Blois 2026: 37th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology"

from Sunday, 10 May 2026 (15:00) to Friday, 15 May 2026 (13:50)
Gaston d'Orléans

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 May 2026
11 May 2026
12 May 2026
13 May 2026
14 May 2026
15 May 2026
AM
09:00
Opening - Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin)) (until 09:30)
09:30
Coffee Break (until 10:00) (Margueritte de Valois, Ground Floor)
10:00
Highlights - Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 12:30)
10:00 JUNO: Review of the First Results - Xuefeng Ding (Istitute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
10:30 DESI - 10 years after construction started - Eric Armengaud (CEA Saclay)  
11:00 Faser: high energy neutrinos - Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))  
11:30 Future Colliders and ESPPU - Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE))  
12:00 AI for Particle Physics - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
09:00
Collider - Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Next generation triggers - Guilherme Guedes  
09:30 Precision Theory for high-energy colliders - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)  
10:00 LHC: Highlights on Precision EW measurements at the LHC - Federico Morodei (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
10:30
Coffee Break (until 11:00) (Margueritte de Valois Ground Floor)
11:00
DM - Maria Ramos (until 12:30)
11:00 Dark Matter Experimental Searches - Chiara Salemi (Stanford University and SLAC)  
11:30 Light Dark Matter - Ryan Plestid (CERN)  
12:00 Axion DM - Keir Rogers  
08:00
Excursion to Clos Lucé (last home of Leonardo Da Vinci) (until 12:00)
09:00
Collider 2 - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow) (until 10:30)
09:00 Review of ALICE results - Mattia Faggin (CERN)  
09:30 New avenues for precision hadronic measurements at the LHC - Aditya Pathak (DESY)  
10:00 LHC: Highlights on BSM/exotic searches - Eirini Tziaferi (Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) (GR))  
10:30
Coffee Break (until 11:00)
11:00
Neutrinos - Sotiris Loucatos (Université Paris-Saclay (FR) and APC) (until 12:30)
11:00 Review of neutrino masses and mixings - Eligio Lisi  
11:30 UHE neutrino detection - Kumiko Kotera  
12:00 Status of Leptogenesis - Pasquale Di Bari  
09:00
Cosmology - Subodh Patil (until 10:30)
09:00 Spectral distortions - Bryce Cyr  
09:30 Dark Energy beyond Lambda - Rodrigo Calderon  
10:00 Tensions overview - Elsa Teixeira (Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, University of Montpellier)  
10:30
Coffee Break (until 11:00)
11:00
Summary Talk - Jean TRAN THANH VAN (until 11:45)
11:00 Where We Are and Where We're Going: A Personal Perspective - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US))  
11:45
Concluding Remarks - Van TRAN THANH Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 12:00)
PM
16:00
Registration (until 19:00)
19:00
Reception (until 20:00)
20:00
Dinner (until 22:00)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00) (Dinning Room @ Chateau)
14:00
Collider Physics - Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin)) (until 15:30)
14:00 Higgs and EFT - Benjamin Stefanek (IFIC Valencia)  
14:30 LHC: Highlights on Higgs couplings and properties measurements - Guglielmo Frattari (CERN)  
15:00 LHC: Highlights on QCD and top quark measurements - Nicolas Pierre Chanon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
15:30
Conference Photograph (until 15:40)
15:40
Coffee Break (until 16:00)
16:00
Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin)) (until 17:00)
16:00 CP violation - Isabelle Ripp-Baudot (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
16:30 Where is the QCD axion? - Maria Ramos  
17:20
Visit of the Chateau (until 18:50)
19:30
Dinner (until 21:30)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00) (Dinning Room @ Chateau)
14:00
Dark Matter and Astroparticles - Ryan Plestid (CERN) (until 15:30)
14:00 Quantum sensors for fundamental physics - Clara Murgui Galvez (CERN)  
14:30 Dark Matter Astrophysics Searches - Silvia Manconi  
15:00 Dark Matter Searches with CTAO - Tomohiro Inada (Kyushu University (JP))  
15:30
Coffee Break (until 16:00)
16:15
