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Conference Agenda

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Date: Wednesday, 10/Sept/2025
6:00pm - 6:30pm	Welcome Reception with Drinks
6:30pm - 8:00pm	Research at a Crossroads: Shaping the Agenda for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament in a Changing World
8:00pm - 10:00pm	Flying Dinner Reception

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 ¹Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, VESPOTEC; ²RWTH 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-²Nuclear 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 ¹Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; ²Technical 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 ¹VERTIC; ²Open Nuclear Network Shield to Cheat: Nuclear Warhead or Radioactive Material in Absorbing Enclosures? E. Lucke¹, C. Fichtlscherer^2,3, M. Kütt^2,4 ¹University of Hamburg, Germany; ²Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Germany; ³Physics Institute III B, RWTH Aachen, Germany; ⁴Program 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 ¹Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; ²John 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 ¹Technical University Darmstadt, Germany; ²Peace 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 ¹VERTIC, United Kingdom; ²Open 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 ¹Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; ²University 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 ¹INFABRI, ZNF, Hamburg University, Germany; ²ISR, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria

Date: Friday, 12/Sept/2025
9:00am - 10:20am	Trust, Transparency, and Governance in Verification
	The Nuclear Hecate: The Three Faces of Trust and Verification. L. Bandarra¹, C. Wunderlich², L. Herholz³ ¹University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; ²University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; ³University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Verification as forming and performing of knowledge infrastructures L. Ostermann, J. Schäfer, S. Böschen RWTH Aachen, Germany Balancing innovation, openness and security in research: the emergence of research security approaches in Europe L. Heau SIPRI, Sweden
10:20am - 10:40am	Coffee Break
10:40am - 12:10pm	Technological Innovations in Crisis Prevention and Conflict Resolution
	Evaluating European Missile Defense Against New Missile Threats T. Kadyshev IFSH, Germany Autonomous Weapon Systems and Military Decision Making using Artificial Intelligence: Concepts for Preventing Unintended Escalation J. Altmann TU Dortmund University, Germany Socio-Technical Responses to Disinformation and Information Operations F. Schneider, K. Hartwig, T. Biselli, C. Reuter Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC), TU Darmstadt Safeguards as a Knowledge Infrastructure: Exploring Technology Development and Diffusion into the IAEA Verification Regime J. Schäfer, I. Niemeyer RWTH Aachen, Germany
12:10pm - 1:10pm	Lunch
1:10pm - 2:50pm	Governance and Dual-Use Technologies
	Gain-of-function research as dual-use research of concern: Variations of Securitization in the United States A. Kelle¹, M. Dando² ¹IFSH / CBWNet, Germany; ²University of Bradford, Bradford, UK Dual-Use Dilemmas and Technological Opportunity: Rethinking Verification and Governance in the Biosecurity Age K. Reis Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany The geopolitics of governing quantum technologies: The case of export controls K. Brockmann^1,2 ¹SIPRI, Sweden; ²Brockmann Non-Proliferation Research and Consulting, Germany DUALEX: Integrating Dual-Use Awareness into German STEM Education J. L. Frieß¹, D. M Sabra², G. Jeremias² ¹Institute of Safety/Security and Risk Sciences, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria; ²Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Centre for Science and Peace Research (ZNF), Interdisciplinary Research Group for Analysis of Biological Risks (INFABRI) Hamburg University, Germany Dual-use Research - Conceptualization, Political and Ethical Challenges W. Liebert BOKU University Vienna, Austria
2:50pm - 3:00pm	Closing