AID2E Technical Meeting
Date: Aug 27, 2026
Attendees: Cynthia Nunez (Duke); Derek Anderson (JLab); James Giroux, Hemalata Nayak, Cris Fanelli (W&M); Meifeng Lin, Wen Guan, Kolja Kauder (BNL)
Announcements
- AID2E Dev Day — September 14, 2026 (JLab)
- One-day hybrid work session focused on running studies for the paper and planning the road to v1.0.
- Derek is coordinating the in-person arrangements at JLab.
- Remote participation will be available throughout the day.
- Anyone planning to attend in person should contact Derek.
- Onsite attendees must complete the JLab access form at least 7 days before arrival.
- The Indico page is available.
Phase I
Updates
Derek — JLab
- Cynthia's PR #59 has been merged.
- Opened PR #63 to get the BIC example running.
- Expected to complete the BIC work by August 31.
Cynthia — Duke
- Continuing work on documentation and example cleanup.
- Created Issue #62 for this work.
- Asked collaborators to review and help with:
- Documentation
- Examples
- Python API references
- Other content to add, update, or remove
- Instructions are available for previewing the draft documentation locally.
Phase II
Code Assist
James — W&M
- Code Assist work is underway.
Monitoring / Control
Amit — BNL
- Amit was absent.
- Will present updates at the next meeting.
Detector Optimization
Cris — W&M
- Started discussion on translating from Geant4 (G4) to CAD.
Baptiste — CUA
- Tested Bayesian optimization using PanDA and the AID2E scheduler.
- The study optimizes the linearization of the backward endcap calorimeter response using π0 → γγ events.
- The test worked well, similarly to the earlier B0 tracking disk position optimization.