Higgs and Effective Field Theory - HEFT 2026

from Monday, 8 June 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 12 June 2026 (14:00)
Jardí Botànic, Valencia

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026
10 Jun 2026
11 Jun 2026
12 Jun 2026
AM
09:00
Thermal EFT (until 11:00)
09:00 The high-temperature limit of the SM(EFT) - Mikael Chala (Universidad de Granada)  
09:30 Hot news on the phase structure of the SMEFT - Maria Cristina Fiore (Universidad de Granada)  
09:50 Thermal Scalar QED: Finite-Temperature Effective Action and Phase Transition via the Heat-Kernel - Mr Debmalya Dey (IIT Kanpur)  
10:10 Matchete meets Dimensional Reduction - Mr ADRIÁN Moreno Sánchez (Universidad de Granada)  
10:30 Symmetry-Based Construction of Heavy-Light Meson EFT: Hilbert Series, Sum Rules, and Finite-Temperature Effects - Siddhartha Karmakar  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30)
11:30
Global EFT (until 13:00)
11:30 A global stance on the importance of the two-loop SMEFT RGE - Alejo Nahuel Rossia (University of Padua and INFN Sezione di Padova)  
12:00 Understanding the Interplay of PDFs and BSM Effects - Ella Cole (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)  
12:20 Global SMEFT analyses and the role of Higgs measurements - Mauro Valli (INFN Rome)  
12:40 The SMEFT way to New Physics - Simone Tentori (UCLouvain)  
09:00
Geometry, Positivity and Amplitudes (until 11:00)
09:00 The Bundle Geometry of Quantum Field Theories - Joe Davighi (University of Cambridge (GB))  
09:30 A Shortcut to SMEFT Amplitudes using EFT Geometry - Cristofer Caballeros  
09:50 A Covariant Formalism for Scattering Ampltiudes up to 2-Loop Order - Mohammad Alminawi  
10:10 Progress in the Universal SMEFT - Tyler Corbett (University of Vienna)  
10:30 Multi boson processes in EFTs via on-shell methods - Clara Hernández García (Universidad de Granada)  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30)
11:30
Top, Higgs and EW (until 13:00)
11:30 To HEFT or to SMEFT? Multi-Higgs production as a probe of electroweak symmetry breaking - Ramona Grober (Università di Padova and INFN, Sezione di Padova)  
12:00 Could electron-top interactions spoil the measurement of the Higgs trilinear? - Lucine Tabatt  
12:20 Differential observables for the Higgs-strahlung process to all orders in EFT - Mr Sourav Bera (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)  
12:40 Partial-wave unitarity bounds on CP-odd dimension-eight anomalous quartic gauge couplings in SMEFT - Samuel Rosende Herrero (IFT UAM-CSIC)  
09:00
ALPs (until 10:10)
09:00 Global fit of axion-like particle EFT at the collider frontier - UPALAPARNA BANERJEE (JGU Mainz)  
09:30 A Unified SMEFT and ALP Analysis of KSVZ-like Models - Hector Tiblom  
09:50 Crossing the $m_a > f_a$ frontier in EFTs of leptophilic ALPs - Álvaro Lozano Onrubia (IFT UAM-CSIC)  
10:10
Global EFT (until 11:00)
10:10 Differentiable EFT likelihoods for BSM phenomenology - Aleks Smolkovic (Jozef Stefan Institute)  
10:40 Global Analysis of Linear Standard Model Extensions - Victor Maura Breick (King's College London)  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30)
11:30
Neutrinos (until 13:00)
11:30 New Physics Searches in Nuclear Beta Decay - Adam FALKOWSKI  
12:00 Relating Charged and Neutral Lepton Flavor Violation with Effective Field Theory - William McNulty (Indiana University)  
12:20 But what are the odds? UV models for SMEFT dim-9 operators and implications for neutrinoless double beta decay and radiative neutrino masses - Fabian Esser  
12:40 From DUNE Sensitivities to UV Models: Implications of Flavor Constraints - Adriano Lana Cherchiglia (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)  
09:00
Geometry, Positivity and Amplitudes (until 10:10)
09:00 Positivity in EFT renormalization and the operator product expansion - Jasper Roosmale Nepveu (National Taiwan University)  
09:30 Quantum correction to the diffusion term in stochastic inflation from SdSET - Dr Andrea Federico Sanfilippo (Universidad de Granada)  
09:50 Unitarity bounds and sum rules in the SMEFT - Andrea Sainaghi (University of Padua)  
10:10
HEFT (until 11:10)
10:10 Theoretical uncertainties in (H)EFT: Equations of Motion vs. Field Redefinitions - Wrishik Naskar (DESY)  
10:30 Updated Lower Bounds on Resonance Masses within HEFT - Ignasi Rosell (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera)  
10:50 Di-Higgs Production in HEFT and SMEFT - Konstantin Schmid (University and INFN Padova)  
11:10
Coffee break (until 11:40)
11:40
Flavour (until 12:20)
11:40 Flavor hierarchies with nonminimal irreducible representations - Graeme Crawford  
