Paving the Way to New Discoveries in Particle Physics

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Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Society (DE)), Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)), Marcela Carena Lopez, Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
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Confirmed speakers, please apply for the conference directly with the Aspen Ceneter of Physics using the following link:

https://aspenphys.org/winter-conferences/#event5895

This will secure your housing and must be done by October 15, 2025 to guarantee a room in Aspen Meadows.

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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).

    • 17:00 → 19:00
      Welcome Reception Smart Hall

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      700 Gillespie Ave, Aspen, CO 81611

      Welcome Reception

    • 08:00 → 11:00
      Opening Session Flug Forum

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      Opening Session with status of the experiments and broad theory talks

      Conveners: Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitationsph Albert Eisntein Institute (DE)), Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)), Marcela Carena Lopez, Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
      • 08:00
        Welcome 5m
        Speakers: Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitationsph Albert Eisntein Institute (DE)), Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)), Marcela Carena Lopez, Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
      • 08:05
        ATLAS Highlights 25m
        Speaker: Stephanie Majewski (University of Oregon (US))
      • 08:30
        Highlights from CMS 25m
        Speaker: Florencia Canelli (University of Zurich (CH))
      • 08:55
        Highlghts from LHCb and SHiP Status 25m
        Speaker: Lesya Shchutska (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
      • 09:20
        Coffee Break 20m
      • 09:40
        The Next Frontiers in HEP: Paving the Way to New Discoveries” 25m
        Speaker: Marumi Kado (Max Planck Society (DE))
      • 10:05
        LIGO Status and Highlights 25m
        Speaker: Michael Landry (LIGO Hanford Observatory/Caltech)
      • 10:30
        Elecron-Ion Collider Physics 25m
        Speaker: Anna Maria Stasto (Pennsylvania State University (US))
    • 11:00 → 16:30
      Skiing/Free Time Flug Forum

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    • 16:30 → 20:05
      Higgs Physics Flug Forum

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    • 08:00 → 11:00
      Top/EW Physics Flug Forum

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      Conveners: Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitationsph Albert Eisntein Institute (DE)), Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)), Marcela Carena Lopez, Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
      • 08:00
        Top and Electroweak Physics 25m
        Speaker: Doreen Wackeroth
      • 08:25
        Top Quark Properties at the LHC 25m
        Speaker: Peter Onyisi (University of Texas at Austin (US))
      • 08:50
        The Dawn of the Global Electroweak Fit at the LHC 25m
        Speaker: Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)
      • 09:15
        Coffee Break 20m
      • 09:35
        Machine Learning in Particle Experiment 25m
        Speaker: Loukas Gouskos (Brown University (US))
      • 10:00
        Top Quark Production at the LHC 25m
        Speaker: Javier Fernandez Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))
      • 10:25
        Entanglement in Neutral Meson System 25m
        Speaker: Tao Han
    • 11:00 → 16:30
      Skiing/Free Time Flug Forum

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    • 16:30 → 20:00
      QCD/EW Physics Flug Forum

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    • 08:00 → 11:00
      Searches/Future Facilities Flug Forum

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    • 11:00 → 16:30
      Skiing/Free Time Flug Forum

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    • 17:30 → 19:00
      Public Lecture Flug Forum

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    • 19:00 → 21:30
      Young Scientist Forum: Junior Scientist Forum Flug Forum

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      • 19:00
        Exploring the dark matter landscape with matter-wave interferometry 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Leonardo Badurina (California Institute of Technology)
      • 19:05
        The Axion Dark Matter Experiment 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Thomas Braine
      • 19:10
        Searching for Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Clocks in Low Earth Orbit 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Dawid Brzeminski
      • 19:15
        Fluctuations and Radiation in Axion String Networks 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Dr Heejoo Kim
      • 19:20
        Gravitational Wave Experiments are Excellent Probes of Dark Matter 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Vincent Lee
      • 19:25
        A Quantum Description of Axion Dark Matter Detection 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Dhong Yeon (U of Chaicago)
      • 19:30
        Observing Leptogenesis in Action with Gravitational Waves 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Jan Schütte-Engel
      • 19:35
        The Role of the Schwinger Effect in Superradiant Axion Lasers 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Bradley Shapiro (Dartmouth College)
      • 19:40
        Thermal Damping of Mass-Modulating Scalars 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Erwin Tanin
      • 19:45
        The search for neutrinoless double beta decay with LEGEND 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Louis Varriano (University of Washington)
      • 19:50
        Astrometric Direct Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter 5m Flug Forum

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        Speaker: Sarunas Verner (University of Florida)
      • 20:00
        Pizza Party and Poster Session 1h 30m Smart Hall (ACP Center for Physics)

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    • 08:00 → 11:00
      Flavor Physics Flug Forum

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    • 11:00 → 16:30
      Skiing/Free Time Flug Forum

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    • 16:30 → 20:00
      Dark Matter/Neutrino Physics Flug Forum

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      • 16:30
        Dark Matter Theory 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)
      • 16:55
        Dark Matter Experimental Landscape 25m
        Speaker: Dr Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)
      • 17:20
        Kinetic Dark Matter 25m
        Speaker: Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)
      • 17:45
        Coffee Break 20m
      • 18:05
        Highlights from IceCube 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Elisa Resconi (Technical University Munich)
      • 18:30
        Small and Early Dark Matter Structure 25m
        Speaker: Kevork Abazajian (University of California, Irvine)
      • 18:55
        New Fundamental Symmetry and Dark Matter 25m
        Speaker: Keisuke Harigaya
      • 19:20
        TBA 5m
        Speaker: Bradley Shapiro (Dartmouth College)
      • 19:25
        Tribute to Bill Bardeen and Dino Goulianos 5m
        Speakers: Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)), Marcela Carena Lopez
    • 19:45 → 22:15
      Banquet Flug Forum

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    • 08:00 → 11:15
      Quantum Physics/AI: Quantum Physics Flug Forum

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      • 08:00
        Quantum Magic in Fundamental Interactions 25m
        Speaker: Ian Low
      • 08:25
        Towards Solving Computational Challenges in Lattice Field Theory: From Deep Learning to Quantum Computing 25m
        Speaker: Lena Funcke (University of Bonn)
      • 08:50
        Higgs Boson and Entanglement 25m
        Speaker: Carlos E.M. Wagner
      • 09:15
        Coffee Break 20m
      • 09:35
        Heavy Ion Physics Highlights 25m
        Speaker: Dr Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
      • 10:00
        Quantum Sensing 25m
        Speaker: Clara Murgui Galvez (CERN)