Name: JS2026: 6th Jagiellonian Symposium on Advances in Particle Physics and Medicine
Start: 2026-07-05T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-10T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Collegium Novodvorscianum

Sunday, 5 July
- 15:30 → 16:15
  
  Visit to the UJ Museum 45m Collegium Maius
  
  Collegium Maius
  
  Jagiellońska 15, Kraków
- 16:15 → 20:15
  
  Welcome Reception 4h Collegium Maius
  
  Collegium Maius
  
  Jagiellońska 15, Kraków
Monday, 6 July
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  Registration and Coffee a Priori 30m
- 09:00 → 10:00
  Opening Ceremony
  - 09:00
    
    Rector for Research of the Jagiellonian University 15m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Wojciech Macyk (Jagiellonian University)
  - 09:15
    
    Welcome by European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI) 15m
  - 09:30
    
    World Health Organization (WHO) Resolution on Strengthening Medical Imaging Capacity 15m
    
    Speaker: Prof. John O. Prior (Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland)
  - 09:45
    
    Advancing Molecular Imaging with Jagiellonian PET 15m
    
    Speakers: Ewa Stepien (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) , Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University)
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Opening Lecture by Prof. Habib Zaidi 30m
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:40
  Multiplexed PET & Positronium Imaging
  - 11:00
    
    Biological Multiplexing With PET: Interrogating Multiple Disease Biomarkers In A Single PET Scan 25m
    
    Speaker: Craig Levin (Stanford University and University of Leeds)
  - 11:25
    
    From PALS To PLT: Randoms-Limited Precision & Activity Optimisation For Positronium Lifetime Tomography 20m
    
    Speaker: Jinyi Qi (UC Davis)
  - 11:45
    
    Positronium Lifetime Imaging On The Biograph Vision Quadra: From Validation To First In-Vivo Clinical Results 20m
    
    Speaker: Narendra Rathod
  - 12:05
    
    Fast 3D Positronium Lifetime Estimation 20m
    
    Speaker: Hsin-Hsiung Huang (University of Central Florida)
  - 12:25
    
    Evaluation of Novel β⁺γ Emitters For Positronium Lifetime Imaging With The Modular J-PET Scanner 15m
    
    Speaker: Manish Das (Jagielloninan University)
- 12:40 → 12:50
  
  Conference Photo 10m
- 12:50 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 10m
- 14:00 → 15:10
  Particle Therapy Monitoring
  - 14:00
    
    Advanced On-Board Imaging For Precision Small Animal Proton And Light Ion Radiation Research 25m
    
    Speaker: Katia Parodi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
  - 14:25
    
    A Deep Learning Framework For Water-Equivalent Portal Dose Reconstruction And Treatment Error Detection Using E-PID Imaging For Phantoms And Patients 15m
    
    Speaker: Aafke Kraan (INFN Pisa)
  - 14:40
    
    In-Beam PET For First In Vivo Proton Range Assessment In Small-Animal Therapy With Online Image Reconstruction 15m
    
    Speaker: Giulio Lovatti (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  - 14:55
    
    Range Monitoring In Proton Therapy Using The J-PET Scanner: Extended Experimental Studies 15m
    
    Speaker: Szymon Niedźwiecki (Jagiellonian University)
- 15:10 → 16:45
  PET Imaging Innovations (QE)
  - 15:10
    
    Positronium Ratio Imaging, Quantum Entangled PET And Double Photon Emission Imaging With A RingType Compton-PET Scanner 25m
    
    Speaker: Kenji Shimazoe (The University of Tokyo)
  - 15:35
    
    Positronium Ratio Imaging, Quantum Entangled PET And Double Photon Emission Imaging With A RingType Compton-PET Scanner 20m
    
    Speaker: Youngho Seo (University of California, San Francisco)
  - 15:55
    
    Nuclear Medicine Imaging With Angular Correlation Measurement For Local Microenvironment Sensing 20m
    
