Beauty 2026 @Maastricht

from Monday, June 1, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, June 5, 2026 (6:00 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 1, 2026
Jun 2, 2026
Jun 3, 2026
Jun 4, 2026
Jun 5, 2026
AM
9:00 AM Standard Model uncertainties of B -> K(*) ell+ ell-, angular distributions - Danny van Dyk (Durham University & IPPP)  
9:30 AM Recent results in b->sll transitions at LHCb - Juan Jose Juan Castella (University of Cambridge (GB))  
9:50 AM b->s Penguin results from Belle II - Rishabh Mehta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) RISHABH MEHTA  
10:10 AM Rare decays at CMS - Szymon Slawinski (University of Warsaw (PL))  
10:30 AM --- Tea Break ---
11:00 AM The Plan B Z' Model and b->s transitions - Prof. Ben Allanach (University of Cambridge (GB))  
11:30 AM Recent results in rare b-hadron decays (excluding b->sll) at LHCb - Lukas Calefice (Universitat de Barcelona / ICCUB)  
11:50 AM CMS highlights on flavour physics - Chiara Basile (University of Florida (US))  
9:00 AM Rare charm decays - Eleftheria Solomonidi (Paul Scherrer Institute)  
9:30 AM Recent results in charm physics at BESIII (excluding strong-phase measurements) - Wenhan Shen (University of Chinese Academy of Science)  
9:50 AM Charm physics at Belle II - Markus Reif  
10:10 AM Mixing and CPV in charm at LHCb - Paula Herrero Gascon (Heidelberg University (DE))  
10:30 AM --- Tea Break ---
11:00 AM Recent results and prospects in charm strong-phase measurements at BESIII - Yu Zhang  
11:20 AM Conventional spectroscopy of doubly heavy hadrons at LHCb - Yuhao Wang (School of Physics State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing)  
11:40 AM B -> D(*)taunu results at Belle and Belle II - Lin Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))  
9:00 AM Spectroscopy (focus on exotics) - Tommaso Scirpa  
9:30 AM Recent results on spectroscopy at LHCb (excluding B_c) - Yiming Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
9:50 AM Recent results in spectroscopy at BESIII - Yanping Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
10:10 AM Spectroscopy: new baryons, onia-associated production (triple Jpsi, Upsilon + Z etc) at CMS - Jinjing Gu (Tsinghua University (CN))  
10:30 AM --- Tea Break ---
11:00 AM Tau physics at Belle II - Zuzana Mediankin Gruberova (Charles University)  
11:20 AM Recent results from NA62 - Silvia Martellotti (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
11:40 AM Strange physics at LHCb - Marco Santimaria (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
9:00 AM Hadronic methods for rare B decays on the Lattice - Felix Erben (CERN)  
9:30 AM Projections for ATLAS heavy-flavour measurements at the HL-LHC - Pavel Reznicek (Charles University (CZ))  
9:50 AM LHCb Upgrade II - Neville Harnew (University of Oxford (GB))  
10:10 AM CMS Phase II prospects - Kai-Feng Chen (National Taiwan University (TW))  
10:30 AM --- Tea break ---
11:00 AM Status of Belle II and SuperKEKB and future prospects - Martin Bessner (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
11:20 AM Status and prospects for the Super Tau Charm Facility - Yu Zhang  
11:40 AM Heavy-flavour prospects at FCC-ee - Matthew William Kenzie (University of Cambridge (GB))  
PM
12:00 PM --- Registration ---
12:45 PM Welcome - Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Marcel Merk (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
1:00 PM The Flavour Physics Landscape - Dr Olcyr Sumensari (IJCLab)  
1:35 PM CP violation in B decays - Kristof Antoon M De Bruyn (University of Groningen)  
2:05 PM Measurements of time-dependent b-hadron properties in LHCb - Lucas Arthur Foreman (The University of Manchester (GB))  
2:25 PM --- Tea Break ---
2:55 PM Time-dependent CPV measurements at Belle II - Cecilia Antonioli  
3:15 PM Nonleptonic B decays - Marta Burgos Marcos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
3:45 PM Hadronic B-meson decays at Belle II - Ansu Johnson (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)  
4:05 PM Recent results in charmless b-hadron decays at LHCb - Edoardo Mariani (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), LPNHE, Sorbonne Université)  
4:25 PM --- Small Break ---
4:50 PM Violation of fundamental symmetries in B and D decays at CMS - Riccardo Manzoni (ETH Zurich (CH))  
5:10 PM Recent lifetime measurements in ATLAS - Dvij Mankad (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
5:30 PM B mesogenesis - Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)  
6:10 PM Practical info - Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
6:30 PM --- Welcome drinks at Maastricht Town Hall ---
12:10 PM New HF excited states and LFV searches in ATLAS - Yue Xu (University of Washington (US))  
12:35 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Heavy Ion - Vincenzo Minissale  
2:00 PM Results with light collision systems at the LHC and future perspectives - Shreyasi Acharya (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
