DRD Calo Collaboration Meeting in Ancona
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
The fourth DRD Calo Collaboration Meeting will take place at the Faculty of Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche between Tuesday 16th and Friday 19th of September 2025. It will witness the consolidated organisation and that the scientific programme will be in full swing including strategic efforts for the collaboration. This includes a review of the European AIDAinnova project as well as an outlook on and the impact of a potential successor of which the scientific proposal will be known by the time of the meeting. The meeting in Ancona will also be the first meeting after the symposium of the European Strategy in June in Venice.
If you wish to contribute please contact the session and topic conveners:
- Work Package 1: Lucia Masetti (masetti@uni-mainz.de), Adrian Irles (adrian.irles@ific.uv.es)
- Work Package 2: Nicolas Morange (nicolas.morange@ijclab.in2p3.fr)
- Work Package 3: Michaela Mlynarikova (michaela.mlynarikova@cern.ch) , Marco Lucchini (marco.toliman.lucchini@cern.ch)
- Work Package 4: Christophe de la Taille (taille@in2p3.fr)
- Testbeam and tools and software: Gabriella Gaudio (gabriella.gaudio@pv.infn.it), Brieuc François (brieuc.francois@cern.ch), Lorenzo Pezzotti (lorenzo.pezzotti@cern.ch)
The DRD meeting will start Tuesday 16th afternoon; the morning of the first day is available for talks addressed to groups and researchers who could be interested to the DRD-Calo activities.

Credit Pietro Laureati
All pictures available under https://drdcalo.web.cern.ch/picture-gallery-collaboration-meeting-ancona-sept-2025/
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Opening: DRD-Calo activities and open possibilities Room 155/10 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 155/10
Faculty of Engineering
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Welcome by the Institution 20mSpeakers: Prof. D’Orazio (Pro-Rector), Prof. Quagliarini (Director of DICEA Dep.), Prof. Stipa (Director of SIMAU Dep.), Prof. Di Nicola (Vice-Director of DIISM Dep.)
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The DRD on Calorimetry - Introduction and overview 40mSpeaker: Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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- Crystal Clear Collaboration: A scientific community for frontier research on scintillating detectors and applications 40mSpeaker: Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns (CERN)
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UnivPM activities in the context of detectors and calorimetry 30mSpeaker: Luigi Montalto (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT))
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Coffee Break 20m
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Opening: Quick Visit of the Laboratories SIMAU and DIISM Laboartories (Faculty of Engineering)
SIMAU and DIISM Laboartories
Faculty of Engineering
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Lunch Break 1h 15m
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WP1 Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
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Update on preparation of KEK beam dump experiment (EBES) 20mSpeaker: Fumihito Ikeda
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The Progress of the R&D of High Density and High Light Yield Glass Scintillator 20mSpeaker: Sen Qian (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
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The Status of the R&D of GS-HCAL for CEPC 20mSpeaker: Hengne Li (South China Normal University (CN))
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KEK Beam Test of ScW-ECAL 20mSpeakers: Dr Wataru Otani (University of Tokyo (JP)), Yong Liu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Coffee break 30m
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Development of Integrated Cooling Solutions for the AHCAL 20mSpeaker: Andre Klotzbücher
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Compact cooling design for the SiW-ECAL 20mSpeaker: Francois Joubert (LLR)
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Simulation of digital calorimetry with MAPS 20mSpeaker: Dumitru-Vlad Berlea (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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PID study to improve on the energy reconstruction in T-SDHCAL 20mSpeakers: Mohamed Idir, William VAGINAY
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Opening Plenary Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Luigi Montalto (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT)), Luigi Montalto, Roberto Ferrari, Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT)), Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))-
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Welcome by Local Organisers 15mSpeakers: Luigi Montalto (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT)), Daniele Rinaldi (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT)), Luigi Montalto
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Report from Technical Board 20mSpeakers: Gabriella Gaudio (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica), Gabriella Gaudio (INFN-Pavia)
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Report from Speakers Bureau 20mSpeaker: Dr Wataru Otani (University of Tokyo (JP))
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Coffee Break 30m
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WP4 Plenary - Electronics and DAQ: Session I Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
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Faculty of Engineering
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programmable ASICs device for reading out SiPM matrices for future hadronic sampling calorimeters 20mSpeaker: Martina Cucinotta (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
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overview of CALOROC1A/1B/1C 10mSpeaker: Dr Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR))
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DAQ experience with HGCCAL testbeam 15mSpeaker: Yong Liu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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EU Project OTELLO - The calorimeter workpackage 25m Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
Polo Trifogli Montedago via Brecce Bianche, 12 60100 Ancona (AN)Speakers: Gabriella Gaudio (INFN-Pavia), Gabriella Gaudio (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica), Katja Kruger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Katja Kruger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)) -
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Lunch Break 1h 20m
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Guest contributions Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Convener: Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))-
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Scintillating cubes calorimeters for Neutrino Experiments 25mSpeaker: Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))
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Introduction and overview to DRD 3 25mSpeaker: Gregor Kramberger (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
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WP1 Plenary: Session I Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV), Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))-
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Introduction 5mSpeakers: Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV), Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))
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HighCompactCalo beam test and prototyping 20mSpeaker: Aleksander Zarnecki (University of Warsaw (PL))
