1st CERN Baltic Conference (CBC 2021)

from Monday, 28 June 2021 (09:00) to Wednesday, 30 June 2021 (19:00)
University of Tartu

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
28 Jun 2021
29 Jun 2021
30 Jun 2021
AM
09:45
Welcome and Opening -Prof. Vahur Zadin (University of Tartu) (until 10:10) ()
09:45 Assembly and technical check-up   ()
10:00 Opening and welcome by the Rector of the University of Tartu - Prof. Toomas Asser (UT)   ()
10:10
Policy and Strategy -Prof. Vahur Zadin (University of Tartu) (until 11:10) ()
10:10 Estonia and CERN: Minister of Education and Research of the Republic of Estonia - Ms Liina Kersna   ()
10:20 Lithuania and CERN: Minister of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania - Ms Jurgita Šiugždinienė   ()
10:30 Latvia and CERN: Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia - Ms Anita Muižniece   ()
10:40 Importance of the cooperation with the CERN - development of science, research and technology in the Baltic States: President of the Baltic Assembly - Mr Andrius Kupčinskas   ()
10:50 CERN and Baltic States: CERN Director for International Relations - Ms Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)   ()
11:00 Evolution of the CERN Baltic Group - Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
Industry Engagement and R&D -Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV)) (until 12:30) ()
11:20 Testonica - Jutman Artur (Testonica)   ()
11:30 Laser for wakefield acceleration - Justas Varpučianskis (Ekspla)   ()
11:40 Advanced 3D Microfabrication Workstation for High-Tech Applications - Dr Linas Jonušauskas (Femtika)   ()
11:50 Rebirth of Medical Cyclotron facility in Latvia- Kodolmedicīnas centrs - Toms Kusiņš Mr Māris Kuzminskis SIA “Kodolmedicīnas centrs”   ()
12:00 Aranet - wireless IoT ecosystem - Mr Edgars Sparnins (SAF Tehnika JSC)   ()
12:10 Assessment of Concrete Core and Seating Mortar Samples from CERN UXC55 Cavern Base Slab & Joint studies of Specialist Concrete in view of Radiation Protection Aspects - Rolands Cepuritis (Primekss SIA)   ()
08:45 Assembly and technical check-up - Day 2   ()
09:00
Keynote Speech by Prof. Yuri Dokshitzer: "Craftsmanship and Brainchilds of HEPP" - Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV)) (until 09:45) ()
09:45 Q&A for Keynote Speech   ()
09:55
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Experiment -Dr Aurelijus Rinkevicius (Vilnius University (LT)) (until 10:40) ()
09:55 CLOUD experiment - climate research at CERN - Prof. Heikki Junninen (University of Tartu)   ()
10:10 Improving low-pt electron reconstruction for Higgs physics at CMS - Normunds Ralfs Strautnieks (University of Latvia (LV)) Antra Gaile (Riga Technical University (LV)) Eugene Proskurins (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
10:25 Estimating the fake lepton backgrounds for the Drell-Yan differential cross section measurement using 2016 CERN CMS data - Marijus Ambrozas (Vilnius University (LT))   ()
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Experiment -Dr Aurelijus Rinkevicius (Vilnius University (LT)) (until 11:45) ()
11:00 Top quark physics engagement at RTU - Viesturs Veckalns (Riga Technical University (LV)) Andris Potrebko (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
11:15 HEP-EX @ NICPB, Tallinn - Mario Kadastik (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))   ()
11:30 Development of molecular ion beams for extraction and mass-separation of $^{43,44g,47}$Sc radioisotopes from irradiated natural titanium targets at the CERN-MEDICIS facility - Mr Edgars Mamis (University of Latvia (LV))   ()
11:45
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Theory -Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV)) (until 12:30) ()
11:45 An algebraic approach for the six nucleon systems - Dr Augustinas Stepšys (Vytautas Magnus University)   ()
12:00 Pseudo-Goldstone dark matter: gravitational waves and direct-detection blind spots - Nico Benincasa (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))   ()
12:15 Quintessence in a Trap - Mindaugas Karciauskas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)   ()
08:45 Assembly and technical check-up - Day 3   ()
09:00
Accelerator Technologies & Societal Applications -Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV)) (until 10:45) ()
09:00 Cosmic ray tomography: from medical research to security applications - Andi Hektor (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))   ()
09:15 HERTIS Collaboration - Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
09:45 Medical radiation dosimetry: some resent developments at Kaunas University of Technology - Prof. Diana Adlienė (Kaunas University of Technology)   ()
10:00 Gantry Design for the Heavy-Ion Therapy Medical Application - Andris Ratkus (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
10:15 The radiosensitizer potential of resveratrol on MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line - Ms Agnė Bartnykaitė (Oncology Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania) Danguolė Laukaitienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)   ()
10:30 NIMMS: the Next Ion Medical Machine Study - Elena Benedetto (SEEIIST Association (CH))   ()
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Advanced Technologies: Accelerators -Prof. Renno Veinthal (TalTech) (until 13:15) ()
11:00 LIEBE loop hydraulic parameter determination - Kalvis Kravalis (University of Latvia, Institute of Physics)   ()
11:15 Electron Acceleration using Chirped Radially Polarized Superluminar Bessel-X Beams - Sergej Orlov (FTMC)   ()
11:30 Additive Manufacturing Applications for Accelerator Technologies - Andris Ratkus (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
11:45 Compact Linear Collider and the problem of electric breakdowns - Vahur Zadin (University of Tartu (EE))   ()
