Name: IRIS Collaboration Meeting- IRIS: A Decade of Discovery & Collaboration
Start: 2026-01-13T11:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-14T23:50:00+00:00
Location: University of Cambridge

IRIS Collaboration Meeting- IRIS: A Decade of Discovery & Collaboration

from Tuesday 13 January 2026 (11:30) to Wednesday 14 January 2026 (23:50)

Monday 12 January 2026
Tuesday 13 January 2026

11:30 Registration & Networking Lunch
Registration & Networking Lunch
11:30 - 13:00
13:00 Session One
13:00 - 15:05
Contributions

13:00 Intro - Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary)

13:05 Welcome from Cambridge - Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge)

13:25 IRIS State of Union - Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary)

13:45 Security Update - David Crooks (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

14:05 Talk about Impact - TBC - Deniza Chekrygina (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC))

14:20 TBC - Sophie King (QMUL)

14:35 Marking Homework from Strategy - TBC

14:50 Science Talk From Cambridge
15:05 Refreshment Break
Refreshment Break
15:05 - 15:30
15:30 Session Two
15:30 - 16:50
Contributions

15:30 Astro Intro - Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge)

15:40 CASU - Alireza Molaeinezhad (University of Cambridge)

15:45 Euclid / WFAU - Mark Holliman (School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh)

15:55 GAIA Core - Patrick Burgess (IRIS IAM)

16:00 GAIA DMP - Nigel Hambly

16:05 JBCA - Robert Beswick (University of Manchester)

16:10 Ligo - Duncan Macleod (Cardiff University)

16:15 LSST-UK - George Beckett (University of Edinburgh)

16:20 Plato - Dominic Ford (University of Cambridge)

16:25 SKAO - Rosie Bolton (SKAO)

16:30 SKA UKSRC - Robert Beswick (University of Manchester)

16:35 Astro Discussion
Wednesday 14 January 2026
09:00 Session Three
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Particle Physics Introl - Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)

09:10 Darkside - Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)

09:15 Dune - Daniel Traynor (Queen Mary)

09:20 JlabClas12-TBC - Bryan McKinnon (University of Glasgow)

09:25 LZ (XLZD Intro) - Daniela Bauer (IRIS IAM)

09:35 Microboone - Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)

09:40 Jetscape - Jaime Norman (University of Liverpool)

09:45 Particle Physics Discussion

10:05 Nuclear Physics Intro - Shaun de Witt (IRIS IAM)

10:15 FairMast - Larisa Dorman-Gajic (UKAEA)

10:20 Jintrac - Emmi Tholerus (UKAEA)

10:25 CVMFS - Adam Parker (UKAEA)

10:30 Nuclear Physics Discussion
11:00 Refreshments Break
Refreshments Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Session Four
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Facilities Intro - Paul Quinn (STFC)

11:40 CLF-Other - Rajeev Pattahil (STFC)

11:45 CCP4 - Ville Uski (IRIS IAM)

11:50 Diamond - Chris Reynolds (Diamond Light Source)

12:00 ISIS - Franz Lang

12:10 DAaaS - Jeremy Spencer (STFC)

12:15 ScIML - Jaehoon Cha (STFC)

12:20 CLF-Octopus - Dan Rolfe (STFC)

12:25 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Session Five
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Technology development: intro, overview and discussion: Ceph, Digital Assets, FTS, Openstack - Tom Dack (UKRI STFC Scientific Computing)

14:10 Ceph - Tom Byrne (UKRI STFC - RAL)

14:15 IAM - Donald Chung (STFC)

14:20 Accounting - Adrian Coveney (STFC UKRI)

14:25 FTS - Rose Cooper (STFC)

14:30 Security Policies / Communites - David Crooks (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

14:35 Providers intro - Alastair Basden (University of Durham)

14:45 RAL Cloud - Martin Summers (STFC)

14:50 Cambridge - Wojchiech Turek

14:55 Imperial - Dan Whitehouse

15:00 GridPP - Samuel Skipsey (GridPP / University of Glasgow)

15:05 Somerville - Mark Holliman (School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh)

15:10 Discussion