4th CERN Baltic Conference (CBC 2024)

from Tuesday 15 October 2024 (09:00) to Thursday 17 October 2024 (15:00)
Tallinn University of Technology (Tudengimaja)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024
AM
09:00 --- Registration ---
11:00
POLICY SESSION (until 12:40)
11:00 Practicalities - Ants Koel (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
11:05 Opening of the Conference and Welcome - Chair of the CERN Baltic Group - Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV)) Dr Brigita Abakevičienė (Kaunas University of Technology)  
11:20 CERN Welcome (online) - Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)  
11:30 Welcome Address by the Vice Rector of Taltech - Dr Tiit Lukk (Taltech Vice Rector of Research)  
11:45 Welcome Address from the Minister of Education and Science (online) - Mrs Kristina Kallas (Minister of Education and Science)  
12:00 Welcome Address from the Parliament of Estonia - Dr Mario Kadastik (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
12:20 Welcome Address from the Baltic Assembly - Dr Karmen Joller (Baltic Assembly)  
09:00 Open Problems in Contemporary Particle Physics - Martti Raidal (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
10:00
Particle Physics Theory (until 11:00)
10:00 Dark Matter Models - Kristjan Kannike (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
10:20 Cosmology and DESI Implementations - Gert Hütsi  
10:40 Gravitational Wave Probes of Dark Matter - Hardi Veermäe (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:20
Particle Physics Theory cont. (until 12:40)
11:20 Phase transitions - Ville Vaskonen  
11:40 Inflation - Antonio Racioppi (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
12:00 Ab-initio algebraic calculations for the small systems of nucleons - Augustinas Stepsys (Vilnius University)  
12:20 Nonlocal Quark-Gluon Interactions, A Dyson-Schwinger approach - Arpan Chatterjee (University of Tartu)  
09:00
Applications and Engineering; Misc. Physics (until 11:00)
09:00 WW unitarity - Kristjan Müürsepp (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
09:20 Inflation model building - Christian Dioguardi (KBFI)  
09:40 Type II Seesaw mechanism - Aleksei Kubarski  
10:00 Pulsar Timing Array results - Juan Urrutia (KBFI)  
10:20 Probing the Dark Substructure of the Milky Way with Deep Learning - Sven Poder (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
10:40 Exploring Vector Boson Fusion Di-Higgs Production in the bbττ Final State - Norman Seeba (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:20
Applications and Engineering; Misc. Physics (until 13:20)
11:20 Neutrino Physics - Timo Johnny Karkkainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
11:40 Novel linear accelerator design for injection of helium ions into a particle therapy synchrotron and parallel radioisotope production - Lazar Nikitovic (Riga Technical University (LV))  
12:00 Advancing the knowledge of Physicochemical and Radiobiological Mechanisms of Flash Radiotherapy - Dr Jonas Venius (National Cancer Institute of Lithuania)  
12:20 Experimental studies of radiochemical changes at ultra-high dose rates (UHDR) in perspective of FLASH therapy - Kristaps Palskis (Riga Technical University (LV))  
12:40 Design of a Supporting System for Superconducting Magnets and its application to Rotating Gantries for Cancer Therapy - Luca Piacentini (Riga Technical University (LV))  
PM
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:00
INDUSTRY AND CERN BG WORKGROUPS SESSION (until 16:20)
14:00 Baltic ILO Activities - Robert Aare (Estonian Business and Innovation Agency) Ms Alise Pika-Ozola (Industrial Liaison Officer for Latvia)  
14:25 Radius Machining - Eva Laanemäe (Regional Manager)  
14:50 GScan - Andi Hektor (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
15:20 CBG Workgroup review: Advanced Particle Therapy Center - Kristaps Palskis (Riga Technical University (LV))  
15:40 CBG Workgroup review: CMS Tier-II Baltic Computing Center - Karlis Dreimanis (Ryga Technical University | CERN)  
15:50 Lithuanian Student Education on Experimental High-Energy Physics Challenges - Andrius Juodagalvis (Vilnius University (LT))  
16:20
POSTER SESSION (until 17:00)
17:00 --- NETWORKING: Industry Meets Science ---
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Collider Physics (until 15:40)
14:00 Quantum information at colliders - Luca Marzola (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
14:20 ZH at FCC - Carlo Marzo (NICPB)  
14:40 331 models - Niko Koivunen (University of Helsinki)  
15:00 Dependence of vacuum arc initiation dynamics on the application of a static magnetic field - Roni Koitermaa (University of Tartu (EE))  
15:20 Study of Non-Resonant HH Production in WWZZ Decay Mode at CMS Experiment - Antra Gaile (Riga Technical University (LV))  
15:40 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Collider Physics cont. (until 18:00)
16:00 Di-Higgs Physics at the CMS experiment - Torben Lange (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
16:20 Improving Hadronically Decaying Tau Lepton Identification and Reconstruction with Unified End-to-End Machine Learning Methods - Laurits Tani (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
16:40 Machine Learning and computing for collider data - Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
17:00 Upgrading the Tau Trigger Algorithm at CMS for the High Luminosity LHC - Christine Nielsen (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
17:20 The influence of electromagnetic power in vacuum breakdown - Tauno Tiirats (University of Tartu (EE))  
17:40 Lepton flavour universality (LFU) violation study in ttbar decays in pp collisions at the CMS detector with √𝑠=13 𝑇𝑒𝑉 - Normunds Ralfs Strautnieks (University of Latvia (LV))  
19:30
CONFERENCE DINNER (until 21:30)
13:20
CLOSING (until 14:00)