Les Rencontres de Noirmoutier

1 juin 2026, 09:00 → 5 juin 2026, 18:45 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

lun. 1 juin

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome

09:30 → 11:00 Dark Matter: Part I

Président de session: Xavier Bertou (IJCLab)

09:30 Search for Axions, an overview

09:55 Direct Detection of Dark Matter with Electronic Recoils"

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

Orateur: Theresa Fruth

10:45 Search for Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter in XENONnT

Orateur: David Anton (University of Chicago)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

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

Président de session: Gilles Maurin

11:30 Neutron star equation of state: current constraints and future perspectives

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

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

Orateur: Mathieu JACOBE DE NAUROIS (LLR Ecole Polytechnique)

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

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

12:35 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 Standard Model: Part I

Président de session: Louis Portales (CEA Paris-Saclay, IRFU)

13:45 Higgs boson properties at the LHC

Orateur: Emanuele Di Marco (Roma, Italy)

14:10 Probing the Higgs potential through Higgs boson pair production

Orateur: Marko Stamenkovic (Brown, US)

14:35 Fate of the Universe: insights from the LHC

15:00 Development of a transformer-based tagger for di-Higgs production in the boosted bbττ final state

Orateur: Ines Combes (IJCLab)

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:15 Gravitation: Part I

Président de session: Karim Noui (IJCLab, Paris-Saclay)

15:45 Wave forms in binaries

Orateur: Laura Bernard (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)

16:10 Modified Gravity: application to Black Holes and GW

Orateur: David Langlois

16:35 Detection with resonant binary system

Orateur: Aurélien Hees

17:00 Detectability of the gravitational memory effect with LISA

Orateur: Adrien Cogez (CEA/IRFU/DPhP)

mar. 2 juin

09:00 → 10:30 Cosmology: Part I

Président de session: Éric Armengaud (IRFU)

09:00 Legacy cosmology results and lessons learnt from DESY6

Orateur: Martin Crocce

09:25 Latest cosmology results from DESI and its combination with weak lensing data

Orateur: Anna Porredon

09:50 Tensions in cosmology

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

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

Orateur: Juan Alberto Cano Díez

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Neutrinos: Part I

Président de session: Sara Bolognesi (CEA Saclay)

11:00 Neutrinos and new physics

Orateur: Francesco Vissani (GSSI)

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

Orateur: Mark Scott (Imperial College)

11:50 Quantum correlations in neutrino oscillations

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

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

Orateur: Abhishek Jha (Institute of Science Bangalore)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Gravitation: Part II

Président de session: Eleonora Polini

13:30 GW ground-based detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA) : Status and upgrades

Orateur: Elenna Capote

13:55 GW third generation detectors: Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer

Orateur: Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)

14:20 LISA instrumentation and data analysis

Orateur: Alain SAVALLE (GANIL)

14:45 Searching for Short Unmodelled Gravitational-Wave Transients

Orateur: Sarah Baimukhametova

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:35 Standard Model: Part II

Président de session: Francesco POLCI (LPNHE (CNRS/IN2P3) Paris)

15:30 Flavors of the Standard Model: precision, anomalies, and prospects

Orateur: Diego GUADAGNOLI (CNRS)

15:55 Lower-energy tests of the Standard Model

Orateur: Stéphanie ROCCIA (UGA/LPSC)

16:20 Probing lepton flavour universality with semileptonic B decays at LHCb

Orateur: Tommaso Fulghesu (CPPM)

16:35 → 18:35 Social event

mer. 3 juin

09:00 → 20:35 Day dedicated to climate science and a focus on two two-infinities future large projects: FCC and SKA.

09:00 Some introductory words

09:15 From atmospheric to Earth system model: A suite of numerical models to understand, analyse and anticipate climate changes

Orateur: Jean-Louis Dufresne

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

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

10:55 Coffee Break

11:15 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?

Orateur: Sophie Szopa

11:50 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

Orateur: Franck Lecocq

12:25 Lunch

14:00 Clouds: acteurs across scales; from nanometers to global

Orateur: Andrea Flossmann

14:25 5-sigma : Is Climate Change More Detectable than the Higgs Boson ?

