117th Plenary ECFA Meeting

from Thursday 20 November 2025 (13:45) to Friday 21 November 2025 (18:00)
CERN (503/1-001)

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20 Nov 2025
21 Nov 2025
AM
09:00
Toward ESPP Update (until 10:45)
09:00 Status of the ESPP update process - Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg (DE))  
09:20 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Higgs/EWK, Top, Flavor, Strong interaction & BSM physics - Gino Isidori (University of Zurich (CH))  
09:50 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Neutrinos, Dark Matter and Cosmic Messengers - Sara Bolognesi (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:20 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Instrumentation and Computing - Dr Tommaso Boccali (INFN Sezione di Pisa) Tommaso Boccali  
10:50 --- Group photo followed by coffee break ---
11:15
Updates from HEP communities (until 12:30)
11:15 Update from China - Joao Barreiro Guimaraes Da Costa (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
11:40 Update from Japan - Tsuyoshi Nakaya (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
12:05 Update from the US - Srini Rajagopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
PM
14:00
Plenary ECFA - closed session (until 15:30)
14:00 Opening and Adoption of the agenda - Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)  
14:05 Draft minutes of the 115th PECFA meeting and 116th PECFA session - Lidija Zivkovic (Institute of physics Belgrade (RS))  
14:10 Report from the Chair - Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)  
14:25 Endorsement of new ECFA, RECFA and ECR panel members - Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)  
14:30 Midterm report from Hungary - Ferenc Siklér (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))  
14:50 Update from ECFA Training Panel - Johann Collot (university Grenoble Alpes (FR))  
15:10 Report from Early Career Researcher Panel - Magdalena Vande Voorde (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE))  
15:35 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Plenary ECFA - open session (until 18:05)
16:00 Report from CERN - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)  
16:30 Report from RAL - Sinead Farrington (University of Edinburgh)  
16:50 Report from LDG - Mike Seidel Mike Seidel  
17:10 Report from APPEC - Leszek Roszkowski  
17:30 Report from NuPECC - Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Post-symposium updates from ESG groups (until 17:00)
14:00 WG1: Final input from national HEP communities - Calin Alexa (IFIN-HH (RO))  
14:25 WG2a: preliminary machine comparison of flagship projects - Gianluigi Arduini (CERN)  
15:00 WG2b: preliminary physics comparison for flagship projects - Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)  
15:25 WG3: Implementation of the Strategy / Deliverability of large projects - Prof. achille stocchi (IJCLab , UNiversite Paris-Saclay, CNRS)  
15:50 WG4: Relations with other fields of physics - Marek Karliner (Tel Aviv University (IL)) Marek Karliner (High Energy Physics Department)  
16:15 WG5: Sustainability - Tadeusz Lesiak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
16:40 WG6: Public Engagement, Education, Communication & Social and career aspects for the next generation - Pierre Van Mechelen (University of Antwerp (BE))