GenHET Meeting in Beyond the Standard Model

from Wednesday, 25 February 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 27 February 2026 (18:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Feb 2026
26 Feb 2026
27 Feb 2026
AM
09:00 Welcome - Tim Cohen (CERN)  
09:10 30-minute talk - Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)  
09:40 30-minute talk - Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and IFT-UAM/CSIC)  
10:10 30-minute talk - Laura Lopez Honorez (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Lightning talks - 1 (until 12:30)
11:10 Black hole hair transplant with ultra light dark matter - Dhruv Pathak (King's College London)  
11:20 Supernovae as Laboratories for sub-GeV Millicharged Particles - Mariachiara Ingicco (Università degli Studi di Padova, INFN Padova)  
11:30 How robust is the QCD axion? A systematic study in a non-minimal model - Fuensanta Viches Bravo (Universidad de Granada)  
11:40 The Strong-CP Problem and its Gauge Axion Solution as Evidence for Fundamental Strings - Lucy Elisabeth Komisel (Max Planck Institute for Physics & LMU Munich)  
11:50 Running Couplings in High-Temperature Effective Field Theory - Mr Andrii Dashko (University of Granada)  
12:00 Hot News on the phase structure of the SMEFT - Maria Cristina Fiore (University of Granada)  
12:10 How large can lepton mixing be? - Chiara Giuliano (Universidad de Granada)  
09:00 30-minute talk - Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation)  
09:30 Dark and with a chance of showers: Strongly-interacting dark sectors at accelerators - Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 Panel discussion --- A thriving career in BSM physics - Diego Blas (ICREA/IFAE) Seyda Ipek (Carleton University (CA -US)) Venus Keus (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)) Laura Lopez (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Enrico Nardi (NICPB, Tallinn (EE) & INFN-LNF (IT))  
09:00 30-minute talk - Jose Ramon Espinosa Sedano (IFT-UAM/CSIC, Madrid (ES))  
09:30 Panel discussion --- Strategies for cultivating diversity in physics - Azadeh Maleknejad (Swansea University) Valerie Domcke (CERN) Judith Hillier (University of Oxford) Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Lightning Talks - 3 (until 11:30)
11:00 The Case for Low Reheating Temperatures from Gravitational Particle Production and Multi-Stage Reheating - Francesco Costa (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, STP)  
11:10 Beyond one loop phase transitions - Ms Jasmine Thomson-Cooke (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)  
11:20 Ultralight Vector Dark Matter from non-slowroll Inflation - Martina La Rosa (Università degli Studi di Padova, INFN Padova)  
11:30 30-minute talk - Azadeh Maleknejad (Swansea University)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 CERN D&I Programme: seminar and interactive workshop - Louise Carvalho (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Exploring EFTs of Gauged Chiral Symmetries at the LHC and Beyond - Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)  
16:00 30-minute talk - Seyda Ipek (Carleton University)  
16:30 Black Hole Scalar Sirens - Olivier Simon (Princeton University)  
18:00 --- Unsponsored happy hour ---
12:00 GenHET Introduction - Alejandra Castro (University of Cambridge)  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Colloquium  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Lightning talks - 2 (until 17:00)
15:30 Could electron-top interactions spoil the measurement of the Higgs trilinear? A quantitative estimate at future lepton colliders - Lucine Tabatt (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)  
15:40 LFV decays of Resonance particles in the context of non-universal Z' model - Ms Swagata Biswas (National Institute of Technology Durgapur)  
15:50 Quantum spin correlations at colliders - Monika Wüst (University of Würzburg)  
16:00 Benchmarking dark matter candidates in the 2HDMS: Prospects for future colliders - Julia Ziegler (UNI/TH (Uni Hamburg, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik))  
16:20 Are quantum observables sensitive to CP-violation in $t\bar{t}$ pairs? - Olimpia Miniati (Università degli Studi di Bologna and INFN)  
16:30 Mixing it Up: New Paths to Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter - Finn Anthony Mulder (University of Padova, INFN Padova)  
16:40 Gauge theories from scattering amplitudes with minimal assumptions - Clara Hernández García (Universidad de Granada)  
16:50 DM genesis in the reheating era - Kuldeep Deka (New York University Abu Dhabi)  
17:00 --- Cocktail and networking event ---
12:00 30-minute talk - Enrico Nardi (NICPB, Tallinn (EE) & INFN-LNF (IT))  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Shall we give up Lorentz invariance? - Dr Diego Blas (ICREA/IFAE)  
14:30 Connecting the Higgs to flavour - Sophie Alice Renner (University of Glasgow (GB))  
15:00 Closing remarks  
15:10 --- Coffee break ---