II EU Workshop on Water Cherenkov Experiments for Precision Physics

Europe/Warsaw
Assembly Hall (Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University)

Assembly Hall

Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland
Łukasz Stawarz (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University)
Description

Rationale


The II EU Workshop on Water Cherenkov Experiments for Precision Physics (WCD-2025) aims to showcase and discuss the latest developments in scientific projects utilizing Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCD), primarily for neutrino observations, including those of high-energy cosmic origin, and ground-based WCDs used for studying astrophysical sources of the highest energy gamma rays. It will also review major neutrino experiments involving non-WCD technologies, whether running, under construction, or in early planning phases. The meeting will cover key physics topics in WCD experiments: neutrino oscillations, proton decay, the physics of the Sun, supernovae, and the diffuse neutrino background, etc., as well as astrophysical sources of high-energy radiation and particles.

All oral presentations are by invitation only. Contributed presentations will be displayed as posters, accessible throughout the entire duration of the meeting. A dedicated poster session is scheduled for Wednesday, September 17th, during the Welcome Reception. Moreover, posters will be available for viewing and downloading on the conference webpage, provided that the authors agree.

This workshop is held within the context of the EU-funded research project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019-GA872549-SK2HK. SK2HK comprises partners including LLR-CNRS (France), AGH, NCBJ, UJ, UW, WUT (Poland), UAM (Spain), with ICRR-U.Tokyo (Japan) as the main host institute.

 

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Invited Speakers


Seisho Abe (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan
Lauren Anthony (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André (Institut pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien Strasbourg, France)
Antoine Beauchêne (Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK)
Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) 
Mingjun Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) 
Daniel Cookman (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Paschal Coyle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France)
Marcos Dracos (Institut pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, France)
Philipp Eller (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Pablo Fernández Menéndez (Donostia International Physics Center, Spain)
Jordan Goodman (University of Maryland, USA)
Christian Haack (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Jim Hinton (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany)
Yoshitaka Itow (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Joanna Kiryluk (Stony Brook University, USA)
Paweł Małecki (Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Teresa Montaruli (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Yuuki Nakano (University of Toyama, Japan)
Tomáš Nosek (Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Charles University, Czechia)
Brían Ó Fearraigh (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Italy)
Benjamin Quilain (ILANCE - CNRS-IN2P3 / University of Tokyo, France)
Federico Sanchez (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
Hiroyuki Sekiya (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Masato Shiozawa (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Hide-Kazu Tanaka (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Mark Vagins (IPMU, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Amanda Weinstein (Iowa State University, USA)

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Scientific Organizing Committee


Olivier Drapier (Ecole Polytechnique IN2P3-CNRS Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet Palaiseau France) 
Katarzyna Kowalik (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland) 
Luis Labarga Echeverría (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) — chair 
Magdalena Posiadała-Zezula (University of Warsaw, Poland) 
Ewa Rondio (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland) 
Łukasz Stawarz (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 
Marcin Ziembicki (Warsaw University of Technology & Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland) 

 

Local Committee


Sabrina Casanova (Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Kamil Kasprzak (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Iwona Kotko (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Oleh Kobzar (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Patryk Liniewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 
Łukasz Stawarz (Jagiellonian University, Poland) — chair
Krzysztof Ziętara (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

 

Conference Venue


Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University

ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

https://maps.app.goo.gl/qZNGqBhpg5TKP5JBA

Located in the center of Kraków's Old Town, this area features many hotels, restaurants, and cafes within walking distance. It is about a 20-minute commute by bus or tram to the main train station and offers convenient connections to the airport, 30 minutes by taxi and about 1 hour by city bus.

Lectures will take place in the Assembly Hall, with theater-style seating and a capacity of 560 people. Catering and posters will be displayed in the corridor on the ground floor of the building throughout the entire duration of the meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registration & Payment Details


Registration is available only via the Indico account. The deadline for registration is 20 July 2025.

