LIII International Meeting on Fundamental Physics

from Monday, 11 May 2026 (14:30) to Friday, 15 May 2026 (12:30)
Universidad de Granada (Salón de actos, Facultad de Relaciones Laborales y RR HH)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 May 2026
12 May 2026
13 May 2026
14 May 2026
15 May 2026
AM
09:00
FCC discussion (until 14:00)
09:00 Past, current and planned Spanish contributions to FCC Physics & Experiment performance studies - Maria Cepeda (CIEMAT)  
09:40 Potential Spanish contributions to detectors for FCC-ee - Prof. Ivan Vila Alvarez (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC)) Sebastian Grinstein (IFAE - Barcelona (ES)) Salvador Marti I Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV/EG-CSIC)) Prof. Mary-Cruz Fouz Iglesias (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Carlos Marinas Pardo (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Abraham Antonio Gallas Torreira (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 Accelerator R&D in Spain: FCC-ee current and potential contributions - Concepcion Oliver Amorós (CIEMAT)  
11:50 Towards identifying Spanish industry contributions to FCC based on the ILC experience - Erik Fernández (INEUSTAR) Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))  
12:50 General discussion on evolution of structures in Spain in the context of FCC - Jose Santiago (University of Granada) Juan Alcaraz Maestre (CIEMAT - Madrid (ES))  
09:00
Physics (until 10:40)
09:00 Summary of flavour physics results - Miriam Lucio Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC)  
09:50 Flavor as an Organizing Principle for New Physics - Admir Greljo (Universitaet Basel (CH))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Physics (until 12:50)
11:10 Status of EW & Higgs Physics and EFT interpretations - Jorge de Blas (Universidad de Granada)  
12:00 Amplitudes (at colliders and beyond) - Samuel Abreu (CERN)  
09:00
Physics (until 10:40)
09:00 Neutrinos experiment - Roxanne Guenette (University of Manchester)  
09:50 BSM searches in the neutrino sector - Pilar Coloma (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Physics (until 12:50)
11:10 Where should we look for Dark Matter? - Bradley Kavanagh (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC)  
12:00 Searching for Dark Matter with Direct Detection Experiments - Maria Martinez Perez (Universidad de Zaragoza)  
09:00
Physics (until 10:40)
09:00 Quantum Computing in HEP - German Rodrigo (IFIC UV-CSIC)  
09:50 Lattice field theory for HEP - Alberto Ramos Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Strategy (until 12:10)
11:10 RECFA - Celso Martinez Rivero (IFCA (CSIC-UC) (ES))  
11:40 FPN - Jose Santiago (Universidad de Granada)  
PM
14:30
Registration (until 15:00)
15:00
FCC discussion (until 19:00)
15:00 Introduction - Maria Jose Costa (IFIC (CSIC-UV) Valencia (ES)) Jose Santiago (University of Granada)  
15:25 CERN Council and FCC - Inmaculada Figueroa (Deputy Director General for International Consortia, Organizations, and Research Infrastructures CERN Council Spanish Delegate)  
15:50 FCC: status of project and global collaboration - Gregorio Bernardi (APC Paris CNRS/IN2P3)  
16:30 FCC-ee: PED (Physics, Experiments and Detectors) activities - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))  
17:10 --- Coffee break ---
17:40 FCC-ee: Detector concepts - Mogens Dam (Niels Bohr Institute (DK))  
18:20 FCC-ee: Industrial opportunities - Javier Echavarri (CDTI)  
14:30
Opening of regular sessions (until 15:00)
15:00
Physics (until 16:40)
15:00 CMS Physics Highlights - Alberto Escalante del Valle (CIEMAT)  
15:50 Search for New Physics with the ATLAS experiment - Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (IFAE)  
16:40 --- Coffee break ---
17:10
Physics (until 19:00)
17:10 Detector R&D: DRDs and Strategy Priorities - Thomas Bergauer (ÖAW)  
18:00 Future Colliders - Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Uppsala University)  
20:30
Social program (until 23:00)
20:30 --- Reception cocktail at Carmen de la Victoria ---
12:50 --- Lunch ---
15:00
Physics (until 15:50)
15:00 Strong Interactions through the prism of energy correlators - Andrey Sadofyev (Ikerbasque, EHU)  
15:50
Strategy (until 16:20)
15:50 European Strategy on Astroparticle Physics - Carlos Peña Garay (Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc)  
17:00
IFMIF-DONES (until 20:00)
17:00 --- Bus from Granada ---
18:00 Visit to IFMIF-DONES site  
19:30 --- Bus returns to Granada ---
12:50 --- Lunch ---
15:00
Physics (until 16:40)
15:00 High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: From Detection to Discovery - Simona Toscano Simona Toscano (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))  
15:50 Gamma-ray astronomy - Javier Rico (IFAE)  
16:40 --- Coffee break ---
17:10
Physics (until 18:50)
17:10 Fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves - Paolo Pani (Sapienza University of Rome & INFN Roma1)  
18:00 Inflationary Cosmology in the Precision Era - Javier Rubio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  
20:30
Social program (until 23:00)
20:30 --- Conference dinner (Restaurante Las Tomasas) ---
12:10
Closure (until 12:30)