Name: Dedicated AI/ML Accelerator Test Facility
Start: 2026-07-15T08:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-07-17T18:00:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

Dedicated AI/ML Accelerator Test Facility

from Wednesday 15 July 2026 (08:30) to Friday 17 July 2026 (18:00)

Monday 13 July 2026
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Wednesday 15 July 2026
08:30 Welcome and Introduction
Welcome and Introduction
08:30 - 09:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

08:30 Intro
09:00 Accelerators and Tokamaks
Accelerators and Tokamaks
09:00 - 10:40
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

09:00 AI/ML Needs for a Commercial EUV Light Source - Christopher Pierce (xLight Inc.)

09:20 Online Deployment and Operational Experience of ML-Based Beam Tuning at the ATLAS Heavy Ion Linac - Adwaith Ravichandran (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:40 Outlook for AI/ML tools for SNS - Sasha Zhukov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:00 Practical Requirements for AI in Accelerator Operations - Benjamin Ripman (SLAC)

10:20 Genesis Activities and MOAT - Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
10:45 Coffee
Coffee
10:45 - 11:15
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
11:15 Accelerators and Tokamaks
Accelerators and Tokamaks
11:15 - 11:35
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

11:15 ILLUMINE, Agents, and the Path to Closed-Loop Control at LCLS - Frederic Poitevin (SLAC)
11:45 Operations and Users
Operations and Users
11:45 - 12:45
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 13:45
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
13:45 User Challenges and Needs
User Challenges and Needs
13:45 - 15:45
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

13:45 AI for Neutron Sciences - Mathieu Doucet (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:15 Bayesian Exploration and Surrogate Emulation of Nonlinear Beam-Response Geometry in the LBNF Beamline - Sudeshna Ganguly (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:45 Bluesky and Photon Beamline Integration Challenges in AI/ML‑Driven Experimental Facilities - Max Rakitin (National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:15 AI-Driven Advances Toward Intelligent Tokamak Operation - SangKyeun Kim (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
15:45 Coffee
Coffee
15:45 - 16:15
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

16:15 Report - Operations and Users
Report - Operations and Users
16:15 - 16:45
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

16:45 Report Writing
Report Writing
16:45 - 17:45
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Thursday 16 July 2026

08:45 Report Discussion
Report Discussion
08:45 - 09:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
09:00 AI/ML and Accelerators
AI/ML and Accelerators
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

09:00 Experience with Digital Twin Deployment on the CLARA Facility - Matthew King (ASTeC, Daresbury Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council)

09:20 AI-Assisted Accelerator Operation at the Advanced Photon Source - Chenran Xu (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:40 ML Applications and Experiences at BNL hadron injector complex - Weijian Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:00 First Experimental Demonstration of Machine Learning-Based Tuning on the PSI Injector 2 Cyclotron - Malek Haj Tahar (Transmutex)

10:20 Toward Autonomous Beamline Tuning and Control at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator - Anthony Tran (Argonne National Lab)

10:40 LUME Ecosystem Updates: Standardized Virtual Accelerators and Digital Twin Infrastructure - Sara Miskovich (SLAC)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:20
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
11:20 AI/M and Accelerators
AI/M and Accelerators
11:20 - 13:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

11:20 Machine Learning for Accelerator Online Tuning and Anomaly Detection - Minghao Song (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:40 Osprey: A Portable Platform for Developing and Deploying Agentic AI Across Accelerator Facilities - Thorsten Hellert (LBNL)

12:00 ORION: A Supervisory Architecture for AI-Assisted Autonomous Beamline Operation - Sergio Lopez-Caceres (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:20 ML+LLRF: From Demonstrated Laser Control to SRF Resonance Control - Dan Wang (LBNL)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
14:00
14:00 - 14:20
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

14:00 Autonomous Tuning at FACET-II - Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Aguilera (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Yiheng Ye (SLAC)
14:20 Operations + Users + AI/ML and Accelerators
Operations + Users + AI/ML and Accelerators
14:20 - 15:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

16:00 Paragraph on what AI/ML Test Facility would look like, what you would it do for you?
Paragraph on what AI/ML Test Facility would look like, what you would it do for you?
16:00 - 16:20

16:20 Report Writing
Report Writing
16:20 - 17:20
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

18:00 Dinner (no-host) - Dutch Goose
Dinner (no-host) - Dutch Goose
18:00 - 20:00
Friday 17 July 2026

08:45 Report Discussion
Report Discussion
08:45 - 09:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D
Contributions

09:00 RL for particle accelerators - Andrea Santamaria Garcia (University of Liverpool and Cockcroft Institute)

09:20 Industry Needs for ML in Safety Critical Systems - Edouard Servan-Schreiber (Transmutex)

09:40 IGNITE - Tokamak World Model for Full-Discharge Simulation - Peter Steiner (Princeton University)

10:00 Continual learning for particle accelerators - Kishan Rajput

10:20 Co-design for Accelerators - David Bizzozero
11:15 Coffee
Coffee
11:15 - 12:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

12:00 Report Discussion
Report Discussion
12:00 - 13:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

14:00 Report Discussion and writing
Report Discussion and writing
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D

16:00 Report Closeout
Report Closeout
16:00 - 17:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood A/B/C/D