Name: PyHEP.dev 2026 - "Python in HEP" Developer's Workshop
Start: 2026-09-07T08:50:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-09T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Nikhef

Description

PyHEP.dev is an in-person, informal workshop for developers of Python software in HEP to plan a coherent roadmap and make priorities for the upcoming year. It complements the PyHEP Users online workshop, which is intended for both developers and physicists.

You are encouraged to register to the HSF forum to receive further information concerning the organisation of the workshop.

Program

The agenda will consist of morning kick-off talks and afternoon coding sessions and discussions, in which the groups and topics are self-assigned.

Key Topics

Agentic SWE and Tooling
Distributed Computing and Workflows
Data Analysis Tools, e.g., I/O, Histogramming, Statistical Tools, Visualization
Packaging & Distribution

Organising Committee

Peter Fackeldey - Princeton University
Dmitry Kalinkin - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Alexander Heidelbach - Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU)

Local Organising Committee

Jeff Templon - Nikhef
Joan Berger - Nikhef

The PyHEP.dev and the PyHEP User workshop are both supported by the HEP Software Foundation (HSF). Further information is on the PyHEP Working Group website. This PyHEP.dev workshop is also supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation cooperative agreement PHY-2323298 (IRIS-HEP) and by the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef).

Participants