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The 2025 School took place between 15 – 28 October 2025 in Benasque, Spain. There were 31 lectures, which were complemented by parallel group discussion sessions. There was an evening poster session during which all students were invited to present their research work. The event also included a short course on science communications and outreach.Read more

As part of the SMARTHEP outreach hackathon that took place in June 2024 (https://indico.cern.ch/e/smarthep-outreach-hackathon), the SMARTHEP ESRs prepared videos in all of the network languages (English, Spanish, German, Thai) for the HEPscape! HEP-themed escape room created by INFN researchers. The first release of the English HEPscape! video can be found at this Zenodo link (DOIRead more

The SMARTHEP network gathered for a final time at Technical University Dortmund in Germany for our 2025 Yearly Meeting during the week of September 15th. It was an opportunity for our Early Stage Researchers to highlight the results of their PhD projects and outline their next steps post-SMARTHEP. It was also an opportunity to finaliseRead more

A central ambition of SMARTHEP is to demonstrate that the skills developed in high-energy physics — from real-time data processing to machine learning on heterogeneous architectures — are not only vital to the LHC program but also highly relevant to broader society. This vision came to life in the event “SMARTHEP meets Industry @ CERN”,Read more

The SMARTHEP Programme will sponsor the 46th CERN School of Computing, which will take place from July 6th to 19th, 2025, at Lund University in Sweden. The two-week programme will consist around 50 hours of lectures and hands-on exercises, covering three main themes: Physics computing Software engineering Data technologies.  Students who pass the final optional exam willRead more

Following our fantastic gathering in early September 2024 at Milan-Bicocca University, we are pleased to announce that the next SMARTHEP Annual Meeting will take place at the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany during the week of 15th September 2025. This will be the final meeting of the SMARTHEP Programme and will be a chanceRead more

We are happy to announce that SMARTHEP is supporting the second COMETA training school: ML4Physics@Ljubljana that will be held in Slovenia from 26 June – 2 July, 2025. The objective of the school, which is co-organised by the COMETA COST Action, the SMARTHEP European training network, the SMASH MSCN COFUND and the University of Ljubljana,Read more

Following the success of last year’s SMARTHEP programme meeting at Lund University (Sweden), the SMARTHEP network gathered at Milan-Bicocca University in Italy during the first week of October. We had updates on real-time analysis in LHC experiments and industry from the Early Stage Researchers, discussions on a variety of topics from hybrid computing architectures toRead more

The SMARTHEP-NextGen School on Edge Inference, took place at CERN from September 23-27th. This comprehensive training program was crafted to equip participants with both theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the field of Edge Machine Learning, with a focus on applications at the LHC. Our program included introductory lectures, hands-on tutorials and seminars on aRead more

Following our fantastic gathering in early December 2023 at Lund University, we are pleased to announce that the next SMARTHEP Annual Meeting will take place at Milano-Bicocca University in Italy during the week of 30th September 2024. Milano-Bicocca is a new partner in the SMARTHEP network and this year’s event will be a great opportunityRead more