MPGD 2026

from Monday, 31 August 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 4 September 2026 (18:00)
Masarykova Kolej Congress Centre, Czech Technical University in Prague

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
31 Aug 2026
1 Sept 2026
2 Sept 2026
3 Sept 2026
4 Sept 2026
AM
08:00
Arrival and registration (until 09:15)
09:15
Conference opening session (until 09:45)
09:45
Invited session - Stanislav Pospišil (CTU in Prague) (until 10:25)
09:45 Invited speaker: Stanislav Pospišil - Stanislav Pospišil (CTU in Prague)  
10:25
Plenary Session (until 11:05)
10:25 Development of the FATIC front-end electronics for the Muon detector at the LHCb Upgrade II - Dr Liliana Congedo (INFN Bari (IT))  
10:45 The Stabilized Voltage Divider – A Rate-Capable HV-Scheme for GEMs - Jakob Quentin Krauss (University of Bonn (DE))  
11:05 --- Coffee break ---
11:25
Plenary Session (until 12:45)
11:25 Progress on the design and testing of the Lateral and Central modules of large area Micromegas for AMBER experiment - Maxim Alexeev (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
11:45 The SALSA versatile readout ASIC for MPGD detectors - Damien Neyret (CEA IRFU, Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
12:05 Modular and scalable DAQ system for GEM detectors - Bartłomiej Łach (AGH University of Krakow)  
12:25 High Granularity Readout Time Projection Chamber R&D for Future Circular e+e- Collider - Huirong Qi (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)  
09:00
Invited session - Michael Campbell (CERN) (until 09:40)
09:00 Invited speaker: Michael Campbell - Michael Campbell (CERN)  
09:40
Plenary Session (until 10:40)
09:40 A new design of secondary electron detector for low-energy radioactive ion beam - Julien PANCIN (GANIL)  
10:00 Low pressure and low energy studies of μ-RWELL in planar and cylindrical geometries - Soham Chakraborty  
10:20 Developments for Spherical Proportional Counters - Philippe Gros  
10:40
Flash talks (until 11:10)
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary Session (until 12:50)
11:30 µ-RWELL R&D activities for the IDEA muon system at FCC-ee - Emma Di Fiore (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))  
11:50 Performance of cylindrical μRGroove in magnetic field - Qixuan Huang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
12:10 The CGEM-IT detector of the BESIII experiment - Michela Greco (INFN-UniTO)  
12:30 Micromegas Performance in the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer New Small Wheel: First Four Years of Operation - Valerio D'Amico (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
09:00
Invited session - Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn (DE)) (until 09:40)
09:00 Invited speaker: Jochen Kaminski - Jochen Kaminski (University of Bonn (DE))  
09:40
Plenary Session (until 11:00)
09:40 The CYGNO experiment - Stefano Piacentini  
10:00 Gas Pixel MPGD for Migdal Effect Observation - Qian Liu  
10:20 TREX-DM: a TPC with GEM+Micromegas detection system for low mass WIMP searches - Ana Quintana García  
10:40 Status of C/N-1.0: Large gaseous detector for direction-sensitive dark matter search - Ryota Namai (Kobe University)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
Plenary Session (until 12:40)
11:20 Development of a hadronic calorimeter read out by resistive micro-pattern gaseous detector for future collider experiments - Antonello Pellecchia (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
11:40 The Micromega detectors of the PADME experiment - Fabio Bossi  
12:00 Performance of the new T2K High Angle TPCs - Daniele D'Ago (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
12:20 Double Micro-Mesh (DMM) detectors for low-pressure TPC applications in the direct measurement of 12C+12C reaction at stellar energies - Prof. Zhiyong Zhang (USTC)  
09:00
Invited session - Gregor Kramberger (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)) (until 09:40)
09:00 Invited speaker: Gregor Kramberger - Gregor Kramberger (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))  
09:40
Plenary Session (until 10:40)
09:40 Development of wavelength-shifting MPGD structures for ultra-cold Argon applications - Mr Diego Rodas Rodriguez (Astrocent /CAMK PAN)  
10:00 Advances in photocathode development for PICOSEC Micromegas precise-timing detectors - Marta Lisowska (CERN)  
10:20 Visible light gas-PMT based on triple Micromegas - Kunyu Liang  
10:40
Flash talks (until 11:10)
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary Session (until 12:50)
11:30 Study of a new ecofriendly gas mixture for the PICOSEC-Micromegas detector - Matteo Brunoldi (Pavia University and INFN (IT))  
11:50 CF4 Reduction Studies for µRWELL Detectors - Stefania Juks (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
12:10 Searching for X17 at n\_TOF with Large Area Micromegas Detectors in $\mu$TPC Mode - Dylan Neff (The University of Manchester (GB))  
12:30 Performance of Low-Material Budget Metallic Micromegas Trackers for the P2 Experiment - Alexandra Kallitsopoulou (CEA / IRFU / Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
09:00
Invited session - Oliver Kortner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D) (until 09:40)
09:00 Gaseous Ionization Detectors in the FCC-ee Era - Oliver Kortner (Max Planck Society (DE))  
09:40
Plenary Session (until 10:40)
09:40 Development of a charge-sharing Micromegas detector with a pixel-strip hybrid readout - Eshita Vinay Kumar (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
10:00 A Monolithic Gas Pixel Detector with on On‑Chip Micro‑Gap Amplification - Luca Baldini  
10:20 μ-RWELL Technology: Practical Rules for Design, Manufacturing and Safe Operation - Marco Poli Lener (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary Session (until 12:00)
11:00 Development of GEM-based detectors to study of X-rays emission during in-vacuum discharges at the High Voltage Padova Test Facility - Gabriele Croci (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
11:20 Construction and test of a µRGroove based transition radiation detector prototype - Guofeng Song (University of Science and Technology of China)  
11:40 The MultiStrip Proportional Chamber: a MWPC-inspired new detector based on MPGD techniques - Matteo Giovannetti (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
PM
12:45 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Invited session -Dr Jerry Vavra (SLAC) (until 14:40)
14:00 Development of high-resolution timing technique in the past 25 years - Jerry Va'vra (SLAC ret.)  
