NNPDF Collaboration Meeting

Aug 30, 2026, 5:00 PM → Sep 2, 2026, 4:00 PM Europe/Rome

Hotel Morimondo

Petra Dell'Arme, Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

The meeting will take place at Hotel Morimondo in Morimondo, close to Milan.

A shuttle service will take people to the venue on Sunday 30th at 5pm - the meeting point is Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan (Department of Physics). A second stop will take place at around 5:15pm in Milan Linate airport.

If you land at Milan Malpensa, please catch a Malpensa Express train to Milan Porta Garibaldi. Then catch the tube (green line) to Piola - the Department is 5 minutes away on foot.

On Wednesday 2nd, at the end of the meeting (2pm) there will be a shuttle service back to the same stops. The bus is expected to reach Milan Linate airport at around 3pm and via Celoria 16 by 3:15pm.

For any enquiries please contact Petra at petra.dellarme@guest.unimi.it

*Please note that external participants may be charged a fee of €130 which includes administrative expenses and the social dinner

Sun, August 30

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Departure

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner

Mon, August 31

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome and introduction

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

9:15 AM → 10:45 AM Should We Trust a Good chi^2? Conformal Prediction and the Risk of Fitting Away New Physics

Speaker: Michael Spannowsky (University of Durham (GB))

conformal_prediction_nnpdf.pdf

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 1:00 PM NNPDF Session 1

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Unfolding uncertainties and biases

Speaker: Lydia Brenner (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

UnfoldingNNpdf.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM NNPDF session 2

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner

Tue, September 1

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Bringing the Era of Quantitative QCD to Maturity

Speaker: Christine Aidala (University of Michigan (US))

AidalaNNPDF2026.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 1:00 PM NNPDF session 3

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM NNPDF session 4

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM NNPDF session 5

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Social dinner

Wed, September 2

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM NNPDF session 6

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 1:00 PM NNPDF session 7

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Departure