XV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2026

from Wednesday, 19 August 2026 (09:00) to Sunday, 30 August 2026 (16:15)
Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Aug 2026
20 Aug 2026
21 Aug 2026
22 Aug 2026
23 Aug 2026
24 Aug 2026
25 Aug 2026
26 Aug 2026
27 Aug 2026
28 Aug 2026
29 Aug 2026
AM
09:00 Opening of the ICNFP Conference (Organizers of ICNFP 2026) - Larisa Bravina Sonia Kabana (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))   (Room 1)
09:10 Director of OAC welcome   (Room 1)
09:25
Special session on strangeness in heavy ion collisions and related topics (40th anniversary) (until 09:50) (Room 1)
09:25 What makes strangeness such a rich and unique tool in QGP exploration - Johann Rafelski (University of Arizona)  
09:50
Cosmology, Astrophysics, Gravity, Mathematical Physics (until 10:15) (Room 1)
09:50 Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Zhili Weng (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
10:15
Special Session on Quantum Information and Quantum Optics (until 10:40) (Room 1)
10:15 Interference Beyond Spectral Intuition: From Superoscillations to Quantum-Field Regularization - Eliahu Cohen (Bar-Ilan University)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Cosmology, Astrophysics, Gravity, Mathematical Physics (until 11:50) (Room 1)
11:00 Search for CBCs with SSM components in data from the first part of LVK fourth observing run - Gaspard JOUBERT  
11:25 Dark Hydrogen Atoms and Dark He+ Ions as Baryonic Dark Matter - Prof. Eugene Oks (Auburn University, USA)  
11:50
High Energy Particle Physics (until 12:15) (Room 1)
11:50 The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Zhan Zhang (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
09:00
Quantum Physics, Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (until 09:25) (Room 1)
09:00 Wavefunction Collapse in String Theory - Nissan Itzhaki (Tel Aviv University)  
09:25
Special Session on Quantum Information and Quantum Optics (until 10:40) (Room 1)
09:25 Knots and Codes - Avishy Carmi  
09:50 Charge acceleration without radiation - Sandu Popescu  
10:15 Equivalence of mutually unbiased bases via orbits: general theory and a d = 4 case study - Amit Te'eni (Bar-Ilan University)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Special Session on neutrino physics (until 11:20) (Room 1)
11:00 Latest results from Daya Bay - Kam-Biu LUK  
11:20
High Energy Particle Physics (until 12:20) (Room 1)
11:20 Rare and very rare decays at LHCb - Daniele Provenzano (University and INFN Cagliari (IT))  
11:40 Highlights in Higgs physics: single Higgs measurements and di-Higgs searches - Mourad Hidaoui (Shandong University (CN))  
12:00 Higgs couplings measurements with CMS - Tahir Javaid (Beihang University (CN))  
08:00 --- Conference Excursion - Rethymno and archeological sites ---
08:00 --- Conference Excursion - Monasteries ---
09:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 09:50) (Room 1)
09:00 ATLAS Highlights - Dr Fernando Monticelli (National University of La Plata (AR))  
09:25 LHCb Highlights - Mary Richardson-Slipper (University of Cambridge (GB))  
09:50
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 10:15) (Room 1)
09:50 ALICE Highlights - Nicola Nicassio (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
10:15
High Energy Particle Physics (until 10:40) (Room 1)
10:15 CMS Highlights - Marco Pieri (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Workshop on Instruments and Methods (until 11:20) (Room 1)
11:00 The ATLAS Trigger System - Marta Lanzac Berrocal (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
11:20
High Energy Particle Physics (until 13:00) (Room 1)
11:20 CMS upgrades for the HL-LHC - Tiziano Pauletto (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
11:40 ATLAS toward the High Luminosity era: challenges on electronic systems - Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV))  