    Speaker: Mizuki Uenomachi (Institute of Science Tokyo)
  - 16:15
    
    Feasibility Study of 3-Gamma Imaging With TotalBody J-PET 15m
    
    Speaker: Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili
  - 16:30
    
    In Vivo Positronium Ratio Imaging Via Direct Localization of O-Ps Three-Photon Annihilation 15m
    
    Speaker: Macoto Fujimoto
- 16:45 → 17:15
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 17:15 → 18:30
  Radiopharmaceuticals for Theranostics
  - 17:15
    
    From Radiopharmaceutical Development To Clinical Trials: Polatom’s Experience 20m
    
    Speaker: Renata Mikołajczak (NCBJ, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Radioisotope Centre POLATOM, Poland)
  - 17:35
    
    Subtype-Specific Insights In Breast Cancer Radiotheranostics 20m
    
    Speaker: Martina Benešová-Schäfer (DKFZ)
  - 17:55
    
    Sustainable Inorganic-Organic Hybrids As Drug Delivery Systems 15m
    
    Speaker: Agnieszka Kyzioł (Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University)
  - 18:10
    
    Implementation Of ETHOS Automated Adaptive Therapy In Patients Treated For Malignant Prostate Tumours 15m
    
    Speaker: Marzena Janiszewska (Lower Silesian Oncology, Pulmonology and Hematology Center, Wroclaw, Poland)
- 19:00 → 20:00
  
  Public lecture by Prof. Simon Cherry 1h
  
  In the historical hall of Collegium Novum
Tuesday, 7 July
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  Coffee a Priori 30m
- 09:00 → 10:15
  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  - 09:00
    
    Artificial Intelligence In Medicine 25m
    
    Speaker: Mahadevappa Mahesh (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  - 09:25
    
    An NLP-Based AI System For Post-Radiation Patient Triage 20m
    
    Speaker: Joanna Polanska (Silesian University of Technology)
  - 09:45
    
    AI-Enhanced In Vitro And In Vivo Imaging of Preclinical Cancer Models 15m
    
    Speaker: Martyna Krzykawska-Serda (Jagiellonian University)
  - 10:00
    
    AI-based delineation of lymphoma lesions in FDG PET 15m
    
    Speaker: Pavel Nikulin (Department of Positron Emission Tomography, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Dresden, Germany)
- 10:15 → 10:45
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 10:45 → 12:35
  Quantum Entanglement in Positron Emission Tomography
  - 10:45
    
    Quantum Entanglement of Positron Annihilation Quanta: From Exploration of Fundamental Aspects To Application In PET Imaging 20m
    
    Speaker: Mihael Makek (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)
    
    Makek_JS2026_Symposium_v3.pptx
  - 11:05
    
    Interaction Profiling of β⁺γ Isotopes With An Edge-On CZT-Based Imaging System: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study 20m
    
    Speaker: Shiva Abbaszadeh
  - 11:25
    
    Operational Signatures of Bell Photons Beyond Polarization Filters 20m
    
    Speaker: Peter Caradonna (Ishikawa & Sato Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management)
  - 11:45
    
    Towards Rigorous Entanglement Detection of ParaPositronium Annihilation Photons 20m
    
    Speaker: Tomasz Sowiński (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  - 12:05
    
    Preliminary In Vivo Mouse Imaging Study Using Quantum Entanglement-Based PET 15m
    
    Speaker: Koki Nakamura (University of Tokyo)
  - 12:20
    
    Measuring the Polarization Correlation of Annihilation Photons in e⁺e⁻ Decays using Modular J-PET 15m
    
    Speaker: Deepak Kumar (Jagiellonian University)
- 12:35 → 13:50
  
  Lunch 1h 15m
- 13:50 → 15:10
  PET and Brain-PET Imaging Innovations
  - 13:50
    
    Beyond Scale: Detector Physics Perspectives On The Future of PET 25m
    
    Speaker: Taiga Yamaya (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST))
  - 14:15
    
