Name: Bormio Conference 2026
Start: 2026-01-19T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-23T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Bormio, Italy

Bormio Conference 2026

from Monday, 19 January 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 23 January 2026 (19:00)

Monday, 19 January 2026

08:00 Pre-conference school: Slides of the courses
Slides of the courses
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Monday Morning
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Mapping neutron stars inside and out - Anna Watts (University of Amsterdam)

09:55 Facility status and new results from FRIB - Artemisia Spyrou (Michigan State University)

11:10 Radioactive Atoms and Molecules for Nuclear Science - Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

11:55 A multi-TeV muon collider: a challenging opportunity - Nadia Pastrone (INFN Torino, Italy)
17:00 Monday Afternoon
17:00 - 20:00
Contributions

17:00 Probing the ρ⁰–Proton Interaction Using Femtoscopic Correlations at the LHC - Maximilian Korwieser (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

17:03 Two-photon exchange effects in muonic hydrogen - Panagiotis Kalamidas (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)

17:06 High-Precision Mass Measurements of Actinides at TRIGA-Trap for Nuclear Structure Studies - Tanvir Sayed (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik MPIK, Heidelberg)

17:09 MMC based high-precision spectroscopy on muonic atoms - Tim Redelbach (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)

17:12 Studies of the isolated hadron response with the projective eta configuration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter - Siranush Asatryan (A. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Armenia)

17:15 Phenomenon of the Gray Disk in 𝑝𝑝 pp and 𝑛𝑝 Collisions - Cristal Robles Jacobo (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico)
Tuesday, 20 January 2026
09:00 Tuesday Morning
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Probing Fundamental Interactions through Precision Spectroscopy of Exotic Atoms - Nancy Paul (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

09:45 Instrumentation for advances in PET medical imaging - Peter Krizan (J. Stefan Inst. and U. Ljubljana)

11:00 Exploring Stars in Underground Laboratories - Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)

11:35 QCD at Large Densities - Christian Fischer (Giessen University)

12:10 Current and future programs to study the ΛN interaction from scattering experiments - Koji Miwa (Tohoku University, Japan)
17:00 Tuesday Afternoon
17:00 - 19:30
Contributions

17:00 AI as Scientific Infrastructure: Foundation Models and AI Agents in Subatomic Physics - Lucie Flek (Uni Bonn)

17:30 Searching for Axions and High Frequency Gravitational Waves with Table-Top Experiments - Matthias Schott (University of Bonn)

18:00 The n2EDM experiment at Paul Scherrer Institute - Gian Luca Caratsch (PSI Villigen/ETH Zürich)

18:18 A Search For Hexaquarks At Belle II - Felix Keil (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)

18:36 Precision measurements in the beta decay of 6He : Presentation and status of the b-stiled project - Romain Garreau (LPC Caen, France)
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
09:00 Wednesday Morning
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 LHCb: where color meets flavor - Johannes Albrecht (TU Dortmund, Germany)

09:45 From neutron stars to LHC: investigating hadronic interactions with correlations - Valentina Mantovani Sarti (TUM)

11:00 Putting nuclear physics into and getting nuclear physics out of studying neutron stars - William Newton (East Texas A&M University, USA)

11:35 Initial state radiation in leptonic collisions - Stefano Frixione (CERN)

12:10 Search for Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei from Dark Matter with the GAPS Antarctic Balloon Mission - Riccardo Munini (INFN - Trieste, Italy)
17:00 Wednesday Afternoon
17:00 - 19:30
Contributions

17:00 Proton structure, from HERA to the EIC - Tyler Kutz (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)

17:30 The DUNE experiment - Esteban Javier Cristaldo Morales (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

18:00 Isospin-breaking corrections to the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon g-2 - Sebastian Lahrtz (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)

18:18 First observation of (anti)deuteron formation from resonance-decay nucleons - Maximilian Mahlein (TU Munich, Germany)

18:36 Direct Measurement of the $^{59}$Cu(p,$\alpha$)$^{56}$Ni Reaction with the Multi Sampling Ionization Chamber Detector (MUSIC) - Eilens Lopez Saavedra (Argonne National Laboratory)
Thursday, 22 January 2026
09:00 Thursday Morning
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 New Forces at Finite Density: Supernovae, Compact Stars, and Axion Signals from the Stellar Graveyard - Andreas Weiler (TU Munich, Germany)

09:45 CMOS pixel sensors in ALICE - Felix Reidt (CERN)

11:00 Machine learning methods for BSM searches - Lukas Heinrich (TUM)

11:35 Current status and future prospects of FAIR - Thomas Nilsson (GSI / FAIR)

12:10 Overview and Recent Results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Alberto Oliva (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bologna, Italy)
17:00 Thursday Afternoon
17:00 - 19:30
Contributions

17:00 Highlights from BESIII Experiment - Xiaoyan Shen (Intitute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

17:35 Measurement of double electron-capture Q-value with the JYFLTRAP mass spectrometer - Brian Kootte (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

17:53 A Bayesian approach to the Coulomb breakup of 19C - Quentin Bozet (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)

18:11 Investigation of Quasielastic Scattering in 24Mg + 92,94,95Mo - Kavita Rani (University of Warsaw, Poland)

18:29 Radon reduction in xenon-based rare-event search experiments - Philipp Schulte (University of Münster, Germany)

18:47 Inner Tracking System reconstruction for Run 3&4 - Felix Schlepper (CERN / Heidelberg University)
Friday, 23 January 2026
09:00 Friday Morning
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Towards the Determination of the Absolute Neutrino Mass Scale with Project 8 - Juliana Stachurska (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)

09:35 How charm quarks reveal fundamental properties of QCD - Silvia Masciocchi (GSI Darmstadt & University of Heidelberg)

10:10 Imaging atomic nuclei through high-energy nuclear collisions - Giuliano Giacalone (CERN)

11:15 Nuclear structure and the formation of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations - Axel Schmidt (George Washington University)

11:50 Compressed Baryonic Matter at FAIR: construction progress and prototype beam-test results - Alberica Toia (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
17:00 Friday Afternoon
17:00 - 19:00
Contributions

17:00 Have we found η'-mesic states - Mariana Nanova (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen) Volker Metag (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)

17:30 Prior uncertainties in inferring neutron star masses and radii from observations - James Lattimer (Stony Brook University)

17:55 Latest Results from CUORE and Progress towards CUPID - Kangkang Zhao (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Italy)

18:13 Search for „Standard Model forbidden“ components of weak interactions - Dalibor Zakoucky (Nuclear Physics Institute of ASCR, Czechia)

18:31 Predictions for charged-hadron production in p-O collisions at LHC energies - Georg Wolschin (Heidelberg University)

18:49 Closing remarks