12:00 Searches for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC - Loan Truong (University of Johannesburg (ZA))  
12:20 Searches for Long-Lived Particles with the CMS experiment - Prafulla Saha (Rutgers State Univ. of New Jersey (US))  
12:40 The Upgrades of LHCb for HL-LHC - Lais Soares Lavra (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
09:00
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 09:25) (Room 1)
09:00 The STAR experiment at RHIC, from 2000 to now - Prof. Bernd Surrow (Temple University)  
09:25
Workshop on Dark Matter from Micro to Macro (until 10:15) (Room 1)
09:25 Vacuum energy problem in anti-De Sitter space-time - Elena Arbuzova (Dubna State University and Novosibirsk State University)  
09:50 Galactic antimatter and primordial black holes. Conundra and resolution - Alexander Dolgov  
10:15
Special session on Cosmoparticle physics of Dark Universe (until 10:40) (Room 1)
10:15 Cosmoparticle physics of Dark Universe - Prof. Maxim Khlopov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Cosmology, Astrophysics, Gravity, Mathematical Physics (until 12:40) (Room 1)
11:00 DES Year 6 Legacy Results: Cosmological Constraints from the Final 3×2pt Analysis - GIULIA GIANNINI  
11:25 Cryogenic positronium for antihydrogen free-fall measurements in AEgIS - Ahmad Chehaimi (Universita degli Studi di Trento and INFN (IT))  
11:50 Highlights from Over a Decade of CALET Cosmic-Ray Observations on the International Space Station - Marco Mattiazzi  
12:15 Highlights of the very-high-energy γ-ray sky seen with H.E.S.S. - Dr Michelle Tsirou (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU))  
09:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 09:40) (Room 1)
09:00 New ATLAS Standard Model Results - Matteo D'Uffizi (The University of Manchester (GB))  
09:20 Precision Electroweak measurements with CMS - Rhys Taus (University of Rochester (US))  
09:40
Workshop on QCD (until 10:00) (Room 1)
09:40 QCD measurements with CMS - Dr Meena Meena (Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile)  
10:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 10:40) (Room 1)
10:00 ATLAS detector performance during Run 3 - Lucio Derin (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))  
10:20 CMS detector performance in run-3 - Federica Simone (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 13:00) (Room 1)
11:00 ATLAS Computing - Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)  
11:20 ATLAS Tile Calorimeter: performance, calibration and optics robustness - Pietro Matteo Tricarico (The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) (ES))  
11:40 ALPHA –A Plasma Haloscope for the Post-Inflation Axion - Dr Jonathan Echevers (University of California Berkeley)  
12:00 The COMET Experiment Searching for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at J-PARC - Kou Oishi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)  
12:20 Dark sector and $\tau$ lepton studies at Belle II - Alexandre Beaubien  
11:00
Workshop on Instruments and Methods (until 13:00) (Room 3)
11:00 The performance of the ATLAS New Small Wheels throughout the whole LHC Run 3 - Michael Schernau (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))  
11:20 The CMS Muon Detector - Gianni Masetti (Universita e INFN Bologna (IT))  
11:40 The Silicon Vertex Tracker subsystem for the ePIC experiment - Maria Teresa Camerlingo (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
12:00 Operational Experience and Future Perspectives of the CMS GEM Muon System Upgrades - Ilaria Vai (Pavia University and INFN (IT))  
12:20 Operation and Performance of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter during LHC Run 3 - Melissa Aguiar (CERN)  
12:40 Improvements in pileup mitigation with Constituent Subtraction - Peter Berta (Charles University, Prague (CZ))  
11:00
Workshop on QCD (until 11:20) (Room 2)
