LIII International Meeting on Fundamental Physics

from Monday, May 11, 2026 (2:30 PM) to Friday, May 15, 2026 (12:30 PM)
Universidad de Granada (Salón de actos, Facultad de Relaciones Laborales y RR HH)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 11, 2026
May 12, 2026
May 13, 2026
May 14, 2026
May 15, 2026
AM
9:00 AM
FCC discussion (until 2:00 PM)
9:00 AM Past, current and planned Spanish contributions to FCC Physics & Experiment performance studies - Maria Cepeda (CIEMAT)  
9:40 AM 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 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM Accelerator R&D in Spain: FCC-ee current and potential contributions - Concepcion Oliver Amorós (CIEMAT)  
11:50 AM Towards identifying Spanish industry contributions to FCC based on the ILC experience - Erik Fernández (INEUSTAR) Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))  
12:50 PM General discussion on evolution of structures in Spain in the context of FCC - Jose Santiago (University of Granada) Juan Alcaraz Maestre (CIEMAT - Madrid (ES))  
9:00 AM
Physics (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM Summary of flavour physics results - Miriam Lucio Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC)  
9:50 AM Flavor as an Organizing Principle for New Physics - Admir Greljo (Universitaet Basel (CH))  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Physics (until 12:50 PM)
11:10 AM Status of EW & Higgs Physics and EFT interpretations - Jorge de Blas (Universidad de Granada)  
12:00 PM Amplitudes (at colliders and beyond) - Samuel Abreu (CERN)  
9:00 AM
Physics (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM Neutrinos experiment - Roxanne Guenette (University of Manchester)  
9:50 AM BSM searches in the neutrino sector - Pilar Coloma (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC)  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Physics (until 12:50 PM)
11:10 AM Where should we look for Dark Matter? - Bradley Kavanagh (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC)  
12:00 PM Searching for Dark Matter with Direct Detection Experiments - Maria Martinez Perez (Universidad de Zaragoza)  
9:00 AM
Physics (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM Quantum Computing in HEP - German Rodrigo (IFIC UV-CSIC)  
9:50 AM Lattice field theory for HEP - Alberto Ramos Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC)  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Strategy (until 12:10 PM)
11:10 AM RECFA - Celso Martinez Rivero (IFCA (CSIC-UC) (ES))  
11:40 AM FPN - Jose Santiago (Universidad de Granada)  
PM
2:30 PM
Registration (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM
FCC discussion (until 7:00 PM)
3:00 PM Introduction - Maria Jose Costa (IFIC (CSIC-UV) Valencia (ES)) Jose Santiago (University of Granada)  
3:25 PM CERN Council and FCC - Inmaculada Figueroa (Deputy Director General for International Consortia, Organizations, and Research Infrastructures CERN Council Spanish Delegate)  
3:50 PM FCC: status of project and global collaboration - Gregorio Bernardi (APC Paris CNRS/IN2P3)  
4:30 PM FCC-ee: PED (Physics, Experiments and Detectors) activities - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))  
5:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:40 PM FCC-ee: Detector concepts - Mogens Dam (Niels Bohr Institute (DK))  
6:20 PM FCC-ee: Industrial opportunities - Javier Echavarri (CDTI)  
2:30 PM
Opening of regular sessions (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM
Physics (until 4:40 PM)
3:00 PM CMS Physics Highlights - Alberto Escalante del Valle (CIEMAT)  
3:50 PM Search for New Physics with the ATLAS experiment - Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (IFAE)  
4:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:10 PM
Physics (until 7:00 PM)
5:10 PM Detector R&D: DRDs and Strategy Priorities - Thomas Bergauer (ÖAW)  
6:00 PM Future Colliders - Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Uppsala University)  
8:30 PM
Social program (until 11:00 PM)
8:30 PM --- Reception cocktail at Carmen de la Victoria ---
12:50 PM --- Lunch ---
3:00 PM
Physics (until 3:50 PM)
3:00 PM Strong Interactions through the prism of energy correlators - Andrey Sadofyev (Ikerbasque, EHU)  
3:50 PM
Strategy (until 4:20 PM)
3:50 PM European Strategy on Astroparticle Physics - Carlos Peña Garay (Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc)  
5:00 PM
IFMIF-DONES (until 8:00 PM)
5:00 PM --- Bus from Granada ---
6:00 PM Visit to IFMIF-DONES site  
7:30 PM --- Bus returns to Granada ---
12:50 PM --- Lunch ---
3:00 PM
Physics (until 4:40 PM)
3:00 PM High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: From Detection to Discovery - Simona Toscano Simona Toscano (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))  
3:50 PM Gamma-ray astronomy - Javier Rico (IFAE)  
4:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:10 PM
Physics (until 6:50 PM)
5:10 PM Fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves - Paolo Pani (Sapienza University of Rome & INFN Roma1)  
6:00 PM Inflationary Cosmology in the Precision Era - Javier Rubio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  
8:30 PM
Social program (until 11:00 PM)
8:30 PM --- Conference dinner (Restaurante Las Tomasas) ---
12:10 PM
Closure (until 12:30 PM)