XIII FRONT-END ELECTRONICS WORKSHOP PARIS France
Amphithéâtre Charpak
LPNHE

The 2026 Front-end Electronics workshop is the 13th of a series of very productive meetings where the best researchers of the world present the state of the art in the field. The meeting has a strong focus on full custom ASIC design. Technical sessions are geared toward HEP experiments, astrophysics, particle physics, medical imaging, photon science, and CMOS monolithic active pixel sensors. As microsystems have gotten denser, new packaging solution and interposer technologies are required and have a special interest. Also, more experiments require cryogenic electronics, where the front-end is actually installed inside the noble liquid (Ar, Xe) and this opens the door to brand-new challenges such as interposer/ASIC electronic supports, having different thermal expansion coefficients. Circuits with very fast timing capabilties are becoming more and more critical for future applications in the field. The potential impact on front-end ASICs of new technological developments such as silicon photonics, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies is also of interest and will be covered in the talks.
Presentations are by invitation only. A limited number of qualified persons can be admitted upon request to assist to the talk. The workshop is in presence only.
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registration Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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opening session Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris- 09:30
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Microelectronics at IN2P3 and IRFU 45mSpeaker: Frédéric MOREL (IPHC)
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coffe break 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 1: HEP pixels Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Xavier Llopart (CERN)- 11:00
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Development of a 28 nm pixel readout chip in the IGNITE project 30mSpeaker: Adriano Lai (INFN)
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Column-Parallel Sigma-Delta ADCs for CMOS Image Sensors in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) 30mSpeaker: Peter Hatfaludi (STFC)
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lunch 1h 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 2: photon science Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Thomas Gardiner (Science and Technology Facilities Council)-
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Pixelated Readout ASICs for High-Speed X-Ray Imaging 30mSpeaker: Lorenzo Rota (SLAC National Laboratory)
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Developments of the Pixel Detector Readout ASICs for Photon Science at IHEP 30mSpeaker: Dr Mujin Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Development of a New Front-End Stage for Future XFEL Detectors 30mSpeaker: Adele Ciavarella (Politecnico Milano)
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Matterhorn, a single photon counting detector for high flux synchrotron applications 30mSpeaker: Roberto Dinapoli (Paul Scherrer Institut)
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tea break 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 3: timing Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Angelo Rivetti (INFN Torino)-
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A sub-5 ps jitter time-to-digital converter ASIC with back-gate delay tuning in 22 nm CMOS 30mSpeaker: Adam Quinn
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Monolith Picosecond Avalanche Detector 30mSpeaker: Lorenzo Paolozzi (Université de Genève)
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Timing Front-Ends for Photon Science and High-Energy Physics 30mSpeaker: Bojan Markovic (SLAC)
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Photon-to-Digital Converter Readout in 65 nm CMOS with sub-10 ps Timing Precision 30mSpeaker: Nicolas Roy (Université de Sherbrooke)
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Welcome Drink 21h 30m
Campus des Cordeliers
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session 4: SiPM, Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Wei Wei (IHEP, CAS)-
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ALCOR: A mixed-signal ASIC for the dRICH detector of the ePIC experiment at the EIC 30mSpeaker: giulio Dellacasa (INFN Torino)
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Fully-Digital 110 nm CMOS SiPM for Ultra-Fast Amplitude, Time-of-Arrival, and Time-over-Threshold Measurements 30mSpeaker: Tommaso Floris (INFN Pavia)
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DENEB: a 1024-Channel Mixed-Signal ASIC for SiPM Readout with sub-100 ps Timing and Photon Counting Operating from 77 K to 300 K 30mSpeaker: Stefano Durando (INFN Torino)
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coffe break 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 5: design techniques Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Mr Patrick Pangaud (CPPM, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France)-
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Verification technques for complex ASICs 30mSpeaker: Adithya Pulli (CERN)
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Highly-Digital Approaches Toward Front-End Design 30mSpeaker: Soumyajit Mandal (BNL)
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Rethinking Chip Design in the Age of AI 30mSpeaker: Mehdi Saligane (Brown Univ.)
