RECFA visit to Belgium

Friday 12 Sept 2025, 09:00 → 18:30 Europe/Brussels

Room Versailles (Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels)

Barbara CLERBAUX (IIHE), Didar Dobur (ULB), Nick van Remortel (Universiteit Antwerpen)

The Belgian researchers together with the FWO and FNRS funding agencies welcome RECFA members in Belgium.

The open session of the RECFA visit to Belgium will take place on Friday September 12th 2025.  The venue is the Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels, where we will have the coffee breaks and the lunch. 

The website of the hotel Le Plaza: https://www.leplaza-brussels.be/en/

The agenda of the visit is available on this indico.  

WARNING : For the RECFA members please use the indico at CERN (link sent by Lidija) to register to the event and to book your accommodation.

For the colleagues from Belgian institutes, please register on this local indico.

In case of questions, do not hesitate to contact the local secretary : Audrey.Terrier@ulb.be or the local organisers Barbara Clerbaux, Didar Dobur, Nick van Remortel

 

1 Introduction by the heads of funding agencies (FNRS + FWO)¶

2 Overview of HEP in Belgium¶

3 Belgium in the CMS experiment¶

4 Belgium in the CMS Upgrade¶

10:50 BREAK

5 Detector R&D effort in Belgium¶

6 Non-collider physics at CERN : NA62, Ship¶

7 Belgium in nuclear physics including MYRRHA¶

12:25 LUNCH

8 Belgium in neutrino physics and astrophysics (IceCube, KM3NeT, Solid, JUNO)¶

9 Belgium in astroparticle physics (Lofar, SKA, RNO-G, Auger)¶

10 Belgium in gravitational waves¶

11 Belgium in theory and phenomenology¶

15:05 BREAK

12 Impressions from Young Scientists¶

13 Belgium in outreach and education for high-energy physics¶

14 Belgium in computing for high-energy physics¶

15 Closed session for RECFA members¶

16 Summary presentation of preliminary findings¶