HMBS-Exotics workshop 2026

from Monday, October 26, 2026 (8:30 AM) to Friday, October 30, 2026 (1:30 PM)
Clermont-Ferrand

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 26, 2026
Oct 27, 2026
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Oct 29, 2026
Oct 30, 2026
AM
8:30 AM --- Welcome coffee ---
10:00 AM Opening remarks  
10:15 AM
Joint session - Michael Holzbock (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US)) (until 11:00 AM) (Amphitheatre 219)
10:15 AM Analysis milestones and common showstoppers  
10:30 AM Finding the right samples: navigating MC productions and derivations  
10:45 AM Producing ntuples efficiently: frameworks, grid tasks, and common traps  
11:00 AM
Joint session - Michael Holzbock (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US)) (until 12:00 PM) (Amphitheatre 219)
11:00 AM Integrating ML pipelines into your analysis workflow  
11:15 AM When the fit misbehaves: diagnosis and remedies  
11:30 AM Coding assistants and agents in daily analysis work - what actually helps  
11:45 AM (Snake)Make your analysis chain reproducible with workflow management  
9:00 AM
Exotics parallel session (until 10:30 AM) (Amphitheatre 219)
9:00 AM
HMBS parallel session (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM HBSM Critical Review - Lidija Zivkovic (Institute of physics Belgrade (RS)) Adrian Salvador Salas 🥝 (Tel Aviv University (IL))  
10:00 AM HLRS Critical Review (+ coffee break) - Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Luis Pascual Dominguez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
11:30 AM EWK SUSY Critical Review - Michael Holzbock (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) Ben Hodkinson (CERN)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Exotics parallel session (until 12:30 PM) (Amphitheatre 219)
9:00 AM
Exotics parallel session (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM
HMBS parallel session - Jana Schaarschmidt (University of Washington (US)) Yuchen Cai (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Exotics parallel session (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM
HMBS parallel session - Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (LPNHE-Paris CNRS/IN2P3) Tina Potter (University of Cambridge (GB)) Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) Jeff Shahinian (University of Pennsylvania (US)) (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM
Joint session - Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) Tomasz Procter (Jagiellonian University (PL)) (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Joint session - Joany Manjarres (Université de Toulouse, CNRS/IN2P3, L2IT, Toulouse, France) Janna Katharina Behr (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM
Joint session - Brian Petersen (CERN) Marco Montella (Ohio State University (US)) (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Summary & closing (until 12:00 PM)
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Joint session - Makayla Vessella 🐏 (University of California Irvine (US)) Robert Les (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 3:30 PM)
1:30 PM Beyond Main-Stream: Event Picking - Serafima Nechaeva (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
2:00 PM Pileup Searches & TLA for Calibrations - Maximilian Amerl (Michigan State University (US))  
2:30 PM A jet of all trades: q/g, multi-tagging, di-tau, displaced taus and other LLP, low mass taggers - Andrés Duque Bran  
3:00 PM ML tools: SPAnet/v-flows, anomaly detection, GPR/background-shape regression - Theresa Reisch (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Joint session - Makayla Vessella 🐏 (University of California Irvine (US)) Robert Les (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM PMG: Shower eigenvariations, ChATLAS assisted MC requests, other foreseen improvements (remote) - Dr Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
4:30 PM Into the (Omni)fold: Unfolding for Exotics/HMBS  
5:00 PM A LITE at the end of the tunnel?: Feedback on PHYSLITE  
6:30 PM
Welcome drinks & Poster session (until 8:30 PM)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Exotics parallel session (until 3:30 PM) (Amphitheatre 219)
2:00 PM
HMBS parallel session (until 5:30 PM)
2:00 PM Strong SUSY Critical Review - Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) John Kenneth Anders (University of Liverpool (GB))  
3:00 PM MBL Critical Review (+ coffee break) - John Patrick Mc Gowan (University of Victoria (CA)) Francesco Cirotto (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
4:30 PM CMBF Critical Review - Tatjana Lenz (University of Bonn (DE)) Dr Eirik Gramstad (University of Oslo (NO))  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Exotics parallel session (until 5:30 PM)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Open session (until 3:30 PM)
3:30 PM --- Social activity ---
7:30 PM --- Conference dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Joint session - Claudia Merlassino (Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT)) Mahsana Haleem (Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Future Summaries of Dark Matter Searches  
2:30 PM Future Summaries of Exotic BSM Particle Searches  
3:00 PM What do we need to make Combinations and Reinterpretation?  
3:20 PM Prompt → long-lived lessons learnt from RPC-SUSY meets RPV-SUSY?  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Joint session - Sara Alderweireldt (The University of Edinburgh (GB)) Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)) (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM Summary and interplay LHC BSM WG and HMBS/Exotics groups  
4:30 PM Discussion session: Prompt BSM - Tobias Golling (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Eleanor Jones (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
4:45 PM Discussion session: LLP - Elena Pompa Pacchi (University of Oklahoma (US))  
5:00 PM Discussion session: DM - Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB))  
5:15 PM Discussion session: Reinterpretation - Jonathan Butterworth (UCL) Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---