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We are excited to announce the forthcoming 2nd workshop on<span> </span><b>AI4EIC</b><span> </span>-<span> </span><b>Artificial Intelligence for the Electron-Ion Collider<span> </span></b>organized by the EICUG AI WG, that will be held at the College of William
& Mary in Virginia on 10-14 October 2022: </div>
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The event will be hybrid, both in-person and virtual, and we encourage in-person participation. </div>
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This event follows the productive experience of the first AI4EIC workshop held virtually in 2021 at CFNS (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__eic.ai_workshops&d=DwMFAw&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=TI1-uR1CNrL-lIqQDSyKdxNA8TlS9bg3dZbKl21HDQU&m=9BG35pJn1aTUHf7gNhZ16AbsCca3cc490zyb5StTrbIvRLXEl8llQV7jH2g8qBGY&s=zrqyrTf3TIYuuY30xyIUKB-IoN3ycOii9Z2xbwLEAzM&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://eic.ai/workshops" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px">https://eic.ai/workshops</a>). </div>
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The scope of this second workshop is to cover all active and potential areas of applications of AI/ML for the EIC. </div>
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This will include accelerator and detector design (EPIC and potentially detector 2), connections to theory, analysis, reconstruction and particle identification, infrastructure, streaming and frontiers in AI/ML. </div>
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<span style="margin:0px">During the workshop we will have AI/ML tutorial sessions provided by experts (academia, national labs, industry). The workshop will also host a Hackathon event. </span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px"><i>AI/ML will be an essential part of all phases of the future EIC and is already contributing to its realization starting from the design and R&D phases. This workshop is a terrific opportunity to update the community on the progress
of ongoing projects and plans regarding AI/ML for the EIC, with discussions on multiple cross-cutting topics that bring together theorists, experimentalists, accelerator physicists and AI/ML practitioners. </i></span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px">More info: Sessions will be held 10:00-17:00 (Eastern Time) on each of the days of October 10-13. </span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px">The entire day of October 14 will be dedicated to the Hackathon. </span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px">All discussions will be plenary. The afternoon of October 13 will be devoted to discussing the AI4EIC path forward and next steps for the community. </span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px">All the best, </span></div>
<span class="x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:rgb(0,0,0)!important; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px">Cristiano Fanelli, Tanja Horn for the EICUG AI WG (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__eic.ai_&d=DwMFAw&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=TI1-uR1CNrL-lIqQDSyKdxNA8TlS9bg3dZbKl21HDQU&m=9BG35pJn1aTUHf7gNhZ16AbsCca3cc490zyb5StTrbIvRLXEl8llQV7jH2g8qBGY&s=toDGqyqULvAKpasStxGd-UXgdoTr7rQqY60WDg77RMk&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://eic.ai" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">https://eic.ai</a>)</span></span><br>
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