Programme¶

Monday 28 September 2026¶

Time	Session
19:00 -	Informal meetup

Time	Session
09:00 - 09:20	Registration
09:20 - 09:30	Welcome
09:30 - 10:00	Parallel performance of vector AD, Troels Henriksen
10:00 - 10:30	diffblas and difflapack: derivatives of BLAS and LAPACK, Sri Hari Krishna Narayan
10:30 - 11:00	Well-Posed but Ill-Conditioned: Picking an AD Abstraction Level, Valentin Churavy
11:00 - 11:30	Refreshment break
11:30 - 12:00	asdex: Sparse AD in JAX, Adrian Hill
12:00 - 12:30	ARTIST, an open-source, PyTorch-based differentiable ray tracer for solar thermal power plants, Max Pargmann
12:30 - 13:00	Reverse AD of pythonOCC for gradient-based shape optimization, Mladen Banovic
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch break with posters
14:00 - 14:30	Advancements in Fast Derivatives for Beam Optics, Bernardo Abreu Figueiredo
14:30 - 15:00	Fast CHAD, Tom Smeding
15:00 - 15:30	Algorithmic Differential Inversion for Regularized Training of Neural Differential Equations, Gero Kauerauf
15:30 - 16:00	Refreshment break
16:00 - 16:30	Differentiable systems over framework boundaries: AD interoperability in practice, Jonathan Brodrick
16:30 - 17:00	Multithread handling in CoDiPack, Max Sagebaum
17:00 - 17:30	Extending C++ Reflection for Compile-Time Automatic Differentiation, Thomas Prideaux-Ghee, Polina Vyshnevska, Lucas Rey
17:30 - 19:00	Free time
19:00 - 22:00	Workshop dinner

Time	Session
09:00 - 09:30	DJ4Earth: new opportunities in automatic differentiation for Earth system modeling, Patrick Heimbach
09:30 - 10:00	Towards a differentiable Earth system model in Julia: Progress and perspectives, Brian Groenke
10:00 - 10:30	SpeedyWeather.jl: Differentiable, GPU-accelerated and machine-learned climate modelling, Milan Klöwer
10:30 - 11:00	Refreshment break
11:00 - 11:30	Convex Relaxations of Fixed-point Iterations and their Subgradients, Neil Kichler
11:30 - 12:00	Star Coloring Graphs Induced by Stencils, Paul Hovland
12:00 - 12:30	Taylor Mode AD in Practice: Experiments with Mixed-Partial Computation, Tim Siebert
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch break with posters
13:30 - 14:00	Work in progress of forward differentiation of fixed point loops, Jean-Luc Bouchot
14:00 - 15:15	Breakout session
15:15 - 15:30	Close