Final strategy input and initiatives

Name: Final strategy input and initiatives
Start: 2025-11-03T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-03T18:00:00+01:00
Location: ÖAW

Monday 3 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 18:00 Europe/Vienna

Theatersaal (ÖAW)

Theatersaal

ÖAW

Sonnenfelsgasse 19 1010 wien

Description

Townhall meeting of the Austrian particle physics community to discuss the final national input to the Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

Schedule and process can be followed here: https://europeanstrategyupdate.web.cern.ch/process-0

Zoom-Link to connect online: https://cern.zoom.us/j/61935488444?pwd=TOHt4BXt8MOMgc1VqmejPo3B44KXrJ.1

Registration

Participants

Andreas Ipp
Anton Rebhan
Axel Torsten Maas
Christoph Schwanda
David Dobrigkeit Chinellato
Dietrich Liko
Eberhard Widmann
Florian Hechenberger
Georg Wieland
Gernot Eichmann
Gianluigi Arduini
herbert rohringer
Jesper Karlsson Gumprecht
Johann Marton
Johannes Gutleber
Lorenzo Valla
Markus Brugger
Massimiliano Procura
Paul Romatschke
Rudi Rahn
Silvia Schuh-Erhard
Simon Plätzer
Winfried Mitaroff
Wolfgang Adam
Wolfgang Lucha
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- 09:00 → 10:10
  Strategy and Plan B
  - 09:00
    
    Opening and update 10m
    
    Speaker: Simon Plätzer (University of Graz (AT))
    
    introduction-compressed.pdf
  - 09:10
    
    Comparison of Plan B options 55m
    
    Speaker: Gianluigi Arduini (CERN)
    
    Vienna_03112025_aspresented.pdf
    
    Vienna_03112025_aspresented.pptx
- 10:10 → 10:45
  
  Discussion of Plan B
- 10:45 → 11:15
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:15 → 12:15
  Briefing book -- comments and discussion
  - 11:15
    
    Precision phenomenology 15m
    
    Speaker: Simon Plätzer (University of Graz (AT))
    
    briefing-book-compressed.pdf
  - 11:30
    
    BSM opportunities at future colliders 30m
    
    Speaker: Wolfgang Adam (HEPHY-Vienna)
    
    BSM-FAKT-20251103.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    Discussion 15m
- 12:15 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 45m
- 14:00 → 15:30
  Austrian Physics Projects Perspective on the FCC ee and alternatives
  - 14:00
    
    Low-energy physics: Hadrons, flavors, heavy-ions 30m
    
    Speaker: Christoph Schwanda
    
    townhall_schwanda_3nov2025.pdf
  - 14:30
    
    High-energy physics: Jets, top, Higgs, electroweak 30m
    
    Speaker: Rudi Rahn (University of Vienna)
    
    StratMeet.pdf
    
    StratMeet.pptx
  - 15:00
    
    Discussion, including follow-ups to the briefing book 30m
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 16:00 → 16:45
  Building of initiatives: Initial remarks and identification of possible initiatives
  - 16:00
    
    A road to initiatives: (Professional) outreach, research and funding 15m
    
    Speaker: Simon Plätzer (University of Graz (AT))
    
    a-road-to-initiatives-compressed.pdf
  - 16:15
    
    Initiatives including fields beyond particle physics and inks to industry 15m
    
    Speaker: Thomas Bergauer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
    
    bergauer-Initiatives-industry.pdf
    
    bergauer-Initiatives-industry.pptx
  - 16:30
    
    Breakout time for discussions 15m
- 16:45 → 16:55
  
  Preparation of the RECFA visit 2026 10m
  
  Speaker: Thomas Bergauer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
  
  bergauer-recfa-meeting2026.pdf
  
  bergauer-recfa-meeting2026.pptx
- 17:00 → 17:20
  
  Summary 20m
  
  What is today's conclusion of what will be added/modified to the national input? Outline of timeline for the following.