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, October 19, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 23, 2026 (5:00 PM)

Monday, October 19, 2026

10:00 AM SciBmad Training Workshop
SciBmad Training Workshop
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences

12:00 PM Lunch Break (not provided)
Lunch Break (not provided)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM SciBmad Training Workshop
SciBmad Training Workshop
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences

5:00 PM 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
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

9:00 AM Dynamic Aperture in the Electron Ion Collider - Matthew Signorelli (Cornell University)

9:30 AM HL-LHC Dynamic Aperture - Sofia Kostoglou

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

11:30 AM Optics design and nonlinear chromaticity correction for the Super Tau Charm Factory Interaction region
12:00 PM Lunch Break (provided)
Lunch Break (provided)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

1:00 PM RHIC Experiences - Yun Luo (C-AD, BNL)

1:30 PM LHC experiences - Ewen Maclean (CERN)

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

3:00 PM SuperKEKB DA, measurements and simulations - Yukiyoshi Ohnishi (KEK)

3:30 PM Entropy criteria for DA optimization with NSLS-II data - Minghao Song (BNL)

4:00 PM Optimization of an H7BA Lattice for a 2.2-km Future Light Source - Peifan Liu (SLAC)

4:30 PM Dynamic Aperture Optimization in the Presence of Incoherent Beam-Beam Effects - Demin Zhou (KEK)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

9:00 AM Chaos Indicators

9:20 AM Island Population in Light Sources for TRIBS - Suntao Wang (Cornell University)

9:40 AM Full one-tori analysis - Matthew Signorelli (Cornell University)

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

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

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

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

11:50 AM Resonant extraction simulation and optimization
12:10 PM Lunch Break (provided)
Lunch Break (provided)
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences

3:00 PM Banquet at Treman State Park - Dinosaur BBQ
Banquet at Treman State Park - Dinosaur BBQ
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday, October 22, 2026
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

9:00 AM Large computing campaigns and novel DA exploration techniques including ML in Xsuite - Leon Van Riesen-Haupt

9:30 AM (TENTATIVE) Advanced optics calculation and analysis using parametric TPSA - Laurent Deniau (CERN)

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

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

11:30 AM (ASPIRATIONAL) AmSC and shared infrastructures
12:00 PM Lunch Break (provided)
Lunch Break (provided)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

1:00 PM Nonlinear dynamics optimization tools for nonlinear driving term integrals, incl. Elegant, OPA, etc.

1:30 PM (ASPIRATIONAL) Nonlinear dynamics with high-order maps and normal forms, e.g., MAD-NG, SciBmad, COSY, PTC with Bmad and MAD-X, SAD

2:00 PM Code requirements for modern ML, NN, RL optimization of nonlinear dynamics - Xiaobiao Huang (SLAC)

3:00 PM Injection optimization in design and during operation with Badger - Lucy Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

3:30 PM Resonant extraction optimization in design and during operation with Badger - Eiad Hamwi (Cornell University)

4:00 PM (ASPIRATIONAL) DA/MA with agentic AI and BAX

4:30 PM (ASPIRATIONAL) ML optimization of nonlinear dynamics in current and future accelerators
Friday, October 23, 2026
9:00 AM Closeout (Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, Chair)
Closeout (Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, Chair)
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences
Contributions

9:00 AM Summary; Collaboration needs; discussion and preparation of joint paper - Georg Hoffstaetter (Cornell)
12:00 PM Lunch Break (provided)
Lunch Break (provided)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Bldg. 401 Physical Sciences

Choose timezone