1st CERN Baltic Conference (CBC 2021)

from Monday, June 28, 2021 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, June 30, 2021 (7:00 PM)
University of Tartu

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 28, 2021
Jun 29, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
AM
9:45 AM
Welcome and Opening -Prof. Vahur Zadin (University of Tartu) (until 10:10 AM)
9:45 AM Assembly and technical check-up  
10:00 AM Opening and welcome by the Rector of the University of Tartu - Prof. Toomas Asser (UT)  
10:10 AM
Policy and Strategy -Prof. Vahur Zadin (University of Tartu) (until 11:10 AM)
10:10 AM Estonia and CERN: Minister of Education and Research of the Republic of Estonia - Ms Liina Kersna  
10:20 AM Lithuania and CERN: Minister of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania - Ms Jurgita Šiugždinienė  
10:30 AM Latvia and CERN: Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia - Ms Anita Muižniece  
10:40 AM 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 AM CERN and Baltic States: CERN Director for International Relations - Ms Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)  
11:00 AM Evolution of the CERN Baltic Group - Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV))  
11:10 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:20 AM
Industry Engagement and R&D -Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV)) (until 12:30 PM)
11:20 AM Testonica - Jutman Artur (Testonica)  
11:30 AM Laser for wakefield acceleration - Justas Varpučianskis (Ekspla)  
11:40 AM Advanced 3D Microfabrication Workstation for High-Tech Applications - Dr Linas Jonušauskas (Femtika)  
11:50 AM Rebirth of Medical Cyclotron facility in Latvia- Kodolmedicīnas centrs - Toms Kusiņš Mr Māris Kuzminskis SIA “Kodolmedicīnas centrs”  
12:00 PM Aranet - wireless IoT ecosystem - Mr Edgars Sparnins (SAF Tehnika JSC)  
12:10 PM 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)  
8:45 AM Assembly and technical check-up - Day 2  
9:00 AM
Keynote Speech by Prof. Yuri Dokshitzer: "Craftsmanship and Brainchilds of HEPP" - Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV)) (until 9:45 AM)
9:45 AM Q&A for Keynote Speech  
9:55 AM
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Experiment -Dr Aurelijus Rinkevicius (Vilnius University (LT)) (until 10:40 AM)
9:55 AM CLOUD experiment - climate research at CERN - Prof. Heikki Junninen (University of Tartu)  
10:10 AM 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 AM 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 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Experiment -Dr Aurelijus Rinkevicius (Vilnius University (LT)) (until 11:45 AM)
11:00 AM Top quark physics engagement at RTU - Viesturs Veckalns (Riga Technical University (LV)) Andris Potrebko (Riga Technical University (LV))  
11:15 AM HEP-EX @ NICPB, Tallinn - Mario Kadastik (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
11:30 AM 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 AM
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Theory -Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV)) (until 12:30 PM)
11:45 AM An algebraic approach for the six nucleon systems - Dr Augustinas Stepšys (Vytautas Magnus University)  
12:00 PM Pseudo-Goldstone dark matter: gravitational waves and direct-detection blind spots - Nico Benincasa (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
12:15 PM Quintessence in a Trap - Mindaugas Karciauskas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  
8:45 AM Assembly and technical check-up - Day 3  
9:00 AM
Accelerator Technologies & Societal Applications -Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV)) (until 10:45 AM)
9:00 AM Cosmic ray tomography: from medical research to security applications - Andi Hektor (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
9:15 AM HERTIS Collaboration - Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV))  
9:45 AM Medical radiation dosimetry: some resent developments at Kaunas University of Technology - Prof. Diana Adlienė (Kaunas University of Technology)  
10:00 AM Gantry Design for the Heavy-Ion Therapy Medical Application - Andris Ratkus (Riga Technical University (LV))  
10:15 AM 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 AM NIMMS: the Next Ion Medical Machine Study - Elena Benedetto (SEEIIST Association (CH))  
10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Advanced Technologies: Accelerators -Prof. Renno Veinthal (TalTech) (until 1:15 PM)
11:00 AM LIEBE loop hydraulic parameter determination - Kalvis Kravalis (University of Latvia, Institute of Physics)  
11:15 AM Electron Acceleration using Chirped Radially Polarized Superluminar Bessel-X Beams - Sergej Orlov (FTMC)  
11:30 AM Additive Manufacturing Applications for Accelerator Technologies - Andris Ratkus (Riga Technical University (LV))  
11:45 AM Compact Linear Collider and the problem of electric breakdowns - Vahur Zadin (University of Tartu (EE))  
12:00 PM High voltage, high frequency, high bandwidth sweeping arbitrary waveform challenge solution - Peteris Apse-Apsitis (Riga Technical university)  