Parallel Session Tuesday - Astroparticles - Eric Armengaud (until 18:35)
16:15 Tackling transient sources with neutrino telescopes - Gabriel Massoni Salla  
16:35 Recent results on hadronic interactions at ultra-high energies from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Jaroslaw Stasielak (IFJ PAN)  
16:55 Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Searches at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Cristina Galea  
17:15 Arrival-direction anisotropies of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Joao de Mello Neto  
17:35 Cosmic Ray Physics with the KM3NeT Telescope - Venugopal Ellajosyula  
17:55 Probing Cosmic Ray Composition and Muon-philic Dark Matter using GeV Muon sources - Leyun Gao (Peking University (CN))  
18:15 Gravitational waves signals in electromagnetic cavities - Jordan Gué (IFAE)  
16:15
Parallel Session Tuesday - Collider: Standard Model - Nicolas Pierre Chanon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 19:15)
16:15 Higgs boson production and decay rate measurements with the ATLAS experiment - Zirui Liu (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
16:35 Study of spin correlations in Higgs boson decays to four leptons at CMS - Leyun Gao (Peking University (CN))  
16:55 Higgs properties (mass, width, CP) and EFT measurements from ATLAS - Yi Yu (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
17:15 Search for the rare Higgs boson decay H → Zγ in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 13 and 13.6 TeV - Anders Gytis Barzdukas (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))  
17:35 Prospects for single- and di-Higgs measurements at the HL-LHC with the ATLAS experiment - Weitao Wang (University of Oxford (GB))  
17:55 HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential in ATLAS - Roshan Joshi (Ohio State University (US))  
18:15 Recent measurements with single W bosons with the CMS experiment - Ruben Forti (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
18:35 Multiboson measurements at ATLAS - Rainer Stamen (Heidelberg University (DE))  
18:55 Search for ZZ vector boson scattering in the llvv final state at 13 TeV - Hong Gao (Beihang University (CN))  
16:15
Parallel Session Tuesday - Dark Matter - Keir Rogers (until 18:55)
16:15 Illuminating the Dark Sector - One Scattered Photon at a Time - Trinity Stenhouse  
16:35 The search for light dark matter with Skipper CCDs in the DAMIC-M experiment - Nicolás Avalos (LPNHE - IN2P3 - CNRS)  
16:55 The SHiP/NA67 experiment: the flagship to probe hidden sectors - Matei Climescu (Ghent University (BE))  
17:15 Halo Abundance in Decaying Dark Matter Models - Thomas Montandon (Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier)  
17:35 Searching for Axion Dark Matter in the RADES Collaboration - Cristian Cogollos Trivino (Max Planck Institute for Physics (DE))  
17:55 Searching the WIMP Dark Matter Parameter Space with the PICO Bubble Chambers - Jeremy Savoie (Université de Montréal)  
18:15 Recent Results from the LZ Experiment - Cecilia Levy (University at Albany, SUNY)  
18:35 Probing Neutrino and Dark Matter Interactions with XENONnT - Florian Joerg (CERN)  
19:30
Dinner (until 21:30)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00) (Dinning Room @ Chateau)
14:30
Flavour - Benjamin Stefanek (IFIC Valencia) (until 15:30)
14:30 Rare decays - Yasmine Sara Amhis (IJCLab)  
15:00 Theoretical perspectives on Flavour - Robert Fleischer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)  
15:30
Coffee Break (until 16:00) (Marguerite de Valois Ground Floor)
16:00
Parallel Session Wednesday - Collider: BSM - Guilherme Guedes (until 18:40)
16:00 Beyond the Standard Model in the Higgs sector at ATLAS - Liron Barak (Tel Aviv University)  
16:20 Enhanced di-Higgs production from TeV-scale HNL at future lepton colliders - Emanuelle Pinsard  
16:40 Searches for strong production of supersymmetric particles at ATLAS - Francesco Giuseppe Gravili (INFN Lecce e Universita del Salento (IT))  
17:00 Searches for vector-like fermions and leptoquarks with the ATLAS detector - Hassane Hamdaoui (Uppsala University (SE))  
17:20 Searches for Exotic Heavy Resonances with the ATLAS detector - Laura Pintucci (Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT))  
