Spåtind 2025 - Nordic Conference on Particle Physics

Europe/Oslo
Thon Hotel Skeikampen

Thon Hotel Skeikampen

Hotellvegen 3, 2652 Svingvoll, Norway
Henning Kirschenmann (LUT University (FI)), Sami Sakari Rasanen (University of Jyvaskyla (FI)), Santeri Laurila (CERN & Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))
Description

The 28th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting will take place at the traditional Hotel Thon Skeikampen in the mountainous Innland region of Norway, about 40km north west of Lillehammer.

The conference runs from Thursday January 2nd to Tuesday January 7th, 2025. Thursday and Tuesday are dedicated to travelling.

The program includes lectures and overview presentations on some of the currently most prominent topics in particle, astroparticle physics and theory. 

Contributed talks presented by the participants are welcome.

Invited lecturers:

  • Karl Jacobs, Freiburg, Germany
  • Aleksi Vuorinen, Helsinki, Finland
  • Mauricio Bustamante, NBI, Denmark
  • Peter Skands, Monash, Australia
  • Henrik Johansson, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Mark Lancaster, Manchester, UK
  • Federico Meloni, DESY, Germany
  • Ilaria Brivio, Bologna, Italy
  • You Zhou, NBI, Denmark
  • Jaana Heikkilä, CERN
  • Xinchou Lou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, Uppsala

 

Deadline for early registration: October 31st

Deadline for registration: November 30th

Deadline for contributed talks: November 15th

Registration Process  

Registration and conference fee payments are managed through Contio registration system.

Accommodation

Participants will make their hotel reservation directly to Skeikampen hotel, please check important details under the "Accommodation" tab before calling the hotel.

Abstracts

Participants are invited to contribute a talk on their own work. We aim to provide 15-20 min long talks to as many participants as possible. To propose an abstract, please proceed to "Call for abstracts".

International advisory committee

Mattias Blennow (KTH, Sweden)
Poul Henrik Damgaard (NBI, Denmark)
Rikard Enberg (UU, Sweden)
Jun-Woo Jeoung (SU, Sweden)
Anna Lipniacka (Bergen)
Christian Ohm  (KTH, Sweden)
Troels Petersen (NBI, subatomic group)
Heidi Sandaker (UiO, Norway)
David Silvermyr (LU, Sweden)
Konrad Tywoniuk (Bergen)
Stefania Xella (NBI, subatomic group)

Organising committee

Erik Brücken (Helsinki)
Matti Heikinheimo (Helsinki)
Ilkka Helenius (Jyväskylä)
Henning Kirschenmann (LUT)
Tuomas Lappi (Jyväskylä)
Santeri Laurila (Helsinki)
Hannu Paukkunen (Jyväskylä)
Sami Räsänen (Jyväskylä)

To contact us: spaatind-2025 (x) cern.ch

Mattermost team for discussions here!

    • 14:00 17:00
      Arrival: 1st buss xxx, 2nd buss xxx
    • 17:00 19:30
      Registration and getting rooms
    • 19:30 22:00
      Buffee dinner
    • 08:20 08:30
      Welcome: opening words
      Conveners: Henning Kirschenmann (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)), Sami Sakari Rasanen (University of Jyvaskyla (FI))
    • 08:30 10:30
      Morning lectures
      • 08:30
        QCD at high density 1 45m
        Speakers: Aleksi Vuorinen (University of Helsinki), Aleksi Vuorinen
      • 09:15
        discussion 15m
      • 09:30
        European Particle Physics Strategy 1 45m
        Speaker: Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg (DE))
      • 10:15
        discussion 15m
    • 10:30 15:00
      Skiing and lunch
    • 15:00 17:00
      Afternoon lectures
      • 15:00
        Towards a muon collider 45m
        Speaker: Federico Meloni (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
      • 15:45
        Discussion 15m
      • 16:00
        Formal theory - amplitudes 45m
        Speaker: Henrik Johansson (Uppsala University (SE))
      • 16:45
        Discussion 15m
    • 17:00 17:30
      Coffee break
    • 17:30 18:30
      Session: Invited Talks
      • 17:30
        Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC): Progress and Plan 30m

        25+5 min

        Speaker: Xinchou Lou (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
      • 18:00
        Future Circular Collider (FCC) 30m

