Pre-SUSY School 2026

→ America/Chicago
Howard Baer
Description
The 33rd International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions is preceded by several days of pedagogicalย lectures on supersymmetry and other topics of current interest.
The 2026 preSUSY meeting will be held during May 12-15 on the campus ofย the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
The lectures will be held in the University of Oklahoma Memorial Union building (a brief walk from Nielsen Hall, the OU Physics and Astronomy building), in the Heritage Room (on north end of 2nd floor).
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It is open to graduate students and postdocs in theoretical,ย experimental and phenomenological high energy physics, andย will address the following topic:
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1. Supersymmetry and supergravity (Xerxes Tata) (3 lectures)
2. Supersymmetry phenomenology (Kairui Zhang) (2 lectures)
3. String phenomenology (Arthur Hebecker) (3 lectures)
4. Higgs boson physics (Chung Kao) (2 lectures)
5. Neutrino physics (Stephen King) (2 lectures)
6. Dark matter (Stefano Profumo) (2 lectures)
7. Axions (Michael Dine) (2 lectures)
8. Early universe and SUSY (M. Drees) (2 lectures)
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Surveys
preSUSY 2026 survey
    • 09:15 → 10:30
      SUSY 1 1h 15m Heritage Room. north end of 2nd floor (OU Memorial Union, 2nd floor)

      Heritage Room. north end of 2nd floor

      OU Memorial Union, 2nd floor

      SUSY and SUSY gauge theories

      Speaker: Xerxes Tata (Hawaii/Bonn)
    • 10:30 → 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 → 12:15
      Higgs 1 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      SM Higgs

      Speaker: Prof. Chung Kao (University of Oklahoma)
    • 12:15 → 14:00
      Lunch (on your own) 1h 45m

      On your own

    • 14:00 → 15:15
      SUSY 2 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      MSSM

      Speaker: Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)
    • 15:15 → 15:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 15:45 → 17:00
      Dark matter 1 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      Dark matter 1

      Speaker: Stefano Profumo
    • 17:00 → 18:15
      free time 1h 15m
    • 09:15 → 10:30
      SUSY 3 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      supergravity

      Speaker: Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)
    • 10:30 → 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 → 12:15
      Higgs 2 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      BSM Higgs

      Speaker: Prof. Chung Kao (University of Oklahoma)
    • 12:15 → 14:00
      Lunch (on your own) 1h 45m
    • 14:00 → 15:15
      Dark matter 2 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      Dark matter 2

      Speaker: Stefano Profumo
    • 15:15 → 15:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 15:45 → 17:00
      SUSY Pheno 1 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union )

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      SUSY Pheno 1

      Speaker: Dr Kairui Zhang (University of Oklahoma)
    • 17:00 → 18:15
      free time 1h 15m
    • 09:15 → 10:30
      SUSY pheno 1 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      SUSY pheno 1

      Speaker: Dr Kairui Zhang (University of Oklahoma)
    • 10:30 → 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 → 12:15
      Neutrinos 1 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      neutrinos

      Speaker: Prof. Stephen F King (University of Southampton)
    • 12:15 → 14:00
      Lunch (on your own) 1h 45m
    • 14:00 → 15:15
      String 1 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      Speaker: Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)
    • 15:15 → 15:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 15:45 → 17:00
      Axion 1 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      axions

      Speaker: Michael Dine
    • 17:00 → 18:15
      Cosmology 1 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      SUSY cosmology

      Speaker: Prof. Manuel Drees (Bonn)
    • 09:15 → 10:30
      String 2 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      Speaker: Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)
    • 10:30 → 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 → 12:15
      Axions 2 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      axions

      Speaker: Michael Dine
    • 12:15 → 14:00
      Lunch (on your own) 1h 45m
    • 14:00 → 15:15
      Neutrinos 2 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      Neutrinos

      Speaker: Prof. Stephen F King (University of Southampton)
    • 15:15 → 15:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 15:45 → 17:00
      Strings 3 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      strings SUSY

      Speaker: Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)
    • 17:00 → 18:15
      Cosmology 2 1h 15m Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor) (OU Memorial Union)

      Heritage room (north end of 2nd floor)

      OU Memorial Union

      cosmology, SUSY

      Speaker: Manuel Drees (Bonn)