19th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2026)

from Monday, October 5, 2026 (8:30 AM) to Friday, October 9, 2026 (2:00 PM)
Antalya, Türkiye 🇹🇷

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 5, 2026
Oct 6, 2026
Oct 7, 2026
Oct 8, 2026
Oct 9, 2026
AM
8:30 AM
Introductions + Keynote - Roberto Tenchini (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) (until 10:00 AM)
8:30 AM Welcome - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))  
8:45 AM Keynote presentation - Ulrich Andreas Haisch (University of Oxford (GB)) Uli Haisch  
9:30 AM Measurement of the top-quark production and charge asymmetry at LHCb - Hang Yin (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM
Objects and Tools - Tae Jeong Kim (Hanyang University (KR)) (until 12:30 PM)
10:30 AM Jet calibrations and flavor tagging (CMS) - Francesco Romeo (Vanderbilt University)  
11:00 AM Jet calibrations and flavor tagging (ATLAS) - Carlo Schiavi (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))  
11:30 AM How to unfold top decays - Luigi Favaro (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
12:00 PM ML usage in statistical interpretation (ATLAS/CMS) - Andrew Wildridge (Purdue University (US))  
8:30 AM
ttbar Predictions and Generators - David Marcus E Marckx (Ghent University (BE)) (until 10:00 AM)
8:30 AM Modern MC generators (ATLAS/CMS) - Teresa Barillari (M) Teresa Barillari (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik) Teresa Barillari (Max Planck Society (DE))  
9:00 AM Quantum observables in top physics - Kun Cheng (University of Pittsburgh)  
9:30 AM Towards NNLO QCD predictions for off-shell tt production and decays - Luca Buonocore (CERN)  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM
Threshold production -Prof. Michal Wiktor Czakon (until 12:00 PM)
10:30 AM Toponium with pNRQCD - Benedikt Gurdon (RWTH Aachen)  
11:00 AM Threshold/Toponium measurements (ATLAS) - Annika Stein (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
11:30 AM Threshold/Toponium measurements (CMS) - Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (Ghent University (BE))  
8:30 AM
BSM - Ankita Mehta (Ghent University (BE)) (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM EFT interpretations (CMS) - Niels Van den Bossche (MBI - Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
9:00 AM EFT interpretations (ATLAS) - Lidia Dell'Asta (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
9:30 AM ttH in the SMEFT framework - Giuseppe Bevilacqua (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))  
10:00 AM Loop-level sensitivities to four-top operators - Stefano Di Noi (KIT (ITP))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
BSM - Gauthier Durieux (CP3 - UCLouvain) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM FCNC+rare interpretations (CMS) - Reza Goldouzian (University of Notre Dame (US))  
11:30 AM Searches for rare processes (ATLAS) - Farida Fassi (Universite Mohammed V (MA))  
12:00 PM Multi-top signals of vectorlike quarks - Bogdan Dobrescu  
8:30 AM
Theory mini-workshop - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton) (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Recent developments in Baryogenesis - Oleksii Matsedonskyi (University of Cambridge)  
9:30 AM What Is the top quark telling us about BSM physics? - Rui Santos (University of Southampton and NExT Institute) Rui Santos (ISEL and CFTC-UL)  
10:00 AM --- Conference photo ---
10:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM
Theory mini-workshop - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton) (until 11:30 AM)
10:30 AM CPV in top and EW Baryogenesis - Dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)  
11:00 AM CPV in top-Higgs coupling - Dr Adil Jueid (Institute for Basic Science)  
11:30 AM
For the future - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton) (until 12:00 PM)
11:30 AM Resonance-aware PS matching for off-shell tt in e+e- - Daniele Lombardi (Max-Planck Institut für Physik) Daniele Lombardi  
8:30 AM
Threshold production - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) (until 9:00 AM)
8:30 AM Top-quark spin entanglement and decoherence - Dr Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
9:00 AM
Summary - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) (until 9:45 AM)
9:00 AM Theory summary - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
9:45 AM
For the future - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) (until 11:15 AM)
9:45 AM Probing Top Quark - Electron Interactions at Future Colliders - Luigi Bellafronte (Florida State University)  
10:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 AM Recent advances in top-quark physics studies at FCC-ee - Christian Schwanenberger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
11:15 AM
Summary - Malgorzata Maria Worek (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE)) (until 12:00 PM)
11:15 AM Experimental summary - Alexander Grohsjean (Hamburg University (DE))  
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch + Free time ---
3:30 PM
Cross sections - Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (Ghent University (BE)) (until 5:00 PM)
3:30 PM tt measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - Luca Martinelli (INFN Sezione di Roma (IT))  
4:00 PM Single top measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - Nils Faltermann (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (DE))  
4:30 PM 3/4top measurements (CMS) - Joscha Ahäuser (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (DE))  
5:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:30 PM
Cross sections - Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (Ghent University (BE)) (until 7:30 PM)
5:30 PM W/Z/gamma-associated measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - Ethan Lewis Simpson (The University of Manchester (GB))  
6:00 PM tt+bb/cc/light measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - David Kavtaradze (Ghent University (BE))  
6:30 PM Higgs-associated measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - Ian Brock (University of Bonn (DE))  
9:00 PM Evening lecture - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch + Free time ---
2:30 PM
Objects and Tools - Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois Chicago (US)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:30 PM Simulation-based inference - Ricardo Barrué (Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics)  
3:00 PM Proton Structure from Neural Simulation-Based Inference - Elie Hammou (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
3:30 PM
Young Scientist Forum - Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University (BE)) (until 4:30 PM)
3:30 PM Recent updates on modelling of top-antitop production - Nihad Hidic (Charles University (CZ))  
3:42 PM Modelling of $b$-jets in the $pp \to t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ process in the $2\ell$ channel at the LHC - Manal Alsairafi  
3:54 PM Measurement of ttW production cross section at 13.6 TeV - Miguel Obeso Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
4:06 PM Four-top-quark production at the LHC: NLO+NNLL predictions and uncertainties - Michele Lupattelli (Muenster University)  
4:18 PM Measurements of single top t-channel production - Jorge Ayllon Torresano (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
4:30 PM --- Coffee Break + Posters ---
5:00 PM
Young Scientist Forum - Carmen Diez Pardos (Universitaet Siegen (DE)) (until 7:00 PM)
5:00 PM Top quark mass interpretation from simulation of top-flavoured mesons - Alexander Lind (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))  
5:12 PM Measurement of the CKM matrix element |V_cb| - Emily Tsai (Northeastern University (US))  
5:24 PM Quantum detection of CP violation in the $t \bar{t} $ system: production and tomography - Olimpia Miniati  
5:36 PM Toponium effects on quantum steering and Bell nonlocality of top quarks - Sergio Rodríguez Benítez (Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC)  
5:48 PM Quantum Observables and Their Sensitivity to Fundamental Interactions at Polarized Lepton Colliders - Priyanka Lamba  
6:00 PM Precise and Comprehensive Top Quark Reconstruction at the LHC - Zihan Zhang (The University of Manchester (GB))  
6:12 PM AI-enhanced Tops: Machine learning tasks, and their interplay, for advancing top quark measurements - Ethan Lewis Simpson (The University of Manchester (GB))  
6:24 PM Big Dipper, Help Me Find A Way -- Dip-hunting at hadron colliders - Diego Baron (The University of Manchester (GB))  
6:36 PM Search for Top-Philic Vector Resonances in Multi-Top Final States with ATLAS - Zongpu Wang (University of Hong Kong (HK))  
6:48 PM Search for charged lepton flavour violation in ATLAS using top events - Thomas Thory-Rao (University of Birmingham (GB))  
7:00 PM
Poster Session (until 8:00 PM)
7:00 PM Toponium effects on quantum steering and Bell nonlocality of top quarks - Sergio Rodríguez Benítez (Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC)  
7:10 PM Simultaneous measurement of tqγ and ttγ cross section - Iakov Andreev (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
7:15 PM Search for the Charged Lepton Flavour Violation in the top quark interaction with a lepton (muon or electron) and a tau - Yeonsu Ryou (Hanyang University (KR))  
7:20 PM Search for heavy resonances decaying to top-quark pairs in single-lepton and dilepton channels with the full Run-2 ATLAS dataset - Laura Pintucci (Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT))  
7:25 PM Studies of recoil variations in ttbar events - Matilde Uboldi (University of Sussex (GB)) Matilde Uboldi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
7:30 PM Studies of the MiNNLOPS ttbar process by ATLAS - Shayma Wahdan Shayma Wahdan (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
7:35 PM Modelling of $b$-jets in the $pp \to t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ process in the $2\ell$ channel at the LHC - Manal Alsairafi  
7:40 PM Quantum detection of CP violation in the $t \bar{t} $ system: production and tomography - olimpia miniati  
7:45 PM Four-top-quark production at the LHC: NLO+NNLL predictions and uncertainties - Michele Lupattelli (Muenster University)  
7:50 PM tt+cc/bb measurements using deep learning in CMS Run2 dileptonic tt events - Juhee Song (Hanyang University (KR))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM Excursion  
9:00 PM Q&A session with drinks  
12:00 PM --- Lunch + Free time ---
3:00 PM
Properties / Rare processes - Simone Devoto (Universiteit Gent) (until 4:30 PM)
3:00 PM Top mass (ATLAS) - Wolfgang Wagner (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
3:30 PM Rare SM measurements (ATLAS) - James Alfred Mueller (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
4:00 PM Flavor measurements (CMS) - Luigi Marchese (ETH Zurich (CH))  
4:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:00 PM
Joker talks - Antonio Onofre (Universidade do Minho/CFUMUP,LIP) (until 7:00 PM)
5:00 PM CMS Joker 1 - Osama Ragab Ahmed Dawood (Purdue University (US))  
5:30 PM ATLAS Joker 1 - Lukas Kretschmann (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
6:00 PM ATLAS Joker 2 - Thomas James Stevenson (University of Sussex (GB))  
6:30 PM CMS Joker 2  
8:00 PM
Conference dinner (until 9:30 PM)
12:00 PM Announcement of TOP2027  
12:20 PM Closing - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))