Name: 5th CERN Baltic Conference (CBC 2025)
Start: 2025-10-14T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-10-16T19:00:00+03:00
Location: Kaunas University of Technology, LITHUANIA

5th CERN Baltic Conference (CBC 2025)

from Tuesday 14 October 2025 (09:00) to Thursday 16 October 2025 (19:00)

Monday 13 October 2025
Tuesday 14 October 2025

09:00 Registration

09:00 - 10:00
10:00 Conference Opening
10:00 - 10:20
Contributions

10:00 Welcome by the Chair and Deputy Chair of the CERN Baltic Group - Brigita Abakevičienė (Kaunas University of Technology (LT)) Karlis Dreimanis (Ryga Technical University | CERN)

10:10 Welcome by the Rector of Kaunas University of Technology - Eugenijus Valatka
10:20 Policy
10:20 - 11:00
Contributions

10:20 Address from Lithuania: Mr. Artūras Malysis, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Lithuania - Artūras Malysis (Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Lithuania)

10:28 Address from Latvia: Ms Liene Levada, Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia - Liene Levada

10:36 Address from the Baltic Assembly: Mr Saulius Čaplinskas, Vice Chair of the Health, Welfare and Family Committee of Lithuania - Saulius Čaplinskas

10:45 Welcome by the CERN Director for International Relations - Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)
11:00 Baltic and National activities
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 CERN - Latvia: State-of-play - Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))

11:20 CERN - Estonia: State-of-play - Fjodor Sergejev (Tallinn University of Technology (EE))

11:40 CERN - Lithuania: State-of-play - Ramūnas Aleksiejūnas (Lithuanian Consortium for Particle Physics (LT))
12:00 Advanced Particle Therapy Center for Baltic States: status report and next steps
12:00 - 12:30
Contributions

12:00 Advanced Particle Therapy Center for Baltic States: status report and next steps - Erika Korobeinikova (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LT)) Kristaps Palskis (Riga Technical University (LV))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Industry engagement: Doing Business with CERN: ILOs Report
Doing Business with CERN: ILOs Report
14:00 - 14:30
Contributions

14:00 Doing Business with CERN: ILO Report - Alise Pika-Ozola (Industrial Liaison Officer for Latvia) Aušrinė Krištopaitytė (Innovation Agency Lithuania) Raimondas Pučka (Innovation Agency Lithuania) Robert Aare (Estonian Business and Innovation Agency)
14:30 Industry engagement: Industry
Industry
14:30 - 15:20
Contributions

14:30 RIANA: Research Infrastructure Access in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology - Andrius Žutautas (Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science)

14:50 AI: A Journey Through Time – Yesterday's Dreams, Today's Reality, Tomorrow's Horizon - Mantas Lukauskas (Hostinger, Kaunas University of Technology)
15:20 Particle therapy
15:20 - 17:15
Contributions

15:20 Overview of Particle Therapy: Current Status and Future Developments - Manjit Dosanjh (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

16:11 Towards the last millimetres in helium ion therapy: developing dedicated range verification methods - Kristaps Palskis (Riga Technical University (LV))

16:53 Dose-per-Pulse and pH Dependence of Radical Yields under FLASH Irradiation - Mindaugas Džiugelis (National Cancer Center)
17:15 Poster session: Poster session + Refreshments
Poster session + Refreshments
17:15 - 18:45
Wednesday 15 October 2025
09:30 Particle Physics Theory
09:30 - 12:08
Contributions

09:30 Searching for the Clue to our Existence - Marco Gersabeck (University of Freiburg, Germany)

10:21 Renormalization of the quark mixing matrix and W boson decay into quarks - Simonas Draukšas (Vilnius University (LT))

10:42 QCD and multiplicity fluctuations - Yuri Dokshitzer

11:03 Path integral dualities: Maxwell, Proca, Kalb-Ramond and more - Priidik Gallagher (University of Tartu)

11:24 Decay rates of neutrinos in the Grimus-Neufeld model - Thomas Gajdosik (Vilnius University (LT))

11:45 Baryonic Bound States in the Non-Local NJL Model - Arpan Chatterjee
12:08 Lunch
Lunch
12:08 - 13:00
13:00 Particle Physics Experimental I
13:00 - 14:30
Contributions

13:00 Overview of the LHCb Experiment at CERN and Recent Results - Mindaugas Sarpis (Vilnius University (LT))

13:22 Measurement of boosted top quark mass at CMS experiment - Conrado Munoz Diaz (Riga Technical University (LV))

13:44 Study of the b-fragmentation function and the dead cone effect in bottom quark jets from $t\bar{t}$ decays in proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13.6$ TeV at the CMS experiment - Dimitrios Sidiropoulos Kontos (Riga Technical University (LV))

14:06 Di-Higgs searches with the CMS Experiment - Torben Lange (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))
14:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:30 - 14:50
14:50 Particle Physics Experiment II
14:50 - 16:45
Contributions

14:50 What’s Next in Particle Physics? – Experimental Perspective - Maxim Titov (CEA Saclay, Irfu, France)

15:41 Mighty-SciFi for LHCb Upgrade II - Augustas Vaitkevičius (Vilnius University (LT))

16:02 Status of the CMS MIP Timing Detector for the HL-LHC Upgrade - Dace Osite (Riga Technical University (LV))

16:23 Prospects for Drell-Yan Precision Measurements with the CMS Phase-2 Detector at the HL-LHC - Marijus Ambrozas (Vilnius University (LT))
18:30 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
18:30 - 22:30
Thursday 16 October 2025
09:20 Accelerator Technologies and Computing
09:20 - 10:20
Contributions

09:20 A novel approach to quench protection and detection of superconducting magnets - Eino Johannes Tiirinen (CERN)

09:40 Accelerator projects, activities and progress with AM by RTU - Andris Ratkus (Riga Technical University (LV))

10:00 Status of the Latvian WLCG Tier 2 site - Igors Makarkins (Riga Technical University (LV))
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:40
10:40 Atomic, Nuclear & Detector Physics
10:40 - 12:00
Contributions

10:40 Laser Photodetchment Threshold Spectroscopy of Negative Ions - Uldis Bērziņš (Institute Of Atomic Physics And Spectroscopy, University of Latvia)

11:00 Spectrosocpy of radioactive 221Fr and RaF- in ISOLDE facility at CERN - Janis Snikeris (Gothenburg University (SE))

11:20 Studies of Novel Si n-Type Low Gain Avalanche Detectors Irradiated with High-Energy Protons - Margarita Biveinyte (Vilnius University (LT))

11:40 Selective Laser Etching for the Electrodes of Glass-based Micro-pattern Gaseous Detectors - Ugnė Lukaševičiūtė (Kaunas University of Technology)
12:00 Conference close

12:00 - 12:10

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