11:00 Highlights of STAR Spin Results - Jinlong Zhang (Shandong University)  
11:20
Special session on strangeness in heavy ion collisions and related topics (40th anniversary) (until 11:40) (Room 2)
11:20 Investigation of a QGP droplet formation in quasiparticle model framework - Dr Yogesh Kumar (Hansraj College, University of Delhi)  
11:40
Workshop on Dark Matter from Micro to Macro (until 12:40) (Room 2)
11:40 BULLKID-DM: Searching for Light WIMP with Monolithic Arrays of Detectors - Dr Shihong Fu (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) - INFN)  
12:00 The Underground Argon Supply Chain for DarkSide-20k: Extraction, Purification, and Radiopurity Assessment - Sara Tullio  
12:20 Theoretical search for Dark matter particles using molecules - ANNA ZAKHAROVA  
09:00
Special Session on neutrino physics (until 09:50) (Room 1)
09:00 Gravitational Catalysis for the electron or positron catalyzed production of hadrons from neutrinos: The reaction which shaped our Universe? - Constantinos Vayenas (University of Patras)  
09:25 The DUNE Experiment: Overview and Status - David Orlando Rivera Jr (Los Alamos National Laboratory (US))  
09:50
Workshop on Dark Matter from Micro to Macro (until 10:15) (Room 1)
09:50 Dark Matter in Composite Higgs - Andrea Di Lecce  
10:15
Workshop on Astro-Cosmo-Gravity (until 10:40) (Room 1)
10:15 Recent Results and Updates from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Sarah Louise Mancina (INFN-Padova)  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Workshop on Laser Fusion, a spin-off from heavy-ion collisions (until 11:50) (Room 1)
11:00 How_resonant_nano-antennas_catalyzing_fusion - Prof. Laszlo Pal Csernai (University of Bergen)  
11:25 Addendum to: controlling proton acceleration for plasmon-enhanced Laser-induced fusion - Dr Istvan Papp  
11:50
High Energy Particle Physics (until 13:00) (Room 1)
11:50 Co-Design for Fundamental Physics - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
12:15 Measurements of Semileptonic and leptonic $B$ decays at Belle and Belle II - Savino Longo (University of Manitoba)  
12:40 Higgs measurements (mass, width, CP) with CMS - Li Yuan (Beihang University (CN))  
09:00
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 10:15) (Room 1)
09:00 25 years of QGP at CERN - Giuseppe Bruno  
09:25 Justification of the isentropic expansion of matter in relativistic heavy-ion collisions - Evgeny Zabrodin (Universiyu of Oslo)  
09:50 Net-baryon fluctuations in model-generated Au+Au collisions - Larisa Bravina  
10:15
Quantum Physics, Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (until 10:40) (Room 1)
10:15 Local Quantum Mechanics with Fluids in Spacetime - Mordecai Waegell (Institute for Quantum Studies, Chapman University)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 12:40) (Room 1)
11:00 ATLAS Upgrades for the High Luminosity LHC - Status and Perspectives - Antonio Sbrizzi (INFN, Bologna (IT))  
11:25 Direct searches for new physics at CMS - Federico Lombardi (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
11:50 Highlights on top quark physics with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Peter Berta (Charles University, Prague (CZ))  
12:15 Recent results on searches for BSM physics at ATLAS - Jakob Novak (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))  
09:30
Machine Learning school: from perceptrons to spiking neurons (until 10:40)
09:30 Overview - Prof. Pietro Vischia (Departamento de Física and ICTEA, Universidad de Oviedo)  
10:00 ML School I  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Machine Learning school: from perceptrons to spiking neurons (until 13:00) (Room 1)
11:00 ML School II  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
19:00 Introduction to the History of OAC Chapel and Meaning of Blessing (OAC), followed by a ceremony of Blessing, for interested people (in the terasse outside the new building of OAC).  
