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, 8 July 2026 (10:00) to Friday, 10 July 2026 (19:45)

Monday, 6 July 2026
Tuesday, 7 July 2026
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
14:00 Plenary: Wednesday
Wednesday
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Welcome/Opening note

14:10 Keynote opening talk - Jagadish Shukla (George Mason University (US))

15:05 Eco gases in hig-energy physics detectors - Archana Sharma (CERN)
16:00 Health Break
Health Break
16:00 - 16:15
16:15 Submitted talks: Large scale projects and policy making - I
Large scale projects and policy making - I
16:15 - 17:15
Contributions

16:15 News from SC4RC 2026 - Rakhi Mahbubani (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))

16:30 Sustainability recommendations from the European Strategy: a historical perspective - Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway, University of London)

16:45 Nikhef's sustainability roadmap - Catharina Vaendel (Nikhef)

17:00 The ULISSE Project: an Opportunity for CERN's waste heat large-scale recycling - William van Sprolant (CvS énergies sàrl)
17:15 Submitted talks: Sustainable computation - I
Sustainable computation - I
17:15 - 18:15
Contributions

17:15 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))

17:30 Reducing simulation-related emissions in rare-event searches through optimised event biasing - Lachlan Milligan (University of Birmingham)

17:45 Energy efficiency of a GPU-based computing system in HEP - Jiahui Zhuo (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

18:00 Reducing the compute used for calorimeter simulation - Henry Day-Hall (desy)
Thursday, 9 July 2026
14:00 Plenary: Thursday
Thursday
14:00 - 14:45
Contributions

14:00 Sustainability of food systems - Juan Pablo Cordero Garayar
14:45 Submitted talks: Sustainable computation - II
Sustainable computation - II
14:45 - 15:30
Contributions

14:45 Towards Unified Power and Efficiency Monitoring Across the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid - Natalia Diana Szczepanek (CERN)

15:00 Operational challenges of the Event Processing Nodes GPU farm at ALICE Experiment - Federico Ronchetti (CERN)

15:15 Carbon-Aware Scheduling for Sustainable Computing - Jesica Sabau (University of Sheffield)
15:30 Submitted talks: Sustainable detector and material development - I
Sustainable detector and material development - I
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Towards more sustainable operation of Resistive Plate Chambers in the Compact Muon Solenoid - Joao Pinheiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

15:45 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)
16:00 Health Break
Health Break
16:00 - 16:15

16:15 Panel discussion

16:15 - 18:00
Friday, 10 July 2026
14:00 Plenary: Friday
Friday
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Sustainability and the European Particle Physics Strategy Update 2026 - Ben Shepherd (STFC)
15:00 Submitted talks: Sustainable detectors and material development - II
Sustainable detectors and material development - II
15:00 - 15:45
Contributions

15:00 The CH4rLiE Project: A Novel Approach to Methane Recovery based on CERN gas recuperation systems - Ilaria Vai (Pavia University and INFN (IT))

15:15 Long-Term Study of Eco-Friendly Gas Mixtures for RPCs at CERN GIF++ - RPC EcoGas@GIF++ Collaboration

15:30 Ageing effects in RPC detectors operated with eco-friendly gas mixtures - Liliana Congedo
15:45 Health Break
Health Break
15:45 - 16:00
16:00 Submitted talks: Sustainable detectors and material development - III
Sustainable detectors and material development - III
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Environment-friendly gas mixtures for the ATLAS Phase-2 Resistive Plate Chambers - Giorgia Proto (Max Planck Society (DE))

16:15 Matching sustainability and detector longevity for ATLAS RPCs HL-LHC runs - Sinem Simsek (Istinye University (TR))

16:30 Designing the next generation of materials for rare-event searches: high-strength, ultra-pure copper-based alloys - Dimitra Spathara (University of Birmingham)

16:45 Study of the properties of sustainable materials for shielding against ionizing radiations - Julien Faivre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
17:00 Submitted talks: Large scale projects and policy making - II
Large scale projects and policy making - II
17:00 - 18:15
Contributions

17:00 Assessing Sustainability Performance in Large Research Infrastructures - Falastine Abusaif (KIT)

17:15 Developing a Roadmap for Sustainable Cryomodule Design - Nuno Elias (European Spallation Source (ERIC))

17:30 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)

17:45 Life cycle assessment of the LHCb data centres Overall impacts & preliminary results for Upgrade II - Roman Dandoy (Universite de Liege (BE))

18:00 Increasing sustainability in the community of Research on Universe and Matter - Andreas Ralph Redelbach (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))
18:15 Close-out
Close-out
18:15 - 18:25