ZPW2026: Machine Learning Techniques for Particle Physics

from Monday, 5 January 2026 (00:00) to Wednesday, 7 January 2026 (18:11)
UZH Main Building (KOL-G-217)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Jan 2026
6 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026
AM
08:30 Registration  
09:30 Welcome  
09:35
Session 1 - Florencia Canelli (University of Zurich (CH)) (until 10:55)
09:35 Experimental View on Deep Learning for Neutrino experiments - Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))  
10:15 Algorithmic View on Deep Learning for Accelerator Neutrino Experiments - Dr Saul Alonso Monsalve (ETH Zurich)  
10:55 Coffee break  
11:25
Session 2 - Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich) (until 12:45)
11:25 Machine Learning in Lattice Field Theory - William Detmold  
12:05 Diffusion Models for Lattice Field Theory - Prof. Gert Aarts (Swansea University)  
09:00
Session 5 - Thomas Gehrmann (Univ. Zurich) (until 10:20)
09:00 Variance reduction with Normalizing Flows - Application to NNLO QCD phase space integration - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)  
09:40 Learning reliable amplitude surrogates - Nina Elmer (University of Cambridge)  
10:20 Coffee break  
10:50
Session 6 - Gino Isidori (University of Zurich (CH)) (until 12:10)
10:50 Neural Network Tools for Amplitudes - Mr Daniel Pierre Maitre  
11:30 Quantum computation of perturbative QFTs - Herschel Chawdhry (Florida State University)  
09:00
Session 9 - Marcelle Soares-Santos (University of Zürich) (until 10:20)
09:00 Can AI Enable Next Breakthroughs in Large-Scale Structure Cosmology? - Tomasz Kacprzak  
09:40 Simulation-based inference for gravitational-wave data analysis - Konstantin Leyde  
10:20 Coffee break  
10:50
Session 10 - Nicola Serra (University of Zurich (CH)) (until 12:10)
10:50 On Detector Design with Differential Methods - Jan Kieseler (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
11:30 On Detector Design with Artificial Intelligence - Shah Rukh Qasim (University of Zurich (CH))  
PM
12:45 Lunch  
14:10
Session 3 - Nicola Serra (University of Zurich (CH)) (until 15:30)
14:20 Optimal Transport: from A to B...and beyond - Prof. Alessio Figalli (ETH)  
15:00 Data to theory: how to fuel BSM model building with anomaly detection - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)  
15:30 Coffee break  
16:00
Session 4 - Thomas Gehrmann (Univ. Zurich) (until 17:20)
16:00 Particle flow reconstruction with a learnable, differentiable, efficient ML mode - Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
16:40 On Deep Full Event Reconstruction - Julian Garcia Pardinas (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:10 Lunch  
13:30
Session 7 - Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH)) (until 15:30)
13:30 On Foundation models for Fundamental Science [Title to be confirmed] - Michael Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
14:10 OmniLearn: A Method to Simultaneously Facilitate All Jet Physics Tasks and beyond - Vinicius Massami Mikuni (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
14:50 AI for Discovery - Gregor Kasieczka (Hamburg University (DE))  
15:30 Coffee break  
16:00
Session 8 - Javad Komijani (ETH Zurich) (until 17:20)
16:00 Uncertainty Quantification in PDF Determinations - Luigi Del Debbio (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
16:40 Unfolding, Precision, and Machine Learning - Kyle Cormier (CERN)  
18:00 Dinner  
12:10 Lunch