14:40
Plenary Session (until 16:00)
14:40 Optical readout of MPGDs with SiPMs - Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN)  
15:00 Optical time projection chamber measurements with an intensified sCMOS camera - Dr Lindsey Bignell (Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, The Australian National University)  
15:20 Optimization of optical readout micromegas detectors for spatial resolution with X-rays and beta imaging - Elisavet Fasoula (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
15:40 Optical Readout of Particle Beam Profile with MPGD - Bernd Schoenfelder (Technische Universitaet Wien (AT))  
16:00
Flash talks (until 16:30)
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:50
Plenary Session (until 18:30)
16:50 Studies on the effects of THGEM rim-width on charge accumulation and avalanche to streamer transition by numerical modelling - Abhijit Pal (Adamas University) PURBA BHATTACHARYA (Adamas University, Kolkata, India)  
17:10 Experimental and Numerical Studies of Resistive and Non-Resistive Micromegas for Muon Imaging - Shubhabrata Dutta (Atomic, Nuclear and High Energy Physics Group, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, A CI of Homi Bhabha National Institute, 1/AF Block, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, West Bengal, India.) Saikat Ghosh (Atomic, Nuclear and High Energy Physics Group, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, A CI of Homi Bhabha National Institute, 1/AF Block, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, West Bengal, India.)  
17:30 Development of a large area DMM-based photodetector for the RICH detector in STCF - Xu Wang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
17:50 PICOSEC Timing with Graph Neural Networks - Ioannis Karakoulias  
18:10 Simulation and Reconstruction of e+ and e- Trajectories in a Time Projection Chamber with Orthogonal Fields - Martin Vavřík (IEAP CTU)  
18:30
Reception (until 20:00)
12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Invited session - Rui De Oliveira (CERN) (until 14:40)
14:00 Invited speaker: Rui De Oliveira - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)  
14:40
Plenary Session (until 16:20)
14:40 The G-RWELL: a high-rate resistive MPGD for the LHCb Upgrade II Muon system - Francesco Debernardis (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
15:00 Performance of the Full-scale Prototype for ePIC's G-RWELL Endcap Tracker - Elena Sidoretti  
15:20 An Overview of Large-area MPGDs for Upcoming Physics Programs at Jefferson Lab - Prof. Huong Nguyen (University of Virginia (US))  
16:20 --- Coffee break ---
16:40
Poster session (until 18:20)
18:20
Social events (until 19:20)
19:20
Social events (until 21:20)
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Invited session - Paolo Soffitta (until 14:40)
14:00 Astronomical X-ray Polarimetry via the Photoelectric Effect in Gas: From IXPE to Future Opportunities - Paolo Soffitta  
14:40
Plenary Session (until 16:00)
14:40 Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors for Low-Energy Nuclear Physics: Status and Prospects at FRIB - Marco Cortesi (Michigan State University (US))  
15:00 µRWELL detectors for the MUSHROOM spectrometer at ISIS - Davide Raspino  
15:20 A prototype neutron spectrometer based on MICROMEGAS detector for solar physics - Prof. Paolo Maestro (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
15:40 Gaseous Detectors for Hard X-ray Polarimetry: from EXPO to Wide-Field Hard X-ray TPCs - Stefano Piacentini Davide Fiorina (GSSI & INFN LNGS)  
16:00
Flash talks (until 16:30)
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:50
Plenary Session (until 18:30)
16:50 Quality Management for the Mass-production of GEM Foil - Dr Dong Hyun Kim (University of Seoul & Kyungpook National University (KR))  
17:10 From CMS GEM Mass Production to microRWELL R&D: Status of the Korean MPGD Infrastructure - Inseok Yoon (Seoul National University (KR))  
17:30 Suppressing GEM-Foil Creep-Induced Gain Nonuniformity in the NinjaSat-2 LCP-GEM Detector - Satoko Iwata (Tokyo University of Science / RIKEN)  
17:50 New developments in MPGD manufacturing with the MPT Magnetron Sputtering Machine - Karl Jonathan Floethner (CERN)  
18:10 Development of Large-Area Resistive Micromegas Detectors for the MX17 Experiment at n_TOF - Stephan Aune (CEA Saclay)  
12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Tours (until 19:00)
19:00
Social events (until 22:00)
12:00
Prize ceremony (until 12:20)
12:20
Invited session (until 12:50)
12:20 Oed Prize talk  
12:50
Closing session (until 13:10)
13:10 --- Lunch ---