HMBS-Exotics workshop 2026

26 Oct 2026, 08:30 → 30 Oct 2026, 13:30 Europe/Zurich

Clermont-Ferrand

The HMBS-Exotics workshop will be held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, from the 26^th of October to the 30^th of October 2026. 
The discussions will be held in the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in the city center (see Conference venue).

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Please note that registration is needed only if you plan to attend in person, and is not needed for remote participants.

Fee

The registrations fee will is 250 EUR (+10% VAT) for students and 300 EUR (+10% VAT) for others, until 10 September. After that date, the late registration fees will be 300 EUR (+10% VAT) and 350 EUR (+10% VAT) for students and others respectively. Registration will not be possible after 10 October.

(VAT = Value Added Tax)

The fee includes: 

• Welcome drinks on Monday evening, during the poster session,
• Social activity and conference dinner on Wednesday,
• Coffee breaks from Monday morning to Friday morning included,
• Lunches from Monday to Friday included.

 

After filling in the registration form, you can complete the payment at this link: https://dr07.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/en/406/inscription (see Fees payment)

In case of any difficulties, do not hesitate to contact the organisers at hmbs-exotics_workshop_clermont_2026@cern.ch

Pre-booked rooms

We have prebooked a 20 rooms at the near nearby "Maison Internationale Universitaire" (MIU) student accommodation: you can request on in the registration. These will be attributed to students as a priority.

Coach transfer from CERN

A coach between CERN and Clermont-Ferrand is organised. It will leave CERN on Sunday October 25 at 2pm and leave Clermont-Ferrand on Friday October 30 after lunch, at 2pm. It will cost 50 EUR.  Booking is done through registration.

Posters

If you wish to present a poster on Monday evening, please submit an abstract! 

Workshop poster

Poster_HMBS-Exotics.pdf

Monday 26 October

08:30 → 10:00 Welcome coffee

10:00 → 10:15 Opening remarks

10:15 → 11:00 Joint session: Techniques and Tricks for success I

Conveners: Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US)), Michael Holzbock (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

10:15 Analysis milestones and common showstoppers

10:30 Finding the right samples: navigating MC productions and derivations

10:45 Producing ntuples efficiently: frameworks, grid tasks, and common traps

11:00 → 12:00 Joint session: Techniques and Tricks for success II

Conveners: Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US)), Michael Holzbock (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

11:00 Integrating ML pipelines into your analysis workflow

11:15 When the fit misbehaves: diagnosis and remedies

11:30 Coding assistants and agents in daily analysis work - what actually helps

11:45 (Snake)Make your analysis chain reproducible with workflow management

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Joint session: New tools and what we need to exploit them

Conveners: Makayla Vessella 🐏 (University of California Irvine (US)), Robert Les (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

13:30 Beyond Main-Stream: Event Picking

Speaker: Serafima Nechaeva (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

14:00 Pileup Searches & TLA for Calibrations

Speaker: Maximilian Amerl (Michigan State University (US))

14:30 A jet of all trades: q/g, multi-tagging, di-tau, displaced taus and other LLP, low mass taggers

Speaker: Andrés Duque Bran

15:00 ML tools: SPAnet/v-flows, anomaly detection, GPR/background-shape regression

Speaker: Theresa Reisch (Universite de Geneve (CH))

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Joint session: New tools and what we need to exploit them

Conveners: Makayla Vessella 🐏 (University of California Irvine (US)), Robert Les (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

16:00 PMG: Shower eigenvariations, ChATLAS assisted MC requests, other foreseen improvements (remote)

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

16:30 Into the (Omni)fold: Unfolding for Exotics/HMBS

17:00 A LITE at the end of the tunnel?: Feedback on PHYSLITE

18:30 → 20:30 Welcome drinks & Poster session

Tuesday 27 October

09:00 → 10:30 Exotics parallel session

09:00 → 12:30 HMBS parallel session: Critical Reviews I (coffee break 10:30-11:00)

09:00 HBSM Critical Review

Speakers: Adrian Salvador Salas 🥝 (Tel Aviv University (IL)), Lidija Zivkovic (Institute of physics Belgrade (RS))

10:00 HLRS Critical Review (+ coffee break)

Speakers: Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Luis Pascual Dominguez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))

11:30 EWK SUSY Critical Review

Speakers: Ben Hodkinson (CERN), Michael Holzbock (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Exotics parallel session

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Exotics parallel session

14:00 → 17:30 HMBS parallel session: Critical Reviews II (coffee break 15:30-16:00)

14:00 Strong SUSY Critical Review

Speakers: John Kenneth Anders (University of Liverpool (GB)), Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

15:00 MBL Critical Review (+ coffee break)

Speakers: Francesco Cirotto (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT)), John Patrick Mc Gowan (University of Victoria (CA))

16:30 CMBF Critical Review

Speakers: Dr Eirik Gramstad (University of Oslo (NO)), Tatjana Lenz (University of Bonn (DE))

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Exotics parallel session

Wednesday 28 October

09:00 → 10:30 Exotics parallel session

09:00 → 10:30 HMBS parallel session: pMSSM and other summaries

Conveners: Jana Schaarschmidt (University of Washington (US)), Yuchen Cai (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Exotics parallel session

11:00 → 12:30 HMBS parallel session: Workshop challenge & open discussion

Conveners: Jeff Shahinian (University of Pennsylvania (US)), Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)), Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (LPNHE-Paris CNRS/IN2P3), Tina Potter (University of Cambridge (GB))

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Open session

15:30 → 17:30 Social activity

19:30 → 22:00 Conference dinner

Thursday 29 October

09:00 → 10:30 Joint session: Challenges for AP/REI contacts – new developments and ease of use

Conveners: Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)), Tomasz Procter (Jagiellonian University (PL))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Joint session: What can we learn from each other

Conveners: Janna Katharina Behr (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Joany Manjarres (Université de Toulouse, CNRS/IN2P3, L2IT, Toulouse, France)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Joint session: Reinterpretation / Combinations / Summary papers

Conveners: Claudia Merlassino (Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT)), Mahsana Haleem (Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))

14:00 Future Summaries of Dark Matter Searches

14:30 Future Summaries of Exotic BSM Particle Searches

15:00 What do we need to make Combinations and Reinterpretation?

15:20 Prompt → long-lived lessons learnt from RPC-SUSY meets RPV-SUSY?

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Joint session: Open discussion + BSM WG debrief

Conveners: Sara Alderweireldt (The University of Edinburgh (GB)), Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

Friday 30 October

09:00 → 10:30 Joint session: Run 4 and the future

Conveners: Brian Petersen (CERN), Marco Montella (Ohio State University (US))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Summary & closing

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch