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 Welcome

Dark Matter: Part I

Président de session: Xavier Bertou (IJCLab)

1 Search for Axions, an overview

2 Direct Detection of Dark Matter with Electronic Recoils"

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

Orateur: Theresa Fruth

4 Search for Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter in XENONnT

Orateur: David Anton (University of Chicago)

11:00 Coffee Break

Physics of compact objects: Part I

Président de session: Gilles Maurin

5 Neutron star equation of state: current constraints and future perspectives

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

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

Orateur: Mathieu JACOBE DE NAUROIS (LLR Ecole Polytechnique)

7 The long-term multi-wavelength variability of PKS 0625-354

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

12:35 Lunch

Standard Model: Part I

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

8 Higgs boson properties at the LHC

Orateur: Emanuele Di Marco (Roma, Italy)

9 Probing the Higgs potential through Higgs boson pair production

Orateur: Marko Stamenkovic (Brown, US)

10 Fate of the Universe: insights from the LHC

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

Orateur: Ines Combes (IJCLab)

15:15 Coffee Break

Gravitation: Part I

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

12 Wave forms in binaries

Orateur: Laura Bernard (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)

13 Modified Gravity: application to Black Holes and GW

Orateur: David Langlois

14 Detection with resonant binary system

Orateur: Aurélien Hees

15 Detectability of the gravitational memory effect with LISA

Orateur: Adrien Cogez (CEA/IRFU/DPhP)

mar. 2 juin

Cosmology: Part I

Président de session: Éric Armengaud (IRFU)

16 Legacy cosmology results and lessons learnt from DESY6

Orateur: Martin Crocce

17 Latest cosmology results from DESI and its combination with weak lensing data

Orateur: Anna Porredon

18 Tensions in cosmology

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

19 Tracing the Redshift and Luminosity Evolution of the Halo Occupation Distribution Using Magnification Bias and Galaxy Clustering

Orateur: Juan Alberto Cano Díez

10:30 Coffee Break

Neutrinos: Part I

Président de session: Sara Bolognesi (CEA Saclay)

20 Neutrinos and new physics

Orateur: Francesco Vissani (GSSI)

21 Oscillations: importance and challenges of combination of present and future experiments

Orateur: Mark Scott (Imperial College)

22 Quantum correlations in neutrino oscillations

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

23 Quantum Correlations in Neutrino Oscillations: From Flat to Curved Spacetime

Orateur: Abhishek Jha (Institute of Science Bangalore)

12:30 Lunch

Gravitation: Part II

Président de session: Eleonora Polini

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

Orateur: Elenna Capote

25 GW third generation detectors: Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer

Orateur: Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)

26 LISA instrumentation and data analysis

Orateur: Alain SAVALLE (GANIL)

27 Searching for Short Unmodelled Gravitational-Wave Transients

Orateur: Sarah Baimukhametova

15:00 Coffee Break

Standard Model: Part II

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

28 Flavors of the Standard Model: precision, anomalies, and prospects

Orateur: Diego GUADAGNOLI (CNRS)

29 Lower-energy tests of the Standard Model

Orateur: Stéphanie ROCCIA (UGA/LPSC)

30 Probing lepton flavour universality with semileptonic B decays at LHCb

Orateur: Tommaso Fulghesu (CPPM)

31 Social event

mer. 3 juin

Day dedicated to climate science and a focus on two two-infinities future large projects: FCC and SKA.

32 Some introductory words

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

Orateur: Jean-Louis Dufresne

34 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

35 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

36 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

37 Clouds: acteurs across scales; from nanometers to global

Orateur: Andrea Flossmann

38 5-sigma : Is Climate Change More Detectable than the Higgs Boson ?