        25+5 min

        Speaker: Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Uppsala University (SE))
    • 18:30 19:15
      Session: Contributed talks 1
      • 18:30
        Searching for a new neutral gauge boson and dark-sector particles with the ATLAS experiment 15m
        Speaker: Even Simonsen Haaland (University of Oslo (NO))
      • 18:45
        ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) upgrade: Physics program and performance 15m
        Speaker: Laura Huhta (University of Jyvaskyla (FI))
    • 19:15 20:45
      Dinner
    • 20:45 22:15
      Strategy discussion
      • 20:45
        Panel discusssion 45m
        Speakers: Christina Dimitriadi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)), Laura Huhta (University of Jyvaskyla (FI)), Magdalena Vande Voorde (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)), Mikael Myllymaki (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)), Ruben Guevara (University of Oslo (NO)), Tarje Solberg Hillersoy (University of Bergen (NO))
      • 21:30
        Open discussion (for those who want to continue) 45m
    • 08:00 10:00
      Morning lectures
      • 08:00
        QCD at high density 2 45m
        Speakers: Aleksi Vuorinen (University of Helsinki), Aleksi Vuorinen
      • 08:45
        discussion 15m
      • 09:00
        European Particle Physics Strategy 2 45m
        Speaker: Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg (DE))
      • 09:45
        discussion 15m
    • 10:00 15:00
      Skiing and lunch
    • 15:00 17:00
      Afternoon lectures
      • 15:00
        Beyond Standard Model physics at colliders 1 45m
        Speaker: Ilaria Brivio (University & INFN Bologna)
      • 15:45
        discussion 15m
      • 16:00
        Monte Carlo event generators 1 45m
        Speaker: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))
      • 16:45
        discussion 15m
    • 17:00 17:30
      Coffee break
    • 17:30 19:15
      Session: Contributed talks 2
      • 17:30
        Probing the Higgs boson CP properties in Vector-Boson-Fusion production in the ditau channel with the ATLAS detector 15m
        Speaker: Erlend Aakvaag (University of Bergen (NO))
      • 17:45
        Search for strongly-produced supersymmetry in pp collisions at √𝒔 = 13 TeV and √𝒔 = 13.6 TeV in tau-enriched final states 15m
        Speakers: Sohaib Hassan (University of Bergen (NO)), Sohaib Hassan (National Center for Physics Pakistan)
      • 18:00
        Next-to-leading power resummation in slepton pair production 15m
        Speaker: Tore Klungland
      • 18:15
        Application of machine learning for analysing LHC data in the search for di-Higgs decay into γγ + ML channel from the ATLAS experiment 15m
        Speaker: Lars Finstad Opgard (University of Oslo (NO))
      • 18:30
        High luminosity LHC prospects study for di-Higgs in multi lepton final states with the ATLAS detector 15m
        Speaker: Ruben Guevara (University of Oslo (NO))
      • 18:45
        Quality Control of ATLAS ITk Pixel Modules 15m
        Speaker: Simen Hellesund (University of Bergen (NO))
    • 19:15 20:45
      Dinner
    • 20:45 21:45
      Session: Contributed talks 3
      • 20:45
        Strong Coupling from Inclusive Semi-leptonic Decay of Charmed Mesons 15m
        Speakers: Jinfei Wu (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS), Jinfei Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
      • 21:00
        Precision studies of nuclear and neutron beta decay 15m
        Speaker: Dr Dagmara Rozpedzik (Jagiellonian University)
      • 21:15
        Inclusive D0 production in Ultraperipheral Collisions 15m
        Speakers: Patricia Gimeno Estivill (University of Jyväskylä), Patricia Gimeno-Estivill
    • 08:30 10:30
      Morning lectures
    • 10:30 15:00
      Skiing and lunch
      • 10:40
        GROUP PICTURE outside in front of reception 10m
    • 15:00 17:00
      Afternoon lectures
      • 15:00
        Beyond Standard Model physics at colliders 2 45m
        Speaker: Ilaria Brivio (University & INFN Bologna)
      • 15:45
        discussion 15m
      • 16:00
        Overview on g-2 experiments 45m
        Speaker: Prof. Mark Lancaster (University of Manchester)
      • 16:45
        discussion 15m
    • 17:00 17:30
      Coffee break
    • 17:30 19:15
      Session: Contributed talks 4
      • 17:30
        Large area Micromegas detector and accompanying ASIC for the AMBER experiment at CERN 15m
        Speaker: Maxim Alexeev (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
      • 17:45
        Data driven modeling in high energy physics population inference experiments 15m
        Speaker: Aurora Singstad Grefsrud (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO))
      • 18:00
        GAMBIT-light 15m
        Speaker: Ida-Marie Johansson (University of Oslo)
      • 18:15
        Di-Higgs production as a probe of BSM physics 15m
        Speakers: Harri M Waltari (University of Helsinki), Harri Waltari
      • 18:30
        Hybrid Stars with the Quark-Meson Model 15m
        Speaker: Carl Fredrik Andresen
      • 18:45
        Computation of dark matter observables with DarkPACK 15m
        Speaker: Dr Marco Palmiotto (University of Oslo)
    • 19:15 20:45
      Dinner
    • 08:30 10:30
      Morning lectures
    • 10:30 15:00
      Skiing and lunch
    • 15:00 17:00
      Afternoon lectures
      • 15:00
        Triggering for interesting collision events at the high-luminosity LHC 45m
        Speaker: Jaana Heikkilae (CERN)
      • 15:45
        discussion 15m
      • 16:00
        Monte Carlo event generators 2 45m
        Speaker: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))
      • 16:45
        discussion 15m
    • 17:00 17:30
      Coffee break
    • 17:30 19:30
      Session: Contributed talks 5
    • 20:00 23:30
      Conference dinner
    • 08:00 11:00
      Departure: arrival to Oslo airport