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:15
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 13:00) (Room 1)
12:15 The PHENIX experiment 2000 - 2016 - and beyond - Gabor David (Stony Brook University)  
12:40 Recent results from heavy-ion collisions with CMS - Petra Akrap (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Break ---
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 18:20) (Room 2)
17:00 Recent results in kaon-Nucleon interaction in atomic systems - Dr Mihail Antoniu Iliescu (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
17:20 Study of hadron production in photonuclear ultra-peripheral collisions at LHC energies using STARlight with DPMJET - Mr Sandeep Dudi (Universita e INFN, Salerno (IT))  
17:40 First Measurement of Inclusive Jet Transverse Single Spin Asymmetries at sPHENIX - Muhammad Shahid  
17:00
Session on Other topics and interdisciplinary topics (until 18:20) (Room 3)
17:00 Leveraging the LHC's gas recovery systems to promote environmental sustainability - Ilaria Vai (Pavia University and INFN (IT))  
17:20 Statistical physics in nightmares - Dr Istvan Papp  
17:40 Comprehensive Optical Dispersion and Electronic Structure Analysis of Thermally Evaporated Organic Semiconductor Thin Films - hassanein Shaban (the British University in Egypt)  
17:00
Special Session dedicated in memory of Prof. Dr. Hans Specht (until 17:25) (Room 1)
17:00 Remembering Hans Joachim Specht: Scientist, Mentor, and Leader - Johann Rafelski (University of Arizona (US)) Dr Sanja Damjanovic (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)  
17:25
Special session on strangeness in heavy ion collisions and related topics (40th anniversary) (until 18:25) (Room 1)
17:25 Unveiling the microscopic dynamics of small systems via light-flavor correlations with ALICE - Stefano Cannito (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))  
17:45 Study of strange-particle transverse-momentum fractions in mini-jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with ALICE - Lang Xu (Institute of Particle Physics, CCNU (CN); Institute of physics of 2 infinities of Lyon, UCBL (FR))  
18:05 Measurement of charged and neutral kaons in Ar+Sc collisions at the NA61/SHINE experiment - Angelika Magdalena Tefelska (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
18:25 Public talk on " The Quark-Gluon Plasma Paradigm and the Primordial Universe ", by Prof. Johann Rafelski (Univ. of Arizona, USA), OAC auditorium - Johann Rafelski (University of Arizona (US))  
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:20
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 12:40) (Room 1)
12:20 From pp and p–Pb to OO and Ne–Ne: Recent small-system results from ALICE - Panos Christakoglou (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:40
Session on Other topics and interdisciplinary topics (until 13:00) (Room 1)
12:40 From Heavy-Ion Physics to Societal Impact: The SEEIIST Initiative - Dr Sanja Damjanovic (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Break ---
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 19:20) (Room 2)
17:00 Effect of Hadronic Interaction and System Size on Particle Production in Heavy-ion Collisions at √sNN= 200 GeV - Mr Sangam Pasayat (School of Physics, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha 768019, India)  
17:20 Multiplicity-Dependent $J/\psi$ Production in Small Collision Systems at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV with PHENIX - Murad Sarsour (Georgia State University (US))  
17:40 Heavy-Flavor and Strange Hadron Production in p+p Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV with sPHENIX - Adeeb Saed  
18:00 Systematic Investigation of Bottomonium Suppression in Heavy-Ion Collisions Using Decoupled Kinetic Rate Equations - Ms Eman Aljuhani (Taibah University)  
18:20 Formation-Time Suppression of Jet Radiation in the sQGP - Olga Soloveva  
17:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 19:00) (Room 1)
17:00 Results from the SND@LHC Experiment - Dr andrey alexandrov (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
17:20 A Unified Normal-Form Treatment of Beam Dynamics Corrections in the Muon g-2 Storage Ring - Eremey Vladimirovich Valetov  
17:40 A new measurement of the $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ branching ratio at the NA62 experiment - Tomas Velas (Comenius University (SK))  
18:00 Recent results on the studies of the $e^+e^-$ annihilation into hadrons with the SND detector at VEPP-2000 collider - Andrey Kupich  
18:20 ATLAS Tile Calorimeter toward the High Luminosity era: status and expected performance - Viola Floris (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
