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

from Sunday, 5 July 2026 (10:00) to Friday, 10 July 2026 (20:30)
Collegium Novodvorscianum

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Jul 2026
6 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026
AM
08:30 --- Registration and Coffee a Priori ---
09:00
Opening Ceremony (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Rector for Research of the Jagiellonian University - Prof. Wojciech Macyk (Jagiellonian University)   ()
09:15 Welcome by European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI)   ()
09:30 World Health Organization (WHO) Resolution on Strengthening Medical Imaging Capacity - Prof. John O. Prior (Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland)   ()
09:45 Advancing Molecular Imaging with Jagiellonian PET - Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University) Ewa Stepien (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski)   ()
10:00 --- Opening Lecture by Prof. Habib Zaidi ---
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Multiplexed PET & Positronium Imaging (until 12:40) ()
11:00 Biological Multiplexing With PET: Interrogating Multiple Disease Biomarkers In A Single PET Scan - Craig Levin (Stanford University and University of Leeds)   ()
11:25 From PALS To PLT: Randoms-Limited Precision & Activity Optimisation For Positronium Lifetime Tomography - Jinyi Qi (UC Davis)   ()
11:45 Positronium Lifetime Imaging On The Biograph Vision Quadra: From Validation To First In-Vivo Clinical Results - Narendra Rathod   ()
12:05 Fast 3D Positronium Lifetime Estimation - 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 - Manish Das (Jagielloninan University)   ()
08:30 --- Coffee a Priori ---
09:00
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (until 10:15) ()
09:00 Artificial Intelligence In Medicine - Mahadevappa Mahesh (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)   ()
09:25 An NLP-Based AI System For Post-Radiation Patient Triage - Joanna Polanska (Silesian University of Technology)   ()
09:45 AI-Enhanced In Vitro And In Vivo Imaging of Preclinical Cancer Models - Martyna Krzykawska-Serda (Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:00 AI-based delineation of lymphoma lesions in FDG PET - Pavel Nikulin (Department of Positron Emission Tomography, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Dresden, Germany)   ()
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Quantum Entanglement in Positron Emission Tomography (until 12:35) ()
10:45 Quantum Entanglement of Positron Annihilation Quanta: From Exploration of Fundamental Aspects To Application In PET Imaging - Mihael Makek (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)   ()
11:05 Interaction Profiling of β⁺γ Isotopes With An Edge-On CZT-Based Imaging System: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study - Shiva Abbaszadeh   ()
11:25 Operational Signatures of Bell Photons Beyond Polarization Filters - Peter Caradonna (Ishikawa & Sato Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management)   ()
11:45 Towards Rigorous Entanglement Detection of ParaPositronium Annihilation Photons - Tomasz Sowiński (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)   ()
12:05 Preliminary In Vivo Mouse Imaging Study Using Quantum Entanglement-Based PET - Koki Nakamura (University of Tokyo)   ()
12:20 Measuring the Polarization Correlation of Annihilation Photons in e⁺e⁻ Decays using Modular J-PET - Deepak Kumar (Jagiellonian University)   ()
08:30 --- Coffee break ---
09:00
Advances in Theranostics (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Inhalable Drug Delivery Systems Based On Lipids And Polymers To Treat Lung Diseases - Elżbieta Pamuła (AGH University of Krakow)   ()
09:25 PET-Guided Endovascular Medicine - Miroslaw Janowski   ()
09:45 AI-Designed Mini-Proteins For Targeted Imaging And Radiotherapy - Michal Bista (Fusiomica sp. z o.o.)   ()
10:00 --- Keynote: Why Standardization Matters in Radiation Medicine ---
10:25 --- Panel: Medical Experiments & Clinical Trials ---
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
PET Imaging Innovations (until 12:30) ()
11:30 Meta-scintillators: A Door Open To The 10 Ps Time-ofFlight PET Challenge - Paul Lecoq (CERN)   ()
11:55 Quantitative reconstructions of Activity and Attenuation from time-of-flight PET data - Ahmadreza Rezaei (KU Leuven)   ()
12:15 Analytical Modelling of Blank Scan for DetectorScattered Attenuation Correction (DSAC) - Satyam Tiwari (Jagiellonian University)   ()
08:30 --- Coffee a priori ---
09:00