    Progress In Developing A Small Two-Head Prototype Scanner For Reconstruction-Free Direct Positron Emission Imaging 20m
    
    Speaker: Sun Il Kwon (University of California Davis)
  - 14:35
    
    Ultra-High-Performance Brain PET (UHB-PET): Preliminary Results 20m
    
    Speaker: Sadek Nehmeh (Weill Cornell Medical College)
  - 14:55
    
    First in-human Quantum Entanglement imaging 15m
    
    Speaker: Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University)
- 15:10 → 15:40
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 15:40 → 16:35
  Antimatter in Fundamental Physics
  - 15:40
    
    Testing Matter-Antimatter And Other Discrete Symmetries In Particle Physics 25m
    
    Speaker: Antonio Di Domenico (Sapienza University and INFN Rome, Italy)
    
    didomenico_Krakow_Symposium_2026_9_web_nsp.pdf
  - 16:05
    
    Dalitz Plot Study For Ortho-Positronium Decays Into Three Photons With The J-PET Tomograph 15m
    
    Speaker: Magdalena Skurzok (Jagiellonian University)
  - 16:20
    
    Status of CPT Symmetry Test In Ortho-Positronium Decays With The Modular J-PET Detector 15m
    
    Speaker: Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University)
- 17:00 → 19:00
  
  Baroque Concert in St. Anne's Collegiate Church 2h St. Anne's Collegiate Church
  
  St. Anne's Collegiate Church
Wednesday, 8 July
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 09:00 → 10:00
  Advances in Theranostics
  - 09:00
    
    Inhalable Drug Delivery Systems Based On Lipids And Polymers To Treat Lung Diseases 25m
    
    Speaker: Elżbieta Pamuła (AGH University of Krakow)
  - 09:25
    
    PET-Guided Endovascular Medicine 20m
    
    Speaker: Miroslaw Janowski
  - 09:45
    
    AI-Designed Mini-Proteins For Targeted Imaging And Radiotherapy 15m
    
    Speaker: Michal Bista (Fusiomica sp. z o.o.)
- 10:00 → 10:25
  
  Keynote: Why Standardization Matters in Radiation Medicine 25m
  
  by Prof. Pawel Olko
- 10:25 → 11:00
  
  Panel: Medical Experiments & Clinical Trials 35m
  
  Chair: Prof. Mahadevappa Mahesh
  Panelists: Prof. Beyer, Prof. Olko, Prof. Schulz, Prof.
  Janowski, Prof. Stępień
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  PET Imaging Innovations
  - 11:30
    
    Meta-scintillators: A Door Open To The 10 Ps Time-ofFlight PET Challenge 25m
    
    Speaker: Paul Lecoq (CERN)
  - 11:55
    
    Quantitative reconstructions of Activity and Attenuation from time-of-flight PET data 20m
    
    Speaker: Ahmadreza Rezaei (KU Leuven)
    
    Jagellonian2026_talk.pptx
  - 12:15
    
    Analytical Modelling of Blank Scan for DetectorScattered Attenuation Correction (DSAC) 15m
    
    Speaker: Satyam Tiwari (Jagiellonian University)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 15:00
  Antimatter in Material Physics & Medicine
  - 14:00
    
    Defects In Semiconductors As Seen By Positrons 25m
    
    Speaker: Filip Tuomisto
  - 14:25
    
    Toward Positronium Imaging: Body Temperature Dependence And Gamma-Ray-Induced Positron Imaging 19m
    
    Speaker: Sodai Takyu
  - 14:44
    
    The DRS4 Chip For PALS Measurements: The PSI Evaluation Board And The Integrated LifetimeSpec Tabletop Spectrometer 15m
    
    Speaker: Torsten Staab (LCTM - Faculty of Chemistry - University Würzburg)
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 15:30 → 16:30
  Antimatter in Fundamental & Material Physics
  - 15:30
    
