AID2E bi-weekly technical meeting

Meeting: December 11, 2025

• Announcements: none.
• Publication and round robin
  • Baptiste:
  • B0 optimization has several design parameters and one objective.
  • Simulations run with iDDS PanDA, eic-recon, and scheduler support.
  • Wrapper work was nearly ready to push.
  • Discussion covered containerization and moving design-parameter definitions away from bobo.env toward YAML or JSON.
  • BNL:
  • Amit shared slides: December 11, 2025
  • The team discussed on-the-fly environment setup inside containers.
  • Wen noted pip can be used inside a conda environment with pip install --target=$current_dir.
  • Duke:
  • Cynthia was cleaning up and generalizing dRICH-MOBO.
  • Work to move onto scheduler_epic was ongoing.
  • W&M:
  • scheduler_epic pull request: #9
  • Result consistency was implemented by standardizing outputs as Dict[str, Any].
  • SlurmRunner and PanDARunner can now take a script as the objective.
  • Work was ongoing to tag design parameters explicitly by objective.
  • Central Tracker optimization added a dedicated branch and utility scripts.
  • Container packaging and registry publishing were still in progress.
  • Holistic optimization was extended with dummy objectives for configuration standardization.
• Standardizing configurations
  • Design parameter definitions across projects were compared:
  • Central Tracker: YAML
  • BIC: JSON
  • B0 tracker: env
  • dRICH: JSON
  • Proposal: start with YAML, while keeping JSON support.
  • Existing pydantic validation was already in place.
  • Shared utilities include XML editing, environment setup, and file-copy helpers.
  • The team discussed a base container with ax, pydantic, numpy, pandas, and eic-shell.
• AOB
  • Paper progress timelines were discussed for BIC, central optimization, and B0.
  • Karthik planned to post a clear Slack summary about the purpose of the repositories.