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 Check in

12:30 Lunch

1 Introduction to the TH retreat

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

2 Introduction to the TH Department

Speaker: Gian Giudice (CERN)

Heavy Ions

Convener: Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

3 Intro

Speaker: Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

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4 Urs Wiedemann

5 Petja Paakkinen

6 Giuliano Giacalone

7 Joao Lourenco Henriques Barata

8 Govert Nijs

15:30 Coffee break

QFT and strings

Convener: Shota Komatsu (CERN)

9 Intro

Speaker: Shota Komatsu (CERN)

10 Shota Komatsu

11 Irene Valenzuela

12 Alexander Zhiboedov

13 Sean Colin-Ellerin

14 Jung-Wook Kim

15 Dimitrios Kosmopoulos

16 Tomas Reis

17 Ignacio Ruiz

18 Marija Tomasevic

19 Damian van de Heisteeg

20 Markus Dierigl

21 Johan Henriksson

22 Ruben Monten

23 Luigi Tizzano

24 Ethan Martin Torres

19:00 Welcome drink

19:30 Dinner

Thursday 6 November

07:45 Breakfast

Standard Model, Flavour and Collider Phenomenology

25 Intro

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

26 Michelangelo Mangano

27 Samuel Abreu

28 Gudrun Hiller

29 Alexander Yohei Huss

30 Pier Francesco Monni

31 Federico Buccioni

32 Max Delto

33 Patrick Hager

34 Kay Schönwald

35 Chiara Signorile-Signorile

10:25 Coffee break

36 Hantian Zhang

37 Philipp Böer

38 Luca Buonocore

39 Claudia Cornella

40 Xiao Liu

41 Vitaly Magerya

42 Daniel Reichelt

43 Gherardo Vita

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Free time

16:45 Coffee break

44 AI at CERN and in TH -- informal discussion

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Cosmo/Astroparticle

Convener: Matthew Joseph Lewandowski (CERN)

45 Intro

Speaker: Matthew Joseph Lewandowski (CERN)

46 Matthew Lewandowski

47 Valerie Domcke

48 Miguel Escudero Abenza

49 Matteo Braglia

50 Silvia Gasparotto

51 Sung Mook Lee

52 Jorinde van de Vis

19:30 Dinner

Friday 7 November

07:45 Breakfast

Lattice

Convener: Harvey Byron Meyer (CERN)

53 intro

Speaker: Harvey Byron Meyer (CERN)

54 Harvey Byron Meyer

55 Andreas Juettner

56 Enrique Rico Ortega

57 Nikolai Husung

BSM

Convener: Marc Riembau (CERN)

58 Intro

Speaker: Marc Riembau (CERN)

59 Marc Riembau

60 Tim Cohen

61 Gian Giudice

62 Matthew Philip Mccullough

63 Clara Murgui Galvez

64 Itay Bloch

65 Carissa Cesarotti

10:34 Coffee break

66 Guilherme Guedes

67 Ryan Daniel Plestid

68 Pablo Quilez Lasanta

69 Mario Reig

70 Joe Davighi

71 Maksym Ovchynnikov

72 Maria Pestana Da Luz Pereira Ramos

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Departure