Name: Sustainable HEP 2026 — 5th Edition
Start: 2026-07-08T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-10T19:45:00+02:00
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Sustainable HEP 2026 — 5th Edition

from Wednesday, July 8, 2026 (10:00 AM) to Friday, July 10, 2026 (7:45 PM)

Monday, July 6, 2026
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
1:40 PM Technical tests
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

1:40 PM Test - Chandramauli Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IN))
2:00 PM Plenary: Wednesday
Wednesday
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome/Opening note

2:10 PM Climate Change: Science, Politics, Ethics, and Hopeful Solutions - Jagadish Shukla (George Mason University (US)) Jagadish Shukla (GMU)

3:05 PM Sustainability for Gaseous HEP Detectors - Archana Sharma (CERN) Archana Sharma (CERN)
4:00 PM Health Break
Health Break
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM Submitted talks: Large scale projects and policy making - I
Large scale projects and policy making - I
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM News from SC4RC 2026 - Rakhi Mahbubani (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))

4:30 PM Sustainability recommendations from the European Strategy: a historical perspective - Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway, University of London)

4:45 PM Nikhef's sustainability roadmap - Catharina Vaendel (Nikhef)

5:00 PM The ULISSE Project: an Opportunity for CERN's waste heat large-scale recycling - William van Sprolant (CvS énergies sàrl)
5:15 PM Submitted talks: Sustainable computation - I
Sustainable computation - I
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Contributions

5:15 PM Open Event Generation - Julie Hogan (Brown University, Bethel University (US)) Rakhi Mahbubani (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR)) Sabine Kraml (LPSC Grenoble) Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

5:30 PM Reducing simulation-related emissions in rare-event searches through optimised event biasing - Lachlan Milligan (University of Birmingham)

5:45 PM Energy efficiency of a GPU-based computing system in HEP - Jiahui Zhuo (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

6:00 PM Reducing the compute used for calorimeter simulation - Henry Day-Hall (desy)
6:15 PM Outro
Outro
6:15 PM - 6:25 PM
Thursday, July 9, 2026
1:40 PM Technical tests: Technical tests
Technical tests
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

1:40 PM Test - Chandramauli Agrawal

1:59 PM Welcome note - Yann Coadou (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR))
2:00 PM Plenary: Thursday
Thursday
2:00 PM - 2:55 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM The CERN LDG Sustainability Panel - Ben Shepherd
2:55 PM Submitted talks: Sustainable computation - II
Sustainable computation - II
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:55 PM Towards Unified Power and Efficiency Monitoring Across the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid - Natalia Diana Szczepanek (CERN)

3:10 PM Operational challenges of the Event Processing Nodes GPU farm at ALICE Experiment - Federico Ronchetti (CERN)

3:25 PM Increasing sustainability in the community of Research on Universe and Matter - Andreas Ralph Redelbach (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))
3:40 PM Submitted talks: Sustainable detector and material development - I
Sustainable detector and material development - I
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

3:40 PM Towards more sustainable operation of Resistive Plate Chambers in the Compact Muon Solenoid - Joao Pinheiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

3:55 PM Designing the next generation of materials for rare-event searches: high-strength, ultra-pure copper-based alloys - Dimitra Spathara (University of Birmingham)
4:10 PM Photo + Health Break
Photo + Health Break
4:10 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM Panel Discussion
4:20 PM - 6:05 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Careers from Physics to Sustainability - André Schneider (André Schneider Global Advisory) James Robinson Laura Bianchi Lia Formenti (McGill University, (CA)) Raluca Cruceru (United Nations)
6:05 PM Outro - Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, University of Oxford)
Outro
- Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, University of Oxford)
6:05 PM - 6:15 PM
Friday, July 10, 2026
1:40 PM Technical tests: Technical tests
Technical tests
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

1:40 PM Test - Chandramauli Agrawal

1:59 PM Welcome note - Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB))
2:00 PM Plenary: Friday
Friday
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Sustainability of food systems - Juan Pablo Cordero
2:45 PM Submitted talks: Sustainable detectors and material development - II
Sustainable detectors and material development - II
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM Carbon footprint assessment of the Electron-Ion Collider - Ada Collins (University of Manitoba) Wouter Deconinck Wouter Deconinck

3:00 PM The CH4rLiE Project: A Novel Approach to Methane Recovery based on CERN gas recuperation systems - Ilaria Vai (Pavia University and INFN (IT))

3:15 PM Long-Term Study of Eco-Friendly Gas Mixtures for RPCs at CERN GIF++ - Giulia Giannandrea (Pavia University and INFN (IT))

3:30 PM Ageing effects in RPC detectors operated with eco-friendly gas mixtures - Liliana Congedo Liliana Congedo (INFN, Bari (IT))
3:45 PM Health Break
Health Break
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Submitted talks: Sustainable detectors and material development - III
Sustainable detectors and material development - III
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Environment-friendly gas mixtures for the ATLAS Phase-2 Resistive Plate Chambers - Giorgia Proto (Max Planck Society (DE))

4:15 PM Matching sustainability and detector longevity for ATLAS RPCs HL-LHC runs - Sinem Simsek (Istinye University (TR))

4:30 PM Sustainable Cryogenic Infrastructure and Solid-State Millimeter-Wave Microwave Technology for Polarized Target System at the University of New Hampshire - Muhammad Farooq (University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, US)

4:45 PM Study of the properties of sustainable materials for shielding against ionizing radiations - Julien Faivre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
5:00 PM Submitted talks: Large scale projects and policy making - II
Large scale projects and policy making - II
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Assessing Sustainability Performance in Large Research Infrastructures - Falastine Abusaif (KIT)

5:15 PM Developing a Roadmap for Sustainable Cryomodule Design - Nuno Elias (European Spallation Source (ERIC))

5:30 PM GreenPhysECS: Exploring ECS for Energy-Aware Parallel Research Software - Michael Sparks (The University of Manchester (GB)) Mattias Evans (University of Manchester) Oluwole Delano (University of Manchester)

5:45 PM Life cycle assessment of the LHCb data centres Overall impacts & preliminary results for Upgrade II - Roman Dandoy (Universite de Liege (BE))

6:00 PM Carbon-Aware Scheduling for Sustainable Computing - Jesica Sabau (University of Sheffield)
6:15 PM Close-out - Yann Coadou (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR)) Shreyasi Acharya (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB)) Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, University of Oxford) Chandramauli Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IN))
Close-out
- Yann Coadou (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR))
- Shreyasi Acharya (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
- Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB))
- Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, University of Oxford)
- Chandramauli Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IN))
6:15 PM - 6:25 PM