17:40 Searches for BSM physics using challenging and long-lived signatures with the ATLAS detector - Emily Rose Duden (Brandeis University (US))  
18:00 BSM Searches at FASER - Pawan Pawan (University of Liverpool (GB))  
18:20 Tailored PDFs for new physics searches - Elie Hammou (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
16:00
Parallel Session Wednesday - Flavour - Robert Fleischer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) (until 18:00) (Rotonde)
16:00 Recent results on matter and antimatter asymmetries at LHCb - Yasmine Sara Amhis (IJCLab)  
16:20 Dark sector and tau lepton studies at Belle II - Luigi Corona  
16:40 Measurements of Semileptonic and leptonic B decays at Belle and Belle II - Tia Crane  
17:00 Results from the DsTau (NA65) experiment - Radu Dobre (Institute of Space Science subsidiary of INFLPR (RO))  
17:20 Measurements of electroweak penguin B decays at Belle and Belle II - Debjit Ghosh (INFN Trieste)  
17:40 A new measurement of the K+ →pi+ nubar nu branching ratio at the NA62 experiment - Michal Zamkovsky (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
16:00
Parallel Session Wednesday - Neutrinos - Eligio Lisi (until 19:00)
16:00 Muon track reconstruction in JUNO - Thomas Raymond  
16:20 Latest results from the CUORE experiment - Anastasiia Shaikina  
16:40 The search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the LEGEND-200 experiment - Rosanna Deckert (Technical University of Munich (TUM))  
17:00 LEGEND-1000: Toward a tonne-scale 76Ge search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay - Francesco Borra  
17:20 CUPID, the next-generation 0νββ bolometric experiment - Léonard Imbert  
17:40 The KM3NeT neutrino telescope: status and latest results - Massimo Mastrodicasa (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" and INFN-Roma1)  
18:00 Combined KM3NeT/ARCA and ANTARES search for compact neutrino sources - Vladimir Kulikovskiy (INFN Genova)  
18:20 Event Reconstruction in the WaterCherenkov Test Experiment using Graph Neural Networks from the CAVERNS Framework - Quoc Viet Nguyen (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France)  
18:40 A bottom-up approach to a minimal EFT for leptogenesis, dark matter, and neutrino masses - Peter Matak (Comenius University (SK))  
19:30
Dinner (until 21:30)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00) (Dinning Room @ Chateau)
14:00
Neutrino/AstroParticle - Bryce Cyr (until 15:30)
14:00 Highlights: LHAASO TeV to PeV Gamma-Ray Measurements - Gwenael Giacinti (NTNU Trondheim, Norway)  
14:30 Highlights from extragalactic Neutrino sources - Sara Buson  
15:00 AUGER Highlight talk - Martina Bohacova (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
15:30
Coffee Break (until 16:00) (Marguerite de Valois Ground Floor)
16:00
Parallel Session Thursday - Collider: SM & Theory - Massimiliano Grazzini (University of Zurich (CH)) (until 18:20)
16:00 ATLAS measurements of precision jet physics - Ota Zaplatilek  
16:20 The Four-Jet Rate in Electron-Positron Annihilation at Order αs^4 - Elliot Joseph Fox (Durham University)  
16:40 Highlights on top quark physics with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Andrea Knue (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
17:00 NNLO QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with a jet - Matteo Becchetti  
17:20 Recent results on top quark production at threshold and other properties by ATLAS - Roman Lysak (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
17:40 Towards NNLO QCD corrections to $t\bar{t}W$ production - Dhimiter Canko (Università di Bologna)  
18:00 Toward NNLO-accurate ttH event generation with approximate two-loop contributions - Chiara Signorile-Signorile  
16:00
Parallel Session Thursday - Neutrinos - Sotiris Loucatos (Université Paris-Saclay (FR) and APC) (until 17:00)
16:00 Neutrino Physics at FASER - Wissal Filali (Bonn (DE))  
16:20 SND@LHC: Recent Results and Physics Prospects - Riddhi Biswas (Millennium Institute for Subatomic Physics at High Energy Frontier (CL))  
16:40 T versus CP effects in DUNE and T2HK - Sabya Sachi Chatterjee (IPhT CEA-Saclay)  
19:30
Dinner (until 22:30)
12:00
Lunch (until 13:30) (Dinning Room @ Chateau)