NuPhys2026: Prospects in Neutrino Physics

from Wednesday, 7 January 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 9 January 2026 (18:00)
King's College London

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Jan 2026
8 Jan 2026
9 Jan 2026
AM
08:30
Registration (and coffee) (until 09:30) (Entrance to the Strand Building)
09:30
Plenary Session (until 10:40) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
09:30 Welcome - Francesca Di Lodovico (University of London (GB))  
09:40 Oscillation parameters status and prospects - Mayly Sanchez (Florida State University)  
10:10 Modern Neutrino Oscillation Theory - Dr Peter Denton (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
10:40 --- Break ---
11:00
Plenary Session (until 13:00) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
11:00 Neutrinos as a Window into New Physics? - Jacobo Lopez Pavon (IFIC, CSIC-Universitat de València (Spain))  
11:30 Short Baseline Neutrino Anomalies: Evolving Perspectives on an Enduring Puzzle - Mark Ross-Lonergan (Columbia University)  
12:00 Neutrino-nucleus interactions: from models to event generators - Joanna Sobczyk  
12:30 Neutrino cross sections - Dr Artur Ankowski (University of Wroclaw)  
08:30 --- Coffee ---
09:30
Astrophysical and cosmological neutrinos (until 10:45) (Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
09:30 Searching for Ultra-High-Energy Tau neutrinos with the Trinity telescope. - Anthony Brown  
09:48 The Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G): Status and outlook - Sjoerd Bouma (ECAP, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)  
10:06 The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): status and prospects - Rafael Alves Batista (Sorbonne Université)  
10:27 Probing the Extreme Universe: Searches for neutrinos and BSM signatures with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Srijan Sehgal  
09:30
Neutrino Interactions (until 10:45) (Nash Lecture Theatre)
09:30 Neutrino Interaction Measurements with the SBND Experiment - Rachel Coackley  
09:48 Recent Results from the SND@LHC Experiment - Luciano Arellano (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
10:06 Latest cross-section measurements from T2K with the ND280 detector - Dr Nicholas Latham (University of London (GB))  
10:24 Recent Cross Section Measurements in MicroBooNE - Maitreyee Moudgalya  
09:30
New Detector Technologies (until 10:45) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
09:30 Status of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment - Robert Kralik (King's College London)  
09:45 Prospects for an Upgraded Near Detector for Hyper Kamiokande - ND280++ - Ewan Miller  
10:02 Theia: next-generation neutrino detection - Prof. Gabriel Orebi Gann (University of California, Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
10:17 The DUNE Photon Detection System - Dr Patricia Sanchez-Lucas (University of Granada)  
10:32 Data-Driven PMT Calibration of Large Liquid Detectors with Unsupervised Learning - Scott DeGraw (University of Oxford)  
10:45 --- Coffee ---
11:15
Astrophysical and cosmological neutrinos (until 12:30) (Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
11:15 Exploring ultra-high energy neutrino experiments through the lens of the transport equation - Michele Tammaro  
11:33 The flavor composition of UHE cosmic neutrinos: from IceCube to an astrophysical source - Zhi-zhong Xing  
11:51 Using VLBI observations for modeling emission properties of neutrino candidate blazars - Aditya Tamar  
12:09 Multi-Sensor Optical-Modules for IceCube-Gen2 - Kareem Farrag (Chiba University)  
11:15
Neutrino Interactions (until 12:30) (Nash LEcture Theatre)
11:19 First Evidence of Solar Neutrino Interactions on 13C - Mr Gulliver Milton (University Of Oxford)  
11:37 First observation of reactor antineutrinos by coherent scattering with CONUS+ - Nicola Ackermann  
11:55 NuWro 25.11 - Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee  
12:13 Status of the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab - Bethany McCusker (Lancaster University)  
11:15
Neutrino Oscillations (until 12:30) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
11:15 Do neutrinos dream in 5D? - ARTURO DE GIORGI  
11:33 Probing Dark Sector Particles Coupling to Neutrinos with Double Beta Decay - Noor-Ines Boudjema  
11:51 Off-axis spanning detector for the Hyper-Kamiokande long-baseline oscillation program - Ryosuke Akutsu (IPNS, KEK)  
