Les Rencontres de Noirmoutier

Jun 1, 2026, 9:00 AM → Jun 5, 2026, 6:45 PM Europe/Paris

The "Rencontres de Noirmoutier 2026" conference will be held in the island of Noirmoutier (France)  from the 1^rst to the 5^th of June 2026

Village vacances des Quatre Vents

Two satellite events are attached to this conference : 

• A public conference on May 31tst by Roland Lehoucq (in french)  «  Enquête sur Interstellar »   
  Le film Interstellar, réalisé par Christopher Nolan, a marqué les esprits par les images époustouflantes qu’on y voit. Ayant bénéficié des conseils d’un physicien, le film rend hommage à l’un des objets les plus fascinants de l’univers : le trou noir. Mais ce film est-il aussi réaliste qu’il en a l’air ? Pour bâtir son histoire, Nolan n’a-t-il pas « négocié » quelques petits arrangements avec Einstein ? Quelles informations peut-on déduire des mondes présentés ? Durant cette conférence nous mènerons l’enquête pour le plaisir de comprendre un peu de physique et pour réaliser que, décidément, l’univers est un endroit bien curieux.
• A day,  "Histoires de temps", on saturday june 6th, dedicated to various approaches of time through physics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and a round table about links between these different views and way each of us live time. On line transcription in french and english. Details and registration here.

 

Outreach events : 

•  ILE project (Infini à l'ECOLE, ile.in2p3.fr) in some elementary schools on May 28th and 29th  
• A Village of Science at Intermarché supermaket of Noirmoutier on May 30th 
• Lectures in surrounding High schools by PhDs or Postdocs

Mon, June 1

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Dark Matter: Part I

Convener: Xavier Bertou (IJCLab)

9:30 AM Search for Axions, an overview

9:55 AM Direct Detection of Dark Matter with Electronic Recoils"

10:20 AM Direct Detection of Dark Matter with Nuclear Recoils: Progress and Prospects

Speaker: Theresa Fruth

10:45 AM Search for Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter in XENONnT

Speaker: David Anton (University of Chicago)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:35 PM Physics of compact objects: Part I

Convener: Gilles Maurin

11:30 AM Exploring dense matter physics with neutron star observations

Nuclear experiments and theory both fail to describe the behavior of dense and highly isospin asymmetric matter in relatively low temperature regimes. Such matter is however present in the deepest layers of the highly compact astrophysical objects that are neutron stars. In this talk, we discuss how astrophysical constraints based on multi-messenger observations of neutron stars have constrained the equation of state of dense matter and what improvements are expected with the next generation of detectors and observatories.

Speaker: Lami SULEIMAN (Laboratoire Univers et Théories, Observatoire de Paris.)

11:55 AM Very-high-energy gamma rays and compact objects: observations, constraints, and prospects

Speaker: Mathieu JACOBE DE NAUROIS (LLR Ecole Polytechnique)

12:20 PM The long-term multi-wavelength variability of PKS 0625-354

Speaker: Julia DE ASSIS SCARPIN (LLR, École Polytechnique)

12:35 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM → 3:15 PM Standard Model: Part I

Convener: Louis Portales (CEA Paris-Saclay, IRFU)

1:45 PM Higgs boson properties at the LHC

Speaker: Emanuele Di Marco (Roma, Italy)

2:10 PM Probing the Higgs potential through Higgs boson pair production

Speaker: Marko Stamenkovic (Brown, US)

2:35 PM Fate of the Universe: insights from the LHC

3:00 PM Development of a transformer-based tagger for di-Higgs production in the boosted bbττ final state

Speaker: Ines Combes (IJCLab)

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee Break

3:45 PM → 5:15 PM Gravitation: Part I

Convener: Karim Noui (IJCLab, Paris-Saclay)

3:45 PM Wave forms in binaries

Speaker: Laura Bernard (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)

4:10 PM Modified Gravity: application to Black Holes and GW

Speaker: David Langlois

4:35 PM Detection with resonant binary system

Speaker: Aurélien Hees

5:00 PM Detectability of the gravitational memory effect with LISA

Speaker: Adrien Cogez (CEA/IRFU/DPhP)

Tue, June 2

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Cosmology: Part I

Convener: Éric Armengaud (IRFU)

9:00 AM Legacy cosmology results and lessons learnt from DESY6

Speaker: Martin Crocce

9:25 AM Latest cosmology results from DESI and its combination with weak lensing data

