ARENA

The ARENA workshop series is dedicated to acoustic and radio detection methods and their application to the observation of neutrinos and cosmic rays at ultra-high energies. The ARENA 2026 workshop has been the 11th installment of the series and has taken place as an in-person conference held in Schlosshotel Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany, from Monday June 8th to Thursday June 11th, 2026. 

International Advisory Board: 

J. Alvarez-Muñiz, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 

N. Budnev, Moscow, Russia 

A. Connolly, Columbus, Ohio, USA 

J. Hörandel, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 

T. Huege, Karlsruhe, Germany 

R. Lahmann, Erlangen, Germany (Chair) 

A. Nelles, Zeuthen, Germany 

G. Riccobene, Catania, Italy 

S. Wissel, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA 

S. Yoshida, Chiba, Japan 

Local organizing committee: 

Tim Huege, IAP, KIT (chair) 

Keito Watanabe, IAP, KIT 

Sabine Bucher, IAP, KIT IAP = Institute for Astroparticle Physics (https://www.iap.kit.edu)

ARENA is the main biannual conference covering advances in the radio detection of ultra-high energy particles, discussing experimental results, advances in simulation and reconstruction techniques, and ideas for future experiments.

The new amazing discoveries reported from high-energy neutrino, gamma-ray and gravitational wave detectors have started the exciting era of multi-messenger astronomy, opening a new window to the most extreme universe.

ARENA is the major bi-annual event for scientists to pioneer, develop and consolidate techniques for ultra-high-energy particle detection, paving the way to the future.

Editorial Board

Jaime Alvarez-Muniz (Chairperson)
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Juan Ammerman-Yebra
Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Sjoerd Bouma
Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ., Germany

Max Büsken
Institute for Experimental Particle Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 
Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Argentina

Sergio Cabana-Freire
Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Clara Gatius
Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Netherlands

Marvin Gottowik
Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Steffen Hallmann 
DESY - Zeuthen, Germany

Jakob Henrichs 
DESY - Zeuthen, Germany
Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ., Germany

Kaeli Hughes  
Dept. of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, USA

Nikolaos Karastathis 
Institut für Astroteilchenphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Pascal Lautridou 
SUBATECH, IMT-Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, France

Sara Martinelli 
Institut für Astroteilchenphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Argentina

Marco Muzio 
Pennsylvania State University, USA

Anna Nelles 
DESY - Zeuthen, Germany 
Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ., Germany

Lilly Pyras 
DESY - Zeuthen, Germany 
Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ., Germany

Washington R. de Carvalho Jr.
Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Karen Terveer 
Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ., Germany

Matias Tueros
IFLP - CCT La Plata - CONICET, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Enrique Zas
Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain