Paving the Way to New Discoveries in Particle Physics

from Sunday, 1 February 2026 (17:00) to Friday, 6 February 2026 (12:00)
Aspen Center for Physics (Flug Forum)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Feb 2026
2 Feb 2026
3 Feb 2026
4 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026
6 Feb 2026
AM
08:00
Opening Session - Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Marcela Carena Lopez Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)) Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitationsph Albert Eisntein Institute (DE)) (until 11:00)
08:00 Welcome - Marcela Carena Lopez Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)) Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitationsph Albert Eisntein Institute (DE))  
08:05 ATLAS Highlights - Stephanie Majewski (University of Oregon (US))  
08:30 Highlights from CMS - Florencia Canelli (University of Zurich (CH))  
08:55 Highlghts from LHCb and SHiP Status - Lesya Shchutska (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
09:20 Coffee Break  
09:40 The Next Frontiers in HEP: Paving the Way to New Discoveries” - Marumi Kado (Max Planck Society (DE))  
10:05 LIGO Status and Highlights - Michael Landry (LIGO Hanford Observatory/Caltech)  
10:30 Elecron-Ion Collider Physics - Anna Maria Stasto (Pennsylvania State University (US))  
11:00
Skiing/Free Time (until 16:30)
08:00
Top/EW Physics - Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Marcela Carena Lopez Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)) Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitationsph Albert Eisntein Institute (DE)) (until 11:00)
08:00 Top and Electroweak Physics - Doreen Wackeroth  
08:25 Top Quark Properties at the LHC - Peter Onyisi (University of Texas at Austin (US))  
08:50 The Dawn of the Global Electroweak Fit at the LHC - Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)  
09:15 Coffee Break  
09:35 Machine Learning in Particle Experiment - Loukas Gouskos (Brown University (US))  
10:00 Top Quark Production at the LHC - Javier Fernandez Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
10:25 Entanglement in Neutral Meson System - Tao Han  
11:00
Skiing/Free Time (until 16:30)
08:00
Searches/Future Facilities (until 11:00)
08:00 New Ideas in BSM Physics - Nathaniel Craig  
08:25 Exotics Searches at the LHC - Marc Antoine Osherson (University of Notre Dame (US))  
08:50 SUSY Searches at the LHC - Michael Donald Hank (University of Pennsylvania (US))  
09:15 Coffee Break  
09:35 Superradiant interactions of cosmic relics - Asimina Arvanitaki  
10:00 Dark Matter Searches with the LDMX Experiment - Valentina Dutta (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))  
10:25 Electroweak Measurements and Light-Particle Searches at the LHCb - Conor Henderson (University of Cincinnati (US))  
11:00
Skiing/Free Time (until 16:30)
08:00
Flavor Physics (until 11:00)
08:00 Flavor BSM Physics - Ben Stefanek  
08:25 Belle II Highlights - Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnati)  
08:50 Flavor Anomalies and Rare b Hadron Decays - Anni Kauniskangas (EPFL)  
09:15 Coffee Break  
09:35 b Hadron Production Measurements - Tomasz Skwarnicki (Syracuse University (US))  
10:00 CP Violation in the Beauty and Charm Sectors - Roberto Ribatti (EPFL)  
10:25 Constraining the intra-galactic substructure and primordial power spectrum with ultra-faint dwarf galaxies - Maximilian Ruhdorfer (Stanford University)  
11:00
Skiing/Free Time (until 16:30)
08:00
Quantum Physics/AI (until 11:15)
08:00 Quantum Magic in Fundamental Interactions - Ian Low  
08:25 Towards Solving Computational Challenges in Lattice Field Theory: From Deep Learning to Quantum Computing - Lena Funcke (University of Bonn)  
08:50 Higgs Boson and Entanglement - Carlos E.M. Wagner  
09:15 Coffee Break  
09:35 Heavy Ion Physics Highlights - Dr Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
10:00 Quantum Sensing - Clara Murgui Galvez (CERN)  
PM
17:00
Welcome Reception (until 19:00)
16:30
Higgs Physics (until 20:05)
16:30 Higgs Theory - Laura Reina  
16:55 Single Higgs Production at the LHC - Caterina Vernieri (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
17:20 Exotic Higgs Searches at the LHC - Nikolai Fomin (University of Cambridge (GB))  
17:45 Coffee Break  
18:05 Double Higgs Production at the LHC - Stephane Brunet Cooperstein (Texas A & M University (US))  
18:30 Higgs Mass and Width - Alexei Safonov (Texas A & M University (US))  
18:55 Higher-Order QCD Calculations for Higgs and Beyond - Fabrizio Arturo Caola (University of Oxford (GB))  
16:30
QCD/EW Physics (until 20:00)
16:30 Colllider EFT - Sebastian Eryk Jaskiewicz (University of Bern)  
16:55 QCD Measurements at the LHC - Savannah Clawson (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
17:20 QCD Theory Meets Information Theory - Benoit Assi  
17:45 Coffee Break  
18:05 Machine Learning in Particle Theory - David Shih  
18:30 Electroweak Physics at the LHC - Kelci Ann Mohrman (University of Florida (US))  
18:55 Predictions in pQCD: the What, Why and How - Federica Devoto  
17:30
Public Lecture (until 19:00)
19:00
Young Scientist Forum (until 21:30)
19:00 Exploring the dark matter landscape with matter-wave interferometry - Leonardo Badurina (California Institute of Technology)  
19:05 The Axion Dark Matter Experiment - Thomas Braine  
19:10 Searching for Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Clocks in Low Earth Orbit - Dawid Brzeminski  
19:15 Fluctuations and Radiation in Axion String Networks - Dr Heejoo Kim  
19:20 Gravitational Wave Experiments are Excellent Probes of Dark Matter - Vincent Lee  
19:25 A Quantum Description of Axion Dark Matter Detection - Dhong Yeon (U of Chaicago)  
19:30 Observing Leptogenesis in Action with Gravitational Waves - Jan Schütte-Engel  
19:35 The Role of the Schwinger Effect in Superradiant Axion Lasers - Bradley Shapiro (Dartmouth College)  
19:40 Thermal Damping of Mass-Modulating Scalars - Erwin Tanin  
19:45 The search for neutrinoless double beta decay with LEGEND - Louis Varriano (University of Washington)  
19:50 Astrometric Direct Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter - Sarunas Verner (University of Florida)  
20:00 --- Pizza Party and Poster Session ---
16:30
Dark Matter/Neutrino Physics (until 20:00)
16:30 Dark Matter Theory - Prof. Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)  
16:55 Dark Matter Experimental Landscape - Dr Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)  
17:20 Kinetic Dark Matter - Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)  
17:45 Coffee Break  
18:05 Highlights from IceCube - Prof. Elisa Resconi (Technical University Munich)  
18:30 Small and Early Dark Matter Structure - Kevork Abazajian (University of California, Irvine)  
18:55 New Fundamental Symmetry and Dark Matter - Keisuke Harigaya  
19:20 TBA - Bradley Shapiro (Dartmouth College)  
19:25 Tribute to Bill Bardeen and Dino Goulianos - Marcela Carena Lopez Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))  
19:45
Banquet (until 22:15)