4th CERN Baltic Conference (CBC 2024)

15 Oct 2024, 09:00 → 17 Oct 2024, 15:00 Europe/Tallinn

Tudengimaja (Tallinn University of Technology)

About the event

The CERN Baltic Conference (CBC) is an annual event hosted by one of the higher education or research institutions from the CERN Baltic Group (CBG), with the aim of connecting and growing the scientific community in the Baltic states, working on CERN-related research topics.

The fourth event, CBC 2024, will be hosted by the Tallinn University of Technology (Taltech), in Tallinn, Estonia.

Previous events were hosted by the University of Tartu (Estonia), Vilnius University (Lithuania) and Riga Technical University (Latvia).

Scope and scientific topics

The scope of CBC 2024 includes the presentation of the most recent results of the Baltic scientific community in CERN-related fields of research, as well as dedicated sessions for the discussion of national and regional level scientific policy, higher education and industry engagement topics.

The scientific topics include, but are not limited to:

• Particle physics: experiment;
• Particle physics: theory;
• Accelerator physics;
• Accelerator and particle detector technologies;
• Medical physics.

Objectives

The main objectives of the CBC 2024 are to bring together the scientific community of the Baltic states and to provide updates on the most recent scientific achievements of the members of this research community working on CERN-related fields of research.

The aims of the event are:

• To connect and build the scientific community in CERN-related fields of research in the Baltic region and beyond;
• To stimulate the development of the ecosystems of scientific research and higher education in the Baltic states;
• To inform and engage the policy makers across the region on the benefits of a strong research community and the requirements for further growth;
• To inform and engage various stakeholders, including the higher-education institutions and industry representatives in the development of the scientific ecosystem in the Baltics.

The spirit of the event is based on the core principles of the CBG of transparency, honesty, sharing and collaboration.

Target audience and participants

CERN-related researchers, engineers and students, as well as national and regional industrial representatives, and relevant policy makers.  

Expert speakers from CERN and CBG Member institutions will be invited to participate and to contribute to the scientific programme of the conference.

 

Tuesday 15 October

09:00 → 11:00 Registration

Registration of participants

11:00 → 12:40 POLICY SESSION

Baltic and National Activities

11:00 Practicalities

Speaker: Ants Koel (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

11:05 Opening of the Conference and Welcome - Chair of the CERN Baltic Group

Speakers: Dr Brigita Abakevičienė (Kaunas University of Technology), Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))

20241015_intro.pdf

11:20 CERN Welcome (online)

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

11:30 Welcome Address by the Vice Rector of Taltech

Speaker: Dr Tiit Lukk (Taltech Vice Rector of Research)

11:45 Welcome Address from the Minister of Education and Science (online)

online

Speaker: Mrs Kristina Kallas (Minister of Education and Science)

12:00 Welcome Address from the Parliament of Estonia

Speaker: Dr Mario Kadastik (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

12:20 Welcome Address from the Baltic Assembly

Speaker: Dr Karmen Joller (Baltic Assembly)

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:20 INDUSTRY AND CERN BG WORKGROUPS SESSION

14:00 Baltic ILO Activities

Speakers: Ms Alise Pika-Ozola (Industrial Liaison Officer for Latvia), Robert Aare (Estonian Business and Innovation Agency)

Prezentācija 4th CERN Baltic Conference AP.pdf

14:25 Radius Machining

Speaker: Eva Laanemäe (Regional Manager)

14:50 GScan

Speaker: Andi Hektor (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

15:20 CBG Workgroup review: Advanced Particle Therapy Center

Speaker: Kristaps Palskis (Riga Technical University (LV))

15_10_2024_CBC_APTCB_Status.pdf

15_10_2024_CBC_APTCB_Status.pptx

15:40 CBG Workgroup review: CMS Tier-II Baltic Computing Center

Speaker: Karlis Dreimanis (Ryga Technical University | CERN)

LV_Tier2.pdf

15:50 Lithuanian Student Education on Experimental High-Energy Physics Challenges

Speaker: Andrius Juodagalvis (Vilnius University (LT))

20241015-AJuodagalvis-student-education.pdf

16:20 → 17:00 POSTER SESSION

17:00 → 18:00 NETWORKING: Industry Meets Science

networking

Wednesday 16 October

09:00 → 10:00 Open Problems in Contemporary Particle Physics

Speaker: Martti Raidal (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

Raidal_CBC_2024.pdf

Raidal_CBC_2024.pptx

10:00 → 11:00 Particle Physics Theory

10:00 Dark Matter Models

Speaker: Kristjan Kannike (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

Kristjan_Kannike_CBC_2024_slides.pdf

10:20 Cosmology and DESI Implementations

Speaker: Gert Hütsi

10:40 Gravitational Wave Probes of Dark Matter

Speaker: Hardi Veermäe (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

BalticCERN_2024_veermae.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee

11:20 → 12:40 Particle Physics Theory cont.

11:20 Phase transitions

Speaker: Ville Vaskonen

Vaskonen.pdf

Vaskonen.pptx

11:40 Inflation

Speaker: Antonio Racioppi (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

Racioppi_CBC2024.pdf

12:00 Ab-initio algebraic calculations for the small systems of nucleons

Speaker: Augustinas Stepsys (Vilnius University)

12:20 Nonlocal Quark-Gluon Interactions, A Dyson-Schwinger approach

Speaker: Arpan Chatterjee (University of Tartu)

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Collider Physics

14:00 Quantum information at colliders

Speaker: Luca Marzola (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

CBC24.pdf

14:20 ZH at FCC

Speaker: Carlo Marzo (NICPB)

Cern-4-Marzo.pdf

14:40 331 models

Speaker: Niko Koivunen (University of Helsinki)

Baltic_2024_Koivunen_v2.pdf

15:00 Dependence of vacuum arc initiation dynamics on the application of a static magnetic field

Speaker: Roni Koitermaa (University of Tartu (EE))

koitermaa_cbc2024.pdf

koitermaa_cbc2024.pptx

15:20 Study of Non-Resonant HH Production in WWZZ Decay Mode at CMS Experiment

Speaker: Antra Gaile (Riga Technical University (LV))

Gaile_cbc24_hh_wwzz.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:00 Collider Physics cont.

16:00 Di-Higgs Physics at the CMS experiment

Speaker: Torben Lange (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

CBC2024.pdf

16:20 Improving Hadronically Decaying Tau Lepton Identification and Reconstruction with Unified End-to-End Machine Learning Methods

Speaker: Laurits Tani (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

CBC2024.pdf

16:40 Machine Learning and computing for collider data

Speaker: Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

cern_baltic_conference_2024.pdf

17:00 Upgrading the Tau Trigger Algorithm at CMS for the High Luminosity LHC

Speaker: Christine Nielsen (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

cbc_cnielsen_cms_trigger_upgrade.pdf

17:20 The influence of electromagnetic power in vacuum breakdown

Speaker: Tauno Tiirats (University of Tartu (EE))

EMPower_presentation_2024.pdf

17:40 Lepton flavour universality (LFU) violation study in ttbar decays in pp collisions at the CMS detector with √𝑠=13 𝑇𝑒𝑉

Speaker: Normunds Ralfs Strautnieks (University of Latvia (LV))

CBC24_LFU_Normunds.pdf

19:30 → 21:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

Thursday 17 October

09:00 → 11:00 Applications and Engineering; Misc. Physics

09:00 WW unitarity

Speaker: Kristjan Müürsepp (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

09:20 Inflation model building

Speaker: Christian Dioguardi (KBFI)

Presentation__Higgs_Inflation.pdf

09:40 Type II Seesaw mechanism

Speaker: Aleksei Kubarski

Aleksei_Kubarski_Tallinn2024.pdf

10:00 Pulsar Timing Array results

Speaker: Juan Urrutia (KBFI)

CERN_Baltic_24.pdf

10:20 Probing the Dark Substructure of the Milky Way with Deep Learning

Speaker: Sven Poder (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

10:40 Exploring Vector Boson Fusion Di-Higgs Production in the bbττ Final State

Speaker: Norman Seeba (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

CBC2024.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee

11:20 → 13:20 Applications and Engineering; Misc. Physics

11:20 Neutrino Physics

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Lazar Nikitovic (Riga Technical University (LV))

LINAC.pdf

LINAC.pptx

12:00 Advancing the knowledge of Physicochemical and Radiobiological Mechanisms of Flash Radiotherapy

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Kristaps Palskis (Riga Technical University (LV))

CBC_2024_FLASH_radiochemistry_Palskis.pdf

CBC_2024_FLASH_radiochemistry_Palskis.pptx

12:40 Design of a Supporting System for Superconducting Magnets and its application to Rotating Gantries for Cancer Therapy

Speaker: Luca Piacentini (Riga Technical University (LV))

CBC 2024 LP.pdf

CBC 2024 LP.pptx

13:20 → 14:00 CLOSING: (3)