PIC-2025

from Monday 20 October 2025 (00:30) to Thursday 23 October 2025 (18:00)
Zewail CIty of Science and Technology

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025
23 Oct 2025
AM
09:00
Welcome -Prof. Shaaban Khalil (Zewail City of Science and Technology) (until 09:30) (Academic Building, Room S006-F)
09:00 Opening Remarks by the Chair of the Conference - Prof. Shaaban Khalil  
09:10 History of PIC Conference - Ulrich Heintz  
09:20 Welcome Speech by the President of Zewail City - Prof. Wael Akl  
09:30
session I - Tamer Tolba (until 11:00) (Academic Building, Room S006-F)
09:30 Reactor neutrinos and JUNO - Hans Steiger (Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+)  
10:00 Solar and geoneutrinos - Livia Ludhova (Helmholtzzentrum fuฬˆr Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg Universitรคt Mainz, Mainz, Germany)  
10:30 Neutrino-less beta decay - George Marshall  
11:00
Coffee Break (until 11:30)
11:30
session II - Bai-Cian Ke (until 13:00) (Academic Building, Room S006-F)
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))  
09:00
session I - Charles Timmermans (until 11:00)
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 (until 11:30)
11:30
session II - Sonia Kabana (until 13:00)
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 Investigaciรณn, Universidad de Tarapacรก (CL))  
09:00
session I - Martin Spousta (until 11:00)
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 (until 11:30)
11:30
Excursion (until 17:30)
09:00
session I - Hans Steiger (until 11:00)
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 (until 11:30)
11:30
session II - Christos Markou (until 13:20)
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  
PM
13:00
Lunch Break (until 14:30) (Academic Building)
14:30
session III - Antonio De Maria (until 16:00) (Academic Building, Room S006-F)
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 (until 21:00)
13:00
Lunch Break (until 14:30)
14:30
Parallel Session IA - Christopher Neu (until 15:50)
14:30 Update on the progress and prospects of the ESSnuSBplus project - Tamer Tolba Dr Marcos Dracos (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
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)  
14:30
Parallel Session IB - Thomas Muller (until 15:50)
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 - Dr Aritra Biswas  
14:30
Parallel Session IC - Christian Buck (until 15:50)
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 ---
16:20
Parallel Session IIA - Christopher Neu (until 17:40)
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)  
16:20
Parallel Session IIB - Thomas Muller (until 17:40)
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.)  
16:20
Parallel Session IIC - Christian Buck (until 17:40)
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 (until 21:00)
13:20
Lunch Break (until 14:30)