Workshop

We are pleased to announce RL4AA'26, the fourth workshop of the series organised by the Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators (RL4AA) Collaboration. After three very successful workshops (KIT in 2023, Salzburg in 2024, and DESY in 2025) RL4AA'26 will be hosted as a LIV.INNO Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators by the University of Liverpool and Cockcroft Institute in the musically iconic port city of Liverpool. RL4AA brings together the reinforcement learning and accelerator physics communities to share results, practical insights from the field, and the big questions ahead for real-world RL. Expect engaging keynotes, invited and contributed talks, a lively poster session, and a hands-on coding challenge. ...

Wow! The RL4AA'25 workshop at DESY in Hamburg was a blast, and we couldn’t be prouder of the community we have brought together! 😊 It’s unbelievable that we started just over 2 years ago with 30-ish participants, and this year we hosted our third workshop with almost 80 attendees from all over the world, two brilliant keynotes by Jan Peters and Alessandro Pau, and a very well-received hands-on RL challenge, where the competing teams far exceeded our expectations. Various interesting talks, intriguing posters, lab and city tours, as well as social events were also on our schedule. ...

We are delighted to announce the “3rd International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators” RL4AA’25! To be held 2 - 4 April 2025 at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. Following the very successful RL4AA'23 and RL4AA'24 workshops, the goal of this workshop is to exchange experiences and ideas about RL in the context of particle accelerators amongst both experts and beginners. We have an exciting workshop program lined up! Two keynotes by RL experts Jan Peters (University of Darmstadt) The second speaker will be announced soon. Hands-on RL challenge Contributed talks Posters Introduction to RL More details: Workshop website: https://rl4aa.github.io/RL4AA25/ Indico link: https://indico.scc.kit.edu/event/4216/ Call for abstracts: open until 24 January 2025 Registration: Open right now! Registration deadline: 7 March 2025 Thanks to generous sponsorships, there are no registration fees! Workshop: 2 - 4 April 2025, Hamburg, Germany Please join us if you have worked in reinforcement learning or you are simply interested and would like to start! This workshop is intended to foster discussions and to start interesting projects together. ...

From 5 to 7 February 2024, IDA Lab at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg kindly hosted the RL4AA community for the 2nd workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators (RL4AA'24). With over 50 participants from more than 10 different countries, we are excited to see that our community is growing and that the interest in reinforcement learning (for particle accelerators) is increasing. In a total of 19 talks, we got to hear about the latest developments and impressive results in the field. ...

The call for abstracts for the RL4AA'24 workshop, taking place 05 - 07 February 2024 in Salzburg, Austria, has been extended. Register for the workshop and submit your abstract until 5 January 2024! We are also excited to announce our keynote speakers: Antonin Raffin (German Aerospace Center) Felix Berkenkamp (Bosch Center for AI) For more information on the workshop, please see the official workshop website: https://rl4aa.github.io/RL4AA24/ To get directly to registration, please visit: https://indico.scc.kit.edu/event/3746/ ...

Announcing RL4AA'24 - Registration is open! Following up on the very successful RL4AA'23 workshop in Karlsruhe earlier this year, we are excited to announce the 2nd RL4AA workshop RL4AA'24, which will be held in Salzburg, Austria, from 05 - 07 February 2024. The workshop will be hosted at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. We are looking forward to an exciting workshop with many interesting talks and discussions on reinforcement learning for autonomous particle accelerators and hope to see you all in Salzburg! ...

Good News - save the date! Our first workshop, RL4AA 2023, was very successful. Because of this, we are hoping to hold the 2nd RL4AA workshop in spring 2024 in Salzburg, Austria in 05 - 07 February 2024. Further details will follow soon.

Reinforcement learning is the most difficult learning paradigms to understand and to efficiently use, but it holds a lot of promise in the field of accelerator physics. The applications of reinforcement learning to accelerators today are not very numerous yet, but the interest of the community is growing considerably. This is how the 1st collaboration workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators (RL4AA'23) came to be! The AI4Accelerators team organized and hosted the workshop at KIT, gathering colleagues involved in reinforcement learning. The workshop offered introductory lectures to reinforcement learning, a Python tutorial that studied the real deployment of such an algorithm in a real accelerator, and guided discussion sessions on the most pressing topics. The contents of the discussion will be published in the form of proceedings later. ...