MadGraph General Meeting 2026

from Monday, 9 February 2026 (13:45) to Wednesday, 11 February 2026 (17:50)
Heidelberg (Institut für Theoretische Physik, PW12, room 106)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Feb 2026
10 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026
AM
09:00 Resonance aware EW corrections for high multiplicity NLO predictions - Lenart Jerala (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))  
09:30 Toward Precision Higgs and Jet Physics at the Muon Collider - Dr Yang Ma (UCLouvain)  
10:00 mg5qs: a lightweight MadGraph environment for initial inquiry - Leo Megliola (UC San Diego)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 (HELAS) MadGraph/MadEvent : reborn - Prof. Kentarou Mawatari (Iwate U.)  
11:30 Amplitude Surrogates for Multi-Jet Processes - Luca Beccatini  
09:00 MadAgents - Daniel Schiller (Institute for Theoretical Physics Heidelberg)  
09:30 Lorentz-equivariant Transformers for the LHC - Jonas Spinner  
10:00 A universal vision transformer for fast calorimeter simulation - Luigi Favaro (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Fully-differential color-singlet production at NNLO - Lukas Simon (LPTHE - CNRS et Sorbonne Université)  
11:30 Status update on the implementation of the LO NRQCD/NRQED module in MadGraph5 - Luca MAXIA (LPTHE - CNRS)  
PM
14:00 Welcome - Olivier Mattelaer (UCLouvain) Tilman Plehn  
14:05 Things we suck at and what to do it about it - Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE))  
15:00 Hardware acceleration - Daniele Massaro (CERN)  
15:30 Compiled reweighting executables with the MadtRex module - Zenny Wettersten (CERN)  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30 MadSpace - Theo Heimel (UCLouvain)  
17:00 MadNIS@NLO - Giovanni De Crescenzo (University of Heidelberg)  
17:30 NLO negative weight reduction via ML - Andrea Valassi (CERN)  
18:00 Tools for High Energy Physics - Lucien Huber (University of Bern)  
12:00 Reliable uncertainty estimation for amplitude surrogates - Nina Elmer (University of Cambridge)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Why molecules matter -- and how ML can help - Fred Hamprecht  
15:00 News from Pythia - Christian Preuss (University of Goettingen)  
15:30 Studying dark matter with MadDM, status and updates - Gian Marco Lucchetti (INFN, UNIBO)  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30 Efficient high-multiplicity process generation with colour expansion - Timea Vitos  
17:00 FASTColor -- Full-color Amplitude Surrogate Toolkit for QCD - Javier Mariño Villadamigo (Institut für Theoretische Physik - University of Heidelberg)  
17:30 On the factorial complexity of scattering amplitudes - Rikkert Frederix (Lund University)  
19:30 --- Social dinner ---
12:00 Photoproduction and Asymmetric Collisions in MG5aMC@NLO - Allen Cris John Rubesh Rajan (University College Dublin)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 MadAnalysis - Jack Y. Araz (City St George's, University of London)  
14:30 Automated computation of spin-density matrices and quantum observables - Valentin Durupt  
15:00 Udpate on MadSpin via density matrix computation - Spyros Argyropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))  
15:30 Numerical analysis of matrix element calculation with CADNA and PROMISE - Frantisek Stloukal (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30 MG5aMC@NLO checkpointing - Jakob Novak (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))  
17:00 Quantum corrections in two-photon processes - Huasheng Shao (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
17:30 Updated Predictions for Polarized Matrix Elements in MG5aMC@NLO - Richard Ruiz (Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ) PAN)