Young Scientist Workshop at Castle Ringberg

21 Jul 2025, 08:00 → 25 Jul 2025, 17:30 Europe/Berlin

Annette Sturm, Frank Daniel Steffen (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik ), Giulia Zanderighi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik ), IMPRS EPP Frank Steffen (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik )

This years IMPRS Young Scientist Workshop takes place at Castle Ringberg (located at Lake Tegernsee). More details on the castle can be found at: www.schloss-ringberg.de.

It is our yearly one week retreat (Mo-Fr) at which PhD researchers are expected to attend and to give presentations. Moreover, IMPRS alumni are invited to talk about their new activities outside of the academic world. In addition, key lectures may be offered by invited international experts in the respective fields. Finally, there are dedicated discussion sessions reserved for student specific topics.

Monday, 21 July

08:30 → 10:30 Departure from Garching/Munich towards Schloss Ringberg

10:30 → 11:15 Welcome Coffee/Tea in the Garden Room

11:15 → 11:40 Welcome to Ringberg Castle & Introduction Round

11:40 → 12:05 Resummation of secular logarithms in de Sitter space using EFT

Speaker: Andrea Federico Sanfilippo (TUM)

12:05 → 12:30 Analytic Adventures: An introduction to Bender–Wu branch points

Speaker: Nils Wagner (TUM)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:25 The CRESST experiment

Speaker: Federico Casadei

14:25 → 14:50 The Low Energy Excess

Speaker: Eleonora Rebecca Cipelli

14:50 → 15:15 Overview about the first results from the Run37 of the CRESST experiment

Speaker: Marco Maria Zanirato

15:15 → 15:40 Sensitivity projections for future CRESST detectors

Speaker: Felix Dominsky (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik )

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:25 QCD at Lepton Colliders

Speaker: Florian König (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

16:25 → 16:50 Polarised diboson production at NLO QCD including SMEFT

Speaker: Jakob Linder (PhD Student)

16:50 → 17:15 From QED Propagators to Calabi-Yau Geometries

Speaker: Felix Forner (TUM)

17:15 → 17:35 Coffee Break

17:35 → 18:00 Saturation of the Self-Modulation Instability

Speaker: Arthur Clairembaud

18:00 → 18:25 Corelating Light Emission and Plasma Wakefields

Speaker: Jan Mezger

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 22 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:25 Species, Towers and Black Holes

Speaker: Georgina Staudt

09:25 → 09:50 My favorite string theory topic

Speaker: Antonia Paraskevopoulou

09:50 → 10:15 Bulk-boundary Modular Quintessence and DESI

Speaker: Joaquin Aurelio Masias Teves (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

10:15 → 10:40 Emergent Yukawa couplings in M-theory

Speaker: Aleksandar Gligovic (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 11:35 A stochastic formalism for self-interacting scalars in inflation

Speaker: Dimitri Corradini (MPP)

11:35 → 12:30 Lecture: Quantum Resolution of Classical Backgrounds

Speaker: Dr Lasha Berezhiani (MPP)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:25 Advances in searching for Axions with MADMAX

Speaker: Dr Dagmar Kreikemeyer (MPP)

14:25 → 14:50 Possibility of a MADMAX booster at mK temperatures

Speaker: Juan Maldonado (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

14:50 → 15:15 The axion is going dark

Speaker: Dusan Novicic

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 16:10 Testing Fundamental Physics at GRAVITES: Axion-like Particles

Speaker: Tongxuan Zhang

16:10 → 16:35 Perturbative regime of Schwinger effect

Speaker: Philipp Bakauov (LMU ASC, MPP)

16:35 → 17:00 Collider Phenomenology of Colored Higgs Triplet

Speaker: Anna Jankowsky (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik )

17:00 → 17:30 Good Scientific Practise

Speaker: Dr Ralph Blumenhagen (MPP)

17:35 → 18:20 Guided Tour of Ringberg Castle

Speaker: Jochen Essl (Schloss Ringberg)

18:30 → 20:00 Bavarian Evening

Wednesday, 23 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:30 Lecture: Experimental SM and Higgs Physics at the LHC - Part 1

Speaker: Prof. Marumi Kado (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Gender Equality Workshop

Speakers: Dr Babette Döbrich, Barbara Wankerl (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik), Dr Dagmar Kreikemeyer, Joachim Weiss, Sara Ditsch (MPP)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:25 Kaon precision physics at NA62

Speaker: Jonathan Schubert (MPP - Munich)

14:25 → 14:50 The beauty of the bottom quark

Speaker: Dr Christian Biello (MPP)

14:50 → 15:15 A study of the H to bb~ decay with massive quarks

Speaker: Camilla Forgione

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Lecture: From correlation measurements at the LHC to the equation of state of neutron stars

Speaker: Prof. Laura Fabbietti (TUM)

17:00 → 18:00 Meeting the IMPRS PhD Researchers - Closed Session

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Thursday, 24 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:30 Lecture: Experimental SM and Higgs Physics at the LHC - Part 2

Speaker: Prof. Marumi Kado (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 18:30 Discussion time

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Friday, 25 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast & Check-out

09:00 → 09:25 COSINUS: Dark Matter Search with NaI Calorimeters

Speaker: Kumrie Shera (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

09:25 → 09:50 Automated Analysis for Large Arrays of Cryogenic Detectors

Speaker: Maximilian Gapp

09:50 → 10:15 Cosmic activation of the NaI crystals for the first COSINUS run

Speaker: Clemens Johannes Udo Dittmar (COSINUS, MPP)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:10 Measurement of differential cross-sections in the H → ZZ* → 4𝓁 decay channel with the ATLAS Run 3 data

Speaker: Elena Cuppini (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

11:10 → 11:35 Measurement of cross sections with WbWb final state with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Johannes Hessler (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

11:35 → 12:00 Transformers Model: From language to particle physics

Speaker: Arthur Hamilton (MPP)

12:00 → 12:25 Giant experiments and the land they are on: how to site more responsibly?

Speaker: Ana Fernandes Alexandre (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik )

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Departure & Return to Garching/Munich