RECFA visit to Bulgaria

Friday 7 Mar 2025, 07:30 → 23:00 Europe/Zurich

Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Mariyan Bogomilov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))

The RECFA visit in Sofia will take place on March 7th (open session) and 8th (closed session) at the Rectorat building, the main building of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - conveniently situated in the city center.

Please register by February 20th.

07:30 → 08:00 Registration

08:00 → 09:50 Session

08:00 Welcome address

Speaker: Prof. Nikolay Vitanov

08:15 High Energy and Nuclear Physics Landscape in Bulgaria

Speaker: Venelin Kozhuharov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))

08:50 Funding of Science and HEP

Speaker: Zornitsa Georgieva (Ministry of Education and Science)

09:10 National Roadmap for Research Infrastructure: CERN

Speaker: Georgi Ivanov Rainovski (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))

Rainovski_ECFA2025-NRRI.pdf

09:30 CMS Experiment

Speaker: Borislav Pavlov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))

09:50 → 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 → 12:00 Session

10:20 ALICE Experiment

Speaker: Rado Simeonov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))

10:40 Neutrino@CERN: NA61/SHINE, SND@LHC, SHiP

Speaker: Simona Ilieva Ilieva (CERN)

RECFA_March_2025_neutrinos_CERN_SIlieva.pdf

11:00 Experiments outside CERN: PADME, ESSnuSB, AMS

Speaker: Kalina Dimitrova (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))

11:20 Nuclear Physics (ISOLDE + others)

Speakers: Diana Kocheva, Petko Krastev (INRNE - BAS)

Kocheva_Nuclear.pdf

11:40 Astroparticle Physics: MAGIC, CTA

Speaker: Martin Makariev (INRNE - BAS)

martin_ecfa2025.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:40 Session

13:00 Theory

Speaker: Lilia Anguelova (INRNE, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Anguelova_Particle_Physics_Theory.pdf

13:20 Detector R&D, Computing

Speaker: Peicho Petkov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))

13:40 Education

Speaker: Fabien Kunis

Kunis_Education.pdf

14:00 Outreach

Speaker: Roumyana Mileva Hadjiiska (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BG))

Outreach_RECFA_Bulgaria_2025.pdf

14:20 ECR Report

Speaker: Mariana Shopova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BG))

BG_ECR_RECFA_2025.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 RECFA Closed Session

16:00 → 16:30 First feedback from RECFA

18:30 → 21:30 Dinner