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from Monday 20 October 2025 (09:00) to Friday 24 October 2025 (18:30)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
20 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025
23 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025
AM
09:00
Session (until 10:30)
09:00 New approaches in reconstruction and analysis - Maximilian J Swiatlowski (TRIUMF (CA))  
09:30 Back to the detector - AI and improvements to the inputs - Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))  
10:00 Discussion - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Session (until 12:30)
11:00 Theory motivations - Hierarchy problem - Raman Sundrum  
11:30 Extending LHC Coverage of Theory Landscapes - Matt Strassler (Harvard University)  
12:00 Discussion - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
09:00
Session (until 10:30)
09:00 Theory overview on SMEFT, direct searches in the tails - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY))  
09:30 Direct vs indirect search probes (Higgs couplings, extended Higgs) - Jana Schaarschmidt (University of Washington (US))  
10:00 Discussion - Roberto Salerno (CNRS/IN2P3 - LLR, École polytechnique)  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Session (until 12:30)
11:00 Our theory bottlenecks - Josh Bendavid (CERN)  
11:30 Our upcoming biggest theory improvements - Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:00 Discussion - Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE))  
09:00
Session (until 10:30)
09:00 Theory opportunities - is there any room for WIMPs? - Benjamin Lehmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
09:30 LHC experimental status (including forward detectors) - Bingxuan Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN))  
10:00 Discussion - Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Session (until 12:30)
11:00 Theory perspectives - Asimina Arvanitaki (PI - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (CA))  
11:30 Atomic and low energy probes to BSM constraints and how they affect LHC searches - Skyler Degenkolb  
12:00 Discussion - David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University)  
09:00
Session (until 10:30)
09:00 Cosmology connection, phase transitions - Pedro Klaus Schwaller (Mainz University)  
09:30 Experimental searches for extended (light and heavy) scalars - Bill Murray (University of Warwick (GB))  
10:00 Discussion - Geraldine Servant  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Session (until 11:30)
11:00 Theory landscape: What we will be talking about in 10 years? - Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)  
11:25 Discussion - Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB))  
11:30
Panel - Raman Sundrum Flavia de Almeida Dias (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Shahram Rahatlou (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Gian Giudice (CERN) Nathaniel Craig (until 13:00)
11:30 Slides - Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB))  
PM
14:00 Welcome and Introduction - Maurizio Pierini (CERN) Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE))  
14:10
Session (until 15:40)
14:10 Theory landscapes - the future - Patrick Meade  
14:40 Theory landscapes - the future - Raman Sundrum  
14:55 Discussion - Patrick Meade Raman Sundrum  
15:40 --- Break ---
16:10
Session (until 17:50)
16:10 Experimental state of the art, new potential and capacities - Andreas Hoecker (CERN)  
17:05 Discussion - Florencia Canelli (University of Zurich (CH))  
18:00
Poster Session (until 20:00)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Panel - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US)) Maurizio Pierini (CERN) Liantao Wang Valentina Cairo (CERN) Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)) (until 15:30)
14:00 Discussion slides  
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Session (until 17:30)
16:00 Theory perspectives and flavor constraints to BSM - Luca Silvestrini  
16:30 Experimental overview - Yasmine Sara Amhis (IJCLab/CERN)  
17:00 Discussion - Michele Papucci (California Institute of Technology)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Panel - Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE)) Marc Riembau (CERN) Miha Muskinja (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (SI)) Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)) (until 15:30)
14:00 Discussion slides  
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Session (until 17:30)
16:00 The long-lived and unconventional theory landscape - David Richard Curtin (University of Toronto)  
16:30 Unconventional particles and new capacities - Juliette Alimena (DESY)  
17:00 Discussion - Lesya Shchutska (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Panel - Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Sezen Sekmen (Kyungpook National University (KR)) Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Laboratoire de Physique Clermont Auvergne (LPCA)) Prateek Agrawal (University of Oxford) Tim Cohen (CERN) (until 15:30)
14:00 Questions - Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Session (until 17:30)
16:00 Building the Experiment BSM bridge - Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))  
16:25 Building the Theory-Experiment BSM bridge - Tim Cohen (CERN)  
16:45 Discussion - Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)