RECFA visit to Belgium

from Friday, 12 September 2025 (09:00) to Saturday, 13 September 2025 (13:00)
Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels (Room Versailles)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Sept 2025
13 Sept 2025
AM
09:00 Introduction by the heads of funding agencies (FNRS + FWO)  
09:30 Overview of HEP in Belgium - Barbara Clerbaux (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))  
10:00 Belgium in the CMS experiment - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))  
10:25 Belgium in the CMS upgrade - Pascal Vanlaer (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 Detector R&D effort in Belgium - Michael Tytgat (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))  
11:35 Non-collider physics at CERN : NA62, Ship - Eduardo Cortina Gil (Université catholique de Louvain)  
11:55 Belgium in nuclear physics including MYRRHA - Gerda Neyens (KU Leuven (BE))  
09:00 Closed RECFA session 1  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Closed RECFA - session 2  
PM
12:25 --- Lunch break ---
13:25 Belgium in neutrino physics and astrophysics (IceCube, KM3NeT, JUNO, Project 8) - Juan Antonio Aguilar (Université Libre de Bruxelles)  
13:50 Belgium in astroparticle physics (Lofar, SKA, RNO-G, Auger) - Krijn DE VRIES (VUB-IIHE)  
14:15 Belgium in gravitational waves - Hans Van Haevermaet (University of Antwerp (BE))  
14:40 Belgium in theory and phenomenology - Michel Tytgat  
15:05 --- Coffee break ---
15:25 Impressions from young scientists - David Marcus E Marckx (Ghent University (BE))  
15:50 Belgium in outreach and education for high-energy physics - Gwen W De Wasseige (UCLouvain)  
16:10 Belgium in computing for high-energy physics - Pavel Demin (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
17:00 Closed session for RECFA members  
18:00 Summary presentation of preliminary findings  
12:00 --- Light lunch ---