117th Plenary ECFA Meeting

20 Nov 2025, 13:45 → 21 Nov 2025, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Thursday 20 November

Plennary ECFA - closed session

1 Opening and Adoption of the agenda

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)

2 Draft minutes of the 115th PECFA meeting and 116th PECFA session

Speaker: Lidija Zivkovic (Institute of physics Belgrade (RS))

3 Report from the Chair

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)

4 Endorsement of new ECFA, RECFA and ECR panel members

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)

5 Midterm report from Hungary

Speaker: Ferenc Siklér (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))

6 Update from ECFA Training Panel

Speaker: Johann Collot (university Grenoble Alpes (FR))

7 Report from Early Career Researcher Panel

Speaker: Magdalena Vande Voorde (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE))

15:35 Coffee break

Plennary ECFA - open session

8 Report from CERN

Speaker: Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)

9 Report from RAL

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (University of Edinburgh)

10 Report from LDG

Speakers: Mike Seidel, Mike Seidel

11 Report from (APPEC)

Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski

12 Report from (NuPECC)

Speaker: Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

Friday 21 November

Toward ESPP Update

13 Status of the ESPP update process

Speaker: Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg (DE))

14 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Higgs/EWK, Top, Flavor, Strong interaction & BSM physics

Speaker: Gino Isidori (University of Zurich (CH))

15 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Neutrinos, Dark Matter and Cosmic Messengers

Speaker: Sara Bolognesi (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

16 Highlights from the Briefing Book: Instrumentation and Computing

Speakers: Dr Tommaso Boccali (INFN Sezione di Pisa), Tommaso Boccali

10:50 Coffee break

Updates from HEP communities

17 Update from China

Speaker: Joao Barreiro Guimaraes Da Costa (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

18 Update from Japan

Speaker: Tsuyoshi Nakaya (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

19 Update from the US

Speaker: Srini Rajagopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

12:30 Lunch Break

Post-symposium updates from ESG groups

20 WG1: Final input from national HEP communities

Speaker: Calin Alexa (IFIN-HH (RO))

21 WG2a: preliminary machine comparison of flagship projects

Speaker: Gianluigi Arduini (CERN)

22 WG2b: preliminary physics comparison for flagship projects

Speaker: Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)

23 WG3: Implementation of the Strategy / Deliverability of large projects

Speaker: Prof. achille stocchi (IJCLab , UNiversite Paris-Saclay, CNRS)

24 WG4: Relations with other fields of physics

Speakers: Marek Karliner (Tel Aviv University (IL)), Marek Karliner (High Energy Physics Department)

25 WG5: Sustainability

Speaker: Tadeusz Lesiak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

26 WG6: Public Engagement, Education, Communication & Social and career aspects for the next generation

Speaker: Pierre Van Mechelen (University of Antwerp (BE))