MBI Scientific Advisory Board Meeting

17 Nov 2026, 08:50 → 18 Nov 2026, 16:30 Europe/Vienna

TP 01 A B7 01 (PSK)

Tuesday 17 November

Inaugural closed session

1 Opening remarks and Welcome

Speakers: Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)), Jochen Schieck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

2 Briefing

Director for Institutes and Infrastructures and SAB

3 Constitution of the SAB

SAB members

10:15 Break

Session 1

4 MBI Institute presentation and discussion

JS or EW (ev. CS/LN)– audience: all-MBI

5 Closed session

SAB + EW, JS, CS, LN

12:00 Lunch incl. poster session

Belle II, Machine Learning, Theory, MedAustron

Session 2

6 CMOS Development for ALICE, Belle II and FCC

Speaker: Thomas Bergauer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

7 Cryolab - status and plans

Speakers: Florian Reindl (Vienna University of Technology (AT)), Martin Simon (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

8 CMS – Group merger, Run III Analysis and HL-LHC Plans

Speaker: Lisa Benato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

15:00 Coffee break

Session 3

9 Gravitational waves

Speaker: Gianluca Inguglia (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

10 Rare Event Searches - status COSINUS & NUCLEUS

Speaker: Janina Dorin Hakenmueller (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

11 Exotic Atoms & Precision Measurements

Speaker: Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

12 ALICE

Speaker: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

13 Closed session SAB

19:00 Dinner

Manaement & SAB

Wednesday 18 November

Morning session (closed)

14 Closed individual session

15 Early Career Researchers

SAB and PhDs

16 Discussion with SAB / succession Planning

SAB and Directors

11:45 SAB discussion incl lunch

SAB

17 Tour MBI laboratory facilities

18 TBD

Afternoon cloession (closed)

19 Debriefing

President and SAB

20 Closing remarks and adjournment

Speakers: Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)), Jochen Schieck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))