    Light-Induced Desorption of Positronium 25m
    
    Speaker: Jakub Cizek (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University)
  - 15:55
    
    Positron Annihilation In Bio nanotechnology: Design Principles For Polymer-Based Biosensors 20m
    
    Speaker: Taras Kavetskyy (Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University)
  - 16:15
    
    Development And Applications of New Nanomaterials For High Speed, High Efficiency And High-Resolution Radiation Detectors 15m
    
    Speaker: Marian Cholewa (University of Rzeszow)
- 17:40 → 17:45
  
  Departure from Auditorium Maximum 5m
- 18:30 → 20:30
  
  Conference Banquet at Manor House in Modlnica 2h Manor House in Modlnica
  
  Manor House in Modlnica
Thursday, 9 July
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  Coffee a priori 30m
- 09:00 → 10:10
  PET Imaging Innovations & Total-body PET
  - 09:00
    
    Next-Generation Affordable PET for Public Health: From Wearable Brain PET to Total-Body PET 25m
    
    Speaker: Qiyu Peng (ShenZhen Bay Laboratory)
  - 09:25
    
    Distinct Spatial Resolution Advantages of Combining The TB-J-PET With A Brain PET Insert 15m
    
    Speaker: Martin Rädler (Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University)
  - 09:40
    
    Flexible, Mobile And Modular PET Imaging 15m
    
    Speaker: Gašper Razdevšek (Jožef Stefan Institute)
    
    Jagiellonian_Symposium_2026_PetVision_RazdevsekG.pdf
    
    Jagiellonian_Symposium_2026_PetVision_RazdevsekG.pptx
  - 09:55
    
    Performance Evaluation of A Brain PET Prototype With Crosshair Light-Sharing Detectors 15m
    
    Speaker: Kurumi Narita (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan)
- 10:10 → 10:50
  Panel: Democratizing PET Worldwide
  - 10:10
    
    Democratizing PET Worldwide 40m
    
    Speaker: Thomas Beyer (QIMP Team)
- 10:50 → 11:20
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:20 → 12:25
  Progress in Cell Therapy & Brain Imaging
  - 11:20
    
    Stem Cell Imaging For Cardiovascular Cellular Therapies 25m
    
    Speaker: Maciej Kurpisz (Institute of Human Genetics, PAS)
  - 11:45
    
    Brain Imaging of Chronic Pain: Insights from Nuclear Medicine 25m
    
    Speaker: Miwako Takahashi (QST)
  - 12:10
    
    From Syngeneic To Human Melanoma Models: Longitudinal Micro-CT Tracking of Metastatic Progression In Mice 15m
    
    Speaker: Bartosz Leszczyński
- 12:25 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 35m
- 14:00 → 15:30
  PET & Positronium Imaging Innovations
  - 14:00
    
    A Fast Positron Lifetime Tomography Method And Initial Phantom And Animal Results 20m
    
    Speaker: Chien-Min Kao (University of Chicago)
  - 14:20
    
    MC Simulation Studies Of O-Ps Imaging Of Single-Cell Tumor Growth Models In Anthropomorphic Phantoms 20m
    
    Speaker: Joerg Peter (German Cancer Research Center)
  - 14:40
    
    Accelerator Based PET Innovations: Position Sensitive Imaging And ^44Ti/^44Sc Generator Development 20m
    
    Speaker: Pete Jones (iThemba LABS)
  - 15:00
    
    NEMA Phantom Characteristics of Simultaneous Double Isotope Imaging With J-PET Using ^55Co + ^18F And ^52Mn + ^18F Isotopes 15m
    
    Speaker: Ermias Yitayew Beyene
  - 15:15
    
    Positronium Lifetime Imaging Through Iterative Reconstruction Methods Utilizing J-PET And Biograph Vision Quadra 15m
    
