Higgs 2026

from Monday, October 26, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 30, 2026 (5:00 PM)
UCLouvain (Science auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 26, 2026
Oct 27, 2026
Oct 28, 2026
Oct 29, 2026
Oct 30, 2026
AM
9:00 AM
Higgs Pairs (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM
Single Higgs (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
Coffee (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Higgs Pairs (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM
Single Higgs (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM
Beyond the Standard Model (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM
Single Higgs (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
Coffee (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Higgs Pairs (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM
Single Higgs (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM
Beyond the Standard Model (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM
Future (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
Coffee (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Beyond the Standard Model (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM
Future (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM
Plenary (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM Quantum observables in Higgs physics - Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)  
9:30 AM Extended scalar sectors and composite Higgs model building - Stefania De Curtis (U) Stefania De Curtis (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
10:00 AM Low-mass new scalars and exotic Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS  
10:30 AM High-mass new scalars at the LHC, with and without a Higgs in the final state  
11:00 AM
Coffee (until 11:30 AM)
11:30 AM
Plenary (until 1:30 PM)
11:30 AM Higgs physics at future e⁺e⁻ colliders after the 2026 European Strategy  
12:00 PM Precision Higgs physics at future colliders - Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zurich)  
12:30 PM BSM Higgs physics physics at future colliders - Tevong You (King's College London) Tevong You  
1:00 PM Closing  
PM
1:00 PM
Registration (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Plenary (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM Welcome  
2:30 PM State of the art of precision Higgs calculation - Fabrizio Arturo Caola (University of Oxford (GB))  
3:00 PM ATLAS Higgs Highlights  
3:30 PM CMS Higgs highlights  
4:00 PM
Coffee (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM
Plenary (until 6:30 PM)
4:30 PM Frontier amplitude computations for Higgs physics - Ben Page (Ghent University (BE))  
5:00 PM Machine learning advances and Higgs physics applications - Ramon Winterhalder (Università degli Studi di Milano)  
5:30 PM Experimental methods at ATLAS  
6:00 PM Experimental methods at CMS  
12:30 PM
Lunch break (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Higgs Pairs (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM
Single Higgs (until 3:30 PM)
3:30 PM
Coffee (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
Beyond the Standard Model (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM
Single Higgs (until 5:30 PM)
6:00 PM
Drinks reception (until 9:00 PM)
12:30 PM
Lunch break (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Plenary (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM Precision Higgs measurements at ATLAS and CMS (mass, width, CP, off-shell)  
2:30 PM Inclusive and differential Higgs cross sections at ATLAS and CMS (incl. STXS)  
3:00 PM Monte Carlo for Higgs production and backgrounds - Melissa Corona van Beekveld (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
3:30 PM aN³LO PDFs and Higgs predictions for the HL-LHC - Emanuele Roberto Nocera  
4:00 PM
Coffee (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM
Plenary (until 6:30 PM)
4:30 PM Rare Higgs production at ATLAS and CMS (incl. tH, H+c)  
5:00 PM Rare Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS (incl. µμ, Zγ, cc)  
5:30 PM ATLAS joker talk  
6:00 PM CMS joker talk  
12:30 PM
Lunch break (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Plenary (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM Effective field theory in the Higgs sector - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cambridge) Eleni Vryonidou (Universite catholique de Louvain) Eleni Vryonidou (Nikhef) Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY))  
2:30 PM Global EFT interpretations at ATLAS and CMS  
3:00 PM Precision prediction for di-Higgs production in the SM and beyond - Gudrun Heinrich (KIT)  
3:30 PM Higgs pair production at ATLAS and CMS (incl. non-resonant, resonant, multi-Higgs)  
4:00 PM
Coffee (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM
Plenary (until 7:00 PM)
4:30 PM Scalars, phase transitions, and gravitational waves - Alberto Mariotti Alberto Mariotti (VUB Brussels) Alberto MARIOTTI (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)  
5:00 PM Scalars and dark sectors - Thomas Hambye Thomas Hambye (ULB Belgium) Thomas Hambye (Unknown) Thomas HAMBYE (ULB) THOMAS HAMBYE (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))  
5:30 PM Higgs and flavour - Joe Davighi (University of Cambridge (GB))  
6:00 PM Higgs and scalar BSM interpretations at LHCb - Lorenzo Sestini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
7:00 PM
Conference dinner (until 10:00 PM)