ML4Accelerators @Cockcroft

Thursday 4 Dec 2025, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/London

(next to CLARA control room) (CR1 DL)

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

We are hosting a monthly meeting open to students and anyone interested in machine learning for accelerators and related fields. The aim is to share progress on projects, troubleshoot common issues (coding errors, file organization, data standards, repositories), and exchange practical know-how. We’ll also use the space to keep each other updated on conferences, abstract submissions and deadlines, new papers, and relevant news.

This is an informal but structured gathering: a place to discuss what you worked on last month, learn from each other’s experiences, and make sure nobody gets stuck in isolation. Whether you’re working on experiments, simulations, or coding pipelines, this is a chance to get feedback, stay on top of developments, and build good habits as a community.

Zoom link: https://ukri.zoom.us/j/3547639496

Updates

• Andrea: RL4AA'26 workshop announced.

Events

• Cockcroft lectures in AI (to be announced)
• NeurIPS 2025 (39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems): 02/12/2025-07/12/2025, San Diego, US
  • Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop
• RL4AA'26 (4th collaboration workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators): 30/03/2026-01/04/2026, Liverpool, UK
• MaLAPA 2026 (6th Beam Dynamics Mini-Workshop on Machine Learning for Particle Accelerators): 21/04/2026-24/04/2026, Himeji, Japan
• IPAC'26 (17th International Particle Accelerator Conference): 17/05/2026-22/05/2026, Deauville, France
• ICML July 2026 (to be announced)

Next meeting topics

Feel free to sign up here to give a talk.

• 08/01/2026: "Machine Learning for Multipole Magnet Design" Sophie Gresty
• 05/02/2026: "Towards developing digital twin for the AEgIS experiment at CERN" Bharat Singh Rawat
• 05/03/2026: "Longitudinal profile reconstruction from coherent transition radiation images with ensemble deep learning models" Ana Guisao-Betancur

14:00 → 14:15 Updates and roundtable

14:15 → 14:35 Developing a digital shadow for CLARA

Speaker: Alexander Brynes (Science & Technology Facilities Council)

14:35 → 14:55 Questions and Discussion