Artificial Intelligence for the Electron Ion Collider (AI4EIC) 2026

15 Dec 2026, 09:00 → 18 Dec 2026, 18:00 America/New_York

LSRC B101 Love Auditorium (Duke University)

The 5th AI4EIC Workshop will take place at Duke University, Love Auditorium (LSRC B101), in Durham, North Carolina from December 15-18, 2026. The event will feature in-person participation, with live streaming available for remote attendees.

Join on Zoom: (to appear)

Instructions to join the WiFi at Duke:
Participants may connect via "DukeVisitor"; Eduroam is also supported. 

Live Notes of the workshop can be found at this link (to appear)

The previous four AI4EIC workshops fostered meaningful discussions on the full range of AI/ML applications for the EIC—including accelerator and detector design, theory, and analysis—resulting in published proceedings and a community paper (https://ai4eic.org).

In this workshop, we will delve deeper into the active and emerging applications of AI/ML within the EIC community, with a focus on ongoing efforts related to the ePIC experiment and beyond. Topics will include AI/ML for calibration, monitoring, experimental control, accelerators, data analysis and theory, data science, production, and distributed ML. 

Scientific Organizing Committee

• Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook, BNL
• Anselm Vossen, Duke
• Ben Nachman, Stanford 
• Cris Fanelli, W&M
• Daniel Lersch, JLab
• David Lawrence, JLab
• Diana McSpadden, JLab
• Lin Meifeng, BNL
• Marco Battaglieri, INFN
• Mike Williams, MIT
• Tanja Horn, CUA
• Torre Wenaus, BNL 

 

Tuesday 15 December

09:00 → 10:30 Overview

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Overview

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 AI/ML for Accelerators

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:15 AI/ML for Accelerators

17:45 → 19:45 Reception

Wednesday 16 December

09:00 → 10:30 Calibration, Monitoring, and Experimental Control in Streaming Environments

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Calibration, Monitoring, and Experimental Control in Streaming Environments

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 AI/ML for ePIC and Beyond

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:15 AI/ML for ePIC and Beyond

Thursday 17 December

09:00 → 10:30 AI/ML for Data Analysis and Theory

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 AI/ML for Data Analysis and Theory

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 Trends in Data Science

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:15 Trends in Data Science

Friday 18 December

09:00 → 10:30 AI/ML in Production, Distributed ML

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 AI/ML in Production, Distributed ML

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 Tutorials

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 16:45 Tutorials

16:45 → 17:15 Overview