The registration fee for all participants is 120 EUR. This fee includes all coffee breaks and the Welcome Reception. The fee should be paid strictly via bank transfer to:

Bank name: Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA 

Bank address: Żubra 1, 01-066 Warszawa

IBAN: PL04 1240 2294 1978 0010 7072 2467

BIC SWIFT: PKOPPLPW

Account holder: Jagiellonian University

Account holder address: Golebia 24, 31-007 Krakow, Poland

Purpose: WCD2025: name of the participant

Representations on Maintaining a Bank Account

An invoice will be issued upon confirmation of payment of the registration fee via bank transfer. This invoice will include the billing address and VAT number provided by a participant in the Registration Form.

Registration
Registration
Participants
  • Aleksandra Kowalska
  • Alicja Pucek
  • Amanda Weinstein
  • Antoine Beauchêne
  • Benjamin Quilain
  • Brían Ó Fearraigh
  • Christian Haack
  • Emilia Kuczma
  • Ewa Rondio
  • Federico Sanchez
  • Francis Halzen
  • Hide-Kazu TANAKA
  • Hiroyuki Sekiya
  • Iwona Kotko
  • Jagoda Sałdyka
  • Jagoda Wilk
  • Joanna Zalipska
  • João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André
  • Justyna Łagoda
  • Kamil Kasprzak
  • Katarzyna Kowalik
  • Lauren Anthony
  • Luis Labarga
  • Magdalena Posiadala-Zezula
  • Marcin Ziembicki
  • Marcos Dracos
  • Mariusz Girguś
  • Masato SHIOZAWA
  • Mingjun Chen
  • Oleh Kobzar
  • Olivier Drapier
  • Pablo Fernández Menéndez
  • Paschal Coyle
  • Patryk Liniewicz
  • Paweł Malecki
  • Sabrina Casanova
  • Takaaki Kajita
  • Tomáš Nosek
  • Yashwanth Sanjeev Prabhu
  • Yauheni Stsefanenka
  • Yoshitaka Itow
  • Łukasz Stawarz
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Main Neutrino WCD Experiments: I Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Luis Labarga Echeverría (I), Olivier Drapier (II)

      • 9:00 AM
        Introduction: Water Cherenkov Detectors 30m
        Speaker: Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo, Japan)
      • 9:30 AM
        Super-Kamiokande 30m
        Speaker: Hiroyuki Sekiya (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
      • 10:00 AM
        Hyper-Kamiokande 30m
        Speaker: Masato Shiozawa (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee break 30m Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Main Neutrino WCD Experiments: II Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Luis Labarga Echeverría (I), Olivier Drapier (II)

      • 11:00 AM
        IceCube 30m
        Speaker: Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
      • 11:30 AM
        KM3Net 30m
        Speaker: Paschal Coyle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France)
      • 12:00 PM
        Ancillary/test beams: IWCD & WCTE 15m
        Speaker: Lauren Anthony (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
      • 12:15 PM
        Ancillary/test beams: ANNIE 15m
        Speaker: Amanda Weinstein (Iowa State University, USA)
    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Other Neutrino Experiments Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Magdalena Posiadała-Zezula

      • 2:00 PM
        SNO+ 20m
        Speaker: Daniel Cookman (King's College London, United Kingdom)
      • 2:20 PM
        JUNO 20m
        Speaker: João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André (IPHC Strasbourg/IN2P3/CNRS, France)
      • 2:40 PM
        KamLAND 20m
      • 3:00 PM
        Gd in WC detectors 30m
        Speaker: Mark Vagins (IPMU, University of Tokyo, Japan)
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee break 30m Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland
    • 4:00 PM 5:20 PM
      WCD Gamma-ray Experiments Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Katarzyna Kowalik

