EUWAA 2026

from Tuesday, 31 March 2026 (18:00) to Thursday, 2 April 2026 (16:00)
CERN (6/2-024)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
31 Mar 2026
1 Apr 2026
2 Apr 2026
AM
07:00 EUWAA2RUN - Patrick Bestmann (CERN)   (Main Entrance Building 40 (next to the on-site hotel))
08:00 --- Welcome coffee ---
08:30
Introduction session (until 09:20)
08:30 Welcome from management - Yannis Papaphilippou (CERN)  
08:45 Introduction and round table - Helene Mainaud Durand (CERN)  
09:00 Outcome of last EUWAA and organization of this one - David Martin (ESRF) Helene Mainaud Durand (CERN)  
09:20
Actions from last EUWAA (until 12:20)
09:20 LGC Open Source: status and next steps - Francis Klumb (CERN) Guillaume Kautzmann (CERN)  
09:50 Software inter-comparison - Youen Delalande (Synchrotron Soleil)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Outreach, KT, recruitment - Cristina Gonzalez Torres (ESRF) Camille Vendeuvre (CERN)  
11:20 Establishment of measurement uncertainty (glossary, best practice guide & common approaches) - David Martin (ESRF) Sébastien Ducourtieux (Synchrotron Soleil)  
08:00 --- Welcome coffee ---
08:30
Parallel brainstorming sessions (until 10:30)
08:30 [Instruments]: Calibration, check and testing of instruments & equipment: best practices, frequencies, how to deal with ISO recommendations? - Torsten Miertsch (GSI) Dirk Mergelkuhl (CERN)   (6/R-012 - conference room)
08:30 [R&D]: How to develop and qualify alignment systems? Challenges of supporting systems and initial assembly of components on girders. - Marta Llonch Burgos (ALBA Synchrotron Light Source) Sébastien Ducourtieux (Synchrotron Soleil)   (17/1-007)
08:30 [Workforce]: How to recruit the best person for the job? How to involve universities and engineering schools? How to perform KT and training? How to keep the motivation? - Camille Vendeuvre (CERN) Cristina Gonzalez Torres (ESRF)   (6/R-018)
10:30 --- Coffee break and group photo ---
11:00
Summary from brainstorming sessions and discussions (until 12:15)
PM
18:00 Cheese and wine icebreaking party   (500/1-201 Mezzanine, Main building)
12:30 --- Lunch in Restaurant 2, building 504 ---
13:45
Inter-lab comparison (ILC) (until 15:45)
13:45 Introduction to the Inter-Lab Comparison - Patrick Bestmann (CERN)  
14:00 Analysis and preliminary results - David Jourdain (Synchrotron Soleil) Gilles Gatta (ESRF)  
14:30 Discussion and next steps  
15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:15
Parallel brainstorming sessions (until 17:15)
16:15 [Instruments & methods]: ATS800: applications and feedback - Tomasz Zawierucha (ESS EIRC)   (6/R-012)
16:15 [R&D]: How to deal with refraction? - David Martin Stephen Kyle (University College London)   (6/2-004)
16:15 [Workforce]: Working with a service contract (invitation to tender, documentation, software, training, etc.) - Markus Schloesser Mr Jean-Frederic Fuchs (CERN)   (6/R-018)
17:15
Summary from brainstorming sessions and discussions (until 18:00)
18:30 --- Transport to Bois Joly Restaurant, Crozet ---
19:00 --- Networking dinner: Bois Joly Restaurant, Crozet ---
12:15 --- Lunch in Restaurant 2, building 504 ---
13:30
Preliminary ILC analysis: feedback on procedures and instruments (until 14:45)
14:45
Digital metrological twins (until 15:30)
14:45 Digital-Metrological Twins in Dimensional Metrology - Daniel Heisselmann (PTB)  
15:10 From laser scanning to digital twins: research activities of the TRIO group - INSA Strasbourg - Tania Landes (INSA)  
15:30 Summary