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Date: Thursday, 11/Sept/2025
9:00am - 9:30am	Opening
9:30am - 10:00am	Failing Forward or Falling Back? Strengthening Verification and Arms Control Today Keynote address (tba)
10:00am - 10:20am	Poster pitches Gateways to the Deep: Factors of Potential Access to Dual-Use Sensing Data from Subsea Cables J. Franken, T. Dörnfeld, C. Reuter PEASEC, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Governance concerns in AI aided vaccine development L. Shang London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Safeguarding Small Modular Reactors through Antineutrino-Based Monitoring S. Friedrich, R. Mentel, Y.-J. Schnellbach Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Breeding Uncertainties: A Simulation-Based Analysis of China's CFR-600 Reactors and Its Strategic Ramifications M. Laura¹, R. Geiser² 1: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, VESPOTEC; 2: RWTH Aachen, VESPOTEC Muography in nuclear verification K. Aymanns, T. Boland, I. Niemeyer Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany Digital Twins for Safeguards in Nuclear Waste Management M. Kreutle, I. Niemeyer Institute of Fusion Energy and Nuclear Waste Management (IFN): IFN-2: Nuclear Waste Management, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Designing for Agency: Norms and Safeguards for Human Control in Autonomous Military Systems T. Riebe, A.-L. Gonsior, C. Reuter Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC), TU Darmstadt Additive manufacturing in the military technology sector - Application & proliferation of an emerged technology L. Suckau Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany The ‘AI Treasure Hunt’: A Metaphorical Approach to Reframing Artificial Intelligence Development J. Landwehr-Matlé, K. Oppermann Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany Assessing a Thermodynamic Approach to Disruption Tolerant Dynamic Systems T. Dörnfeld, C. Reuter Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC), TU Darmstadt
10:20am - 11:00am	Poster Session (with Coffee)
11:00am - 12:30pm	Evolving Verification of WMD in Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Differentiating between Plutonium and Tritium Production Modes using Nuclear Archaeology L. Rademacher^1,2 1: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; 2: Technical University of Darmstadt Technical Verification and Monitoring Research at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament C. Gustavsson, P. Andersson, E. Arnqvist, S. Dar, E. Andersson Sundén Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Satellite monitoring of the DPRK Nuclear Programme G. Christopher¹, J. Shin², S. Laderman², H. Chalmers¹, H. Wingo¹, M. Fowler² 1: VERTIC; 2: Open Nuclear Network Shield to Cheat: Nuclear Warhead or Radioactive Material in Absorbing Enclosures? E. Lucke¹, C. Fichtlscherer^2,3, M. Kütt^2,4 1: University of Hamburg, Germany; 2: Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Germany; 3: Physics Institute III B, RWTH Aachen, Germany; 4: Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, USA
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Continued- Evolving Verification of WMD in Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Age-dating of environmental samples: a review and recent developments P. Kegler¹, A. K. Schmitt², A. Hertwig², D. Bosbach¹, I. Niemeyer¹, S. Neumeier¹ 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 2: John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Australia Non-destructive Probing of Novel Reactors with Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence L. Pazos Clemens^1,2, Y.-J. Schnellbach¹, M. Göttsche^1,2 1: Technical University Darmstadt, Germany; 2: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany nuSENTRY: Antineutrino-based Safeguards Concepts for Future Reactors Y.-J. Schnellbach, S. Friedrich, R. Mentel Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Fusion Power and Nonproliferation M. Englert, A. Kopp, C. Pistner Institute for Applied Ecology, Germany
3:00pm - 3:20pm	Coffee Break
3:20pm - 4:50pm	New Frontiers in Arms Control and Disarmament Verification and security of nuclear, missile and space arms control: A systematic comparison J. Scheffran Universität Hamburg, Germany A Systems-Based Framework for Effective Verification of Irreversible Nuclear Disarmament N. Yanikömer, I. Niemeyer Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Latency-informed approaches to Irreversibility of nuclear disarmament A. L. Muti¹, H. Chalmers¹, S. Laderman² 1: VERTIC, United Kingdom; 2: Open Nuclear Network - Pax Sapiens, Austria Irreversibility and Compliance in Regional Nuclear Disarmament: Insights from a Tabletop Exercise N. Yanikömer¹, K. Westerich-Fellner¹, L. Bandarra², I. Niemeyer¹ 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 2: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
4:50pm - 5:10pm	Coffee Break
5:10pm - 6:40pm	Continued- New Frontiers in Arms Control and Disarmament Towards a Group of Scientific and Technical Experts on Nuclear Disarmament Verification A. Muti, N. Stott, G. Christopher, L. MacFaul VERTIC, United Kingdom Exploring Antineutrino-based Safeguards for Naval Propulsion Reactors R. T. Mentel, Y.-J. Schnellbach, S. Friedrich Technische Universität Darmstadt Machine-Learning/Artificial-Intelligence–facilitated Satellite Imagery Analysis for Trustworthy Arms Control Verification S. Al-Sayed Union of Concerned Scientists, United States of America AI-driven Biosciences: A New Frontier in Biosecurity Threat Landscape D. M. Sabra¹, J. L. Frieß², G. Jeremias¹ 1: INFABRI, ZNF, Hamburg University, Germany; 2: ISR, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria