PIC-2025

from Monday, October 20, 2025 (12:30 AM) to Thursday, October 23, 2025 (6:00 PM)
Zewail CIty of Science and Technology

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 20, 2025
Oct 21, 2025
Oct 22, 2025
Oct 23, 2025
AM
9:00 AM
Welcome -Prof. Shaaban Khalil (Zewail City of Science and Technology) (until 9:30 AM) (Academic Building, Room S006-F)
9:00 AM Opening Remarks by the Chair of the Conference - Prof. Shaaban Khalil  
9:10 AM History of PIC Conference - Ulrich Heintz  
9:20 AM Welcome Speech by the President of Zewail City - Prof. Wael Akl  
9:30 AM
session I - Tamer Tolba (until 11:00 AM) (Academic Building, Room S006-F)
9:30 AM Reactor neutrinos and JUNO - Hans Steiger (Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+)  
10:00 AM 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 AM Neutrino-less beta decay - George Marshall  
11:00 AM
Coffee Break (until 11:30 AM)
11:30 AM
session II - Bai-Cian Ke (until 1:00 PM) (Academic Building, Room S006-F)
11:30 AM QCD at the LHC - Zhibo Wu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
12:00 PM BSM searches at the LHC - Tomoya Iizawa (University of Tokyo (JP))  
12:30 PM BSM searches at the LHC (SUSY, top partners, heavy exotic particles, extended Higgs sector) - Meng Lu (Northeastern University (US))  
9:00 AM
session I - Charles Timmermans (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential at the LHC - Antonio De Maria (Nanjing University (CN))  
9:30 AM H->cc,bb, Higgs properties - Elisabetta Gallo (DESY)  
10:00 AM di/tri-boson production - Francesco Giuli (Remote) (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
10:30 AM Top quark production, mass, propertie - Christopher Neu (University of Virginia (US))  
11:00 AM
Coffee Break (until 11:30 AM)
11:30 AM
session II - Sonia Kabana (until 1:00 PM)
11:30 AM Recent results on EW physics at LHCb - Ahmed Abdelmotteleb (University of Warwick (GB))  
12:00 PM Heavy ion physics at the LHC - Martin Spousta (Charles University)  
12:30 PM Open heavy flavor and quarkonia at RHIC - Sonia Kabana (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))  
9:00 AM
session I - Martin Spousta (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM [Belle II/LHCb] B decays - Bhagyashree Pagare (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
9:30 AM Heavy Spectroscopy - Alexander Bondar  
10:00 AM Pure-(semi) Leptonic Charm Decays - Bai-Cian Ke  
10:30 AM Rare Kaon Decays - Tadashi Nomura  
11:00 AM
Coffee Break (until 11:30 AM)
11:30 AM
Excursion (until 5:30 PM)
9:00 AM
session I - Hans Steiger (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM Laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors: current status, latest results and future prospects - Raffaele FLAMINIO (CNRS/LAPP)  
9:30 AM Status of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering measurements - Christian Buck  
10:00 AM Current landscape of accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments - Artur Sztuc (University of London (GB))  
10:30 AM Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement: Status, Recent Advances, and Future Prospects - Khushbakht Habib (National Centre for Physics (PK))  
11:00 AM
Coffee Break (until 11:30 AM)
11:30 AM
session II - Christos Markou (until 1:20 PM)
11:30 AM Latest Results from the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea - Soebur Razzaque  
12:00 PM WIMP Dark Matter Searches - Cecilia Levy (remote) (University at Albany, SUNY)  
12:30 PM High Energy and Particle Physics in Africa - Ahmed Meissa  
12:50 PM Next PIC 2026 - Jean-Marie Brom  
1:10 PM Closing - Shaaban Kalil  
PM
1:00 PM
Lunch Break (until 2:30 PM) (Academic Building)
2:30 PM
session III - Antonio De Maria (until 4:00 PM) (Academic Building, Room S006-F)
2:30 PM W mass and precision ewk - Sushil Chauhan  
3:00 PM A Quantum Leap Forward: Unlocking the Mysteries of Particle Physics with Future Colliders - Markus Klute  
3:30 PM Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Charles Timmermans  
7:00 PM
Welcom cocktail (until 9:00 PM)
1:00 PM
Lunch Break (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
Parallel Session IA - Christopher Neu (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM Update on the progress and prospects of the ESSnuSBplus project - Tamer Tolba Dr Marcos Dracos (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
2:50 PM The Status of the RENE Experiment - Jiyoung Choi  
3:10 PM BUTTON, a technology demonstrator for neutrino detectio - Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
3:30 PM Pulse Shape Discrimination Studies for the RENE Experiment - Jubin Park (Soongsil University and OMEG institute)  
2:30 PM
Parallel Session IB - Thomas Muller (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM New physics searches with kaon and pion decays at NA62 experiment - Cristina Biino (INFN Torino (IT))  
2:50 PM Contraints of heavy flavor couplings of Higgs boson from CMS - Ming-Yan Lee (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))  
3:10 PM Beyond the Standard Model in the Higgs sector - Qichen Dong (University of Oxford (GB))  
3:30 PM Analyzing the semileptonic and nonleptonic $B_c \to J/\psi, \eta_c$ decays - Dr Aritra Biswas  
2:30 PM
Parallel Session IC - Christian Buck (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM Gauge Bosons Polarization Study at the LHC - Vladislav Shalaev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
2:50 PM Searches for new particles or interactions using unconventional workflows or final states using the ATLAS detector - Monica Verducci (remote) (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
3:10 PM Searches for supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector - Daiya Akiyama (Waseda University (JP))  
3:30 PM Classifying hadronic objects in ATLAS with ML/AI algorithms - Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela (Southern Methodist University)  
3:50 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:20 PM
Parallel Session IIA - Christopher Neu (until 5:40 PM)
4:20 PM DarkSide-20k Experiment Status - Jelena Maricic (University of Hawaii)  
4:40 PM Zero gravity Galileo (Ze-Ga) - testing minimum of gravitational action in small satellite experiment - Radovan Milincic  
5:00 PM Experimental Techniques in High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics - Yousif El-feky (American University in Cairo)  
5:20 PM Search for resonant HH/Y production with bbVV decays in CMS - Aarif Aarif (Northeastern University)  
4:20 PM
Parallel Session IIB - Thomas Muller (until 5:40 PM)
4:20 PM The hadronic decays of charmed mesons at BESIII - Han Zhang  
4:40 PM Quirk SUEP - David Rousso (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
5:00 PM ATLAS New Small Wheel Performance Studies with LHC Run-3 data - Michael Schernau  
5:20 PM 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.)  
4:20 PM
Parallel Session IIC - Christian Buck (until 5:40 PM)
4:20 PM New techniques for reconstructing and calibrating hadronic objects with ATLAS - Jackson Barr (UCL)  
4:40 PM 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))  
5:00 PM The detection of electrons and photons with the ATLAS detector - Leo Boudet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
5:20 PM Analysis of geomagnetic Pi2 pulsations during solar cycle 24 maximum and minimum regions - Abdelmoamen Nosier  
7:00 PM
Conference dinner (until 9:00 PM)
1:20 PM
Lunch Break (until 2:30 PM)