4th collaboration workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators (RL4AA'26)

Session

Coding Challenge 💻

30 Mar 2026, 11:45

Theatre 2, Teaching Hub 502 (University of Liverpool)

Conveners

Coding Challenge 💻: Introduction to CLARA

• Joel Wulff (CERN)

Coding Challenge 💻: Hands-on

• Andrea Santamaria Garcia (University of Liverpool and Cockcroft Institute)
• Joel Wulff (CERN)
• Amelia Pollard (ASTeC)

Coding Challenge 💻: Hands-on & Presentations

• Joel Wulff (CERN)

Coding Challenge 💻: Hands-on

• Amelia Pollard (ASTeC)
• Joel Wulff (CERN)
• Andrea Santamaria Garcia (University of Liverpool and Cockcroft Institute)

Description

Time allocated to work on the RL challenge

Challenge information:

• The final submission deadline: 14:15, Wednesday the 1st of April
• 1st and 2nd place teams will be asked to present their results
• Template slides available in session contributions: They will guide what we want to see you present. If you prefer to make your own feel free! You will have approximately 5 minutes speaking + 3 minutes for questions per team.

Presentation materials

RL4AA'26-challenge-presentation-template.pptx

69. Introduction to CLARA

Alexander Brynes (Science & Technology Facilities Council)

30/03/2026, 11:45

72. Challenge Introduction

Joel Wulff (CERN)

30/03/2026, 15:20

73. Challenge Free Work Time

Amelia Pollard (ASTeC), Andrea Santamaria Garcia (University of Liverpool and Cockcroft Institute), Joel Wulff (CERN)

30/03/2026, 15:50

74. Challenge Free Work Time

Amelia Pollard (ASTeC), Andrea Santamaria Garcia (University of Liverpool and Cockcroft Institute), Joel Wulff (CERN)

01/04/2026, 14:00

75. First and Second Team Presentations

01/04/2026, 14:40

71. Challenge group assignment

Joel Wulff (CERN), Simon Hirlaender (PLUS University Salzburg)

76. Second Team Presentation