18:40 Precision Electroweak Measurements at FCC-ee: From Z-pole Observables to EFT Sensitivity - Jacopo De Piccoli (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
17:00
Special session on Machine Learning (until 17:20) (Room 3)
17:00 Deep-Learning-Based Triggers for Quark–Gluon Plasma Event Selection in Heavy-Ion Collisions - Olga Soloveva  
17:20
Quantum Physics, Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (until 17:40) (Room 3)
17:20 Elastic Coherence and Entanglement Hysteresis as Memory Signatures in Driven Quantum Systems - Ridha Horchani (Sultan Qaboos university)  
17:40
Workshop on Dark Matter from Micro to Macro (until 18:00) (Room 3)
17:40 Formation of accretion disks and spin distribution of stellar black holes in gaseous star clusters - Zacharias Roupas (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)  
18:00
Workshop on Instruments and Methods (until 19:00) (Room 3)
18:00 The ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-II Readout Upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC - Markus Helbig (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))  
18:20 Design and Deployment of a Kubernetes-Based Platform for Interactive Scientific Data Analysis Across Cloud and Bare-Metal Infrastructures - Gianluca Sabella (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
20:00 --- Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch (for participants not joining the excursion) ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch (for participants not joining the excursion) ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Break ---
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Cosmology, Astrophysics, Gravity, Mathematical Physics (until 18:00) (Room 2)
17:00 Physics of warped extra dimensions: colliders, gravitational waves and primordial black holes - Eugenio Megias (University of Granada)  
17:20 Simulating high-Mach non-relativistic astrophysical shocks and plasma with particle-in-cell codes - Dr Michelle Tsirou (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU))  
17:40 LAG-M Liquid Actuated Gravity with mercury - Prof. Fabio Garufi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and INFN Sez. di Napoli)  
17:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 20:00) (Room 1)
17:00 Latest results from muon object performance with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC using Run-3 data - Celine Stauch (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
17:20 Data-Driven Background Prediction for tt̄H(H→bb̄) in the Dilepton Channel with CMS - Haris Painesis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))  
17:40 Tagging at ATLAS with GN3: Heavy Flavour and Beyond - Diptaparna Biswas (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
18:00 Recent flavor physics studies at CMS - Felice Nenna (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
18:20 Beam-spin induced polarization of lambda and anti-lambda hyperons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering - Prof. Hrachya Marukyan (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM))  
18:40 Event Mass Reconstruction in ttH(H→bb̄) Dilepton Events at √s = 13.6 TeV - Polytimi Iosifidou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))  
19:00 Design and Performance of the DUNE Photodetection System - Maritza Juliette Delgado Gonzalez for the DUNE Collaboration (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
17:00
Special Session on neutrino physics (until 19:20) (Room 3)
17:00 Crystal scintillators for high precision beta spectroscopy: the GAIAS experiment - Alice Leoncini (University of Rome Tor Vergata)  
17:20 GRAND: Recent Developments and Current Status. - Dr Stavros Nonis (Hellenic Open University)  
17:40 Vertex reconstruction in the JUNO experiment - Lorenzo Vincenzo D'Auria (University of Padova and INFN Padova)  
18:00 A possible solution to the gallium anomaly moving beyond the leptonic wave function factorization - LUCA FERRO (INFN Cagliari, University of Cagliari)  
18:20 Toward precision tests of fundamental physics with COHERENT germanium and future CEvNS detectors - Riccardo Pavarani  
18:40 From CUORE to CUPID: Toward a Next Generation Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Dr Shihong Fu (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) - INFN)  
19:00 Exploring CEνNS with the NUCLEUS Experiment - Marco Giammei  
18:00
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 18:20) (Room 2)
18:00 Quarkonia pair production in the CGC framework - Marat Siddikov  
18:20
High Energy Particle Physics (until 19:00) (Room 2)
18:20 A Dilaton and Exotic Heat Transport in a Deformed 3D Gross-Neveu Model - Gordon Semenoff  
18:40 QED two-scale states and energy-momentum tensor - Prof. Michael Eides (University of Kentucky)  
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:40
Workshop on Astro-Cosmo-Gravity (until 13:00) (Room 1)
12:40 Science Impact of the Fermi Mission at the Frontiers of the Violent, High-Energy Universe - Dr Stefano Ciprini (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Break ---
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 18:20) (Room 1)
17:00 Search for H→cc at the CMS experiment - Lisa Generoso (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
17:20 Search for nonresonant triple Higgs boson production in the six b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at CMS - Xinyue Geng (Peking University (CN))  
17:40 Status of the Muon g-2/EDM Experiment at J-PARC - Dr Lorenzo Cotrozzi (University of Liverpool)  
18:00 Non-Abelian Domain walls: oreo and CP violation - Bowen Fu (Northeastern University, China)  
17:00
Outreach (until 18:00) (Room 2)
17:00 The International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) Engaging the world with science - Fabiola Cacciatore  
17:20 ATLAS Outreach: New Frontiers in Public Engagement - Sonia Kabana (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))  
17:40 μNet: The Greek Cosmic-Ray Education and Research Network – Status and Future Developments - Mr Leonidas Xiros (Hellenic Open University)  
17:00
Special Session on neutrino physics (until 17:20) (Room 3)
17:00 Calibrating the world's largest LArTPC detector - David Orlando Rivera Jr (Los Alamos National Laboratory (US))  
17:20
Workshop on Instruments and Methods (until 18:00) (Room 3)
17:20 The CMS trigger in Run 3 and its evolution toward the HL-LHC era - Caterina Aruta (University of Florida (US))  
17:40 Characterization of a BC-501A Liquid Scintillator Detector for Neutron Production Cross Section Measurements in 16O Induced Nuclear Fragmentation - Lucia Salvi (INFN, Perugia (IT))  
18:00
Session on Other topics and interdisciplinary topics (until 18:40) (Room 2)
18:00 The FOOT experiment and its first physics results - Maria Cristina Morone (Roma Tor Vergata University and INFN Roma Tor Vergata)  
18:20 Measurement of the fragmentation of Carbon Ions with the FOOT Nuclear Emulsion Spectrometer - Vincenzo Boccia (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
18:00
Workshop on Dark Matter from Micro to Macro (until 18:40) (Room 3)
18:00 The interaction of Dark matter halo with electronic shell of molecules - Анна Захарова  
18:20 Dark matter from warped extra dimensions - Dr Eugenio Megias (University of Granada)  
18:20
Special session on Machine Learning (until 19:00) (Room 1)
18:20 De novo experiment design and experiment design optimisation in the era of foundation models - Prof. Pietro Vischia (Departamento de Física and ICTEA, Universidad de Oviedo)  
18:40 Detector-Aware Neural Networks for Particle Identification in ALICE Run 3 Pb–Pb Collisions - Mr Robert Forynski (University of Derby)  
18:40
Cosmology, Astrophysics, Gravity, Mathematical Physics (until 19:00) (Room 3)
18:40 The DarkSide-20k experiment - Oscar Alejandro Taborda Pulgarin (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI))  
19:00
Poster Session (until 20:00)
20:00 --- Conference Dinner, Cretan night with live music and dance in OAC ---
12:40
Cosmology, Astrophysics, Gravity, Mathematical Physics (until 13:00) (Room 2)
12:40 Low-Energy Nuclear Recoil Detection in Liquid Argon: Results from ReD and Outlook for ReD+ - sebastiana puglia  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Break ---
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 18:40) (Room 2)
17:00 THESEUS generator of heavy-ion collisions - Marina Kozhevnikova  
17:20 sPHENIX highlights - Takashi Hachiya (Nara Women's University (JP))  
17:40 Recent results from the NA61/SHINE strong interaction program at CERN SPS - Elizaveta Zherebtsova (University of Wroclaw (PL))  
18:00 Relative yield fluctuations of identified hadrons in relativistic heavy ion collisions in the HYDJET++ model - Gyulnara Eyyubova (SINP MSU, Moscow, Russia)  
18:20 Characterization of Event-Shape Observables in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions using Machine-Learning with AMPT at top RHIC energy - Dr Jagbir Singh (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))  
17:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 18:40) (Room 1)
17:00 Operation Experience and Performance with the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Phase-II Demonstrator in Run 3 - Ammara Ahmad (Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KU))  