PET Imaging Innovations & Total-body PET (until 10:10) ()
09:00 Next-Generation Affordable PET for Public Health: From Wearable Brain PET to Total-Body PET - Qiyu Peng (ShenZhen Bay Laboratory)   ()
09:25 Distinct Spatial Resolution Advantages of Combining The TB-J-PET With A Brain PET Insert - Martin Rädler (Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University)   ()
09:40 Flexible, Mobile And Modular PET Imaging - Gašper Razdevšek (Jožef Stefan Institute)   ()
09:55 Performance Evaluation of A Brain PET Prototype With Crosshair Light-Sharing Detectors - Kurumi Narita (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan)   ()
10:10
Panel: Democratizing PET Worldwide (until 10:50) ()
10:10 Democratizing PET Worldwide - Thomas Beyer (QIMP Team)   ()
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
Progress in Cell Therapy & Brain Imaging (until 12:25) ()
11:20 Stem Cell Imaging For Cardiovascular Cellular Therapies - Maciej Kurpisz (Institute of Human Genetics, PAS)   ()
11:45 Brain Imaging of Chronic Pain: Insights from Nuclear Medicine - Miwako Takahashi (QST)   ()
12:10 From Syngeneic To Human Melanoma Models: Longitudinal Micro-CT Tracking of Metastatic Progression In Mice - Bartosz Leszczyński   ()
08:30 --- Coffee a Priori ---
09:00
Exotic Atoms & Nuclei, Nuclear Physics (until 10:35) ()
09:00 Studies of The Phi-Nucleon Interaction Using FinalState Interactions - Takatsugu Ishikawa (Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University)   ()
09:25 Hyperonic Interaction Studies At The LHC To Understand Neutron Stars - Raffaele Del Grande (LNF-INFN)   ()
09:45 Exotic Case: Possible Observation Of A Bound Diproton & It’s Decay In An Unbound Deuteron - 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 - Lars Eggimann (University of Bern)   ()
10:20 µPPET Detector System - Alessio Porcelli (Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:35 --- Coffee break ---
11:05
Antimatter in Fundamental & Material Physics (until 12:25) ()
11:05 Advances In Positronium Microwave Spectroscopy - David Cassidy (University College London)   ()
11:30 Portable J-PET modules as a reconfigurable detection system for antimatter physics - Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University)   ()
11:50 Probing The Nuclear Periphery Via The Cold Annihilation of Antiprotonic Atoms - Fredrik Olof Andre Parnefjord Gustafsson (CERN, Switzerland)   ()
12:10 Beyond The Exponential Law: What Fluorescence Reveals About Quantum Decay - Milena Piotrowska (Jan Kochanowski University, Poland)   ()
PM
15:30 --- Visit to the UJ Museum ---
16:15 --- Welcome Reception ---
12:40 --- Conference Photo ---
12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Particle Therapy Monitoring (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Advanced On-Board Imaging For Precision Small Animal Proton And Light Ion Radiation Research - 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 - Aafke Kraan (INFN Pisa)   ()
14:40 In-Beam PET For First In Vivo Proton Range Assessment In Small-Animal Therapy With Online Image Reconstruction - Giulio Lovatti (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)   ()
14:55 Range Monitoring In Proton Therapy Using The J-PET Scanner: Extended Experimental Studies - Szymon Niedźwiecki (Jagiellonian University)   ()
15:10
PET Imaging Innovations (QE) (until 16:45) ()
15:10 Positronium Ratio Imaging, Quantum Entangled PET And Double Photon Emission Imaging With A RingType Compton-PET Scanner - 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 - Youngho Seo (University of California, San Francisco)   ()
15:55 Nuclear Medicine Imaging With Angular Correlation Measurement For Local Microenvironment Sensing - Mizuki Uenomachi (Institute of Science Tokyo)   ()
16:15 Feasibility Study of 3-Gamma Imaging With TotalBody J-PET - Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili   ()
16:30 In Vivo Positronium Ratio Imaging Via Direct Localization of O-Ps Three-Photon Annihilation - Macoto Fujimoto   ()
16:45 --- Coffee break ---
17:15
Radiopharmaceuticals for Theranostics (until 18:30) ()
17:15 From Radiopharmaceutical Development To Clinical Trials: Polatom’s Experience - Renata Mikołajczak (NCBJ, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Radioisotope Centre POLATOM, Poland)   ()
17:35 Subtype-Specific Insights In Breast Cancer Radiotheranostics - Martina Benešová-Schäfer (DKFZ)   ()
17:55 Sustainable Inorganic-Organic Hybrids As Drug Delivery Systems - Agnieszka Kyzioł (Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University)   ()
