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 - Roberto Tenchini (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) (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 Measurement of the top-quark production and charge asymmetry at LHCb - Hang Yin (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Objects and Tools - Tae Jeong Kim (Hanyang University (KR)) (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) - Andrew Wildridge (Purdue University (US))  
08:30
ttbar Predictions and Generators - David Marcus E Marckx (Ghent University (BE)) (until 10:00)
08:30 Modern MC generators (ATLAS/CMS) - Teresa Barillari (M) Teresa Barillari (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik) 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 -Prof. Michal Wiktor Czakon (until 12:00)
10:30 Toponium with pNRQCD - Benedikt Gurdon (RWTH Aachen)  
11:00 Threshold/Toponium measurements (ATLAS) - Annika Stein (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
11:30 Threshold/Toponium measurements (CMS) - Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (Ghent University (BE))  
08:30
BSM - Ankita Mehta (Ghent University (BE)) (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 (NCSR Demokritos) Giuseppe Bevilacqua (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))  
10:00 Loop-level sensitivities to four-top operators - Stefano Di Noi (KIT (ITP))  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
BSM - Gauthier Durieux (CP3 - UCLouvain) (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 Nonstandard top decay and production - Bogdan Dobrescu  
08:30
Theory mini-workshop - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton) (until 10:00)
09:00 Recent developments in Baryogenesis - Oleksii Matsedonskyi (University of Cambridge)  
09:30 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 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Theory mini-workshop - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton) (until 11:30)
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)  
11:30
For the future - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton) (until 12:00)
11:30 Resonance-aware PS matching for off-shell tt in e+e- - Daniele Lombardi (Max-Planck Institut für Physik) Daniele Lombardi  
08:30
Threshold production - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) (until 09:00)
08:30 Top-quark spin entanglement and decoherence - Dr Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
09:00
Summary - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) (until 09:45)
09:00 Theory summary - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
09:45
For the future - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) (until 11:15)
09:45 Probing Top Quark - Electron Interactions at Future Colliders - luigi bellafronte Luigi Bellafronte (Florida State University)  
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 Recent advances in top-quark physics studies at FCC-ee - Christian Schwanenberger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
11:15
Summary - Malgorzata Maria Worek (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE)) (until 12:00)
11:15 Experimental summary - Alexander Grohsjean (Hamburg University (DE))  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch + Free time ---
15:30
Cross sections - Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (Ghent University (BE)) (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 - Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (Ghent University (BE)) (until 19:30)
17:30 W/Z/gamma-associated measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - Ethan Lewis Simpson (The University of Manchester (GB))  
18:00 tt+bb/cc/light measurements (ATLAS/CMS) - David Kavtaradze (Ghent University (BE))  
18:30 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 - Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois Chicago (US)) (until 15:30)
14:30 Simulation-based inference - Ricardo Barrué (Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics)  
15:00 Proton Structure from Neural Simulation-Based Inference - Elie Hammou (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
15:30
Young Scientist Forum - Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University (BE)) (until 16:30)
15:30 Recent updates on modelling of top-antitop production - Nihad Hidic (Charles University (CZ))  
15:42 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  
15:54 Measurement of ttW production cross section at 13.6 TeV - Miguel Obeso Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
16:06 Four-top-quark production at the LHC: NLO+NNLL predictions and uncertainties - Michele Lupattelli (Muenster University)  
16:18 Measurements of single top t-channel production - Jorge Ayllon Torresano (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
16:30 --- Coffee Break + Posters ---
17:00
Young Scientist Forum - Carmen Diez Pardos (Universitaet Siegen (DE)) (until 19:00)
17:00 Top quark mass interpretation from simulation of top-flavoured mesons - Alexander Lind (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))  
17:12 Measurement of the CKM matrix element |V_cb| - Emily Tsai (Northeastern University (US))  
17:24 Quantum detection of CP violation in the $t \bar{t} $ system: production and tomography - Olimpia Miniati  
17:36 Toponium effects on quantum steering and Bell nonlocality of top quarks - Sergio Rodríguez Benítez (Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC)  
17:48 Quantum Observables and Their Sensitivity to Fundamental Interactions at Polarized Lepton Colliders - Priyanka Lamba  
18:00 Precise and Comprehensive Top Quark Reconstruction at the LHC - Zihan Zhang (The University of Manchester (GB))  
18:12 AI-enhanced Tops: Machine learning tasks, and their interplay, for advancing top quark measurements - Ethan Lewis Simpson (The University of Manchester (GB))  
18:24 Big Dipper, Help Me Find A Way -- Dip-hunting at hadron colliders - Diego Baron (The University of Manchester (GB))  
18:36 Search for Top-Philic Vector Resonances in Multi-Top Final States with ATLAS - Zongpu Wang (University of Hong Kong (HK))  
18:48 Search for charged lepton flavour violation in ATLAS using top events - Thomas Thory-Rao (University of Birmingham (GB))  
19:00
Poster Session (until 20:00)
19:00 Toponium effects on quantum steering and Bell nonlocality of top quarks - Sergio Rodríguez Benítez (Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC)  
19:10 Simultaneous measurement of tqγ and ttγ cross section - Iakov Andreev (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
19:15 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))  
19:20 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))  
19:25 Studies of recoil variations in ttbar events - Matilde Uboldi (University of Sussex (GB)) Matilde Uboldi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
19:30 Studies of the MiNNLOPS ttbar process by ATLAS - Shayma Wahdan Shayma Wahdan (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
19:35 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  
19:40 Quantum detection of CP violation in the $t \bar{t} $ system: production and tomography - olimpia miniati  
19:45 Four-top-quark production at the LHC: NLO+NNLL predictions and uncertainties - Michele Lupattelli (Muenster University)  
19:50 tt+cc/bb measurements using deep learning in CMS Run2 dileptonic tt events - Juhee Song (Hanyang University (KR))  
12:30 Conference picture  
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Excursion: Meeting infront of the Hotel at 13:20 and depart 13:30 sharp. Please check in which bus you are assigned to: Bus1 Bus 2 and 3  
21:00 Q&A session with drinks  
12:00 --- Lunch + Free time ---
15:00
Properties / Rare processes - Simone Devoto (Universiteit Gent) (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 Poster prize announcement  
17:10
Joker talks - Antonio Onofre (Universidade do Minho/CFUMUP,LIP) (until 19:10)
17:10 CMS Joker 1 - Osama Ragab Ahmed Dawood (Purdue University (US))  
17:40 ATLAS Joker 1 - Lukas Kretschmann (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
18:10 ATLAS Joker 2 - Thomas James Stevenson (University of Sussex (GB))  
18:40 CMS Joker 2 - Vahid Sedighzadeh Dalavi (The Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (IR))  
20:00
Conference dinner (until 21:30)
12:00 Announcement of TOP2027  
12:20 Closing - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))