5th CERN Baltic Conference (CBC 2025)

from Tuesday, 14 October 2025 (09:00) to Thursday, 16 October 2025 (19:00)
Kaunas University of Technology, LITHUANIA

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025
AM
09:00
Registration (until 10:00)
10:00
Conference Opening -Dr Brigita Abakevičienė Dr Karlis Dreimanis (until 10:20)
10:00 Welcome by the Chair and Deputy Chair of the CERN Baltic Group - Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Ryga Technical University | CERN) Dr Brigita Abakevičienė (Kaunas University of Technology (LT))  
10:10 Welcome by the Rector of Kaunas University of Technology - Prof. Eugenijus Valatka  
10:20
Policy -Dr Brigita Abakevičienė (until 11:00)
10:20 Address from Lithuania: Mr. Artūras Malysis, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Lithuania - Mr 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 - Ms Liene Levada  
10:36 Address from the Baltic Assembly: Mr Saulius Čaplinskas, Vice Chair of the Health, Welfare and Family Committee of Lithuania - Mr Saulius Čaplinskas  
10:45 Welcome by the CERN Director for International Relations - Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)  
11:00
Baltic and National activities -Dr Brigita Abakevičienė (until 12:00)
11:00 CERN - Latvia: State-of-play - Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))  
11:20 CERN - Estonia: State-of-play - Prof. Fjodor Sergejev (Tallinn University of Technology (EE))  
11:40 CERN - Lithuania: State-of-play - Prof. Ramūnas Aleksiejūnas (Lithuanian Consortium for Particle Physics (LT))  
09:30
Particle Physics Theory -Dr Torben Lange (until 12:08)
09:30 Searching for the Clue to our Existence - Prof. Marco Gersabeck (University of Freiburg, Germany)  
10:21 Renormalization of the quark mixing matrix and W boson decay into quarks - Mr Simonas Draukšas (Vilnius University (LT))  
10:42 QCD and multiplicity fluctuations - Prof. 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  
09:20
Accelerator Technologies and Computing -Dr Mindaugas Šarpis (until 10:20)
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 ---
10:40
Atomic, Nuclear & Detector Physics -Dr Karlis Dreimanis (until 12:00)
10:40 Laser Photodetchment Threshold Spectroscopy of Negative Ions - Dr 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 - Ms Ugnė Lukaševičiūtė (Kaunas University of Technology)  
PM
12:00
Advanced Particle Therapy Center for Baltic States: status report and next steps -Dr Brigita Abakevičienė (until 12:30)
12:00 Advanced Particle Therapy Center for Baltic States: status report and next steps - Kristaps Palskis (Riga Technical University (LV)) Erika Korobeinikova (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LT))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Industry engagement -Dr Karlis Dreimanis (until 14:30)
14:00 Doing Business with CERN: ILO Report - Ms Aušrinė Krištopaitytė (Innovation Agency Lithuania) Mr Robert Aare (Estonian Business and Innovation Agency) Mr Raimondas Pučka (Innovation Agency Lithuania) Ms Alise Pika-Ozola (Industrial Liaison Officer for Latvia)  
14:30
Industry engagement -Dr Karlis Dreimanis (until 15:20)
14:30 RIANA: Research Infrastructure Access in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology - Dr 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 - Dr Mantas Lukauskas (Hostinger, Kaunas University of Technology)  
15:20
Particle therapy -Dr Erika Korobeinikova (until 17:15)
15:20 Overview of Particle Therapy: Current Status and Future Developments - Prof. 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 - Mr Mindaugas Džiugelis (National Cancer Center)  
17:15
Poster session - Rimantas Naina (Vilnius University (LT)) Meda Paulaviciute (Vilnius University (LT)) Dairis Rihards Irbe (Riga Technical University (LV)) Kestutis Zilinskas (Vilnius University (LT)) Sophia Pennuttis (Vilnius University (LT)) Kristupa Šeškauskaitė (Kaunas University of Technology (LT)) Simona Breidokaitė (Lithuanian Energy Institute (LT)) Rostislavs Rostovskis (University of Latvia (LV)) Tomas Čeponis (Vilnius University (LT)) Mikas Iršėnas (Vilnius University (LT)) Laimonas Deveikis (Vilnius University (LT)) Benjaminas Togobickij (Lithuanian Energy Institute (LT)) Erika Rajackaitė (Kaunas University of Technology (LT)) Neilas Beniusis (Vilnius University (LT)) Eliza Holvoet (Vilnius University (LT)) Jevgenij Pavlov (Vilnius University (LT)) Arnoldas Solovjovas (Vilnius University (LT)) Ilze Baumgarte (Riga Technical University (LV)) Vytautas Rumbauskas (Vilnius University (LT)) (until 18:45)
12:08 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Particle Physics Experimental I -Dr Tomas Gajdosik (until 14:30)
13:00 Overview of the LHCb Experiment at CERN and Recent Results - Dr 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 ---
14:50
Particle Physics Experiment II -Dr Andrius Juodagalvis (until 16:45)
14:50 What’s Next in Particle Physics? – Experimental Perspective - Prof. Maxim Titov (CEA Saclay, Irfu, France)  
15:41 Mighty-SciFi for LHCb Upgrade II - Mr 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 ---
12:00
Conference close (until 12:10)