The Institute of High Energy Physics held the 15th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics (ACAT) from May 16 to 21 in Beijing. Scientists were brought together to explore and confront the boundaries of the computing, automatic data analysis and theoretical calculation technologies in physics research.

More than 120 experts in particle physics, nuclear physics, condensed physics, astroparticle physics and accelerator physics from home and abroad attended the meeting. 18 plenary reports and 68 parallel reports were delivered. The meeting created a forum for exchanging ideas among the fields and explored the computing, data analysis and theoretical calculation technologies in fundamental physics research.

The ACAT workshop series, formerly AIHENP (Artificial Intelligence in High Energy and Nuclear Physics), was created back in 1990. Its main purpose is to gather researchers related with computing in physics research together, from both physics and computer science sides, and bring them a chance to communicate with each other. It has established bridges between physics and computer science research, facilitating the advances in our understanding of the Universe at its smallest and largest scales. With the Large Hadron Collider and many astronomy and astrophysics experiments collecting larger and larger amounts of data, such bridges are needed now more than ever.