1st Training School on Testing Fundamental Physics with Seismology

Session

Plenary session

Sep 7, 2026, 9:15 AM

HUN-REN Balaton Limnological Research Institute

23. Neutrino Earth's Tomography

Andrea Donini (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (CSIC/UV))

9/7/26, 9:15 AM

I will first review the basic characteristics of neutrinos as the only weakly-only interacting particles in the Standard Model, and the experimental results that show how neutrinos are indeed massive (thus introducing the need for some addition to the Standard Model itself to get their mass). I will then explain how we can use neutrinos to test the matter content of the Earth, either by...

25. From black holes at the edge of the Universe to observatories underground: the gravitational wave detection tale

Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw)

9/7/26, 2:30 PM

Session

I will review the basics of gravitational wave astronomy, the detection of gravitational wave sources and how their parameters are inferred. The success of gravitational wave astronomy depends on very precise measurements and on quenching various noises. I will describe the noises and sketch the methods to mitigate them. The seismic noise is affecting modern interferometers at low frequencies....

32. Astrophysical noise or Geophysics signal? The lunar seismicity and seismic noise .

Philippe Lognonné (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité, France)

9/8/26, 9:00 AM

Several future astrophysical projects are considering the Moon as a very stable place for highly sensitive measurements . This includes détection of Gravitationnal waves through the response of the Moon or through free fall strain measurements , détection of acoustic waves generated by highly energetic particules , including strange matter nuggets or large interferometric télescopes .

The...

36. Cosmic muon tomography

Dr Gergely Barnafoldi (HUN-REN Wigner Reseach Centre for Physics)

9/8/26, 2:30 PM

37. The Basics of Seismics and Muography

Gergely Surányi (HUN-REN Wigner R.C.P.)

9/9/26, 9:00 AM

This lecture provides an introduction to the fundamentals of seismic
exploration. Although seismics is definitely not the same as
seismology, the physical and geological principles are the same in
both fields; the only fundamental difference lies in the process by
which mechanical waves are generated. During the lecture, we will
briefly review the structure of the Earth, the different...

34. Geo-neutrinos: a new tool to study the Earth.

Livia Ludhova (GSI and JGU Mainz, Germany)

9/10/26, 9:00 AM

Geoneutrinos are tiny particles produced by the radioactive decay chains of elements such as uranium and thorium inside the Earth. Although they interact only very weakly with matter, modern particle detectors can measure them, opening a unique window into the deep interior of our planet, most of which cannot be sampled directly. Their study connects particle physics and geoscience and can...

30. From Data to Scientific Evidence: Trustworthy and Explainable AI

Petre Lameski (Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Skopje, North Macedonia)

9/10/26, 2:30 PM

The lecture covers the path from noisy data to scientifically defensible AI results, including signal-to-noise assessment, preprocessing, data leakage, validation, uncertainty, and reproducibility. It also presents explainable AI as a tool for auditing model behaviour while distinguishing model explanations from causal and scientific conclusions.

27. What is behind the cosmo-seismic effect?

Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)

9/11/26, 9:00 AM

There is a statistically solid (on a six sigma level) correlation between the global seismic activity and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation recorded at the surface of our planet, dubbed the cosmo-seismic effect ([https://press.ifj.edu.pl/en/news/2023/06/14/][1]). The relationship which has recently been found in public data by the Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO)...