19 June 2026 to 2 July 2026
Ostróda, Poland
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Scientific Programme

Lecture Courses

Field Theory & the EW Standard Model – Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN/Stony Brook)

Practical Statistics – Nicolas Berger (LAPP Annecy)

Cosmology and Dark Matter – Valerie Domcke (CERN)

Heavy-Ion Physics – Iwona Grabowska-Bołd (AGH University)

Neutrino Physics - Pilar Hernandez (IFIC, University of Valencia-CSIC)

Machine Learning for HEP – Michael Kagan (SLAC)

Flavour Physics & CP Violation – Alexander Lenz (University of Siegen)

Prospects beyond HL-LHC – Tadeusz Lesiak (IFJ PAN)

Higgs, Top & Beyond – Matthew McCullough (CERN)

Prospects at HL-LHC – Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

QCD – Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN)

In addition to the above, there will be a question and answer session given by the CERN Director General, Mark Thomson.

 

Discussion Sessions

There will be parallel discussion sessions, lasting about 90 minutes, most afternoons during the School. Students remain in the same discussion group for the duration of the School. 


Discussion Leaders:

Philipp Böer (CERN) 
Sebastian Jaskiewicz (University of Bern)
Maria Laura Piscopo (CERN)
Chiara Signorile-Signorile (CERN)
Jakub Wagner (NCBJ)
James Whitehead (Jagiellonian University)

 

Group Projects

The students in each discussion group will also participate in a collaborative project on an outreach theme. This will lead up to a presentation by a group representative in a dedicated session towards the end of the School. 

 

Poster Session

All students are encouraged to present and discuss their work at a poster session during the first week of the School.