November 15th, 2026 – Morning Session
Location: McCormick Place, 2301 S Martin Luther King Dr., Chicago, IL 60616
Room: TBD
| 9:00 |
Welcome & Introduction Organizers: XLOOP Chairs – Justin Wozniak, Nicholas Schwarz, Hannah Parraga |
| 9:01 |
Session 1: Applying Scalable Computing to Scientific Data Session Chair: TBD |
| 9:01 |
Real-time Optimization of Simulation and Data
Processing Pipelines for Experiments on Exascale
Computing Platforms
Presenter: Thomas Wester Authors: Thomas Wester, Harikrishna Tummalapalli, and Christine M. Simpson |
| 9:17 |
DART: ML-Accelerated Surrogate for Real-Time CFD Digital Twins Presenter: Shunyu Yao Authors: Shunyu Yao, K. Todd Lowe, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos |
| 9:34 |
Fine-Tuning Foundation Models for Micro-CT Image Segmentation Using HPC Platforms
Presenter: Xiaoya Chong Authors: Xiaoya Chong + 20  Artifacts Available
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| 9:51 |
Short Talk: When Should Quantum and HPC Systems Be Co-Located? Lessons from Real-World Workflows
Presenter: Seetharami Seelam |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 |
Session 2: Tightening the Experiment-Compute Loop Session Chair: TBD |
| 10:30 |
DRAVA: An Event-Driven Runtime for Scientific Pipelines with Agentic Configuration Optimization
Presenter: Venkateswaran Shekar Authors: Venkateswaran Shekar, Yevgen Matviychuk, Eliot Gann, Daniel Allan |
| 10:47 |
Building Resilient Self-Driving Laboratories with the INTERSECT Federated Ecosystem
Presenter: Christian Engelmann Authors: Christian Engelmann, Andrew Ayres, Stephen DeWitt, Michael J. Brim, and Brett Eiffert Artifacts Available
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| 11:04 |
Navigating the Spectrum of Science Workloads with ESnet JLab FPGA Accelerated Transport (EJ-FAT)
Presenter: Harinarayan Krishnan Authors: Harinarayan Krishnan, Ronald J. Pandolfi, David A. Shapiro, Sophie A. Morley, and Yatish Kumar |
| 11:21 |
Short Talk: Extending Advanced Photon Source Data Management System Workflows with Globus Streaming
Presenter: Siniša Veseli |
| 11:30 |
Session 3: Advancing AI in Experiment Automation Session Chair: TBD |
| 11:30 |
Every State, Every Loop, All at Once: Reaching the Outer Loop of an Autonomous Laboratory
Presenter: Woong Shin Authors: Woong Shin, Craig A. Bridges, Marshall T. McDonnell, Frédéric Suter, and Rafael Ferreira da Silva |
| 11:47 |
Emblase: Using Tiled as an AI-Ready Data Access Service for Live Scientific Workflows
Presenter: Venkateswaran Shekar Authors: Venkateswaran Shekar, Yevgen Matviychuk, Eliot Gann, and Daniel Allan |
| 12:04 |
Exploring the Genesis Platform Capabilities to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in OPAL
Presenter: Venkateswaran Shekar Authors: Daniel Rosendo, Renan Souza, Kelsey Carter, John Lagergren, Frédéric Suter, Shelaine L. Curd, David Weston, and Rafael Ferreira da Silva |
| 12:21 |
Short Talk: Portable AI Workflows and Federated Agents for
Experiment-in-the-Loop Synchrotron Science
Presenter: Tim J. Dunn |
| 12:29 |
Awards Ceremony and Conclusion Organizers: XLOOP Chairs – Justin Wozniak, Nicholas Schwarz, Hannah Parraga |
| 12:30 | Adjourn |