Name: KCETA Day 2026
Start: 2026-10-16T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-16T23:00:00+02:00
Location: KIT Campus South

KCETA Day 2026

Friday, October 16, 2026 - 9:30 AM

Monday, October 12, 2026
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Friday, October 16, 2026
9:30 AM Welcome - Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Welcome
- Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
9:30 AM - 9:35 AM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)
9:35 AM Excellence Strategy, Research Foci and KIT Centers - Ina Schaefer (KIT KASTEL)
Excellence Strategy, Research Foci and KIT Centers
- Ina Schaefer (KIT KASTEL)
9:35 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)
9:55 AM Welcome and KCETA introduction - Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Welcome and KCETA introduction
- Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
9:55 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)
10:15 AM Lighthouse projects
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)
Contributions

10:15 AM Tritium: Science, Technology & Applications - Magnus Schlösser (Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe - Institute of Astroparticle Physics)

10:30 AM AI-native experimental systems for Particle Physics - Jan Kieseler (KIT)

10:45 AM NUDARK - Decoding the Invisible Universe - Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Scientific Hot Topics
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)
Contributions

11:30 AM IceCube and Pierre Auger - Tim Huege (KIT)

11:50 AM EFTs - Anke Biekötter (KIT ITP)

12:10 PM cSTART - Matthias Fuchs
12:30 PM KCETA photo
KCETA photo
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)

12:35 PM Poster Session with light lunch

12:35 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Foyer Physics Building Campus South, B. 30.22
2:00 PM Postdoc Meeting
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)
Contributions

2:00 PM Presentation of yHEP - Athanasios Koutsostathis (Institut für Beschleunigerphysik und Technologie, KIT)

2:10 PM Discussion - Katrin Link
2:30 PM Emerging topics
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)
Contributions

2:30 PM FCC - Markus Klute

2:45 PM Liquid Xenon TPCs - Yanina Biondi (KIT)

3:00 PM Plasma wakefield accelerators - Joseph Natal
3:15 PM New research fields
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: NTI Lecture Auditorium at KIT Campus South (B 30.10)
Contributions

3:15 PM Black holes - Jens Boos

3:30 PM Gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions - Daniel Schmitt (KIT)

3:45 PM Crystal detectors - Alexey Elykov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
4:00 PM World Cafe on KCETA topics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Foyer Physics Building Campus South, B. 30.22
Contributions

4:00 PM Introduction - Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

4:10 PM Discussion
5:00 PM Discussion / Exchange / Networking + Snacks

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Foyer Physics Building Campus South, B. 30.22