12:09 Atmospheric neutrinos in DUNE - Dr Daniel Barrow (University of Oxford (GB))  
08:30 --- Coffee ---
09:30
Astrophysical and cosmological neutrinos (until 10:30) (Nash LEcture Theatre)
09:30 TAMBO: A Deep-Valley Neutrino Observatory - Prof. Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard University)  
09:50 Primordial high energy neutrinos - Nicolas Grimbaum Yamamoto (Université Libre de Bruxelles)  
10:10 Astro-neutrino detection at PandaX-4T - Yang Zhang (Shandong University)  
09:30
Neutrino Oscillations (until 10:30) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
09:30 nuSCOPE: a monitored and tagged neutrino beam for high-precision neutrino interaction measurements - Anna Scanu (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
09:50 Reactor Antineutrino Oscillations and Geoneutrinos in SNO+ - William Parker  
10:10 New physics searches at the NA62 experiment at CERN - Elizabeth Long (Charles University (CZ))  
09:30
New Detector Technologies (until 10:30) (Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
09:30 BUTTON - A Technology Testbed for Neutrino Detection at Boulby Underground Laboratory - Daniel Swinnock (University of Warwick)  
09:50 Eos: a demonstrator for next-generation neutrino detection - Prof. Gabriel Orebi Gann (University of California, Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
10:10 The SoLAr project: A dual-readout pixelated anode for multipurpose LArTPCs - Dr Daniele Guffanti (University & INFN Milano-Bicocca)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Plenary Session (until 12:30) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
11:00 Astrophysics neutrinos - experimental - Anthony Brown  
11:30 Searching for New Physics in the Neutrino Sky - Prof. Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard University)  
12:00 Nu's from cosmology - Dr Vivian Poulin (LUPM, CNRS & U. de Montpellier, France)  
PM
13:00
Group Photo (until 13:10)
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Dark Sectors (until 16:00) (Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
14:30 Latest results from XENONnT and prospects for the future - Andrew Stevens (University of Freiburg)  
14:52 Recent results from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment - Albert Baker (King's College London)  
15:14 Impact of Reactor Anti-Neutrinos on the Neutrino Floor for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches - Mr Sudipta Das (National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), an OCC of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India)  
15:36 Reactor neutrino coherent scattering with a liquid xenon time projection chamber - Prof. Fei Gao (Tsinghua University)  
14:30
Neutrino Mass (until 16:00) (Nash Lecture Theatre)
14:30 Models and phenomenology of neutrino polarizability - Michele Tammaro  
14:50 Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment - Daniel Cookman (King's College London)  
15:10 Decoupling Neutrino Magnetic Moment from Mass with SU(2)L​ Invariance - Anil Thapa (Colorado State University)  
15:30 Recent Results from the NEXT-100 Experiment - Joshua Grocott (University of Manchester)  
14:30
New Detector Technologies (until 16:00) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
14:30 Latest performance results of the High-Angle TPC in the upgraded T2K off-axis near detector - Camilla Forza (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
14:50 An innovative lens-based imaging detector for GRAIN in SAND at the DUNE Near Detector Complex: track and vertex reconstruction performance - Silvia Repetto (University of Genova and INFN Genova)  
15:10 ND280++, the multi-ton upgrade of the magnetised near detector for the Hyper-Kamiokande high-statistics phase - Dr Daniel Ferlewicz (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
15:28 A Magnetised High-Pressure Gaseous Argon TPC for the DUNE Near Detector - Francisco Martínez López  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30
Dark Sectors (until 18:30) (Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
16:30 Probing Solar Neutrino Properties with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment - Yongheng Xu (Universitetet i Oslo/UCLA)  
16:52 Type-I-Seesaw Extensions with Superheavy Dark Matter: Constraints from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Olivier DELIGNY  
17:14 Did IceCube discover Dark Matter around Blazars? - Andrea Giovanni De Marchi  
17:36 Listening for ultra-heavy dark matter with underwater acoustic detectors - Damon Cleaver (King's College London)  