      • 4:00 PM
        VHE γ-rays: HAWC 30m
        Speaker: Jordan Goodman
      • 4:30 PM
        VHE γ-rays: LHAASO 30m
        Speaker: Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
      • 5:00 PM
        VHE γ-rays: SWGO 20m
        Speaker: Jim Hinton (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany)
    • 5:30 PM 8:30 PM
      Welcome Reception & Poster Session 3h Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Theory and Results: I Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Ewa Rondio (I), Katarzyna Kowalik (II)

      • 9:00 AM
        Neutrino Interactions 30m
        Speaker: Federico Sanchez (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
      • 9:30 AM
        Neutrino Generators 30m
        Speaker: Seisho Abe (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
      • 10:00 AM
        Neutrino Oscillation 30m
        Speaker: Pablo Fernández Menéndez (Donostia International Physics Center, Spain)
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee break 30m Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Theory and Results: II Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Ewa Rondio (I), Katarzyna Kowalik (II)

      • 11:00 AM
        Solar Neutrino Oscillation Results 30m
        Speaker: Yuuki Nakano (University of Toyama, Japan)
      • 11:30 AM
        Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Results 30m
        Speaker: Philipp Eller (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
      • 12:00 PM
        Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Results 30m
        Speaker: Tomáš Nosek (Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Charles University, Czechia)
    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Beyond the Standard Model Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Magdalena Posiadała-Zezula

      • 2:00 PM
        Proton Decay 30m
        Speaker: Hide-Kazu Tanaka (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
      • 2:30 PM
        Dark Matter Searches 20m
      • 2:50 PM
        Sterile Neutrinos 20m
      • 3:10 PM
        Lorentz invariance & CPT 20m
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee break 30m Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Reconstruction Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Marcin Ziembicki

      • 4:00 PM
        Reconstruction: SK/HK 30m
        Speaker: Benjamin Quilain (ILANCE - CNRS-IN2P3 & University of Tokyo, France)
      • 4:30 PM
        Reconstruction: IceCube 30m
        Speaker: Christian Haack (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
      • 5:00 PM
        Reconstruction: KM3Net 30m
        Speaker: Brían Ó Fearraigh (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Italy)
    • 5:45 PM 8:00 PM
      Social event 2h 15m
    • 9:00 AM 11:00 AM
      Astrophysical Context Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Łukasz Stawarz

      • 9:00 AM
        Solar Physics with Neutrinos 20m
      • 9:20 AM
        Physics with Atmospheric Neutrinos 20m
      • 9:40 AM
        Supernova Physics with Neutrinos by very large detectors 20m
        Speaker: Mark Vagins (IPMU, University of Tokyo, Japan)
      • 10:00 AM
        Diffuse  Supernova Neutrino Background 20m
        Speaker: Antoine Beauchêne (Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK)
      • 10:20 AM
        Sources of High Energy Neutrinos 20m
        Speaker: Joanna Kiryluk (Stony Brook University, USA)
      • 10:40 AM
        Multi-messenger Astronomy 20m
        Speaker: Teresa Montaruli (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Coffee break 30m Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland
    • 11:30 AM 12:45 PM
      Future Neutrino Experiments Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Olivier Drapier

      • 11:30 AM
        Future Experiments: ESS-nuSB 30m
        Speaker: Marcos Dracos (Institut pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, France)
      • 12:00 PM
        Future Experiments: P-ONE 15m
        Speaker: Paweł Małecki (Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
      • 12:15 PM
        Future Experiments: TAMBO 15m
      • 12:30 PM
        Future Experiments: HUNT 15m
        Speaker: Mingjun Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
    • 12:45 PM 1:20 PM
      Closing Assembly Hall

      Assembly Hall

      Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

      ul. Krupnicza 33A, 31-123 Kraków, Poland

      chair: Marcin Ziembicki

      • 12:45 PM
        HyperK Instrumentation Highlights 30m
        Speaker: Yoshitaka Itow (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan)
      • 1:15 PM
        About SK2HK; Thanks, and Farewell 5m
        Speaker: Olivier Drapier (Ecole Polytechnique IN2P3-CNRS Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet Palaiseau France)