Orateur: Laurent Terray

39 Computing ,data analysis and tools for HEP and Astro/Cosmo

Orateur: Dominique BOUTIGNY (LAPP)

40 Future Circular Collider

Orateur: Dr Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

41 Einstein Telescope

Orateur: maria marsella (Sapienza University, Rome)

16:50 Coffee Break

42 Round Table on How to Pursue Fundamental Research with Minimal Environmental and Human Footprint

Orateur: Claire Gouny

jeu. 4 juin

Physics of compact objects: Part II

Président de session: Aaron Vincent

43 Gamma-ray bursts in the multi-messenger era

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

44 Dark Matter Inside Neutron Stars: A Hidden Ingredient

Orateur: Violetta Sagun (University of Southampton)

45 Gamma-Ray Emission from Astrophysical Sources

Orateur: MATTEO CERRUTI (Université de Paris / APC)

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

Orateur: Mathieu Venet

10:30 Coffee Break

Cosmology: Part II

Président de session: Belén Barreiro

47 State of the Art in Ground-Based Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Orateur: Thibault Louis (ijclab)

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

Orateur: Patricia Diego-Palazuelos

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

Orateur: Nicolas REGNAULT (LPNHE)

50 Realistic simulations for cosmology with type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia

Orateur: Luna DELLAZZERI (IP2I)

12:30 Lunch

Standard Model: Part III

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

51 W,Z and diboson boson production and physics at the LHC; Prospects at HL-LHC

Orateur: Kenneth Long (IP2I)

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

Orateur: Leticia CUNQUEIRO MENDEZ (Sapienza Rome University)

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

Orateur: Maria Jose Costa (Valencia, Spain)

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

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

15:00 Coffee Break

Neutrinos: Part II

Président de session: Francesc Montrabal

55 0νbb: precision physics measurements from 2νbb (nuclear and BSM)

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

56 0νbb: status and R&D beyond next-generation

Orateur: Julien MASBOU (Subatech - Université de Nantes)

57 Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement and beyond with the KATRIN Experimen

Orateur: Alessandro Schwemmer (MPIK)

Dark Matter: Part II

Président de session: Yajing Xing

58 Indirect Dark Matter searches

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

59 Future detectors in the search for Dark Matter

Orateur: Linehan Ryan

60 Quenching factor measurements for the NEWS-G experiment"

Orateur: Neha Panchal

ven. 5 juin

Neutrinos: Part III

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

61 CEvNS: combining results from different sources

Orateur: Valentina Di Romeri (IFIC)

62 SuperNova neutrinos: at the edge of the discovery of DSNB

Orateur: Thomas Müller (LLR)

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

Orateur: Ivan Esteban (University of the Basque Country)

64 Recent Results form SND@LHC experiment

Orateur: Riddhi Biswas (Nanyang Technological, University Singapore)

10:30 Coffee Break

Dark Matter: Part III

Président de session: Karoline Schaeffner

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

Orateur: Felix Wagner

66 Latest reports on the Migdal Effect and its impact on Dark Matter searches

Orateur: Chris McCabe

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

Orateur: Florian Reindl

68 The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory"

Orateur: Antoine Cools (University of Melbourne)

12:30 Lunch

Physics of compact objects: Part III

Président de session: Aaron Vincent

69 Forming transitional accretion disks around black holes

Orateur: Gibwa Musoke

70 The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts

Orateur: Robert Mochkovitch

71 Dark compact objects

Orateur: Melissa Diamond

72 Neural Networks for Gamma-Ray Burst Localization with COMCUBE-S

Orateur: Sally Hankache

15:00 Coffee Break

Cosmology: Part III

Président de session: Éric Armengaud (IRFU)

73 21cm Intensity Mapping in the SKA Observatory Era

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

74 Acceleration of the Universe: puzzles and prospects

Orateur: philippe brax (IPhT Paris-Saclay)

75 Genetic Algorithms with Marginalised Ensembles for model-independent reconstruction of cosmological quantities

Orateur: Matteo PERONACI

Gravitation: Part III

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

76 ACES-PHARAO

Orateur: Marc Lilley

77 To be confirmed

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

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