29th European Cosmic Ray Symposium (ECRS 2026)

from Monday, 29 June 2026 (08:30) to Friday, 3 July 2026 (18:00)
Hospederia San Martin Pinario (Salon Peregrinos)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Jun 2026
30 Jun 2026
1 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026
3 Jul 2026
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:30)
09:30
Opening words (until 10:00)
10:00
Review (until 11:15)
10:00 Radio Detection of Ultra-High Energy Particles - Stephanie Wissel  
10:45 Highlights from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Alexey Yushkov (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
11:15
Coffee break (until 11:45)
11:45
Highlights (until 12:15)
11:45 First data and performance of the Radio Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Jörg Hörandel  
09:00
Registration (until 09:30)
09:30
Review (until 11:00)
09:30 Latest UHE gamma-ray observations and possible sources of CRs at the knee - Dmitri SEMIKOZ (APC, Paris)  
10:15 Acceleration of cosmic rays in wind bubbles - Enrico Peretti (CNRS)  
11:00
Coffee, Posters & Discussions (until 11:45)
11:45
Highlights (until 13:00)
11:45 Observations and modeling of gamma-ray halos around pulsars - Silvia Manconi  
12:15 The Southern Wide-field Gamma-Ray Observatory - Dr Hazal Göksu (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
09:00
Registration (until 09:30)
09:30
Review (until 11:00)
09:30 Overview on anisotropy measurements from TeV to EeV - Olivier DELIGNY  
10:15 Extensive Air Showers as Laboratories for Hadronic Physics: Status, Implications, and Prospects - Lorenzo Cazon (IGFAE-USC)  
11:00
Coffee, Posters & Discussions (until 11:45)
11:45
Highlights (until 13:00)
11:45 Scaler data from the Pierre Auger Observatory and solar activity - Carla Dina Marcella Taricco (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università di Torino)  
12:15 Highlights from a Decade of Observations with CALET on the International Space Station - Paolo Brogi (Universita degli studi di Siena (IT))  
09:00
Registration (until 09:30)
09:30
Review (until 11:00)
09:30 Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Jorge Casaus (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
10:15 Recent VHE-UHE neutrino results - Sonia EL HEDRI (cnrs)  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:45)
11:45
Highlights (until 13:00)
11:45 Constraining Hadronic Interaction Models with Astroparticle and Accelerator-based Data - Dennis Soldin (University of Utah)  
12:15 Beyond Charged Particles: the Pierre Auger Observatory in Multi-Messenger Astronomy - Piera Luisa GHIA  
09:30
Review (until 11:00)
09:30 Space-based detection of UHECRs, from concept to flight: the JEM-EUSO Program - Rossella Caruso  
10:15 Recent Progress in Solar Energetic Particle Physics with Solar Orbiter - Zheyi Ding  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:45)
11:45
Highlights (until 12:45)
11:45 Ten Years of the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE): Mission Overview and Recent Results - Paul Coppin (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
12:15 Recent advances in studies of extreme solar particle events - Sergey Koldobskiy (University of Oulu (FI))  
PM
12:15
Posters (until 13:00)
13:00
Lunch break (until 14:30) (Refectorio San Martin Pinario)
14:30
Parallel session - CRI (until 16:00)
14:30 Latest results of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum measurements at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Vladimir Novotny (IPNP, Charles University)  
14:45 Anisotropy of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray arrival directions and its astrophysical interpretations at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Igor Vaiman (Gran Sasso Science Institute; INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)  
15:00 Characterizing sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with Information Field Theory - Igor Vaiman (Gran Sasso Science Institute; INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)  
15:15 No One Escapes the Passage of Time - The Temporal Effects of the Galactic Magnetic Field on Observations of UHECR - Veronika Vasickova  