Speaker: Anna Porredon

9:50 AM Tensions in cosmology

Speaker: Ali Rida Khalife (IAP-CNRS and Sorbonne University)

10:15 AM Tracing the Redshift and Luminosity Evolution of the Halo Occupation Distribution Using Magnification Bias and Galaxy Clustering

Speaker: Juan Alberto Cano Díez

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Neutrinos: Part I

Convener: Sara Bolognesi (CEA Saclay)

11:00 AM Neutrinos and new physics

Speaker: Francesco Vissani (GSSI)

11:25 AM Oscillations: importance and challenges of combination of present and future experiments

Speaker: Mark Scott (Imperial College)

11:50 AM Quantum correlations in neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Massimo Blasone (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Salerno)

12:15 PM Quantum Correlations in Neutrino Oscillations: From Flat to Curved Spacetime

Speaker: Abhishek Jha (Institute of Science Bangalore)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Gravitation: Part II

Convener: Eleonora Polini

1:30 PM GW ground-based detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA) : Status and upgrades

Speaker: Elenna Capote

1:55 PM GW third generation detectors: Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer

Speaker: Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)

2:20 PM LISA instrumentation and data analysis

Speaker: Etienne Savalle

2:45 PM Searching for Short Unmodelled Gravitational-Wave Transients

Speaker: Sarah Baimukhametova

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 4:35 PM Standard Model: Part II

Convener: Francesco POLCI (LPNHE (CNRS/IN2P3) Paris)

3:30 PM Flavors of the Standard Model: precision, anomalies, and prospects

Speaker: Diego GUADAGNOLI (CNRS)

3:55 PM Lower-energy tests of the Standard Model

Speaker: Stéphanie ROCCIA (UGA/LPSC)

4:20 PM Probing lepton flavour universality with semileptonic B decays at LHCb

Speaker: Tommaso Fulghesu (CPPM)

4:35 PM → 6:35 PM Social event

Wed, June 3

9:00 AM → 8:35 PM Day dedicated to climate science and a focus on two two-infinities future large projects: FCC and SKA.

9:00 AM Some introductory words

9:15 AM From atmospheric to Earth system model: A suite of numerical models to understand, analyse and anticipate climate changes

Speaker: Jean-Louis Dufresne

10:05 AM Monitoring the climate at a global scale with satellite observations : tools and challenges

Speaker: Helene Brogniez (LATMOS / UVSQ / Université Paris-Saclay)

10:55 AM Coffee Break

11:15 AM Key messages from the IPCC assessment of the physical science basis How are they built, what do they mean, what are the open questions for the next assessment?

Speaker: Sophie Szopa

11:50 AM Key messages from the IPCC assessment of mitigation options How knowledge from climate, engineering and social science is combined to provide insights on mitigation policies

Speaker: Franck Lecocq

12:25 PM Lunch

2:00 PM Clouds: acteurs across scales; from nanometers to global

Speaker: Andrea Flossmann

2:25 PM 5-sigma : Is Climate Change More Detectable than the Higgs Boson ?

Speaker: Laurent Terray

2:50 PM Computing ,data analysis and tools for HEP and Astro/Cosmo

Speaker: Dominique BOUTIGNY (LAPP)

3:30 PM Future Circular Collider

Speaker: Dr Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

4:10 PM Einstein Telescope

Speaker: maria marsella (Sapienza University, Rome)

4:50 PM Coffee Break

5:10 PM Round Table on How to Pursue Fundamental Research with Minimal Environmental and Human Footprint

Speaker: Claire Gouny

Thu, June 4

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Physics of compact objects: Part II

Convener: Aaron Vincent

9:00 AM Gamma-ray bursts in the multi-messenger era

Speaker: Frédéric DAIGNE (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris - Sorbonne University)

9:25 AM Dark Matter Inside Neutron Stars: A Hidden Ingredient

Speaker: Violetta Sagun (University of Southampton)

9:50 AM Gamma-Ray Emission from Astrophysical Sources

Speaker: MATTEO CERRUTI (Université de Paris / APC)

10:15 AM The PaPrameter Space of BNS Populations: Formation Channels and Merger Rates

Speaker: Mathieu Venet

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Cosmology: Part II

Convener: Belén Barreiro

11:00 AM State of the Art in Ground-Based Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: Thibault Louis (ijclab)

11:25 AM Cosmic birefringence: a hint of new physics in cosmology and fundamental physics

Speaker: Patricia Diego-Palazuelos

11:50 AM The Lemaitre project: an independent perspective of the w0-wa tension from type Ia Supernovae

