CERN Theory Department Retreat 2025

5 Nov 2025, 11:00 → 7 Nov 2025, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

Les Houches Centre de Physique

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

A meeting of the fellows and staff members of CERN's TH department, to review its scientific activities and recent results, to learn more about each other's research, and to familiarize the new members with CERN's scientific environment and with the rest of the group.

We shall reach Les Houches in the morning of Wednesday Nov 5, driving by car. The working sessions will take place on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday morning and late afternoon, and Friday morning. On Thursday afternoon we'll have free time for discussions or excursions, if weather permits. 

Wednesday 5 November

12:00 → 12:30 Check in

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 13:50 Introduction to the TH retreat

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

welcome.pdf

13:50 → 14:20 Introduction to the TH Department

Speaker: Gian Giudice (CERN)

Gian.pdf

14:20 → 15:30 Heavy Ions

Convener: Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

14:20 Intro

Speaker: Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

talk_retreat2025.pdf

talk_retreat2025.pptx

14:35 Urs Wiedemann

14:40 Petja Paakkinen

14:52 Giuliano Giacalone

15:04 Joao Lourenco Henriques Barata

15:16 Govert Nijs

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 19:00 QFT and strings

Convener: Shota Komatsu (CERN)

16:00 Intro

Speaker: Shota Komatsu (CERN)

16:15 Shota Komatsu

16:20 Irene Valenzuela

16:25 Alexander Zhiboedov

16:30 Sean Colin-Ellerin

16:42 Jung-Wook Kim

16:54 Dimitrios Kosmopoulos

17:06 Tomas Reis

17:18 Ignacio Ruiz

17:30 Marija Tomasevic

17:42 Damian van de Heisteeg

17:54 Markus Dierigl

18:06 Johan Henriksson

18:18 Ruben Monten

18:30 Luigi Tizzano

18:42 Ethan Martin Torres

19:00 → 19:30 Welcome drink

19:30 → 21:00 Dinner

Thursday 6 November

07:45 → 08:45 Breakfast

08:45 → 12:45 Standard Model, Flavour and Collider Phenomenology

08:45 Intro

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

09:00 Michelangelo Mangano

09:05 Samuel Abreu

09:10 Gudrun Hiller

09:15 Alexander Yohei Huss

09:20 Pier Francesco Monni

09:25 Federico Buccioni

09:37 Max Delto

09:49 Patrick Hager

10:01 Kay Schönwald

10:13 Chiara Signorile-Signorile

10:25 Coffee break

10:55 Hantian Zhang

11:07 Philipp Böer

11:19 Luca Buonocore

11:31 Claudia Cornella

11:43 Xiao Liu

11:55 Vitaly Magerya

12:07 Daniel Reichelt

12:19 Gherardo Vita

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:45 Free time

16:45 → 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 → 17:45 AI at CERN and in TH -- informal discussion

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

17:45 → 19:18 Cosmo/Astroparticle

Convener: Matthew Joseph Lewandowski (CERN)

17:45 Intro

Speaker: Matthew Joseph Lewandowski (CERN)

18:00 Matthew Lewandowski

18:05 Valerie Domcke

18:10 Miguel Escudero Abenza

18:15 Matteo Braglia

18:27 Silvia Gasparotto

18:39 Sung Mook Lee

18:51 Jorinde van de Vis

19:30 → 21:00 Dinner

Friday 7 November

07:45 → 08:45 Breakfast

08:45 → 09:30 Lattice

Convener: Harvey Byron Meyer (CERN)

08:45 intro

Speaker: Harvey Byron Meyer (CERN)

09:00 Harvey Byron Meyer

09:05 Andreas Juettner

09:10 Enrique Rico Ortega

09:15 Nikolai Husung

09:30 → 12:30 BSM

Convener: Marc Riembau (CERN)

09:30 Intro

Speaker: Marc Riembau (CERN)

09:45 Marc Riembau

09:50 Tim Cohen

09:55 Gian Giudice

10:00 Matthew Philip Mccullough

10:05 Clara Murgui Galvez

10:10 Itay Bloch

10:22 Carissa Cesarotti

10:34 Coffee break

11:04 Guilherme Guedes

11:16 Ryan Daniel Plestid

11:28 Pablo Quilez Lasanta

11:40 Mario Reig

11:52 Joe Davighi

12:04 Maksym Ovchynnikov

12:16 Maria Pestana Da Luz Pereira Ramos

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

14:00 → 14:10 Departure