Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| 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 PEASEC, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Governance concerns in AI aided vaccine development London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Safeguarding Small Modular Reactors through Antineutrino-Based Monitoring Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Breeding Uncertainties: A Simulation-Based Analysis of China's CFR-600 Reactors and Its Strategic Ramifications 1: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, VESPOTEC; 2: RWTH Aachen, VESPOTEC Muography in nuclear verification Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany Digital Twins for Safeguards in Nuclear Waste Management 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 Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC), TU Darmstadt Additive manufacturing in the military technology sector - Application & proliferation of an emerged technology Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany The ‘AI Treasure Hunt’: A Metaphorical Approach to Reframing Artificial Intelligence Development Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany Assessing a Thermodynamic Approach to Disruption Tolerant Dynamic Systems 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 1: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; 2: Technical University of Darmstadt Technical Verification and Monitoring Research at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Satellite monitoring of the DPRK Nuclear Programme 1: VERTIC; 2: Open Nuclear Network Shield to Cheat: Nuclear Warhead or Radioactive Material in Absorbing Enclosures? 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 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 2: John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Australia Non-destructive Probing of Novel Reactors with Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence 1: Technical University Darmstadt, Germany; 2: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany nuSENTRY: Antineutrino-based Safeguards Concepts for Future Reactors Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Fusion Power and Nonproliferation 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 Universität Hamburg, Germany A Systems-Based Framework for Effective Verification of Irreversible Nuclear Disarmament Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Latency-informed approaches to Irreversibility of nuclear disarmament 1: VERTIC, United Kingdom; 2: Open Nuclear Network - Pax Sapiens, Austria Irreversibility and Compliance in Regional Nuclear Disarmament: Insights from a Tabletop Exercise 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 VERTIC, United Kingdom Exploring Antineutrino-based Safeguards for Naval Propulsion Reactors Technische Universität Darmstadt Machine-Learning/Artificial-Intelligence–facilitated Satellite Imagery Analysis for Trustworthy Arms Control Verification Union of Concerned Scientists, United States of America AI-driven Biosciences: A New Frontier in Biosecurity Threat Landscape 1: INFABRI, ZNF, Hamburg University, Germany; 2: ISR, 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. 1: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; 2: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; 3: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Verification as forming and performing of knowledge infrastructures RWTH Aachen, Germany Balancing innovation, openness and security in research: the emergence of research security approaches in Europe 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 IFSH, Germany Autonomous Weapon Systems and Military Decision Making using Artificial Intelligence: Concepts for Preventing Unintended Escalation TU Dortmund University, Germany Socio-Technical Responses to Disinformation and Information Operations 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 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 1: IFSH / CBWNet, Germany; 2: University of Bradford, Bradford, UK Dual-Use Dilemmas and Technological Opportunity: Rethinking Verification and Governance in the Biosecurity Age Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany The geopolitics of governing quantum technologies: The case of export controls 1: SIPRI, Sweden; 2: Brockmann Non-Proliferation Research and Consulting, Germany DUALEX: Integrating Dual-Use Awareness into German STEM Education 1: Institute of Safety/Security and Risk Sciences, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria; 2: Carl 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 BOKU University Vienna, Austria |
| 2:50pm - 3:00pm |
Closing |
