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| 2 | +title: "RL4AA'25 at DESY in Hamburg was a blast! Thank you everyone!" |
| 3 | +date: 2025-04-07 |
| 4 | +draft: false |
| 5 | +tags: ["rl4aa25", "workshop", "event", "desy", "hamburg"] |
| 6 | +categories: "Announcements" |
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| 10 | + image: imgs/rl4aa25/_A743124_Large.jpeg |
| 11 | + alt: "RL4AA'25 workshop group photo" |
| 12 | + caption: "RL4AA'25 workshop group photo" |
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| 14 | +--- |
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| 16 | +Wow! The RL4AA'25 workshop at [DESY](https://desy.de) in Hamburg was a blast, and we couldn't be prouder of the community we have brought together! 😊 |
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| 18 | +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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janrpeters/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BKQY%2BWPKNQ5eDSSubgz3gWA%3D%3D) and [Alessandro Pau](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-pau-a46916ba/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BKQY%2BWPKNQ5eDSSubgz3gWA%3D%3D), 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. |
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| 20 | +We learned a great deal from RL experts, accelerator physicists and researchers applying RL to other real world applications like rocket science. 🚀 |
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| 22 | +This year's workshop was also partnered with the [5th ICFA MaLAPA Workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1382428/) at [CERN](https://home.cern) the week after. We are also proud to have been able to keep this workshop as accessible as possible without a registration fee for the third time thanks to generous funding. |
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| 24 | +A huge thank you to all participants from the organising committee [Annika Eichler](https://ai.desy.de/people/eichler.html), [Jan Kaiser](https://jank324.github.io/), [Christian Hespe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-hespe/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BKQY%2BWPKNQ5eDSSubgz3gWA%3D%3D), [Simon Hirlaender](https://mathphyssim.github.io/), [Andrea Santamaria Garcia](https://ansantam.github.io/), [Chenran Xu](https://cr-xu.github.io/) and [Borja Rodriguez Mateos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/borja-rodriguez-mateos-4b0657151/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BKQY%2BWPKNQ5eDSSubgz3gWA%3D%3D)! |
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| 26 | +## Links related to the workshop |
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| 28 | +- [Official website](https://rl4aa.github.io/RL4AA25/) of the RL4AA'25 workshop |
| 29 | +- [Indico page](https://indico.scc.kit.edu/event/4216/overview) with the program and slides from the talks |
| 30 | +- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/RL4AA/rl4aa25-challenge) for the hands-on RL challenge |
| 31 | +- [Photo album](https://syncandshare.desy.de/index.php/apps/photos/public/V8uIm38LZFVRfYGMmMRa6Hh32PUH431n) of pictures from the workshop |
| 32 | +- [Discord server](https://discord.gg/AgRXupkSNP) for the RL4AA community |
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| 34 | +## Some photos from the workshop |
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