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 On deep learning methods in neutrino physics [Title to be confirmed] - Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))  
10:15 On deep learning methods in neutrino physics [Title to be confirmed] - Dr Saul Alonso Monsalve (ETH Zurich)  
10:55 Coffee break  
11:30 On ML for Lattice QCD [Title to be confirmed] - William Detmold  
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 On ME emulation [Title to be confirmed] - Mr Daniel Pierre Maitre  
11:30 Quantum computation of perturbative QFTs - Herschel Chawdhry  
09:00 On deep learning methods in galaxy surveys [Title to be confirmed] - Tomasz Kacprzak  
09:40 On simulation-based inference for gravitational-wave data analysis [Title to be confirmed] - Konstantin Leyde  
10:20 Coffee break  
10:50 On Detector Design with Reinforcement Learning [Title to be confirmed] - Shah Rukh Qasim (University of Zurich (CH))  
11:30 On Detector Design with Differential Methods [Title to be confirmed] - Jan Kieseler (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
PM
12:10 On ML for complex Langevin [Tilte to be confirmed] - Prof. Gert Aarts (Swansea University)  
12:50 Lunch  
14:15 On optimal transport and math AI [Title to be confirmed] - Prof. Alessio Figalli (ETH)  
14:55 Data to theory: how to fuel BSM model building with anomaly detection - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)  
15:35 Coffee break  
16:05 Particle flow reconstruction with a learnable, differentiable, efficient ML mode - Joosep Pata (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
16:45 On Deep Full Event Reconstruction - Julian Garcia Pardinas (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:00 Lunch  
13:30 On Foundation models for Fundamental Science [Title to be confirmed] - Michael Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
14:10 On Foundation Model for hadronic jets to solve challenges in collider physics [Title to be confirmed] - Vinicius Massami Mikuni (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
14:50 AI for Discovery - Gregor Kasieczka (Hamburg University (DE))  
15:35 Coffee break  
16:05 On NNPDFs [Title to be confirmed] - Luigi Del Debbio (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
16:45 On ML Unfolding for precision physics [Title to be confirmed] - Kyle Cormier (CERN)  
18:00 Dinner  
12:10 Lunch