APPEC Town Meeting 2025 - Input for the Strategic Roadmap 2027-2036

23 Sept 2025, 08:30 → 24 Sept 2025, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

Aula Magna (Paraninfo of the Universidad de Zaragoza)

Town Meeting 2025: Preparation of the 2027-2036 Strategic Roadmap

As input for the preparation of the roadmap, a community survey took place beginning of this year. A briefing book including all Astroparticle Physics topics from the survey will be prepared by the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee and released this summer, stay tuned!

During the APPEC Town Meeting, we will further discuss each of these topics with respect to the European and international context, and the new developments in Astroparticle Physics and in the neighbouring fields that will shape the strategic recommendations of the next roadmap.

This event includes plenary talks as well as round table discussions for each topic, to ensure a large participation of the community to shaping the future of Astroparticle Physics strategic orientations.

The discussions at this Town Meeting will serve as input for the European Astroparticle Physics Strategy 2027-2036.

Registration fee: The registration fee is 120.00 € per participant.

Registration deadline: August 1, 2025.

Payment deadline: August 25, 2025

Please note: The registration will not be considered complete until you proceed with the payment of  the conference fee at https://zaragoza-en.congresoseci.com/appeczaragoza2025

Please note: No travel agency is affiliated with this conference. If you receive any messages from travel companies claiming to be associated with the event, please disregard them

APPEC Organizing Committee

Carlos Peña-Garay

Antoine Kouchner

Leszek Roszkowski

Aldo Ianni

Julie Epas

Katrin Link

 

Local Organizing Committee

Susana Cebrián

Iván Coarasa

Theopisti Dafni (co-chair)

Igor García Irastorza

Juan Antonio García Pascual

Maurizio Giannotti

Héctor Gómez

Gloria Luzón

María Martínez (chair)

Maria Luisa Sarsa

Laura Segui

Aura_HowToReach.pdf

Paraninfo_Map_RoundTable.pdf

ParticipantDistribution_22sep.pdf

ParticipantDistribution.pdf

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Summary of APPEC SAC survey 2024-2025.pdf

Tuesday 23 September

08:30 → 08:45 Registration

08:45 → 09:00 Welcome

09:00 → 09:25 Introduction by the APPEC Chair

Speaker: Carlos Peña Garay (Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc)

APPEC_TM_CPG.pdf

09:25 → 09:50 APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee

Speaker: Aldo Ianni (INFN LNGS)

ReportFromSAC.pdf

09:50 → 10:15 ACME Overview

Speaker: Antoine KOUCHNER

2025-09_APPEC_Town-Meeting_AK.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Summary from ESG (focus Astroparticle)

Speaker: Ezio Previtali

AppecMeeting_EP.pdf

AppecMeeting_EP.pptx

10:45 → 11:10 ASTRONET

Speaker: Martin GIARD (CNRS-INSU)

Astronet-APPEC synergies v3.pdf

Astronet-APPEC synergies v3.pdf

Astronet-APPEC synergies v3.pptx

11:10 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Summary from P5 (focus Astroparticle)

Speaker: Prof. Karsten Heeger (Yale University)

P5-APPEC.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 EuCAPT

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

EuCAPT_report_APPECTownM.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 ESO

Speaker: Xavier Barcons (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))

ESO update and forward look to the 2040s 20250923.pdf

ESO update and forward look to the 2040s 20250923.pptx

13:00 → 13:30 JWST overview

Speaker: Frédéric Courbin (Institute of Cosmos Science University of Barcelona)

APPEC_Courbin .pdf

13:30 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 16:30 Round tables: Session 1 & 2

15:00 CMB

Speaker: Sotiris Loucatos (Université Paris-Saclay (FR) and APC)

15:00 CR

15:00 DM

15:00 Gammas

15:00 GW

15:00 Instrumentation

15:00 Neutrino Astrophysics

15:45 CMB

15:45 CR

15:45 DM

15:45 Gammas

15:45 GW

15:45 Instrumentation

15:45 Neutrino Astrophysics

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 18:30 Round tables: Session 3 & 4

17:00 Computing & AI

17:00 DM

17:00 Gammas

17:00 Instrumentation

17:00 Neutrino Astrophysics

17:00 Neutrino Properties

17:00 Open Science

17:45 Astroparticle Theory

17:45 Computing & AI

17:45 DE

17:45 DM

17:45 Multimessenger

17:45 Neutrino Properties

17:45 Open Science

20:30 → 22:30 Dinner

Wednesday 24 September

09:00 → 10:30 Round tables: Session 5 & 6

09:00 Astroparticle Theory

09:00 Computing & AI

09:00 GW

09:00 Instrumentation

09:00 Multimessenger

09:00 Neutrino Properties

09:00 Open Science

09:45 Computing & AI

09:45 DE

09:45 Instrumentation

09:45 Multimessenger

09:45 Neutrino Properties

09:45 Open Science

10:30 → 11:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:30 Preparation time for round table conveners

11:30 → 12:30 Summary from round tables

11:30 Status and Perspectives Astroparticle Physics in Spain

2025-09-APPEC.pdf

11:45 Summary Dark Matter

Speakers: Dr Marcin Kuzniak (Carleton University), Marcin Kuzniak (AstroCeNT / NCAC Polish Academy of Sciences)

DM_summary.pdf

12:00 Summary Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Ioana Maris

appec_meeting.pdf

12:15 Summary Gamma Rays

Speakers: David Paneque (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich), David Paneque Camarero (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

GammaRays_Summary_Paneque_v3.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:30 Summary from round tables

14:00 Summary Computing & AI

Speaker: Christoph Weniger

250924 - Summary discussion of APPEC SAC 2024-2025 survey.pdf

14:15 Summary Neutrino Astrophysics

Speaker: Chad Finley

NuAstro_Finley_TownHall.pdf

14:30 Summary Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Marica Branchesi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

APPEC_GW_survey_Saragoza_final.pdf

APPEC_GW_survey_Saragoza_final.pptx

14:45 Summary CMB

Speakers: Sotirios Loucatos (DAPNIA), Sotiris Loucatos (Université Paris-Saclay (FR) and APC)

TM CMB summary2.pdf

15:00 Summary Instrumentation

Speakers: Edwige TOURNEFIER (LAPP-CNRS), Giovanni Ambrosi (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

Instru-Techno-Infra-Townmeeting2025 .odp

Instru-Techno-Infra-Townmeeting2025 .pdf

15:15 Summary Neutrino Properties

Speaker: Christian Philipp Weinheimer (Universität Münster (DE))

neutrino_properties_round_table_summary.pdf

15:30 Summary Dark Energy

Speakers: Ofer Lahav, Ofer Lahav, Ofer Lahav (University College London)

OL_DE_summary__DarkEnergy_APPEC_Zaragoza.pdf

15:45 Summary Astroparticle Theory

Speaker: Joachim Kopp (CERN)

appec-town-meeting-summary.pdf

16:00 Summary Multimessenger

Speaker: Aldo Ianni (INFN LNGS)

APPEC_MM_Saragoza_final.pdf

APPEC_MM_Saragoza_final.pptx

16:15 Summary Open Science

Speaker: Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

Homola-OpenScience-Summary-APPEC-Zaragoza-20250924v2.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Closing remarks

APPEC_TM_CPG_remarks.pdf