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Interim report on the SiW-ECAL 20mSpeakers: Melike Akbiyik (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Vincent Boudry (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École polytechnique), Yukun Shi (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École polytechnique)
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Coffee Break 30m
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WP1 Plenary: Session II Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV), Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))-
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Status of EPICAL-2 analysis and optimisation studies for future calorimeter sensors 20mSpeaker: Thomas Peitzmann (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
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Scintillating Bars for the DUNE Near Detector 25m Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
Polo Trifogli Montedago via Brecce Bianche, 12 60100 Ancona (AN)Speakers: Morgan Wascko (Imperial College (GB)), Morgan Wascko, Morgan Wascko (Blackett Lab.High Energy Phys.Group-Imperial College-Unknown) -
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WP2 Plenary Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Convener: Nicolas Morange (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))-
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Status of WP2 simulations and performance 20mSpeaker: Jacopo Fanini (CERN & Université Paris-Saclay)
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Summary of the ALLEGRO Ecal Workshop 30mSpeaker: Brieuc Francois (CERN)
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Coffee Break 30m
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WP3 Plenary: Session I Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Convener: Marco Toliman Lucchini (Università & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))-
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Introduction 5mSpeaker: Marco Toliman Lucchini (Università & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
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Presentations from WP3 coordinator candidates 5mSpeaker: Hwi Dong Yoo (Yonsei University (KR))
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MAXICC - status update 15mSpeaker: Marco Toliman Lucchini (Università & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
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SpaCal - status update 15mSpeaker: Marco Pizzichemi (Universita Milano-Bicocca (IT) and CERN)
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TileCal - status update 15mSpeakers: Ivo Polak (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)), Rute Pedro (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))
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Lunch Break 1h 20m
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WP3 Plenary: Session II Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
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RADICAL - status update 15mSpeaker: James William Wetzel (University of Iowa (US))
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OREO - status update 15mSpeaker: Pierluigi Fedeli (Università degli Studi di Ferrara & Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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An optic-photoelastic method for the measurement of the lattice misorientation in anisotropic crystals 15mSpeaker: Luigi Montalto (Universita Politecnica delle Marche (IT))
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Software Tutorial: WG1 SW Tutorial on GAUDI Room 140/D3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/D3
Faculty of Engineering
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WG2 Photodetectors Plenary Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
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WG2 Collaborative Framework: Establishing Shared Goals and Communication Channels 20mSpeaker: Maria Ruzzarin
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R&D progress on SiPMs with a high pixel density for the high-granularity crystal calorimetry 20mSpeaker: Yong Liu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Photodetector requirements for dual readout calorimeters 20mSpeaker: Stefano Moneta
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Coffee Break 30m
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Collaboration Board Meeting 1h 30m Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
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Collaboration Dinner 2h 55m Restaurant (Il Giardino)
Restaurant
Il Giardino
Via Fabio Filzi, 2 / c, 60123 Ancona AN
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WG1 Plenary: Session II: Session I Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
Conveners: Brieuc Francois (CERN), Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))-
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What Software and reconstruction can do for the calorimeter design 20mSpeaker: Jean-Claude Brient (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Fast Hadron Shower Simulation using Kernel Density Estimators with the CALICE AHCAL Prototype 20mSpeaker: Andre Wilhahn (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))
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Software compensation in a highly granular calorimeter with a convolutional neural network 20mSpeakers: Xin XIA, xiaxin-ihep Xia
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Testbeam data processing in Key4hep 20mSpeaker: Fangyi Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
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Coffee Break 20m Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
Polo Trifogli Montedago via Brecce Bianche, 12 60100 Ancona (AN) -
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WG1 Plenary: Session II Room 140/3 (Faculty of Engineering)
Room 140/3
Faculty of Engineering
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Particle Flow reconstruction at the Muon Collider 20mSpeaker: Lisa Generoso (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
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Impact of timing in calorimeters at future Higgs factories experiments with ML for JER and pattern recognition 20mSpeakers: Bohdan Dudar (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)), Hao Liang (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Ulrich Einhaus (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
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Machine Learning based hadron identification with highly-granular calorimeters 20mSpeaker: Andrea De Vita (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
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Semi-Digital read-out for MPGD-HCAL with Machine Learning techniques 20mSpeaker: Lisa Generoso (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
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Exploring DHCAL design and performance with graph neural networks 20mSpeaker: Maryna Borysova (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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Closing Plenary Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Ancona
Polo Trifogli Montedago via Brecce Bianche, 12 60100 Ancona (AN)-
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Report from Collaboration Board 15mSpeakers: Roberto Ferrari, Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT))
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Spokespersons Team Farewell 10mSpeakers: Mary-Cruz Fouz Iglesias (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)), Roman Poeschl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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