Orateur: Laurent Terray

14:50 Computing ,data analysis and tools for HEP and Astro/Cosmo

Orateur: Dominique BOUTIGNY (LAPP)

15:30 Future Circular Collider

Orateur: Dr Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

16:10 Einstein Telescope

Orateur: maria marsella (Sapienza University, Rome)

16:50 Coffee Break

17:10 Round Table on How to Pursue Fundamental Research with Minimal Environmental and Human Footprint

Orateur: Claire Gouny

jeu. 4 juin

09:00 → 10:30 Physics of compact objects: Part II

Président de session: Aaron Vincent

09:00 Gamma-ray bursts in the multi-messenger era

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

09:25 Dark Matter Inside Neutron Stars: A Hidden Ingredient

Orateur: Violetta Sagun (University of Southampton)

09:50 Gamma-Ray Emission from Astrophysical Sources

Orateur: MATTEO CERRUTI (Université de Paris / APC)

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

Orateur: Mathieu Venet

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Cosmology: Part II

Président de session: Belén Barreiro

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

Orateur: Thibault Louis (ijclab)

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

Orateur: Patricia Diego-Palazuelos

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

Orateur: Nicolas REGNAULT (LPNHE)

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

Orateur: Luna DELLAZZERI (IP2I)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Standard Model: Part III

Président de session: Louis Portales (CEA Paris-Saclay, IRFU)

13:30 W,Z and diboson boson production and physics at the LHC; Prospects at HL-LHC

Orateur: Kenneth Long (IP2I)

13:55 QCD: from partonic structure to strongly interacting matter at extreme conditions

Orateur: Leticia CUNQUEIRO MENDEZ (Sapienza Rome University)

14:20 Production and physics of the top quark at the Large Hadron Collider; Prospects at HL-LHC

Orateur: Maria Jose Costa (Valencia, Spain)

14:45 The Mu3e Experiment: Are ultra-light detectors the future of particle physics?

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

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:45 Neutrinos: Part II

Président de session: Francesc Montrabal

15:30 0νbb: precision physics measurements from 2νbb (nuclear and BSM)

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

15:55 0νbb: status and R&D beyond next-generation

Orateur: Julien MASBOU (Subatech - Université de Nantes)

16:20 Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement and beyond with the KATRIN Experimen

Orateur: Alessandro Schwemmer (MPIK)

16:45 → 17:50 Dark Matter: Part II

Président de session: Yajing Xing

16:45 Indirect Dark Matter searches

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

17:10 Future detectors in the search for Dark Matter

Orateur: Linehan Ryan

17:35 Quenching factor measurements for the NEWS-G experiment"

Orateur: Neha Panchal

ven. 5 juin

08:25 → 10:30 Neutrinos: Part III

Président de session: Leïla HAEGEL (IP2I Lyon / CNRS-IN2P3)

09:00 CEvNS: combining results from different sources

Orateur: Valentina Di Romeri (IFIC)

09:25 SuperNova neutrinos: at the edge of the discovery of DSNB

Orateur: Thomas Müller (LLR)

09:50 Neutrino telescopes for very high energy neutrinos: what do we learn on BSM and astrophysics ?

Orateur: Ivan Esteban (University of the Basque Country)

10:15 Recent Results form SND@LHC experiment

Orateur: Riddhi Biswas (Nanyang Technological, University Singapore)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Dark Matter: Part III

Président de session: Karoline Schaeffner

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

Orateur: Felix Wagner

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

Orateur: Chris McCabe

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

Orateur: Florian Reindl

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

Orateur: Antoine Cools (University of Melbourne)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Physics of compact objects: Part III

Président de session: Aaron Vincent

13:30 Forming transitional accretion disks around black holes

Orateur: Gibwa Musoke

13:55 The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts

Orateur: Robert Mochkovitch

14:20 Dark compact objects

Orateur: Melissa Diamond

14:45 Neural Networks for Gamma-Ray Burst Localization with COMCUBE-S

Orateur: Sally Hankache

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:35 Cosmology: Part III

Président de session: Éric Armengaud (IRFU)

15:30 21cm Intensity Mapping in the SKA Observatory Era

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

15:55 Acceleration of the Universe: puzzles and prospects

Orateur: philippe brax (IPhT Paris-Saclay)

16:20 Genetic Algorithms with Marginalised Ensembles for model-independent reconstruction of cosmological quantities

Orateur: Matteo PERONACI

16:35 → 17:40 Gravitation: Part III

Président de session: Antoine Petiteau (APC - Université Paris-Diderot)

16:35 ACES-PHARAO

Orateur: Marc Lilley

17:00 To be confirmed

17:25 Weighing the Quantum Vacuum: Latest Progress and Experimental Status of the Archimedes Experiment

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