19th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2026)

from Monday, 5 October 2026 (08:30) to Friday, 9 October 2026 (14:00)
Antalya, Türkiye 🇹🇷

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Oct 2026
6 Oct 2026
7 Oct 2026
8 Oct 2026
9 Oct 2026
AM
08:30
Introductions + Keynote (until 10:00)
08:30 Welcome - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))  
08:45 Keynote presentation - Ulrich Andreas Haisch (University of Oxford (GB)) Uli Haisch  
09:30 Top results from LHCb  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Objects and Tools (until 12:30)
10:30 Jet calibrations and flavor tagging (CMS) - Francesco Romeo (Vanderbilt University)  
11:00 Jet calibrations and flavor tagging (ATLAS) - Carlo Schiavi (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))  
11:30 How to unfold top decays - Luigi Favaro (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
12:00 ML usage in statistical interpretation (ATLAS/CMS)  
08:30
ttbar Predictions and Generators (until 10:00)
08:30 Modern MC generators (ATLAS/CMS) - Teresa Barillari (Max Planck Society (DE))  
09:00 Quantum observables in top physics - Kun Cheng (University of Pittsburgh)  
09:30 Towards NNLO QCD predictions for off-shell tt production and decays - Luca Buonocore (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Threshold production (until 12:00)
10:30 Toponium with pNRQCD - Benedikt Gurdon (RWTH Aachen)  
11:00 Theshold/Toponium measurements (ATLAS) - Annika Stein (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
11:30 Theshold/Toponium measurements (CMS) - Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (Ghent University (BE))  
08:30
BSM (until 10:30)
08:30 EFT interpretations (CMS) - Niels Van den Bossche (MBI - Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
09:00 EFT interpretations (ATLAS) - Lidia Dell'Asta (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
09:30 ttH in the SMEFT framework - Giuseppe Bevilacqua (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))  
10:00 Loop-level sensitivities to four-quark operators - Stefano Di Noi (KIT (ITP))  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
BSM (until 12:30)
11:00 FCNC+rare interpretations (CMS) - Reza Goldouzian (University of Notre Dame (US))  
11:30 Searches for rare processes (ATLAS) - Farida Fassi (Universite Mohammed V (MA))  
12:00 Multi-top signals of vectorlike quarks - Bogdan Dobrescu  
08:30
Theory mini-workshop (until 10:00)
09:00 Recent developments in Baryogenesis - Oleksii Matsedonskyi (University of Cambridge)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Theory mini-workshop (until 12:00)
10:30 CPV in top and EW Baryogenesis - Dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)  
11:00 CPV in top-Higgs coupling - Dr Adil Jueid (Institute for Basic Science)  
08:30
Threshold production (until 09:00)
08:30 Top-quark spin entanglement and decoherence - Dr Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
09:00
Summary (until 09:45)
09:00 Theory summary - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
09:45
For the future (until 10:15)
09:45 Resonance-aware PS matching for off-shell tt in e+e- - Daniele Lombardi (Max-Planck Institut für Physik) Daniele Lombardi  
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45
For the future (until 11:45)
10:45 Probing top-electron interactions at future colliders - Luigi Bellafronte (Florida State University) LUIGI BELLAFRONTE (IGFAE)  
11:45
Summary (until 12:30)
11:45 Experimental summary - Alexander Grohsjean (Hamburg University (DE))  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch + Free time ---
15:30
Cross sections (until 17:00)
15:30 tt measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - Luca Martinelli (INFN Sezione di Roma (IT))  
16:00 Single top measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - Nils Faltermann (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (DE))  
16:30 3/4top measurements (CMS) - Joscha Ahäuser (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (DE))  
17:00 --- Coffee Break ---
17:30
Cross sections (until 19:30)
17:30 W/Z/gamma-associated measurements (ATLAS/CMS)  
18:00 tt+bb/cc/light measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - David Kavtaradze (Ghent University (BE))  
18:30 NNLO event generation for ttH production - Marius Wiesemann (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
19:00 Higgs-associated measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - Ian Brock (University of Bonn (DE))  
21:00 Evening lecture - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton)  
12:00 --- Lunch + Free time ---
14:30
Objects and Tools (until 15:30)
14:30 Proton Structure from Neural Simulation-Based Inference - Elie Hammou (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
15:00 Simulation-based inference - Ricardo Barrué (Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics)  
15:30
Young Scientist Forum (until 16:30)
16:30 --- Coffee Break + Posters ---
17:00
Young Scientist Forum (until 19:00)
19:00
Poster Session (until 20:00)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Excursion  
12:00 --- Lunch + Free time ---
15:00
Properties / Rare processes (until 16:30)
15:00 Top mass (ATLAS) - Wolfgang Wagner (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
15:30 Rare SM measurements (ATLAS) - James Alfred Mueller (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
16:00 Flavor measurements (CMS) - Luigi Marchese (ETH Zurich (CH))  
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Joker talks (until 19:00)
17:00 CMS Joker 1  
17:30 ATLAS Joker 1  
18:00 ATLAS Joker 2  
18:30 CMS Joker 2  
21:00 Q&A session with drinks  
12:30 TOP2027 Announcement  
12:40 Closing - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))