15:30 The Terzina telescope onboard the NUSES mission - Muhammad Mustapha Abdullahi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)  
14:30
Parallel session - SH (until 16:00) (Aula Magna)
14:30 Digitization of Records of Ground-Level Enhancement Events #1-4 from the 1940s - Stepan Poluianov (University of Oulu (FI))  
14:45 Characteristics of Ground Level Enhancement 74 event on 11 May 2024 - Alexander Mishev  
15:00 Ground Level Enhancement GLE 77 on 11 November 2025: spectra and anisotropy of solar ions derived by analysis of space and ground-based measurements - Alexander Mishev  
15:15 Analysis of GLE 77: The Role of Altitude and Magnetic Cutoff Rigidity in the Detection of Neutron Monitor Counts and Arguments in Favor of a Global Tropical Solar Neutron Observatory - Alejandro Francisco López Comazzi  
15:30 Response of AMORE a Novel Secondary Cosmic Ray Detector During January 19th 2026 Coronal Mass Ejection - Dr Justin Dante Tabbett (Paul Scherrer Institut PSI)  
16:00
Coffee, Posters & Discussions (until 16:30)
16:30
Parallel session - CRI (until 18:00)
16:30 The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection -- experimental status and plans - Lech Piotrowski  
16:45 Autonomous radio detection with the GRANDProto300 detector - DUAN BOHAO  
17:00 A One-Class Neural Network for Event Selection in GRAND Radio Data - Jakub Rawiak (University of Warsaw)  
17:15 Sensitivity of Voltage Template Matching to Template Basis Design in GRAND Simulations - Lech Piotrowski (University of Warsaw)  
16:30
Parallel session - SH (until 18:00) (Aula Magna)
16:30 Analysis of the solar cosmic ray event on 11 November 2025 as measured by neutron monitors - Dr Lukas Baeni (University of Bern (CH))  
16:45 High Energy Solar Energetic Particles measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - Ms cristina consolandi (University of Hawai'i at Manoa (US))  
17:00 Latitudinal Cosmic Ray Observations with Portable Neutron Monitors: Results from the Spanish Antarctic Campaigns - Juan José Blanco Ávalos (University of Alcalá)  
17:15 Simulation of Energetic Particles and GLE Events Using the TOROS Code: Recent Advances and New Methodologies - Prof. Carlo Luis Guerrero Contreras (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Associate Professor)  
17:30 Solar Neutron production and escape in the photosphere. Analysis and simulation using a comprehensive GEANT4-based tool - Pablo Cerviño Solana (Universidad de Alcala (UAH))  
17:45 Observations of the Lunar gamma-ray emission with the Fermi LAT - Giuliana Panzarini (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
13:00
Lunch break (until 14:30)
14:30
Paralell session - THEO (until 16:00) (Aula Magna)
14:30 Assessing the diffusion-drift transition as the origin of the cosmic ray knee - Luis Enrique Espinosa Castro (Gran Sasso Science Institute)  
14:45 The possible contribution of microquasars to the cosmic ray proton "knee" - chun khai loo (GSSI)  
15:00 REVISITING ELECTRON-CAPTURE DECAY IN LIGHT OF CURRENT AND FUTURE COSMIC-RAY DATA - Marta Borchiellini (INFN Bologna)  
14:30
Parallel session - INSTR (until 16:00)
14:30 Status and prospects of the TAMBO project and the TAMBITO R&D prototype - Pablo Fernandez (IGFAE/USC)  
14:45 Prospects for Oscillation Tomography of the Earth with Next-generation Atmospheric Neutrino Detectors - Véronique VAN ELEWYCK  
15:00 Performance of the FAST detector concept and implementation of an autonomous trigger for in-field operation - Dr Petr Hamal (Palacky University Olomouc)  
15:15 The Auger Radio Infill SKALA Extension (ARISE): Detector Overview and First Air-Shower Detection - Carmen Merx  
15:30 Radio Interferometry at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Juan Ammerman Yebra  
16:00
Coffee, Posters & Discussions (until 16:30)
16:30
Parallel session - INSTR (until 18:00)
16:30 A silicon-photomultipliers-based camera for the Small Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Isabella Sofia (INFN Torino, Max-Planck Institut fur Kernphysik (MPIK))  
16:45 The miniTrasgo International Research Network - Prof. Juan A. Garzon (Univ. Santiago de Compostela)  
