Name: PIC-2025
Start: 2025-10-20T00:30:00+03:00
End: 2025-10-23T18:00:00+03:00
Location: Zewail CIty of Science and Technology

PIC-2025

from Monday, 20 October 2025 (00:30) to Thursday, 23 October 2025 (18:00)

Monday, 20 October 2025
09:00 Welcome: Opening Session
Opening Session
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Academic Building, Room S006-F
Contributions

09:00 Opening Remarks by the Chair of the Conference - Shaaban Khalil

09:10 History of PIC Conference - Ulrich Heintz

09:20 Welcome Speech by the President of Zewail City - Wael Akl
09:30 session I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Academic Building, Room S006-F
Contributions

09:30 Reactor neutrinos and JUNO - Hans Steiger (Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+)

10:00 Solar and geoneutrinos - Livia Ludhova (Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany)

10:30 Neutrino-less beta decay - George Marshall
11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30
11:30 session II
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Academic Building, Room S006-F
Contributions

11:30 QCD at the LHC - Zhibo Wu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:00 BSM searches at the LHC - Tomoya Iizawa (University of Tokyo (JP))

12:30 BSM searches at the LHC (SUSY, top partners, heavy exotic particles, extended Higgs sector) - Meng Lu (Northeastern University (US))
13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:30
Room: Academic Building
14:30 session III
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Academic Building, Room S006-F
Contributions

14:30 W mass and precision ewk - Sushil Chauhan

15:00 A Quantum Leap Forward: Unlocking the Mysteries of Particle Physics with Future Colliders - Markus Klute

15:30 Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Charles Timmermans
19:00 Welcom cocktail

19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
09:00 session I
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential at the LHC - Antonio De Maria (Nanjing University (CN))

09:30 H->cc,bb, Higgs properties - Elisabetta Gallo (DESY)

10:00 di/tri-boson production - Francesco Giuli (Remote) (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

10:30 Top quark production, mass, propertie - Christopher Neu (University of Virginia (US))
11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30
11:30 session II
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Recent results on EW physics at LHCb - Ahmed Abdelmotteleb (University of Warwick (GB))

12:00 Heavy ion physics at the LHC - Martin Spousta (Charles University)

12:30 Open heavy flavor and quarkonia at RHIC - Sonia Kabana (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))
13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Parallel Session IA
14:30 - 15:50
Contributions

14:30 Update on the progress and prospects of the ESSnuSBplus project - Marcos Dracos (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Tamer Tolba

14:50 The Status of the RENE Experiment - Jiyoung Choi

15:10 BUTTON, a technology demonstrator for neutrino detectio - Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

15:30 Pulse Shape Discrimination Studies for the RENE Experiment - Jubin Park (Soongsil University and OMEG institute)
Parallel Session IB
14:30 - 15:50
Contributions

14:30 New physics searches with kaon and pion decays at NA62 experiment - Cristina Biino (INFN Torino (IT))

14:50 Contraints of heavy flavor couplings of Higgs boson from CMS - Ming-Yan Lee (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

15:10 Beyond the Standard Model in the Higgs sector - Qichen Dong (University of Oxford (GB))

15:30 Analyzing the semileptonic and nonleptonic $B_c \to J/\psi, \eta_c$ decays - Aritra Biswas
Parallel Session IC
14:30 - 15:50
Contributions

14:30 Gauge Bosons Polarization Study at the LHC - Vladislav Shalaev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

14:50 Searches for new particles or interactions using unconventional workflows or final states using the ATLAS detector - Monica Verducci (remote) (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

15:10 Searches for supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector - Daiya Akiyama (Waseda University (JP))

15:30 Classifying hadronic objects in ATLAS with ML/AI algorithms - Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela (Southern Methodist University)
15:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:20
16:20 Parallel Session IIA
16:20 - 17:40
Contributions

16:20 DarkSide-20k Experiment Status - Jelena Maricic (University of Hawaii)

16:40 Zero gravity Galileo (Ze-Ga) - testing minimum of gravitational action in small satellite experiment - Radovan Milincic

17:00 Experimental Techniques in High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics - Yousif El-feky (American University in Cairo)

17:20 Search for resonant HH/Y production with bbVV decays in CMS - Aarif Aarif (Northeastern University)
Parallel Session IIB
16:20 - 17:40
Contributions

16:20 The hadronic decays of charmed mesons at BESIII - Han Zhang

16:40 Quirk SUEP - David Rousso (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

17:00 ATLAS New Small Wheel Performance Studies with LHC Run-3 data - Michael Schernau

17:20 Characteristics of the chemical freeze-out conditions in the framework of HRG model - Maha Maher (Teaching assistant and master's student at Physics department Faculty of Science Sohag University.)
Parallel Session IIC
16:20 - 17:40
Contributions

16:20 New techniques for reconstructing and calibrating hadronic objects with ATLAS - Jackson Barr (UCL)

16:40 Results from muon reconstruction performance with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC using Run-3 proton-proton collision data - Davide Cieri (Max Planck Society (DE))

17:00 The detection of electrons and photons with the ATLAS detector - Leo Boudet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

17:20 Analysis of geomagnetic Pi2 pulsations during solar cycle 24 maximum and minimum regions - Abdelmoamen Nosier
19:00 Conference dinner

19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
09:00 session I
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 [Belle II/LHCb] B decays - Bhagyashree Pagare (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

09:30 Heavy Spectroscopy - Alexander Bondar

10:00 Pure-(semi) Leptonic Charm Decays - Bai-Cian Ke

10:30 Rare Kaon Decays - Tadashi Nomura
11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30

11:30 Excursion

11:30 - 17:30
Thursday, 23 October 2025
09:00 session I
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors: current status, latest results and future prospects - Raffaele FLAMINIO (CNRS/LAPP)

09:30 Status of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering measurements - Christian Buck

10:00 Current landscape of accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments - Artur Sztuc (University of London (GB))

10:30 Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement: Status, Recent Advances, and Future Prospects - Khushbakht Habib (National Centre for Physics (PK))
11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30
11:30 session II
11:30 - 13:20
Contributions

11:30 Latest Results from the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea - Soebur Razzaque

12:00 WIMP Dark Matter Searches - Cecilia Levy (remote) (University at Albany, SUNY)

12:30 High Energy and Particle Physics in Africa - Ahmed Meissa

12:50 Next PIC 2026 - Jean-Marie Brom

13:10 Closing - Shaaban Kalil
13:20 Lunch Break

13:20 - 14:30