MODE Workshop 2026: 1-7 September 2026, OAC, Kolumbari, Crete CERN

[Eduardo Rodrigues]

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| Eduardo Rodrigues, PhD (he/him) | University of Liverpool | LHCb Experiment @ CERN | Tel. +41 (0) 22 76 72088 |

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From: Pietro Vischia <pietro....@gmail.com>
Sent: 13 April 2026 12:31
To: mode-info (Mailing list for information on MODE topics) <mode...@cern.ch>
Subject: MODE Workshop 2026: 1-7 September 2026, OAC, Kolumbari, Crete CERN

 

Dear all,

The MODE Collaboration is organizing its Sixth Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, to be held in Kolumbari (Crete) from 1 to 7 September 2026: registration and abstract submission is now open at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1655754/ .

You are all invited to come and present your MODE-related work!!! We would appreciate it if you could advertise this to potentially interested colleagues!

This is the sixth installment of a series the MODE Collaboration has started, with the aim of creating a community of scientists interested in, and possibly working on, the design of experiments assisted by machine learning techniques to solve optimization problems in a highly dimensional parameter space, while making the optimization process aware of the high-level physics goals and of budgetary constraints of several kinds. Automatic differentiation is a computer science technique that powers up all modern applications of gradient-based optimization problems: in the context of MODE, this allows the construction of a fully differentiable pipeline, to achieve the simultaneous optimization of all design parameters through the use of deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques.

The first installment of the workshop series has led to a white paper signed by MODE authors together with an extended community of physicists and computer scientists (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revip.2023.100085), and has raised the interest of several scientific Collaborations that are facing complex design optimization problems.

You will be hosted in the conference venue, promoting the spirit of a scientific retreat where serendipitous conversations may lead to collaborations and scientific breakthroughs.

If you would consider attending in person but have limited travel funds, we might be able to contribute to the expense. All information to request support (we will prioritize young participants) is available on the registration page and website.

Best regards,

• Lorenzo Arsini (INFN-Roma and Sapienza Università di Roma)
• Muhammad Awais (INFN-Padova and Luleå Tekniska Universitet)
• Angel Bueno Rodriguez (DLR)
• Tommaso Dorigo (INFN-Padova and Luleå Tekniska Universitet)
• Luigi Favaro (UCLouvain)
• Andrea Giammanco (UCLouvain)
• Christian Glaser (TU Dortmund University)
• Hamza Hanif (Simon Fraser University)
• Lisa Kusch (TU Eindhoven)
• Tobias Kortus (RPTU)
• Gilles Louppe (ULiège)
• Pablo Martinez Ruiz del Árbol (Universidad de Cantabria)
• Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo)
• Gordon Watts (University of Washington)
• Stéphanie Landrain (secretariat) (UCLouvain)

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Prof. Dr. Pietro Vischia     

Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher, Universidad de Oviedo

Adj. Professor, IITM                     

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