12:00 Electroweak precision physics via angular distributions in hadronic τ decays - Santiago Paz Castro (Universitat de València)  
PM
13:30
Registration (until 14:20)
14:20
Opening session (until 14:30)
14:30
Renormalisation (until 16:00)
14:30 NLO Running in the SMEFT: Implications of the Two-Loop ADM - Lukas Born  
15:00 Curiosities in the Renormalization Group for EFTs - Anders Eller Thomsen (University of Bern)  
15:20 EFT meets CFT: Operators with large number of fields - Johan Henriksson (CERN)  
15:40 Renormalize SMEFT to Dimension Eight with EFT Tools - Zhe Ren (University of Granada)  
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30)
16:30
Future colliders (until 18:30)
16:30 Effective Field Theories at Future Colliders - Studies for the 2026 European Strategy Update - Jorge de Blas (Universidad de Granada (ES))  
17:00 How large can lepton mixing be? - CHIARA GIULIANO - (Universidad de Granada)  
17:20 Probing the τ lepton dipole moments at future colliders - Gabriele Levati  
17:40 Global Fits at Future Colliders with the SMEFiT Framework - Jaco ter Hoeve (The University of Edinburgh)  
18:00 The SMEFT as a New Physics Microscope at the FCC-ee - Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Flavour (until 16:00)
14:30 Minimal Flavor Protection in the SMEFT - Admir Greljo (Universitaet Basel (CH))  
15:00 What can flavour tell us about Dark Matter? - Xavier Ponce Diaz (University of Basel)  
15:20 Implications of Flavor Symmetries for Baryon Number Violation - Arnau Bas I Beneito (Universitat de València (UV, IFIC))  
15:40 Pion $\beta$ decay and $\tau \rightarrow \pi \, \pi \, \nu_{\tau}$ beyond leading logarithms - Nicola Valori - (University of Valencia & IFIC)  
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30)
16:30
Renormalisation (until 18:40)
16:30 EFTs and the gradient flow beyond leading log - Peter Stoffer  
17:00 Top-to-Down NLL EFT Analysis: Pheno Implications and Scale Dependence - Pol Morell Ferrer (Universitat de Barcelona)  
17:20 Symmetry-restoring finite counterterms of SMEFT four-fermion operator insertions at one-loop - Sergio Ferrando Solera  
17:40 Mapping between $\gamma_5$ schemes in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory - Stefano Di Noi (KIT (ITP))  
18:00 Two-Loop Renormalization of Chiral SU(N) Gauge Theories: Toward a Systematic Extension to Effective Field Theories - Vera Paroutiadou (ETH Zurich)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
HEFT (until 16:00)
14:30 How did we learn to extract increasingly more information from Higgs events? - Raquel Gomez Ambrosio  
15:00 HEFT-FR - FeynRules implementation of the Higgs Effective Field Theory - Michal Jakub Ryczkowski (Università di Padova and INFN, Sezione di Padova)  
15:20 Multi-boson production and HEFT anomalous couplings - Juan José Sanz-Cillero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid & IPARCOS)  
15:40 MATCHA: a package for matching UV theories onto HEFT - Carlos Quezada Calonge (Università di Torino)  
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30)
16:30
Matching and general EFTs (until 19:00)
16:30 EFTs, the efficient way - Pablo Olgoso Ruiz (University of Padova)  
17:00 Dispersion relations in the dimension-six SMEFT - Guilherme Guedes  
17:20 Matchete meets UFO - Felix Wilsch (RWTH Aachen University)  
17:40 Anomalous Dimension of a General Effective Gauge Theory - Luigi Carlo Bresciani (University & INFN Padova)  
18:00 Progress on building operators automatically - Renato Fonseca (University of Granada)  
18:20 Automated Generation of Explicit Operator Bases for Arbitrary EFTs - JAVIER LÓPEZ MIRAS  
20:00
Dinner (until 22:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Keynote talk (until 15:30)
14:30 Deciphering the quantum fabric of the SM(EFT) - Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)  
15:30
Experimental (until 16:00)
15:30 EFT interpretations of ATLAS and CMS top measurements - Baptiste Ravina (CERN)  
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30)
16:30
Experimental (until 17:30)
16:30 Global EFT fits in ATLAS and CMS - Andrea Visibile (Stockholm University (SE))  
17:00 EFT interpretations and HL-LHC projections of Higgs and diHiggs at ATLAS and CMS - Jin Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
17:30
Top, Higgs and EW (until 18:45)
17:30 NLO corrections in the SMEFT - Clara Lavinia Del Pio (Brookhaven National Lab)  
18:00 Sensitivity to top-quark couplings in diboson production at lepton colliders - Eugenia Celada  
18:20 A Comprehensive Study of Top-Quark Effective Interactions in the SMEFT Framework - Mr Subhajit Kala (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)