APPEC Town Meeting Geneva 2026

from Wednesday, 2 September 2026 (08:00) to Thursday, 3 September 2026 (20:00)
Geneva (Campus Biotech)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Sept 2026
3 Sept 2026
AM
08:00 --- Arrival and registration ---
08:45
Welcome (until 09:00)
09:00
Plenary (until 13:30)
09:00 APPEC Introduction - APPEC GA Chair  
09:25 CERN - Gautier Hamel de Monchenault (CERN)  
09:50 European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures - Astrid Schneidewind (ESFRI)  
10:10 CTAO - Dr Mathieu JACOBE DE NAUROIS (Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet IN2P3/CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique)  
10:30 Update on Canada funding in Astroparticle - Tony Noble  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Update on USA funding and agenda in Astroparticle - Karsten Heeger (Yale University)  
12:00 Update on Asia agenda in Astroparticle - Yoshitaka Itow (ICRR, University of Tokyo)  
12:30 ASTRONET - Martin GIARD (CNRS)  
12:45 PSENTRIC - INFRADEV 2026 proposal - Giovanni Lamanna (CERN)  
13:00 Overview of the Swiss Astroparticle community - Björn Penning (University of Zurich)  
09:00 --- Time for session conveners to work on summaries ---
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary (until 13:00)
PM
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Parallel sessions - Christian Weinheimer Marcin Kuzniak (until 16:30)
14:30 DRD2: Liquid detector R&D for astroparticle physics (15+5) - Giuliana Fiorello  
14:50 Quantum Detectors and Quantum Technology for Low Energy Astroparticle Physics (15+5) - Lindley Winslow  
15:05 European Strategy for Particle Physics Update - Neutrino Properties and Dark Matter searches (15+5) - Joachim Kopp (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
15:30 2024-2025 surveys and community input for the APPEC 2027-2036 roadmap: Neutrino Properties (community discussion) (10+20) - Christian Philipp Weinheimer (Universität Münster (DE))  
16:00 2024-2025 surveys and community input for the APPEC 2027-2036 roadmap: Dark Matter (community discussion) (10+20) - Marcin Kuzniak (AstroCeNT / NCAC Polish Academy of Sciences)  
14:30
Parallel sessions - Mathieu de Naurois Ioana Maris Marica Branchesi Chad Finley (until 16:30)
14:30
Parallel sessions - Sotiris Loucatos Ofer Lahav (until 16:30)
14:30 CMB  
14:30 Dark energy  
15:30 Joint DE+CMB  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Parallel sessions - Joachim Kopp Concha Gonzalez-Garcia (until 18:00)
17:00
Parallel sessions - Edwige Tournefier Christoph Weniger Giovanni Ambrosi (until 18:00)
17:00 Focus talk on DRDs - Ines Botella  
18:00
Plenary - Piotr Homola Aldo Ianni Andreas Haungs (until 19:00)
18:00 Focus talk on RIECS - Rosy Mondardini  
18:20 Focus talk on Astronomers for Planet Earth (remote)  
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Plenary (until 15:00)