Higgs 2026

from Monday, 26 October 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 30 October 2026 (17:00)
UCLouvain (Science auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Oct 2026
27 Oct 2026
28 Oct 2026
29 Oct 2026
30 Oct 2026
AM
09:00
Higgs Pairs (until 10:30)
09:00
Single Higgs (until 10:30)
10:30
Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00
Higgs Pairs (until 12:30)
11:00
Single Higgs (until 12:30)
09:00
Beyond the Standard Model (until 10:30)
09:00
Single Higgs (until 10:30)
10:30
Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00
Higgs Pairs (until 12:30)
11:00
Single Higgs (until 12:30)
09:00
Beyond the Standard Model (until 10:30)
09:00
Future (until 10:30)
10:30
Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00
Beyond the Standard Model (until 12:30)
11:00
Future (until 12:30)
09:00
Plenary (until 11:00)
09:00 Quantum observables in Higgs physics - Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE)) Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)  
09:30 Extended scalar sectors and composite Higgs model building - Stefania De Curtis (U) Stefania De Curtis (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
10:00 Low-mass new scalars and exotic Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS  
10:30 High-mass new scalars at the LHC, with and without a Higgs in the final state  
11:00
Coffee (until 11:30)
11:30
Plenary (until 13:30)
11:30 Higgs physics at future e⁺e⁻ colliders after the 2026 European Strategy  
12:00 Precision Higgs physics at future colliders - Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zurich)  
12:30 BSM Higgs physics physics at future colliders - Tevong You (King's College London) Tevong You  
13:00 Closing  
PM
13:00
Registration (until 14:00)
14:00
Plenary (until 16:00)
14:00 Welcome  
14:30 State of the art of precision Higgs calculation - Fabrizio Arturo Caola (University of Oxford (GB))  
15:00 ATLAS Higgs Highlights  
15:30 CMS Higgs highlights  
16:00
Coffee (until 16:30)
16:30
Plenary (until 18:30)
16:30 Frontier amplitude computations for Higgs physics - Ben Page (Ghent University (BE))  
17:00 Machine learning advances and Higgs physics applications - Ramon Winterhalder (Università degli Studi di Milano)  
17:30 Experimental methods at ATLAS  
18:00 Experimental methods at CMS  
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
Higgs Pairs (until 15:30)
14:00
Single Higgs (until 15:30)
15:30
Coffee (until 16:00)
16:00
Beyond the Standard Model (until 17:30)
16:00
Single Higgs (until 17:30)
18:00
Drinks reception (until 21:00)
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
Plenary (until 16:00)
14:00 Precision Higgs measurements at ATLAS and CMS (mass, width, CP, off-shell)  
14:30 Inclusive and differential Higgs cross sections at ATLAS and CMS (incl. STXS)  
15:00 Monte Carlo for Higgs production and backgrounds - Melissa Corona van Beekveld (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
15:30 aN³LO PDFs and Higgs predictions for the HL-LHC - Emanuele Roberto Nocera Emanuele Roberto Nocera (The University of Edinburgh) Emanuele Roberto Nocera Emanuele Nocera (Università degli Studi di Torino and INFN Torino)  
16:00
Coffee (until 16:30)
16:30
Plenary (until 18:30)
16:30 Rare Higgs production at ATLAS and CMS (incl. tH, H+c)  
17:00 Rare Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS (incl. µμ, Zγ, cc)  
17:30 ATLAS joker talk  
18:00 CMS joker talk  
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
Plenary (until 16:00)
14:00 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))  
14:30 Global EFT interpretations at ATLAS and CMS  
15:00 Precision prediction for di-Higgs production in the SM and beyond - Gudrun Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Physics) Gudrun Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Physics) Gudrun Heinrich (KIT)  
15:30 Higgs pair production at ATLAS and CMS (incl. non-resonant, resonant, multi-Higgs)  
16:00
Coffee (until 16:30)
16:30
Plenary (until 19:00)
16:30 Scalars, phase transitions, and gravitational waves - Alberto Mariotti Alberto Mariotti (VUB Brussels) Alberto MARIOTTI (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)  
17:00 Scalars and dark sectors - Thomas Hambye Thomas Hambye (ULB Belgium) Thomas Hambye (Unknown) Thomas HAMBYE (ULB) THOMAS HAMBYE (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))  
17:30 Higgs and flavour - Joe Davighi (University of Cambridge (GB))  
18:00 Higgs and scalar BSM interpretations at LHCb - Lorenzo Sestini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
19:00
Conference dinner (until 22:00)