15th White Rabbit Workshop

from Wednesday, 27 May 2026 (08:30) to Thursday, 28 May 2026 (19:35)
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 May 2026
28 May 2026
AM
09:30 --- Welcome Coffee ---
10:00 Welcome to the 15th WR Workshop - Javier Serrano (CERN)  
10:05 WR Technology and Collaboration Updates - Javier Serrano (CERN) Amanda Diez Fernandez (CERN)  
10:20 WR Development Plan and Testing Updates - Adam Artur Wujek (CERN) Maciej Marek Lipinski (CERN)  
11:00 UNH‑IOL Update: OpenPHASE, White Rabbit Ecosystem Enablement, and Lab‑as‑a‑Service Capabilities - Robert Noseworthy (UNH Interoperability Labs)  
11:25 WR Switch v4 - Daniel Chung Maciej Marek Lipinski (CERN)  
11:45 WR Switch v4 Holdover Expansion Board - Karmjit Banga (IQD) Nick Amey Daniel Chung  
08:45 Extending the Italian Quantum Backbone to JRC Ispra: Preliminary Performance Assessment of a 300-km White Rabbit Link - Javier Tegedor (JRC)  
09:05 Update on White Rabbit Implementation on the Idrogen Board: Long-Distance Synchronization - Mr Antoine Back (IJCLab - CNRS/IN2P3 - Université Paris-Saclay)  
09:25 The dutch time and frequency network for research and education - Paul Klop (SURF)  
09:45 Status of the Ethernet Receivers at ASTRON - Gijs Schoonderbeek (ASTRON)  
10:05 --- Coffee Break ---
10:25 Long haul WR incubator with a focus on the countrywide WR deployment in CESNET - Vladimír Smotlacha Josef Vojtěch (CESNET) Raimena Veisllari (SIKT)  
11:00 From BOOSTED to BTFS : status and perspective for Belgian network - Raphaël Marion (Royal Observatory Belgium)  
11:25 Relative Calibration of White Rabbit Switch Instrumental Delays for T-REFIMEVE - Neelam Neelam (LTE, Observatoire de Paris)  
11:45 --- Lunch ---
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30 KR260:WR-o-/WR-HW - AMD/Xilinx Kria KR260: WhiteRabbit on non-White Rabbit hardware - Tristan Gingold (CERN)  
14:00 Analysis of Sub-Optimal Servo Performance in White Rabbit Timing Systems - Konstantinos Asteriou  
14:20 WR Temperature dependency - Michal Spacek (Czech Technical University (CZ))  
14:40 On the noise of digital components in time and frequency systems - Claudio Calosso  
15:05 Cryptographically Secured High-Performance Time Synchronization for White Rabbit Links - Daniel Chung  
15:25 --- Coffee Break ---
15:45 Sinara/DIOT and White Rabbit: Towards a Reusable Timing Platform - Mikolaj Sowinski (TechnoSystems)  
16:05 Practical Considerations when Building a Commercial Time as a Service Network - Reindert Hommes (Tallgrass)  
16:25 Implementation of a White Rabbit Node on Zynq SoC for the SWGO multiPMT Module - Fabio Sansone  
16:45 Synchronizing Software Defined Radio (and other) clocks on White Rabbit on generic FPGA boards - Jean Michel Friedt (Femto-st)  
17:05 --- Group Picture ---
17:25 Porting the Event Node to MPSoC for the MYRRHA Timing System - Istvan Baumann (SCK-CEN)  
17:45 WR at GSI and FAIR: Status Report - Dietrich Beck (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
18:05 Real-life WR performance evaluation for LHC experiments - Adam Artur Wujek (CERN)  
19:30 --- Workshop Dinner ---
13:45 Latency compensation in coherent transceivers - Andrzej Wojnar (Salumanus)  
14:00 Crossing the White Rabbit Hole - Roel de Vries (Fugro)  
14:20 White Rabbit PTP for High‑Accuracy Time Distribution in Telecom Networks - Bartek Kropiewnicki (Oscilloquartz)  
14:40 Picosecond range White Rabbit Digital Time Scale - Sougandh Kannoth Mavila  
15:00 Design, protocolization, and validation of a modular capture architecture for distributed, synchronized light transduction via SPADs on WR networks in passive 2D imaging applications - Unai Sainz (EHU)  
15:20 Time synchronization in an array of optical telescopes: tagging photons with pico-second accuracy - Dr Vitalii Sliusar (University of Geneva)  
15:40 Wrap-up - Javier Serrano (CERN)