2:20 PM HF production and properties: cross section and lifetimes at CMS - Lucas Karwatzki (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))  
2:40 PM Quarkonium/QCD results at Belle II - Giulia Italia (INFN & Univ. Torino)  
3:00 PM --- Tea Break ---
3:30 PM Cross sections for heavy-flavour production in ATLAS - Yuxuan Zhang (Tsinghua University (CN)) Yuxuan Zhang  
3:50 PM recent ALICE heavy-flavour results and prospects for LHC Run4 and Run5 - Alessandro Grelli (Utrecht University (NL))  
4:10 PM B -> invisibles - Dr Martin Novoa-Brunet (IFIC, U. Valencia, CSIC)  
4:40 PM Dark matter results at Belle II - Rajesh Kumar Maiti (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
5:00 PM --- Small break ---
5:15 PM
Lightning talks and poster session (until 7:25 PM)
5:15 PM Pitch: Searches for lepton flavour violation involving tau lepton in B decays at Belle and Belle II - Isaac-Paul CONSIGNY (CPPM)  
5:20 PM Pitch: Improving the LHCb VELO simulation with data-driven cluster efficiencies - Mark Waterlaat (CERN & VU)  
5:25 PM Pitch: An EFT on an EFT on an EFT - Jaime del Palacio Lirola (University of Siegen)  
5:30 PM Pitch: Bc mesogenesis - Alexandre Verheyden  
5:35 PM Pitch: Development of a Kinematic Over-Constraint Method for Pentaquark Search in $\Lambda_b^0$ Decays at LHCb in Run 3 - Sophia Pennuttis (Vilnius University (LT))  
5:45 PM --- Check out the posters! ---
6:30 PM Poster: Quantum Emergence of Euclidean Regions and Implication for Fermionic Physics - Guus Beenen  
6:35 PM Poster: Relativistic Binaries in Post-Newtonian Approximations: Full Derivation from the Einstein-Hilbert Action to a Coded Analytical Framework at 1PN Order - Sophia Berinski  
6:45 PM Poster: Investigation of the Ricci flow equation as a dynamic constraint on the Einstein Field Equation - Lara Kropej  
6:55 PM Poster: Bridging the Gap: Can a Single Z' Solve the B and D Anomalies - Marija Hrstic  
7:05 PM Poster: Using machine learning for the analysis of semileptonic decays at LHCb - Francesco Cipollone  
12:00 PM Recent b->c tau nu results from Babar - Vincent Tisserand (LPC Clermont IN2P3/CNRS)  
12:20 PM --- Conference Photo ---
12:35 PM
Explore the city and grab a nice lunch somewhere (until 1:45 PM)
3:00 PM
Excursion (until 5:00 PM)
6:30 PM --- Transfer to Conference Dinner ---
7:00 PM --- Conference Dinner ---
10:15 PM
Transfer back to pick-up location inner city (until 10:45 PM)
12:00 PM Results and prospects with KOTO - Bob Hsiung (National Taiwan University (TW))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Semileptonic B decays, latest |V_xb| - Alexandre Carvunis Alexandre Carvunis (Università di Torino)  
2:00 PM Measurements of |V_cb| at Belle and Belle II - Markus Tobias Prim (University of Bonn (DE))  
2:20 PM Inclusive decays in Lattice QCD - Christiane Gross  
2:50 PM Measurements of |V_ub| at Belle and Belle II - Jyotirmoi Borah (Fudan University)  
3:10 PM --- Tea Break ---
3:40 PM Measurements of CKM angle gamma in LHCb - Vincent Tisserand (LPC Clermont IN2P3/CNRS)  
4:00 PM Lattice QCD (focus on Charm and Beauty form factors, RD*, b- & c-quark masses) - William Jay William Jay (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
4:30 PM Recent results in semileptonic b-hadron decays at LHCb - Marta Calvi  
4:50 PM --- Short break ---
5:00 PM
Lightning talks and poster session (until 6:55 PM)
5:00 PM Pitch: A Theoretical Study of Non-leptonic Charm Decays - Yağmur Zubaroğlu  
5:05 PM Pitch: Feasibility study of CP violation of hyperon decay at STCF - Mingyu Yu (Shandong University)  
5:10 PM Pitch: B-physics triggers 2024-2025 - Adam Edward Barton (Lancaster University (GB))  
5:15 PM Pitch: Particle Tracking using Quantum Computers - Xenofon Chiotopoulos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
5:20 PM Pitch: Quark-Hadron Duality Violations and Higher-Order 1/m_b Corrections in Inclusive Semileptonic B Decays - Rens Verkade  
5:30 PM Pitch: Prospects of searches for invisible B-meson decays at FCC-ee - Ella Wood (University of Cambridge (GB))  
5:35 PM --- Check out the posters! ---
5:35 PM Poster: Asessing Radiation Damage of the LHCb electromagnetic Calorimeter - Aleksandre Kiria  
5:45 PM Poster: $B\to \pi \ell \nu$ and the search for New Physics - Joanna Wądołowska  
5:55 PM Poster: Search for the Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay $B_c^+ \to B_s^0 K^+$ at LHCb - Clotilde Papot  
6:05 PM Poster: Bc → τ ν and New Physics - Emma Small  
6:15 PM Poster: Two is Company, Three is a Crowd: Heavy-Flavor Baryon Enhancement in PYTHIA 8 - Inaki Pardo Zambrana  
6:30 PM Poster: Exploring CKM unitarity trhough Vcd with D-> pi decays - Jens Hieronymus  
12:00 PM Summary Talk - Niels Tuning (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:35 PM Poster prize award and Closing - Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---