Speaker: Nicolas REGNAULT (LPNHE)

12:15 PM Realistic simulations for cosmology with type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia

Speaker: Luna DELLAZZERI (IP2I)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Standard Model: Part III

Convener: Louis Portales (CEA Paris-Saclay, IRFU)

1:30 PM W,Z and diboson boson production and physics at the LHC; Prospects at HL-LHC

Speaker: Kenneth Long (IP2I)

1:55 PM QCD: from partonic structure to strongly interacting matter at extreme conditions

Speaker: Leticia CUNQUEIRO MENDEZ (Sapienza Rome University)

2:20 PM Production and physics of the top quark at the Large Hadron Collider; Prospects at HL-LHC

Speaker: Maria Jose Costa (Valencia, Spain)

2:45 PM The Mu3e Experiment: Are ultra-light detectors the future of particle physics?

Speaker: Aliki Sofia Rotelli (University of Oxford, UK)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 4:45 PM Neutrinos: Part II

Convener: Francesc Montrabal

3:30 PM 0νbb: precision physics measurements from 2νbb (nuclear and BSM)

Speaker: Pia Loaiza (IJCLab, IN2P3/CNRS Université Paris-Saclay)

3:55 PM 0νbb: status and R&D beyond next-generation

Speaker: Benjamin Schmidt

4:20 PM Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement and beyond with the KATRIN Experimen

Speaker: Alessandro Schwemmer (MPIK)

4:45 PM → 5:50 PM Dark Matter: Part II

Convener: Yajing Xing

4:45 PM Indirect Dark Matter searches

Speaker: Emmanuel Moulin (Irfu, CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay)

5:10 PM Future detectors in the search for Dark Matter

Speaker: Linehan Ryan

5:35 PM Quenching factor measurements for the NEWS-G experiment"

Speaker: Neha Panchal

Fri, June 5

8:25 AM → 10:30 AM Neutrinos: Part III

Convener: Leïla HAEGEL (IP2I Lyon / CNRS-IN2P3)

9:00 AM CEvNS: combining results from different sources

Speaker: Valentina Di Romeri (IFIC)

9:25 AM SuperNova neutrinos: at the edge of the discovery of DSNB

Speaker: Thomas Müller (LLR)

9:50 AM Neutrino telescopes for very high energy neutrinos: what do we learn on BSM and astrophysics ?

Speaker: Ivan Esteban (University of the Basque Country)

10:15 AM Recent Results form SND@LHC experiment

Speaker: Riddhi Biswas (Nanyang Technological, University Singapore)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Dark Matter: Part III

Convener: Karoline Schaeffner

11:00 AM Hunting the Wimpiest: Quantum Sensors, Calibration, Backgrounds in Light Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Felix Wagner

11:25 AM Latest reports on the Migdal Effect and its impact on Dark Matter searches

Speaker: Chris McCabe

11:50 AM Annual Modulation Searches for Dark Matter with NaI Detectors: Status, Challenges, and Recent Advances

Speaker: Florian Reindl

12:15 PM The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory"

Speaker: Antoine Cools (University of Melbourne)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Physics of compact objects: Part III

Convener: Aaron Vincent

1:30 PM Forming transitional accretion disks around black holes

Speaker: Gibwa Musoke

1:55 PM The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts

Speaker: Robert Mochkovitch

2:20 PM Dark compact objects

Speaker: Melissa Diamond

2:45 PM Neural Networks for Gamma-Ray Burst Localization with COMCUBE-S

Speaker: Sally Hankache

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 4:35 PM Cosmology: Part III

Convener: Éric Armengaud (IRFU)

3:30 PM 21cm Intensity Mapping in the SKA Observatory Era

Speaker: Marta Spinelli (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

3:55 PM Acceleration of the Universe: puzzles and prospects

Speaker: philippe brax (IPhT Paris-Saclay)

4:20 PM Genetic Algorithms with Marginalised Ensembles for model-independent reconstruction of cosmological quantities

Speaker: Matteo PERONACI

4:35 PM → 5:40 PM Gravitation: Part III

Convener: Antoine Petiteau (APC - Université Paris-Diderot)

4:35 PM ACES-PHARAO

Speaker: Marc Lilley

5:00 PM To be confirmed

5:25 PM Weighing the Quantum Vacuum: Latest Progress and Experimental Status of the Archimedes Experiment

Speaker: Marina ESPOSITO (Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli)