117th Plenary ECFA Meeting

20 Nov 2025, 13:45 → 21 Nov 2025, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Thursday 20 November

13:45 → 15:30 Plennary ECFA - closed session

14:00 Opening and Adoption of the agenda

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)

14:05 Draft minutes of the 115th PECFA meeting and 116th PECFA session

Speaker: Lidija Zivkovic (Institute of physics Belgrade (RS))

14:10 Report from the Chair

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)

14:30 Endorsement of new ECFA, RECFA and ECR panel members

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)

14:35 Midterm report from Hungary

Speaker: Ferenc Siklér (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))

14:55 Update from ECFA Training Panel

Speaker: Johann Collot (university Grenoble Alpes (FR))

15:15 Report from Early Career Researcher Panel

Speaker: Magdalena Vande Voorde (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE))

15:35 → 15:55 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:05 Plennary ECFA - open session

16:00 Report from CERN

Speaker: Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)

16:30 Report from RAL

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (University of Edinburgh)

16:50 Report from LDG

Speakers: Mike Seidel, Mike Seidel

17:10 Report from (APPEC)

17:30 Report from (NuPECC)

Speaker: Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

Friday 21 November

09:00 → 10:45 Toward ESPP Update

09:00 Status of the ESPP update process

Speaker: Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg (DE))

09:20 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Higgs/EWK, Top, Flavor, Strong interaction & BSM physics

Speaker: Gino Isidori (University of Zurich (CH))

09:50 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Neutrinos, Dark Matter and Cosmic Messengers

10:20 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Instrumentation and Computing

Speakers: Dr Tommaso Boccali (INFN Sezione di Pisa), Tommaso Boccali

10:50 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:30 Updates from HEP communities

11:15 Update from China

Speaker: Joao Barreiro Guimaraes Da Costa (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

11:40 Update from Japan

Speaker: Tsuyoshi Nakaya (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:05 Update from the US

Speaker: Srini Rajagopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

12:30 → 13:55 Lunch Break

14:00 → 16:50 Post-symposium updates from ESG groups

14:00 WG1: Final input from national HEP communities

Speaker: Calin Alexa (IFIN-HH (RO))

14:25 WG2a: preliminary machine comparison of flagship projects

Speaker: Gianluigi Arduini (CERN)

14:50 WG2b: preliminary physics comparison for flagship projects

Speaker: Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)

15:15 WG3: Implementation of the Strategy / Deliverability of large projects

Speaker: Prof. achille stocchi (IJCLab , UNiversite Paris-Saclay, CNRS)

15:40 WG4: Relations with other fields of physics

Speakers: Marek Karliner (Tel Aviv University (IL)), Marek Karliner (High Energy Physics Department)

16:05 WG5: Sustainability

Speaker: Tadeusz Lesiak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

16:30 WG6: Public Engagement, Education, Communication & Social and career aspects for the next generation

Speaker: Pierre Van Mechelen (University of Antwerp (BE))