12:15 PM Characterization of Cu electrodes after vacuum breakdown with AFM and SEM - Sven Oras (University of Tartu)  
12:30 PM Multi-scale multi-physics simulations of vacuum breakdown phenomena - Andreas Kyritsakis (University of Tartu)  
12:45 PM Real-time observation of strong electric-field-induced surface modification - Sergei Vlassov (University of Tartu)  
1:00 PM Ab initio investigation of Cu nanoparticle behavior under high electric field - Ye Wang (University of Tartu)  
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Industry Engagement and R&D -Prof. Brigita Abakeviciene (Kaunas University of Technology) (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Doing business with CERN - Anders Unnervik (CERN)  
2:20 PM SEMICONDUCTOR AND SCINTILLATION MATERIALS FOR RADIATION DETECTORS - Mrs Anna Bulycheva (Baltic Scientific Instruments)  
2:30 PM CMS Tier2 development in Latvia - Dati Group  
2:40 PM Radioactive Waste Monitoring in Nuclear Industry - Mr Serhii Pohuliai (Baltic Scientific Instruments)  
2:50 PM ILO experience - industry engagement in Lithuania - Adomas Jelinskas (Lithuanian Innovation Center)  
3:00 PM
Breakout room: industry&science (until 3:30 PM)
3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
National Activities and Education -Prof. Saulius Mickevičius (Vytautas Magnus University) (until 5:00 PM)
3:30 PM State research programme in High-Energy Physics and Accelerator Technologies in Latvia - Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))  
3:45 PM The Baltic Teacher Programme @ CERN - Jeff Wiener (CERN)  
4:00 PM 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)  
4:15 PM Particle Physics teaching at Vilnius University - Thomas Gajdosik (Vilnius University (LT))  
4:25 PM CERN related physics teaching at Tartu Univeristy - Laur Järv (University of Tartu)  
4:35 PM CERN activities at the Institute of Materials Science of Kaunas University of Technology - Prof. Sigitas Tamulevičius (Kaunas University of Technology)  
4:45 PM Baltic School of High-Energy Physics and Accelerator Technologies - Dr Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))  
5:00 PM --- End of the Day 1 ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Theory -Prof. Marcis Auzins (University of Latvia) (until 3:15 PM)
2:00 PM Fakeons and particle phenomenology - Marco Piva (NICPB, Tallinn)  
2:15 PM A fakeon doublet solution to the muon g-2 - Aurora Melis (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
2:30 PM Connection between tadpole renormalization and gauge dependences - Vytautas Dūdėnas (Vilnius University (LT))  
2:45 PM A review of elemental mass origin and fundamental forces unification - Mr Abrar Hussain (Tallinn University of Technology)  
3:00 PM Higher spin particles: dark matter and high energy colliders - Niko Koivunen (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
High Energy Physics & Atomic Physics: Theory -Prof. Marcis Auzins (University of Latvia) (until 4:45 PM)
3:30 PM On the On-Shell Renormalization of Fermion Masses, Fields, and Mixing Matrices at 1-loop - Mr Simonas Draukšas (Vilnius University (LT))  
3:45 PM 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))  
4:00 PM Untangling the spin of a dark boson in Z decays - Dr Emidio Gabrielli (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))  
4:15 PM The $Z b \bar b$ couplings in models with extended Higgs sectors - Darius Jurciukonis (Vilnius University (LT))  
4:30 PM High density QCD matter in hadron collisions - Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas (CERN)  
4:45 PM --- End of Day 2 ---
1:15 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Advanced Technologies: Materials -Dr Jevgenijs Proskurins (Riga Stradins University) (until 4:15 PM)
2:30 PM Composite materials from nature for space applications - Prof. Giedrius Janušas (Kaunas University of Technology)  
2:45 PM Comparative analysis of two LYSO crystal bars by photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy - Anatoli I. Popov (Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia)  
3:00 PM Improvement of Mechanical and Magnetic Properties of Nb/Cu Structure by Laser Radiation for SRF Applications - Prof. Arturs Medvids (Riga Technical University)  
3:15 PM Study of scintillating materials by synchrotron radiation - Vladimir Pankratov (Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia)  
3:30 PM Examples of AI applications - Prof. Vidas Raudonis (Kaunas University of Technology)  
3:45 PM 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)  
4:00 PM Overview of Research on scintillator materials in Latvia: past, present, and future - Anatoli Popov (University of Latvia (LV))  
4:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:25 PM
Advanced Technologies: Detectors -Prof. Marco Kirm (University of Tartu (EE)) (until 5:10 PM)
4:25 PM Timing detector layer at the CMS experiment for LHC Run 4 - Karlis Dreimanis (Riga Technical University (LV))  
4:40 PM CMS HL-LHC Tracker Upgrade - Aurelijus Rinkevicius (Vilnius University (LT))  
4:55 PM RTU engineering engagement in CMS Technical Integration and BTL - Guntis Pikurs (Riga Technical University (LV))  
5:10 PM Closing Remarks