18:10 Implementation Of ETHOS Automated Adaptive Therapy In Patients Treated For Malignant Prostate Tumours - Marzena Janiszewska (Lower Silesian Oncology, Pulmonology and Hematology Center, Wroclaw, Poland)   ()
19:00 --- Public lecture by Prof. Simon Cherry ---
12:35 --- Lunch ---
13:50
PET and Brain-PET Imaging Innovations (until 15:10) ()
13:50 Beyond Scale: Detector Physics Perspectives On The Future of PET - 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 - Sun Il Kwon (University of California Davis)   ()
14:35 Ultra-High-Performance Brain PET (UHB-PET): Preliminary Results - Sadek Nehmeh (Weill Cornell Medical College)   ()
14:55 First in-human Quantum Entanglement imaging - Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University)   ()
15:10 --- Coffee break ---
15:40
Antimatter in Fundamental Physics (until 16:35) ()
15:40 Testing Matter-Antimatter And Other Discrete Symmetries In Particle Physics - Antonio Di Domenico (Sapienza University and INFN Rome, Italy)   ()
16:05 Dalitz Plot Study For Ortho-Positronium Decays Into Three Photons With The J-PET Tomograph - Magdalena Skurzok (Jagiellonian University)   ()
16:20 Status of CPT Symmetry Test In Ortho-Positronium Decays With The Modular J-PET Detector - Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University)   ()
17:00 --- Baroque Concert in St. Anne's Collegiate Church ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Antimatter in Material Physics & Medicine (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Defects In Semiconductors As Seen By Positrons - Filip Tuomisto   ()
14:25 Toward Positronium Imaging: Body Temperature Dependence And Gamma-Ray-Induced Positron Imaging - Sodai Takyu   ()
14:44 The DRS4 Chip For PALS Measurements: The PSI Evaluation Board And The Integrated LifetimeSpec Tabletop Spectrometer - Torsten Staab (LCTM - Faculty of Chemistry - University Würzburg)   ()
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Antimatter in Fundamental & Material Physics (until 16:30) ()
15:30 Light-Induced Desorption of Positronium - Jakub Cizek (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University)   ()
15:55 Positron Annihilation In Bio nanotechnology: Design Principles For Polymer-Based Biosensors - 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 - Marian Cholewa (University of Rzeszow)   ()
17:40 --- Departure from Auditorium Maximum ---
18:30 --- Conference Banquet at Manor House in Modlnica ---
12:25 --- Lunch ---
14:00
PET & Positronium Imaging Innovations (until 15:30) ()
14:00 A Fast Positron Lifetime Tomography Method And Initial Phantom And Animal Results - Chien-Min Kao (University of Chicago)   ()
14:20 MC Simulation Studies Of O-Ps Imaging Of Single-Cell Tumor Growth Models In Anthropomorphic Phantoms - Joerg Peter (German Cancer Research Center)   ()
14:40 Accelerator Based PET Innovations: Position Sensitive Imaging And ^44Ti/^44Sc Generator Development - Pete Jones (iThemba LABS)   ()
15:00 NEMA Phantom Characteristics of Simultaneous Double Isotope Imaging With J-PET Using ^55Co + ^18F And ^52Mn + ^18F Isotopes - Ermias Yitayew Beyene   ()
15:15 Positronium Lifetime Imaging Through Iterative Reconstruction Methods Utilizing J-PET And Biograph Vision Quadra - Anand Pandey (Jagiellonian University)   ()
15:30 --- Conference Photo ---
15:40 --- Poster Session & Coffee ---
12:25 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Exotic Atoms & Nuclei, Nuclear Physics (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Generation of Exotic Ions Through The Collision of Slow Positrons With Solid Surfaces And Their Applications In Atomic Physics - Yasuyuki Nagashima (Tokyo University of Science)   ()
14:25 Spectroscopy of Pionic Atoms & η' Mesic Nuclei - Kenta Itahashi (Department of Physics, The University of Osaka)   ()
14:45 Validated Optical Photon Modeling of Long Plastic Scintillators For Precision Timing Applications - Sumit Kumar Kundu (Jagiellonian University)   ()
15:00
PET & Positronium Imaging Innovations (until 16:00) ()
15:00 How AI Is Reshaping Next-Generation PET Systems Design - Volkmar Schultz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)   ()
15:25 Positronium Imaging Through Energy Measurements In 3-Gamma Annihilation Events - Krzysztof Starosta (Simon Fraser University)   ()
15:45 Integration of Compton Camera With PET: A Compton-PET System Towards Multi-Energy Radionuclide Imaging - Siddharth Parashari (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC-UV))   ()
16:00 --- Closing Lecture by Prof. Stefan Ulmer ---
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 --- Award Presentation & Closing Ceremony ---