Name: ICFA Beam Dynamics Mini Workshop on Modern Optimization of Dynamic Aperture
Start: 2026-10-19T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-23T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Cornell University

ICFA Beam Dynamics Mini Workshop on Modern Optimization of Dynamic Aperture

from Monday 19 October 2026 (09:00) to Friday 23 October 2026 (17:00)

Monday 19 October 2026

10:00 SciBmad Training Workshop
SciBmad Training Workshop
10:00 - 12:00
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences

12:00 Lunch Break (not provided)
Lunch Break (not provided)
12:00 - 13:00

13:00 SciBmad Training Workshop
SciBmad Training Workshop
13:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences

17:00 Meet & Greet and Registration Check-In at the Hilton Garden Inn, Ithaca, NY
Meet & Greet and Registration Check-In at the Hilton Garden Inn, Ithaca, NY
17:00 - 18:30
Tuesday 20 October 2026
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

09:00 Dynamic Aperture in the Electron Ion Collider - Matthew Signorelli (Cornell University)

09:30 HL-LHC Dynamic Aperture - Sofia Kostoglou

10:00 FCC-ee nonlinear optics & Dynamic Aperture Optimization - Marc Andre Jebramcik (CERN)

11:30 Optics design and nonlinear chromaticity correction for the Super Tau Charm Factory Interaction region
12:00 Lunch Break (provided)
Lunch Break (provided)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences
13:00
13:00 - 17:30
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

13:00 RHIC Experiences - Yun Luo (C-AD, BNL)

13:30 LHC experiences - Ewen Maclean (CERN)

14:00 Online optimizations at APS-U, ESRF, SLS-2, SPring-8 (and more) - Nikita Kuklev (ANL)

15:00 SuperKEKB DA, measurements and simulations - Yukiyoshi Ohnishi (KEK)

15:30 Entropy criteria for DA optimization with NSLS-II data - Minghao Song (BNL)

16:00 Optimization of an H7BA Lattice for a 2.2-km Future Light Source - Peifan Liu (SLAC)

16:30 Dynamic Aperture Optimization in the Presence of Incoherent Beam-Beam Effects - Demin Zhou (KEK)

17:00 Contributed Talk
Wednesday 21 October 2026
09:00
09:00 - 12:10
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

09:00 Open discussion: early indicators of reduced dynamic aperture and their utility - discussion leader Scott - J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:20 Island Population in Light Sources for TRIBS - Suntao Wang (Cornell University)

09:40 Full one-tori analysis - Matthew Signorelli (Cornell University)

10:00 Approximate invariant analysis for nonlinear beam dynamics - Yonglun Li (BNL)

10:50 Neural normal form for storage ring - Yunhai Cai (SLAC)

11:10 DA Optimization with machine learning for SuperKEKB - Taichiro Koga (KEK)

11:30 ML method for DA training - Derong Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:50 Resonant extraction simulation and optimization - Eiad Hamwi (Cornell University)
12:10 Lunch Break (provided)
Lunch Break (provided)
12:10 - 13:10
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences

15:00 Banquet at Treman State Park - Dinosaur BBQ
Banquet at Treman State Park - Dinosaur BBQ
15:00 - 18:00
Thursday 22 October 2026
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

09:00 Large computing campaigns and novel DA exploration techniques including ML in Xsuite - Leon Van Riesen-Haupt

09:30 Open discussion: the derivatives beyond first order and TPSA for accelerators - Georg Hoffstaetter (Cornell)

10:00 GPU parallelization and parallelization over accelerators rather than particles - Joseph Devlin (alum@cornell.edu;member@cornell.edu;student@cornell.edu)

11:00 Heavy parallelization for injection efficiency and lifetime simulation in APS - Louis Emery Michael Borland (ANL)

11:30 (ASPIRATIONAL) AmSC and shared infrastructures
12:00 Lunch Break (provided)
Lunch Break (provided)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences
13:00
13:00 - 17:30
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

13:00 Nonlinear dynamics optimization tools for nonlinear driving term integrals, incl. Elegant, OPA, etc.

13:30 Nonlinear dynamics with high-order maps and normal forms, e.g., MAD-NG, SciBmad, COSY, PTC with Bmad and MAD-X, SAD - Etienne Forest

14:00 Code requirements for modern ML, NN, RL optimization of nonlinear dynamics - Xiaobiao Huang (SLAC)

15:00 Injection optimization in design and during operation with Badger - Eiad Hamwi (Cornell University)

15:30 Discussion time

16:00 DA/MA with agentic AI and BAX - Steerenberg Noa

16:30 ML optimization of nonlinear dynamics in current and future accelerators - Matthias Remta

17:00 Contributed Talk
Friday 23 October 2026
09:00 Closeout (Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, Chair)
Closeout (Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, Chair)
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

09:00 Summary; Collaboration needs; discussion and preparation of joint paper - Georg Hoffstaetter (Cornell)
12:00 Lunch Break (provided)
Lunch Break (provided)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 401 Physical Sciences

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