Particle physics is living through exciting times, questioning paradigms of past decades. The 2026 Aspen Winter Physics Conference "Paving the Way to New Discoveries in Particle Physics” will provide a forum to discuss novel theoretical and experimental ideas and techniques addressing the challenges posed by the vast amount of recent data. The program focuses on precision electroweak physics including Higgs bosons and top quarks, QCD at high energies and in heavy-ion collisions, dark matter and messengers to the dark sector, direct and indirect searches for new particles and interactions, recent developments in theory, science at future accelerator facilities, the interplay of particle physics and cosmology, advances based on artificial intelligence, and the role of quantum devices, quantum algorithms, and entanglement in particle physics. A dedicated poster session will highlight research at the intersection of machine learning, quantum science, and particle physics.
Organizers:
Marcela Carena, Perimeter Institute (Canada) & University of Chicago/Fermilab (USA)
Greg Landsberg, Brown University (USA)
Matthias Neubert, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and MITP (Germany) & Cornell University (USA)
Giulia Zanderighi, Max Planck Institute for Physics and Technical University Munich (Germany)
Conference hosted by the Aspen Center for Physics with support provided by the Brown University (Providence, USA), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and MITP (Maintz Germany); Max Planck Insistute (Munich, Germany); and Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Canada).
