SHARP 2026

from Wednesday, 4 March 2026 (09:00) to Saturday, 7 March 2026 (22:00)
Curia, Portugal

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026
AM
09:00
Core group meeting (until 09:30)
09:00
Registration (until 09:30)
09:30
Working Group meetings (until 13:00)
09:30 WG1: Hadron Structure  
10:15 WG5: Dissemination and Outreach  
11:00 --- coffee break ---
11:30 WG4: Detectors and Data Acquisition  
12:15 WG3: Novel Methods in Data Analysis  
09:00
Hadron Structure (until 11:00)
09:00 Parton Distribution Functions in the Precision Era: Status, Challenges, and New Tools - Emanuele Roberto Nocera  
09:20 Modern Global Analyses of Fragmentation Functions - Ignacio Borsa (Tübingen University)  
09:40 Highlights and Open Challenges in the COMPASS Hadron-Structure Program - Vendula Benesova (Charles University (CZ))  
10:00 JLab Hadron Structure: Status, Challenges, and Synergy Opportunities - Dr Silvia Niccolai (CNRS)  
10:20 Global TMD fits: Global limitations and opportunities for the community. - Andrea Simonelli (INFN Roma 1)  
10:40 TMD Flavour Dependence: Highlights and Challenges - Lorenzo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano (IT))  
11:00 --- coffee break ---
09:00
Detectors and Data Acquisition - Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University (BE)) (until 11:00)
09:00 PANDA detector systems and opportunities at GSI/FAIR - Dr Anastasios Belias (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
09:25 Overview of DAQ at AMBER - Jan Matousek (Charles University (CZ))  
09:50 On-chip machine learning inference - Korkut Kaan TOKGOZ  
10:15 Let's build a dream team  
11:00 --- coffee break ---
11:30 COST dissemination  
09:00 Introduction - Remco De Boer  
09:30 Installation & Project discussion  
10:10 AI teaching session  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Coding & deploying an example  
PM
13:00
Lunch break (until 14:30)
13:00 Lunch break  
14:30
SHARP Overview (until 16:35)
14:30 SHARP Overview - Catarina Quintans (NCBJ (PL))  
14:55 WG1 Overview - Dr Bakur Parsamyan (AANL, Turin section of INFN and CERN)  
15:20 WG2 Overview - Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)  
15:45 WG3 Overview - Gunar Schnell  
16:10 WG4 Overview - Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University (BE))  
17:00 --- coffee break ---
17:30
Scientific Communication (until 19:30)
17:30 Communication and Dissemination for SHARP Cost Action: an introduction - Michela Chiosso (University of Torino and INFN)  
17:55 Unlocking science: escape rooms for dissemination - Anna Vignati  
18:20 Baltic experience in Science Communication - Dr Brigita Abakeviciene (Kaunas University of Technology) Jurgita Laurikaitienė  
18:45 Logo contest: awards - Dr Brigita Abakevičienė Dr Brigita Abakeviciene (Kaunas University of Technology)  
19:05 Brainstorming: Webpage and Social Media  
19:30 --- Dinner break ---
21:00
TED Session (until 22:30)
21:00 The 5 minutes TED challenge: "Explain me as if I were a teen"  
12:00
Hadron Structure and Analysis methods (until 13:00)
12:00 Lessons learnt from HERA combination - Oleksandr Zenaiev (Hamburg University)  
12:20 Machine Learning applications for PDFs: Recent Progress and Open Challenges - Juan Manuel Cruz-Martinez  
12:40 Challenges in Fragmentation Function Phenomenology - Alessia Bongallino (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)  
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Hadron Structure and Analysis methods (until 15:50)
14:30 Novel methods for extracting hyperon polarization - Denis Veretennikov (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)  
14:50 Global Determination of TMD PDFs and FFs: Status and Challenges - Maria Pia Zurita  
15:10 Phenomenology of Antiproton Production - Mariaelena Boglione  
15:30 New discoveries in Structure and Spectroscopy from Tartu - Maria Naeem (University of Tartu (EE))  
16:00
Hadron Spectroscopy (until 17:20)
16:00 Accessing fundamental quantities from lattice: how far were we able to go and what are the challenges - Paulo Silva Orlando Oliveira  
16:20 Studies of light meson states - Stefan Wallner (MPP (Munich))  
16:40 Modeling hadron spectrum with K-matrix - Lena Pöpping  
17:00 Heavy baryon spectroscopy in the quark-diquark picture - André Torcato  
17:20 --- coffee break ---
18:00
Scientific Communication (until 19:40)
18:00 Engaging the younger: the INFN experience - Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Torino (IT))  
18:25 Outreach: a Portuguese perspective - Pedro Abreu (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))  
18:50 Particle/Hadron Therapy: Masterclass in the frame of SHARP - Jurgita Laurikaitienė  
19:15 Brainstorming: developing outreach activities  
19:40 --- Dinner break ---
21:00 Brainstorming session  
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Management Committee meeting (until 16:30)
16:30 --- coffee break ---
17:00
Communication Team meeting (until 18:00)
17:00
Grant Awards Team meeting (until 18:00)
12:00 Markdown file with a plan  
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30 Finishing and Shipping  
16:00 Presntation of the projects