q&A

09:55 Group Discussion

11:00 AI Policy - Introduction

11:15 Group Discussion
TOF Mechanics Workfest: Review Result
Review Result
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 356
Contributions

09:00 Review Results - Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University)

09:30 BTOF stavelet assembly plans - Simone Mazza (University of California - Santa Cruz) Simone Michele Mazza

10:00 FPC - Takashi Hachiya (RIKEN)

11:00 Mechanics Design - Andreas Werner Jung (member@cern.ch)

11:30 QA/QC - Jennifer Ott (University of Hawaii Manoa)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 1A The Square

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

14:00 ePIC Collaboration Status and Priorities - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:30 Discussion

14:45 Photo Contest Prize Ceremony - E. C. Aschenauer (BNL) Marta Ruspa (Univ Piemonte Orientale & INFN, Torino) Marta Ruspa (University of Eastern Piedmont and INFN Torino)

15:30 Collaborator Contributions