RECFA visit to Slovakia

Friday, 23 October 2026 - 08:30
Park Inn by Radisson

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Oct 2026
AM
08:30 Registration  
09:00 Welcome from the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic and the president of SAS  
09:15 Funding Science in Slovakia - Dr Martin Šponiar (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slova)  
09:40 HEP in Slovakia - Stano Tokar (Comenius University (SK))  
10:05 Outreach and education - Dr Ivan Melo (University of Žilina)  
10:35
Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00 Accelerator experiments - Marek Bombara (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
PM
12:00 Accelerator R&D - Prof. Marius Pavlovic Marius Pavlovič  
12:25 Industry perspective - Ladislav Vargovcik Dr Ladislav Vargovcik (ILO of Slovakia - Technical University of Kosice)  
12:45
Lunch (until 14:15)
14:15 Non-accelerator experiments (nuclear, neutrinos and astrophysics) - Martin Venhart (Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK))  
15:15 Theory - Andrej Liptaj (Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK))  
15:45
Coffee (until 16:10)
16:10 Computing for HEP - Michal Meres (Comenius University (SK))  
16:35 ECR perspective - Veronika Barbasova (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
17:00 RECFA debriefing (closed session)  
18:10 First feedback from RECFA to Slovak community  
19:30 Dinner (RECFA members and speakers of the day)