Particle Physics Days 2025

13 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 14 Nov 2025, 17:18 Europe/Helsinki

Hanna Lempiäinen, Henning Kirschenmann (LUT University and Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)), Ilkka Helenius (University of Jyväskylä), Jens Erik Brucken (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)), Matti Heikinheimo (University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics), Pyry Runko (University of Jyväskylä)

Annual meeting of the Particle Physics Division of the Finnish Physical Society.

This is a two-day in-person meeting in Hyytiälä research station

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/research-stations/hyytiala-forest-station 

Please register as soon as possible. Participation guaranteed only for registrations before 22 October.

Accommodation and bus travel will be covered by HIP projects and/or FPS funding to the PP division. 

Previous meetings linked from PP Division home pages and instructions to sign up to pp-findiv list:

https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hitu_www/partdiv.html 

Thursday 13 November

09:15 → 11:30 Bus Transfer from Jyväskylä to Hyytiälä

Departure time from Jyväskylä TBC

11:30 → 11:45 Bus Transfer from Orivesi Train Station to Hyytiälä

Participants from other places than Jyväskylä are invited to arrive by train at 11:31 to Orivesi. They will be picked up by the bus arriving from Jyväskylä.

11:45 → 12:30 Buffet lunch

12:30 → 13:20 Session: Talks on strategy process and long term perspectives

12:30 European Particle Physics Strategy update - Nordic and Finnish perspective tbc

30 + 5 min

Speaker: Prof. Panja Luukka (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (FI))

13:05 Early Career Researchers - summary from ECFA ECRs

15+5'

Speakers: Hanna Lempiäinen, Laura Huhta (University of Jyvaskyla (FI)), Mikael Myllymaki (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)), Petja Kalle Matias Paakkinen

13:20 → 14:20 Session: QCD theory

13:20 Theory Overview 1 (TBC)

20+5'

13:45 Theory Overview 2 (TBC)

25+5'

14:20 → 14:50 Afternoon coffee

14:50 → 17:00 Evening session: Experimental overviews and upgrades

15:00 CMS+TOTEM/PPS experimental overview

25'+5'

15:30 ALICE overview

25+5 min

16:00 CMS/PPS upgrades

20'+5'

16:25 CMS extra talk

15' + 5'

17:00 → 18:00 Agenda: Division meeting

1. Opening of the meeting, choosing the chair and secretary, and two persons for counting votes
2. Accepting the agenda
3. Choosing the board
4. Activity of the division 2024-2025
5. Meetings organized in Finland 2024-2025
6. Meetings to be organized in Finland 2025-2026
7. RECFA representative report
8. ECFA ECR representatives report
9. AOB
10. Closing the meeting

17:00 RECFA

Speaker: Prof. Panja Luukka (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (FI))

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

19:00 → 23:00 Rantasauna

Friday 14 November

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:50 Invited talk (educational/visionary)

10:00 → 10:15 Short break (no coffee)

10:15 → 11:30 Session: Various Topics

10:15 Talk

10:40 Talk

11:05 Talk

11:30 → 12:30 Lunch

12:30 → 14:30 Session: Various topics

12:30 Talk

15+5'

12:50 Talk

20+5'

13:15 Talk

15+5'

13:38 Talk

15+3'

13:55 Hyytiälä Station: Research done here

14:15 Survey and group picture (QR Code, link, and picture)

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee

15:00 → 15:30 Buses departing to Helsinki and Jyväskylä (exact time tbc)