ICCUB researchers participate in the World’s Leading Conference on computing for particle and nuclear physics in Thailand

ICCUB researchers Carla Marin Benito and Paloma Laguarta attended last week the International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), the world’s leading conference on computing for particle, nuclear, and astroparticle physics, held this year in Thailand. The event brought together more than 500 international participants and had significant national impact, including coverage in local media and the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at the opening ceremony.

Marin Benito was chair of the scientific track “Offline Data Processing,” one of the main areas of the event, focused on the systems and methodologies used to process and analyse data from large-scale scientific infrastructures. In addition, she was responsible for presenting the summary of this track during the final session of the conference, highlighting key developments and challenges discussed throughout the week.

She also attended CHEP as a representative of the LHCb experiment at CERN, where she currently serves as Vice-Coordinator for Software and Computing, a central role in the development and coordination of the tools required to process the vast amounts of data generated by the detector.

The conference also featured the participation of ICCUB PhD researcher Paloma Laguarta, who presented a project on the use of autoencoders for real-time event selection. Her work explores machine learning techniques to improve trigger systems in particle physics experiments, enabling more efficient identification of relevant events for further analysis. The contribution was very well received by the scientific community.

CHEP is the leading international forum for experts in scientific computing applied to fundamental physics, covering topics such as large-scale data processing, distributed infrastructures, artificial intelligence, and software development for major international collaborations. ICCUB’s participation in this conference highlights the institute’s active role in a strategic field that is essential for the future of physics research.

More information about the conference: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1471803/overview