LPC EFT Workshop at JHU

from Monday, 1 June 2026 (08:00) to Tuesday, 2 June 2026 (17:30)
Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy (462)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jun 2026
2 Jun 2026
AM
08:00 --- Breakfast, registration ---
09:00
EFT at the LHC - Kelci Ann Mohrman (University of Florida (US)) Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Southern Methodist University (US)) (until 10:40)
09:00 Opening Remarks and Welcome  
09:10 EFT at the LHC: Theory perspective - Sally Dawson (BNL)  
09:40 EFT in ATLAS: recent combinations and future vision - Elliot Lipeles (University of Pennsylvania (US))  
10:10 EFT in CMS: recent combinations and future vision - Philip Chang (University of Florida (US))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
EFT at the LHC - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Southern Methodist University (US)) Kelci Ann Mohrman (University of Florida (US)) (until 12:25)
11:10 Higgs Physics with Dedicated EFT Probes - Valerio Dao (Stony Brook University)  
11:35 LHC EFT WG Report: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions - Jon Wilson (Baylor University (US))  
12:00 Quantum Information Meets Collider Physics - dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)  
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
EFT phenomenology - Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Jon Wilson (Baylor University (US)) (until 10:15)
09:00 Energy enhancements and cutoffs in EFT - Benoit Assi  
09:25 Quantifying EFT Uncertainties in LHC Searches - Spencer Chang (University of Oregon)  
09:50 Constraining CP-violating SMEFT with Quantum Information Techniques - Patrick Dougan (Southern Methodist University (US))  
10:15 --- Coffee ---
10:45
EFT phenomenology - Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Jon Wilson (Baylor University (US)) (until 12:00)
10:45 Probing SMEFT Effects in Polarized WZ Production at the LHC - Maryam Bayat Makou (Southern Methodist University (US))  
11:10 Electroweak Physics with Dedicated EFT Probes - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Southern Methodist University (US))  
11:35 Top Physics with Dedicated EFT Probes - Kevin Patrick Lannon (University of Notre Dame (US))  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Beyond-LHC connections - Adam Orion Martin (University of Notre Dame (US)) Jeffrey Davis (Johns Hopkins University (US)) (until 15:00)
13:30 Effective Field Theories in Flavor Physics - Alexey Petrov (University of South Carolina)  
14:00 EDMs and EFT - Dave DeMille (JHU)  
14:30 Low-energy probes of EFT  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Beyond-LHC connections - Jeffrey Davis (Johns Hopkins University (US)) Adam Orion Martin (University of Notre Dame (US)) (until 17:00)
15:30 Effective Field Theories with Neutrinos - Zahra Khajeh Tabrizi  
16:00 Dark Matter - Harikrishnan Ramani  
16:30 Effective Field Theories in Cosmology - Mikhail Ivanov (MIT)  
17:00 --- Group photo, posters, refreshments ---
18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Innovative analysis ideas - Andrea Piccinelli (University of Notre Dame (US)) Vasilije Perovic (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 14:15)
13:00 Simulation Based Inference - Rafael Coelho Lopes De Sa (University of Massachusetts (US))  
13:25 Unbinned multidimensional scale factors for SBI - Davide Valsecchi (ETH Zurich (CH))  
13:50 Matrix-element method for ttH(bb) EFT analysis - Adrian-Antonio Petre (ETH Zurich (CH))  
14:15 --- Coffee ---
14:45
Innovative analysis ideas - Vasilije Perovic (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Andrea Piccinelli (University of Notre Dame (US)) (until 16:00)
14:45 Metrics and Compression for Quantum Observables for EFT - Heshy Roskes (Johns Hopkins University (US))  
15:10 Efficient EFT Monte Carlo with differentiable matrix elements - Jonathan Samudio (Baylor University (US))  
15:35 Toward Machine-Learned Representations of SMEFT Deformations in Collider Observables - Supratim Das Bakshi  
16:00 --- Closeout, social time ---