17:58 Radiopurity and Cleanliness Challenges for the XLZD Experiment - Dr Jim Dobson (King's College London)  
16:30
Neutrino Mass (until 18:30) (Nash Lecture Theatre)
16:30 Latest results from the LEGEND experiment on the search for neutrinoless double beta decay - Dr Luigi Pertoldi (TU München (Germany))  
16:50 From CUORE to a next generation neutrinoless double beta decay search in CUPID - Roberto SERINO (IJCLab - University Paris-Saclay)  
17:10 Lepton flavour theories in the era of neutrino precision measurements - Ye-Ling Zhou (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
17:30 Neutrino Physics with XLZD - Dr Jim Dobson (King's College London)  
17:50 The Ptolemy project - Gianluca Cavoto (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
18:10 Exploring Neutrino Compositeness: Emerging and Invisible Jets at Neutrino and Charged Lepton Beams - Matteo Borrello (University of Florence, INFN of Florence)  
16:30
Neutrino Oscillations (until 18:30) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
16:30 Quantum Estimation Theory for Neutrino Physics - Michela Ignoti  
16:47 Decaying Neutrino States in Beam and Atmospheric Experiments - Mr Supriya Pan  
17:04 Status and plans for T2K neutrino oscillation analyses - Dr Nicholas Latham (University of London (GB))  
17:21 Latest NOvA Oscillation Results from 10 Years of Data - Flavia Cicala  
17:38 Recent Advancements in Machine Learning Techniques Utilised by NOvA - Alexander Craig Booth (Imperial College London (GB))  
17:55 NOvA's Current and Future Sterile Neutrino Searches - Dr Adam Lister  
18:12 The NOvA Test Beam Program - Emerson Bannister  
18:30 --- Reception ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:40
Poster session (until 14:40) (Great Hall)
14:00 A High-Pressure Gas TPC Prototype with Hybrid Charge/Optical Readout - Hong-Kai Tan  
14:01 Extracting Echoes in the IceCube Upgrade - Kareem Farrag (Chiba University)  
14:02 Investigating Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions: Inclusive Cross-Sections Across Various Materials at MINERvA - Akeem Hart (Queen Mary University of London)  
14:03 Signal analysis from Multi-Photomultiplier detectors in WCTE - Monika Anna Marek (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
14:04 NuRadio: Simulation and analysis software for radio detection of ultra-high-energy particle cascades - Sjoerd Bouma (ECAP, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)  
14:05 NuDoubt++: A Hybrid Opaque Scintillation Detector for Double Beta Plus Decay Searches - Ms Kyra Mossel (JGU Mainz)  
14:06 Rapid 210Pb assay for monitoring the purification of archaeological lead for the RES-NOVA experiment - Marco Consonni (Università di Milano Bicocca, INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca)  
14:07 Developing Pre-Supernova Neutrino Model Support for sntools - Mx Ellie O'Brien (University of Sheffield)  
14:08 3-inch PMTs for the Hyper-K outer detector - Robert Kralik (King's College London)  
14:40
Plenary Session (until 15:10) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
14:40 First results from the JUNO experiment - Dr Davide Basilico (University of Milan / INFN Milano)  
15:10
Plenary Session (until 16:40) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
15:10 Dark Matter theory overview - Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)  
15:40 A New Year’s Perspective on the Global Hunt for Particle Dark Matter - Prof. Kimberly Palladino (University of Oxford)  
16:10 Neutrino detectors can discover light dark matter - Filippo Sala  
16:40 --- Coffee ---
17:00
Plenary Session (until 18:30) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
17:00 Direct neutrino-mass measurement – status and prospects - Kathrin Valerius  
17:30 Neutrino mass models - Avelino Vicente (IFIC, CSIC-UV)  
18:00 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Experimental Status and the Path Forward - Claudia Nones (IRFU/DPhP)  
19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary Session (until 15:30) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
14:00 Liquid Detector Technologies For Neutrino Physics - Diana Navas  
14:30 From Dark Matter to Neutrinos: The Reach of Dual-Phase Xenon TPCs - Chiara Capelli  
15:00 Deep learning for neutrino physics - Dr Saul Alonso Monsalve (ETH Zurich)  
15:30
Poster Awards and Closing Remarks (until 16:00) (Safra Lecture Theatre)
15:30 Poster Awards  
15:45 Closing Remarks