    Speaker: Anand Pandey (Jagiellonian University)
- 15:30 → 15:40
  
  Conference Photo 10m
- 15:40 → 17:30
  
  Poster Session & Coffee 1h 50m
Friday, 10 July
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  Coffee a Priori 30m
- 09:00 → 10:35
  Exotic Atoms & Nuclei, Nuclear Physics
  - 09:00
    
    Studies of The Phi-Nucleon Interaction Using FinalState Interactions 25m
    
    Speaker: Takatsugu Ishikawa (Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University)
  - 09:25
    
    Hyperonic Interaction Studies At The LHC To Understand Neutron Stars 20m
    
    Speaker: Raffaele Del Grande (LNF-INFN)
    
    DelGrande_UJSymposium2026_v2.pdf
  - 09:45
    
    Exotic Case: Possible Observation Of A Bound Diproton & It’s Decay In An Unbound Deuteron 20m
    
    Speaker: Ihor Kadenko (International Nuclear Safety Center of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
  - 10:05
    
    From Medical Isotope Research To Fundamental Nuclear Physics: Sub-Threshold 99mTc Production Suggests Possible Bound Dineutron State 15m
    
    Speaker: Lars Eggimann (University of Bern)
  - 10:20
    
    µPPET Detector System 15m
    
    Speaker: Alessio Porcelli (Jagiellonian University)
- 10:35 → 11:05
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:05 → 12:25
  Antimatter in Fundamental & Material Physics
  - 11:05
    
    Advances In Positronium Microwave Spectroscopy 25m
    
    Speaker: David Cassidy (University College London)
  - 11:30
    
    Portable J-PET modules as a reconfigurable detection system for antimatter physics 20m
    
    Speaker: Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University)
  - 11:50
    
    Probing The Nuclear Periphery Via The Cold Annihilation of Antiprotonic Atoms 20m
    
    Speaker: Fredrik Olof Andre Parnefjord Gustafsson (CERN, Switzerland)
  - 12:10
    
    Beyond The Exponential Law: What Fluorescence Reveals About Quantum Decay 15m
    
    Speaker: Milena Piotrowska (Jan Kochanowski University, Poland)
- 12:25 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 35m
- 14:00 → 15:00
  Exotic Atoms & Nuclei, Nuclear Physics
  - 14:00
    
    Generation of Exotic Ions Through The Collision of Slow Positrons With Solid Surfaces And Their Applications In Atomic Physics 25m
    
    Speaker: Yasuyuki Nagashima (Tokyo University of Science)
  - 14:25
    
    Spectroscopy of Pionic Atoms & η' Mesic Nuclei 20m
    
    Speaker: Kenta Itahashi (Department of Physics, The University of Osaka)
  - 14:45
    
    Validated Optical Photon Modeling of Long Plastic Scintillators For Precision Timing Applications 15m
    
    Speaker: Sumit Kumar Kundu (Jagiellonian University)
- 15:00 → 16:00
  PET & Positronium Imaging Innovations
  - 15:00
    
    How AI Is Reshaping Next-Generation PET Systems Design 25m
    
    Speaker: Volkmar Schultz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
  - 15:25
    
    Positronium Imaging Through Energy Measurements In 3-Gamma Annihilation Events 20m
    
    Speaker: Krzysztof Starosta (Simon Fraser University)
  - 15:45
    
    Integration of Compton Camera With PET: A Compton-PET System Towards Multi-Energy Radionuclide Imaging 15m
    
    Speaker: Siddharth Parashari (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC-UV))
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Closing Lecture by Prof. Stefan Ulmer 30m
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 17:00 → 17:30
  
  Award Presentation & Closing Ceremony 30m

JS2026: 6th Jagiellonian Symposium on Advances in Particle Physics and Medicine

Collegium Novodvorscianum

Collegium Maius

Collegium Maius

St. Anne's Collegiate Church

Manor House in Modlnica