17:00 AMORE: a novel secondary cosmic rays detector for characterization of the atmospheric radiation environment - Gabriele Auriemma  
17:15 Deep Learning Methods for Particle Identification in cosmic rays using the AMS electromagnetic calorimeter - Yaozu Xiong (ZJU - Zhejiang University (CN))  
17:30 Deep-learning muon identification in IACT camera images - Giovanni Cozzolongo  
13:00
Lunch break (until 14:30)
14:30
Excursion (until 20:30) (Entrance of Hospederia San Martin Pinario)
13:00
Lunch break (until 14:30)
14:30
Paralell session - CRD (until 16:00) (Aula Magna)
14:30 Unique Properties of Primary Cosmic Rays measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - Carlos Delgado Mendez (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
14:45 Unique Properties of Secondary Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - Francisco Hernandez Nicolas (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
15:00 Properties of Cosmic Beryllium Isotopes Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - Jose Ocampo Peleteiro (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
15:15 Anisotropy of Positron and Electron Fluxes Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS - Miguel Molero Gonzalez (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
15:30 High-energy spectral measurements of medium-high mass nuclei with the DAMPE space mission - Sara Fogliacco (GSSI INFN LNGS)  
15:45 Measurement of Lithium and Beryllium fluxes with the DAMPE experiment - Hugo Valentin Boutin (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
14:30
Parallel session - EAS (until 16:00)
14:30 Can historic measurements cast light on the Spectral differences between the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array? - Prof. Alan Watson (University of Leeds, UK)  
14:45 Probing Hadronic Interactions at the 100 TeV Scale with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Eva Maria Martins Dos Santos (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
15:00 Muon measurements in extensive air showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Dr FERNANDO DANIEL GOLLAN SCILIPOTTI (Instituto Gallego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias)  
15:15 Sensitivity of hybrid particle detectors to the energy spectra of air shower components - Bernardo Tomé (LIP/IST)  
15:30 High-Energy Gamma/Hadron Discrimination in Ground-Based WCD Arrays - The LCm and Ptail Variables - Lucio Gibilisco  
15:45 First Interaction Depth Reconstruction and Fluorescence Detector Simulation for Extensive Air Shower Longitudinal Profiles - Mr Marcos Olegario (University of São Paulo)  
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30)
16:30
Paralell session - CRD (until 17:45) (Aula Magna)
16:30 Cosmic-ray B/C, B/O, and C/O flux ratios from a decade of DAMPE data with machine learning - Andrea Serpolla (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
16:45 Probing the origin of cosmic-ray deuterium at high rigidity with DESMO - Francesco Maria Follega (Universita degli Studi di Trento and INFN (IT))  
17:00 Space weather monitoring with Muon Antarctic Telescopes - Massimo Gervasi (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
17:15 The Zirè detector on-board the NUSES space mission - Roberta Pillera (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
16:30
Parallel session - MM (until 17:45)
16:30 Cygnus X-3 Revisited - Alan Andrew Watson  
16:45 Search for gamma-ray lines and boxes with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Francesco Loparco (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
17:00 Searching for UHE photons in background-dominated data - Costanza Marinelli (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)  
17:15 Search for UHE photon sources using direction-time clustering algorithms with a BDT particle discriminant - Dr Chaitanya Priyadarshi (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej PAN, Kraków)  
17:30 ACME - Astrophysical Center for Multimessenger Studies in Europe - Enrique Zas  
20:00
Conference Dinner (until 23:00)
12:45
End of conference - Closing Remarks (until 13:00)
13:00
Lunch break (until 15:00)