17:20 Measurements of electroweak penguin $B$ decays at Belle and Belle II - Corentin Santos (University of Strasbourg)  
17:40 Measurements of hadronic $B$ decay rates at Belle and Belle II - Tadeas Bilka  
18:00 The SHiP/NA67 experiment at the ECN3 high-intensity beam facility at the CERN SPS - Walter Marcello Bonivento (INFN Cagliari)  
17:00
Workshop on Instruments and Methods (until 18:40) (Room 3)
17:00 Eco-friendly RPC operation: ageing studies at GIF++ and new developments beyond SF₆ - Marilisa De Serio (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
17:20 Toward Next-Generation RPCs: the TANGO_RD project - Alessandra Pastore (INFN Bari)  
17:40 Upgrade of the ATLAS Inner Tracker for the High Luminosity LHC - Matteo D'Uffizi (The University of Manchester (GB))  
18:00 The electromagnetic calorimeter of CMS: calibration and performance - Patricia Rebello Teles (Brazilian Center for Physics Research - CBPF (BR))  
18:20 Recent developments of Data Scouting program in CMS - Eftychia Tzovara (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))  
18:45 --- VISIT TO MONASTERY GONIA (ToBeConfirmed) 18:45 ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Break ---
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Heavy Ion Collisions and Critical Phenomena (until 19:00) (Room 2)
17:00 Exploring the production and properties of hypernuclei with ALICE - Maria Paula Martins Palhares (Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) (BR))  
17:20 System-size dependence of charged-particle production at mid and forward pseudorapidity with ALICE - Gyula Bencedi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
17:40 Probing the onset of collectivity through entropy-based scaling of directed flow in heavy-ion collisions - Dr Vipul Bairathi (Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá)  
18:00 PHENIX Overview - Roli Esha (Stony Brook University)  
18:20 Collectivity measurements from STAR - Sonia Kabana (for the STAR Collaboration) (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))  
18:40 Search for Dark Photons and other new physics searches with STAR - Kaifeng Shen  
17:00
High Energy Particle Physics (until 19:00) (Room 1)
17:00 Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying to Top--Antitop Quark Pairs in Final States with One or Two Leptons using the Full Run 2 ATLAS Dataset - Badr-Eddine Ngair (New York University Abu Dhabi (AE))  
17:20 Search for a new resonance decaying to a Higgs boson and a scalar boson with two b jets and two Z bosons in proton-proton collisions at √s= 13 TeV - Mr Aarif Aarif (Northeastern University)  
17:40 Standard Model WW production at the CMS experiment - Saumya Phor (University of Delhi (IN))  
18:00 Development of a High-Granularity Noble Liquid Calorimeter for FCC-ee - Zuchen Huang (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
18:20 Enabling high-precision measurements with a monitored and tagged neutrino beam: the nuSCOPE experiment - Filippo Bramati (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
17:00
Workshop on Instruments and Methods (until 18:20) (Room 3)
17:00 ATLAS Muon Detector upgrades for the High Luminosity LHC - Marco Sessa (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
17:20 The upgrade of the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition system for the High Luminosity LHC - Dr Fernando Monticelli (National University of La Plata (AR))  
17:40 The upgrade of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the High-Luminosity LHC - Marko Kovac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
18:00 Toward Standardized Benchmarking Practices for Distributed HEP Computing - Adelina D'Onofrio (INFN Napoli (IT))  
18:20
Workshop on Dark Matter from Micro to Macro (until 19:00) (Room 3)
18:20 The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory - Dr Irene Bolognino (The University of Adelaide)  
18:40 A theory-independent solution for the relativistic periastron advance beyond Einstein gravity - Dr Antonio Tedesco (Enrico Fermi Research Center (CREF), Via Panisperna 89A, 00184 Rome, Italy)  
19:00 Opera Gala Concert, OAC, Kalliopi Petrou (soprano), Tommaso Dorigo (Piano). - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:40 Closing session of ICNFP 2026 (organizers) - Larisa Bravina Sonia Kabana (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))   (Room 1)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Break ---
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 --- CHANIA EXCURSION ---
20:00 --- Dinner (for participants not joining the excursion) ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---