C² the P² Fall 2026 Annual Retreat

August 10, 2026 @ Zoom (virtual roundtable held in lieu of the in-person retreat)

• Introductions and Broad Discussion
  • Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)
  • Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Michael Papka (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Status Reports
  • Detection of Low Energy Neutrinos via Machine Learning Algorithms for Supernova Pointing at DUNE: Gwyndolin Anderson
  • Resource Usage and Power Profiling for High-Energy Physics Workflows: Akshar Patel (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Maisy Dunlavy (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Marceline Gallegos (Northern Illinois University)
• Slides from Fellows Unable to Attend
  • Modeling Absorbers in a Differentiable Muon-Cooling Simulation: Eric Anderson (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Evaluating Lossy Compression Effects on Generated Physics Objects in RNTuples: Nicholas Barnett (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Faster Kernels, Same Answers: Agent-Driven Precision Tuning: Kim Meagher (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Hackjet: Improved Jet Clustering with SIFT and Heap-based Agglomerative Clustering: Alexei Tam (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Status Report: Jason Thurow (Northern Illinois University)
  • Machine Learning for Smartpixel Detectors: Reproducing and Extending the ASIC Inference Pipeline: Sarah Waldych (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Closed Session (faculty, PIs and lab staff)
• New Fellows
  • Characterizing I/O Performance for ML Data Loaders at Scale Using Darshan: Bradley Leesman
  • Jennifer Coburn
  • Casandra Saxon
  • Joseph Berthel

C² the P² Fall 2025 Annual Retreat

August 14 - 15, 2025 @ University of Illinois Chicago

• Introductions
  • Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)
  • Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Michael Papka (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Project Reports
  • Evaluating the SZ3 Compressor on Data from the ATLAS Experiment: Amy Byrnes (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • CP² Update: Lauren Fabre Wills (Northern Illinois University)
  • Sreten Kljaic (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Integrating Darshan I/O Performance Monitoring Into SPOT: Wesley Kwiecinski (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Layne Sauer
• Current Trends in Computing and AI/ML
  • From Likelihoods to Language Models: AI’s Evolving Role in High-Energy Physics: Taylor Childers (Argonne National Laboratory)
  • [AI Testbed] - Venkat Vishwanath (Argonne National Laboratory)
• New Project Opportunities
• Monthly Seminar Discussion
• New Fellows
  • Gwyndolin Anderson
  • Maisy Dunlavy
  • Kim Meagher
  • Akshar Patel
  • Kiran Sakorikar
  • Jason Thurow

C² the P² Fall 2024 Annual Retreat

August 15 - 16, 2024 @ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

• Introductions - Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University) and Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Experiment Talks
  • Atlas, CMS - Hector De La Torre Perez (Northern Illinois University)
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - Walter Hopkins (Argpmme National Laboratory)
  • DUNE - Michael Eads (Northern Illinois University)
• Project Reports
  • Marcelo Avila (Northern Illinois University)
  • Nathan Brandman-Hughes (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Sreten Kljaic (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Jack Kraus (Northern Illinois University)
  • Alexander Rahe (Northern Illinois University)
  • Fatima Rodriguez (Northern Illinois University)
  • Hadyen Shaddix (Northern Illinois University)
  • Frank Strug (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Aaron Wang (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Current Trends in Computing
• New Opportunities
• New Fellows
  • Amy Byrnes (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Wesley Kwiecinski (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • Layne Sauer
  • Lauren Wills

C² the P² Fall 2023 Annual Retreat

August 22, 2023 @ Argonne National Laboratory

• Introductions - Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)

• Interesting Recent LHC Results - Hector De La Torre Perez (Northern Illinois University)

• Interesting Recent DUNE Results - Michael Eads (Northern Illinois University)

• Fellow Research Update I - Jack Kraus (Northern Illinois University)

• Fellow Research Update II - Frank Strug (University of Illinois Chicago)

• Planning for Advanced Seminar - Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Discussion of Electives - Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Discussion of Seminar Series - Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)
• Discussion of Connections to other Traineeships and Programs - Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)

• Website Update - Michael Papka (University of Illinois Chicago)

• Aurora and ALCF Tours