ML4Q Software Day 2026

To foster stronger connections among the main software contributors within ML4Q, we are organizing the Software Day in Cologne.

The goal of this event is to bring together key software developers from across the ML4Q cluster, to familiarize them with the software-related activities of other groups, and to provide an effective platform for discussing common challenges, shared interests, and opportunities for collaboration.

Date and place: March 2, 10:00 to 16:30, Seminarraum 1, Astrophysik (1.Physik), Zülpicher Str., 77, 50937 Cologne

Thank you to everyone who participated in Software Day! If you would like access to the presentations that were given, please get in touch with the ML4Q Office.

Program

We invite 4-5 leading developers from ML4Q to give 20-minute presentations on their respective areas of software development.

We will conclude the day with focused discussions on the following major topics:

* Experimental physics software
* Computational challenges
* Data sharing and verification

10:00 – 10:05 – Welcome & short introduction
10:05–11:35 — Presentations and discussion
1. Alex Kashuba – Software challenges in solid state experiment
2. Babak Behjati – Single Molecule Detection Software
3. Marc Schmidt – Challenges and Solutions in Research Software Engineering

11:35–13:00: Coffee / Lunch / Peer-to-peer exchange

13:00–14:30 — Presentations and discussion
4. David Luitz – Scientific software development in computational physics
5. Quinten Preiss – Building Software for Quantum Circuit Simulation: From Theory to Scale
6. Shahrukh Chishti – Design challenges and strategies for quantum suit

14:30–15:30 — Coffee / Peer-to-peer exchange

15:30–16:30 — Topical discussion sessions

Panelists:
Alex Kashuba (Semiconductor experiment)
Babak Behjati (Photonics experiment)
Marc Schmidt (LLMs)
David Luitz (Computational, overview)
Quinten Preiss (Computational, insights)
Shahrukh Chishti (Quantum control)