RECFA visit to Belgium

12 Sept 2025, 09:00 → 13 Sept 2025, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

Room Versailles (Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels)

Barbara Clerbaux (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE)), Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)), Nick Van Remortel (University of Antwerp (BE))

The Belgian researchers together with the FWO and FNRS funding agencies welcome RECFA members in Belgium.

The venue for both the open and closed sessions of the RECFA visit to Belgium is Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels, where we will have coffe breaks and  lunches. We recommend RECFA members to book a room in this hotel. 

This indio page is dedicated to the RECFA members only. Please use the links at the left side to register and book your accommodation.

In case of questions, do not hesitate to ask the local secretariat : Audrey.terrier@ulb.be or the local organisers (Barbara Clerbaux, Didar Dobur and Nick van Remortel; ECFA and RECFA members for Belgium).

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Friday 12 September

1 Introduction by the heads of funding agencies (FNRS + FWO)

2 Overview of HEP in Belgium

Speaker: Barbara Clerbaux (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))

3 Belgium in the CMS experiment

Speaker: Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))

4 Belgium in the CMS upgrade

Speaker: Pascal Vanlaer (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))

10:50 Coffee break

5 Detector R&D effort in Belgium

Speaker: Michael Tytgat (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

6 Non-collider physics at CERN : NA62, Ship

Speaker: Eduardo Cortina Gil (Université catholique de Louvain)

7 Belgium in nuclear physics including MYRRHA

Speaker: Gerda Neyens (KU Leuven (BE))

12:25 Lunch break

8 Belgium in neutrino physics and astrophysics (IceCube, KM3NeT, JUNO, Project 8)

Speaker: Juan Antonio Aguilar (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

9 Belgium in astroparticle physics (Lofar, SKA, RNO-G, Auger)

Speaker: Krijn DE VRIES (VUB-IIHE)

10 Belgium in gravitational waves

Speaker: Hans Van Haevermaet (University of Antwerp (BE))

11 Belgium in theory and phenomenology

Speaker: Michel Tytgat

15:05 Coffee break

12 Impressions from young scientists

Speaker: David Marcus E Marckx (Ghent University (BE))

RECFA_BELGIUM_ECR-3.pdf

13 Belgium in outreach and education for high-energy physics

Speaker: Gwen W De Wasseige (UCLouvain)

14 Belgium in computing for high-energy physics

Speaker: Pavel Demin (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

15 Closed session for RECFA members

16 Summary presentation of preliminary findings

Saturday 13 September

17 Closed RECFA session 1

10:30 Coffee break

18 Closed RECFA - session 2

12:00 Light lunch