12:00 High voltage, high frequency, high bandwidth sweeping arbitrary waveform challenge solution - Peteris Apse-Apsitis (Riga Technical university)   ()
12:15 Characterization of Cu electrodes after vacuum breakdown with AFM and SEM - Sven Oras (University of Tartu)   ()
12:30 Multi-scale multi-physics simulations of vacuum breakdown phenomena - Andreas Kyritsakis (University of Tartu)   ()
12:45 Real-time observation of strong electric-field-induced surface modification - Sergei Vlassov (University of Tartu)   ()
13:00 Ab initio investigation of Cu nanoparticle behavior under high electric field - Ye Wang (University of Tartu)   ()
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Industry Engagement and R&D -Prof. Brigita Abakeviciene (Kaunas University of Technology) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Doing business with CERN - Anders Unnervik (CERN)   ()
14:20 SEMICONDUCTOR AND SCINTILLATION MATERIALS FOR RADIATION DETECTORS - Mrs Anna Bulycheva (Baltic Scientific Instruments)   ()
14:30 CMS Tier2 development in Latvia - Dati Group   ()
14:40 Radioactive Waste Monitoring in Nuclear Industry - Mr Serhii Pohuliai (Baltic Scientific Instruments)   ()
14:50 ILO experience - industry engagement in Lithuania - Adomas Jelinskas (Lithuanian Innovation Center)   ()
15:00
Breakout room: industry&science (until 15:30) ()
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
National Activities and Education -Prof. Saulius Mickevičius (Vytautas Magnus University) (until 17:00) ()
15:30 State research programme in High-Energy Physics and Accelerator Technologies in Latvia - Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
15:45 The Baltic Teacher Programme @ CERN - Jeff Wiener (CERN)   ()
16:00 Development of a Doctoral Study programme in Particle Physics and Accelerator Technologies - Prof. Marcis Auzins (University of Latvia) Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV)) Silva Vitola (RTU)   ()
16:15 Particle Physics teaching at Vilnius University - Thomas Gajdosik (Vilnius University (LT))   ()
16:25 CERN related physics teaching at Tartu Univeristy - Laur Järv (University of Tartu)   ()
16:35 CERN activities at the Institute of Materials Science of Kaunas University of Technology - Prof. Sigitas Tamulevičius (Kaunas University of Technology)   ()
16:45 Baltic School of High-Energy Physics and Accelerator Technologies - Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
17:00 --- End of the Day 1 ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Theory -Prof. Marcis Auzins (University of Latvia) (until 15:15) ()
14:00 Fakeons and particle phenomenology - Marco Piva (NICPB, Tallinn)   ()
14:15 A fakeon doublet solution to the muon g-2 - Aurora Melis (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))   ()
14:30 Connection between tadpole renormalization and gauge dependences - Vytautas Dūdėnas (Vilnius University (LT))   ()
14:45 A review of elemental mass origin and fundamental forces unification - Mr Abrar Hussain (Tallinn University of Technology)   ()
15:00 Higher spin particles: dark matter and high energy colliders - Niko Koivunen (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))   ()
15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Theory -Prof. Marcis Auzins (University of Latvia) (until 16:45) ()
15:30 On the On-Shell Renormalization of Fermion Masses, Fields, and Mixing Matrices at 1-loop - Mr Simonas Draukšas (Vilnius University (LT))   ()
15:45 The origin of quark flavour observables and the stability of the electroweak vacuum in the context of radiative Yukawa couplings - Kristjan Müürsepp (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))   ()
16:00 Untangling the spin of a dark boson in Z decays - Dr Emidio Gabrielli (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))   ()
16:15 The $Z b \bar b$ couplings in models with extended Higgs sectors - Darius Jurciukonis (Vilnius University (LT))   ()
16:30 High density QCD matter in hadron collisions - Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas (CERN)   ()
16:45 --- End of Day 2 ---
13:15 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Advanced Technologies: Materials -Dr Jevgenijs Proskurins (Riga Stradins University) (until 16:15) ()
14:30 Composite materials from nature for space applications - Prof. Giedrius Janušas (Kaunas University of Technology)   ()
14:45 Comparative analysis of two LYSO crystal bars by photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy - Anatoli I. Popov (Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia)   ()
15:00 Improvement of Mechanical and Magnetic Properties of Nb/Cu Structure by Laser Radiation for SRF Applications - Prof. Arturs Medvids (Riga Technical University)   ()
15:15 Study of scintillating materials by synchrotron radiation - Vladimir Pankratov (Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia)   ()
15:30 Examples of AI applications - Prof. Vidas Raudonis (Kaunas University of Technology)   ()
15:45 The study of structural, optical and luminescent properties of topical scintillator materials irradiated by swift heavy ions - Viktorija Pankratova (Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia)   ()
16:00 Overview of Research on scintillator materials in Latvia: past, present, and future - Anatoli Popov (University of Latvia (LV))   ()
16:15 --- Coffee break ---
16:25
Advanced Technologies: Detectors -Prof. Marco Kirm (University of Tartu (EE)) (until 17:10) ()
16:25 Timing detector layer at the CMS experiment for LHC Run 4 - Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
16:40 CMS HL-LHC Tracker Upgrade - Aurelijus Rinkevicius (Vilnius University (LT))   ()
16:55 RTU engineering engagement in CMS Technical Integration and BTL - Guntis Pikurs (Riga Technical University (LV))   ()
17:10 Closing Remarks   ()