Programme
Schedules and Program Overview
Here you find the schedule tables as well as the overview (all submissions with presenting authors, without abstracts) of the conference. Upon program changes a notification will be placed with the respective entry (original state: 06.07.2025). Changes are marked in red within each file.
Note on the talk length: In talks with a total length of 15 or 20 min, 3 min thereof are foreseen for discussion. In longer talks 5 min are foreseen for discussion.
- Schedule Monday 18 August 2025
- Schedule Tuesday 19 August 2025 (updated on 12.08.2025)
- Schedule Wednesday 20 August 2025 (updated on 18.08.2025)
- Schedule Thursday 21 August 2025 (updated on 21.08.2025)
- Schedule Friday 22 August 2025 (updated on 18.08.2025)
- Overview Poster (updated on 16.08.2025)
- Program Overview (updated on 21.08.2025)
Sessions
Here you find the complete program with abstracts. Upon program changes a notification will be placed with the respective entry (original state: 07.08.2025). Changes are marked in red within each file.
- Energy Day
- Public Symposium: 100 Years of Quantum Physics (updated on 17.08.2025)
- Women in Physics Carreer Symposium
- Plenary Session and ERC Symposium (updated on 21.08.2025)
- History and Philosophy of Physics
- Physics and School (updated on 19.08.2025)
- Progress in Material Sciences – from Lab to Industry
- Condensed Matter (updated on 21.08.2025)
- Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics (FAKT - TASK) (updated on 18.08.2025)
- Gravitational Waves
- Accelerator Science and Technology
- Energy, Sustainability and Environment
- Applied Physics
- Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics (updated on 21.08.2025)
- Coherent Optical Metrology Beyond Electric-Dipole-Allowed Transitions (COMB.AT)
- Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films (updated on 19.08.2025)
- Physics at Neutron and Synchrotron Sources (updated on 18.08.2025)
- Quantum Information and Quantum Computing (updated on 18.08.2025)
- Correlated Quantum Materials and Solid State Quantum Systems
- Biophysics and Soft Matter (updated on 16.08.2025)
- Young Minds
Award Ceremony
The award ceremony will take place on 19 August 2025 at 11:00h. As every year outstanding scientific works will be honoured with the prestigious SPS awards.
The Charpak-Ritz Award, as well as several awards of the ÖPG, will also be given.
During the conference the winners will each give a talk on the awarded work (details see program).
Best Poster Award
The three best posters at this year's conference will each be recognized with an award. These awards are donated by EPJ and are doted with EUR 200.- each.
A fourth award, donated by the SFB BeyondC, will be given to the best poster of its session "Quantum Information and Quantum Computing". It is also doted with EUR 200.-.
Only posters, which are presented during the whole poster session (20.08.) and whose authors are present, will be evaluated.
The three awards will be given to the winners on Friday, 22.08.2025 at 12:30h.

Young Minds Get-together
The ÖPG Young Minds organise on Wednesday evening a Get-together, which allows to put a great end to the conference day and continue the chats started during the postersession in a nice bar "around the corner". The visitors can expect a fun (voluntary) pub-quiz, and registered members of ÖPG und SPS will receive a free drink (vouchers can be obtained at the registration desk).
The event will take place in the underdog.bar, Schlösselgasse 24, 1080 Wien. Begin 20:00h.
Lab Tours
On Friday afternoon after the conference end the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna offers several Lab tours. Further Information and admission lists for the various tours are available at the registration desk.
Public Lectures
Monday 18 August 19:00 Großer Festsaal der Universität (Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien) | The European X-Ray Free Electron Laser Thomas Feurer, European XFEL GmbH |
Tuesday 19 August 19:00 Festsaal der ÖAW (Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien) | Physical understanding in times of AI. A philosophical analysis Claus Beisbart, Universität Bern |
These lectures can be visited free of charge.