Name: FAKT Workshop 2026: Particle Physics Retreat
Start: 2026-02-23T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-24T21:45:00+01:00
Location: No location set

FAKT Workshop 2026: Particle Physics Retreat

from Monday, February 23, 2026 (12:00 AM) to Tuesday, February 24, 2026 (9:45 PM)

Monday, February 23, 2026

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Talks
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM FAKT Matters - Florian Reindl (Vienna University of Technology (AT)) Gernot Eichmann

2:10 PM News from NuPECC - Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

2:30 PM Results of Strategy Update - Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))

2:50 PM Initiative to Physics at future colliders (HL-LHC) - Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))

3:10 PM RECFA Meeting in Vienna - Thomas Bergauer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Talks
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Status update on the delivery of mixed ion beams at medical synchrotron facilities - Felix Ulrich-Pur (TU Wien)

4:20 PM Unbinned inclusive cross-section measurements with machine-learned systematic uncertainties - Claudius Krause (MBI Vienna (ÖAW))

4:40 PM Recent results and activities of the CMS group at MBI Vienna - Lisa Benato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

5:00 PM Current research topics of the particle group at University Vienna - Andre Hoang (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

5:20 PM Early-career FAKT researchers in Austria - Michael Mandl (University of Graz)

5:30 PM Outer spaces: An interdisciplinary research and outreach event - Axel Torsten Maas (University of Graz)

5:40 PM IPT - Daniel Grumiller

5:50 PM Networking to strengthen communication and public relations work in particle physics - Natascha Krammer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
6:00 PM FAKT Discussion
FAKT Discussion
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
General discussion

7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
8:40 AM Talks
8:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

8:40 AM Advancing NNLO accuracy in Monte Carlo generators for final-state jet processes - Alessandro Broggio

9:00 AM An overview on CRESST & COSINUS experiments - Danae Danielle Valdenaire (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

9:20 AM The NUCLEUS and CRAB experiments: Low-energy signal detection with cryogenic calorimeters - Janina Dorin Hakenmueller (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

9:40 AM High-frequency readout enables unprecedented time-of-flight techniques in high-energy physics and medical applications with SiPMs, scintillators, and SiC detectors - Stefan Gundacker (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

10:00 AM Continuum methods in Theoretical Particle Physics at the University Graz - Joshua Hoffer (University Graz)

10:20 AM Overview of the activities of the groups of Axel Maas, Simon Plätzer, and Denes Sexty - Sofie Martins (University of Graz)
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Talks
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM $\Lambda_c(2595)$ at Belle II: Extending Event Generation with HERWIG - Cristhian Xavier Brito Ricaurte (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

11:30 AM Against the point-like nature of physical electrons - Manfried Faber

11:50 AM Geodesics in quantum gravity - Benjamin Koch

12:10 PM Quantum Gravity in Static Spherically Symmetric Spacetime - Ali Riahinia (TU Vienna)

12:30 PM Carroll physics and flat space holography - Daniel Grumiller
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM