AID2E Technical Meeting

Date: March 19, 2026

Attendees: BNL: Wen, Amit W&M: Karthik Suresh, Hemalata Nayak

Announcements

• Possible overlap with the EIC Physics Readiness meeting.
• APS-related update pending confirmation.

Phase I

• Continued discussion on the Overleaf paper.
• Test problem figures from December are mostly available:
  • Considering reuse vs regenerating plots.
  • Parameters discussed:
  • Objectives (M): 3–5
  • Dimensions (D): 20, 50, 100
  • Schedulers: JobLib, Slurm, PanDA Runner
  • Plot types:
  • Total runtime
  • Hypervolume tracking
• Additional work:
  • Evaluate Ax and PyMOO with a selected scheduler (Slurm or PanDA).
  • Track progress toward holistic optimization.

Updates

• Derek (JLab)

  • PR is nearly complete; remaining tasks:
  • stack/ePIC execution engine
  • stack/ePIC workflow loader
  • Timeline: Expected merge by end of next week.
  • Integration testing to follow.
  • Notes on PanDA:
  • Geometry source code not included in container.
  • May require recompilation for certain parameters (e.g., BIC).
  • Proposed using a geometry template in EpicDesignConfig.

• Amit (BNL)

  • Pending discussions on BIC-MOBO and PanDA/iDDS integration.
  • Limited availability over past two weeks; work to resume next week.

Phase II

• Continue discussions from previous meeting:
  • Karthik Suresh: Literature survey on agentic workflows.
  • Wen: Exploration of LLM and MCP-related ideas.

Additional Notes

• Amit briefly mentioned plans related to MOGA (details to be discussed further).