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lunch 1h 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
LPNHE
Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 6: MAPs Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Grzegorz Deptuch (BNL)-
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Development of monolithic sensors for the ALICE ITS3 and ALICE3 upgrades 30mSpeaker: Corentin Lemoine (CERN)
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Design of the OBELIX monolithic CMOS pixel sensor for upgrade of the Belle II vertex detector 30mSpeaker: Thanh Hung PHAM (IPHC-CNRS)
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Event-Driven MAPS for Large-Area Vertex and Tracking Detectors aiming at Intelligent 3D Stacks 30mSpeaker: Dominik Gorni (BNL)
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tea break 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 7: HEP Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Zhen-An LIU (IHEP Beijing)-
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Frontend chip development for the CEPC electronic system 30mSpeaker: Wei Wei (IHEP, CAS)
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SALSA: a new versatile readout chip for MPGD 30mSpeaker: Christophe Flouzat (CEA/IRFU Paris-Saclay)
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"High performance TDC and ADC blocks at ultra-low power" 30mSpeaker: Marek Idzik (AGH)
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session 8: technology Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Valerio Re (INFN Pavia)-
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Radiation effects in advanced CMOS nodes 30mSpeaker: Giulio Borghello (CERN)
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Analog front-end in CMOS 28 nm for HEP and photon science 30mSpeaker: Luigi GAIONI (University of Bergamo and INFN Pavia)
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Looking beyond 28nm CMOS 30mSpeaker: Kostas Kloukinas (CERN)
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coffe break 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 9: photon science Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Lorenzo Rota-
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Smart Pixels: In-pixel AI for on-sensor data filtering 30mSpeaker: Benjamin Parpillon (FNAL)
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From Charge Amplifier to Arbitration: Event-Driven Front-End Electronics for X-ray Pixel Detectors 30mSpeaker: Grzegorz Deptuch (BNL)
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lunch and travel to Versailles castle : meeting place Jussieu (near metro) at 12:45
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networking afternoon : visit of Versailles castle
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bus back to Paris Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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"petit train" from Moulin Rouge (metro Pigalle) to Place du Tertre Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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social dinner in Montmartre
La Boheme -Place du Tertre
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session 10: MAPs + timing Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Grzegorz Deptuch (BNL)-
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MightyPix: A HV-CMOS Pixel Chip for LHCb’s Mighty Tracker 30mSpeaker: Ivan Peric (KIT)
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A Low-Power Fully Depleted Monolithic CMOS Pixel Detector with Time and Charge Measurement for Compton Imaging 30mSpeaker: Matteo Barbogiovanni (INFN Torino)
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MadPix, Monolithic CMOS Avalanche Detector PIXelated Prototype for ps Timing Application 30mSpeaker: Valerio Paglierino (INFN Torino)
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coffe break 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 11: LGAD & timing Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Xavier Llopart (CERN)-
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EICROC: an ASIC to read-out the AC-LGAD sensors for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) 30mSpeaker: Christophe de LA TAILLE (OMEGA)
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Constant Fraction Discriminator Readout Chip for ePIC 30mSpeaker: Artur Apresyan (FNAL)
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High timing resolution frontend ASIC development 30mSpeaker: XIONGBO YAN (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
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lunch 1h 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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keynote talk : eFPGAs 45m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisSpeaker: Michael Karagounis -
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session 12: photon science Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Thomas Gardiner (Science and Technology Facilities Council)- 14:45
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XIDyn: High Flux, High Dynamic-range Hard X-ray integrating detector full-reticle ASIC for 4th generation synchrotrons 30mSpeaker: Luke Mallett (STFC)
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Readout ASICs for Hybrid Pixel Electron and X-Ray Detectors 30mSpeaker: Tomasz Hemperek (DECTRIS)
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tea break 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 13: cryogenic Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Angelo Rivetti (INFN Torino)-
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"Cryogenic Characterization and Model Extension for a 28-nm Bulk CMOS Technology" 30mSpeaker: Luca Castellani (INFN Torino)
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Cryogenic CMOS Design for scalable qubit control and readout 30mSpeaker: Dennis Nielinger (Julich)
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Cryogenic CMOS Characterization and Design for Liquid-Noble Experiments and Superconducting Sensors 30mSpeaker: Aldo Pena Perez (SLAC)
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session 14: HEP pixels and space Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Zhen-An LIU (IHEP Beijing)-
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Lessons learned from RD53 30mSpeaker: Flavio Loddo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sez. di Bari)
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COFFEE chip development on HVCMOS technology for CEPC ITK 30mSpeaker: Yang ZHOU (IHEP (Institute of High Energy Physics), CAS)
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Low-Noise Wide Dynamic Range Charge Sensitive Amplifier in 65 nm CMOS Technology for the Second Flight of the GAPS Experiment 30mSpeaker: Massimo Manghisoni
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coffe break 30m Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris -
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session 15: calorimetry and spectroscopy Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisConvener: Angelo Rivetti (INFN Torino)-
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LArPix/LightPix 30mSpeaker: Brooke Russell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Low-Noise Cryogenic Front-End ASICs for Noble Liquid Detectors 30mSpeaker: Prahansa Mukim (BNL)
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Front-end ASICs for high resolution imaging spectroscopy in space 30mSpeaker: David Baudin (CEA/DRF/IRFU/DEDIP)
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Conclusion and farewell 15m Amphithéâtre Charpak
Amphithéâtre Charpak
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Campus Pierre et Marie Curie Patio 22-33 Rez-de-chaussée (RC) - Niveau Saint Bernard (SB) - Porte 02 4 place Jussieu 75005 ParisSpeaker: Valerio Re (INFN Pavia)
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