Neutrino 2026: XXXII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

21 Jun 2026, 15:00 → 26 Jun 2026, 21:00 US/Pacific

Conference Center (University of California, Irvine)

Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine), Michael Smy (University of California, Irvine)

Welcome to the XXXII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, hosted by the University of California, Irvine, June 21-26, 2026. This gathering commemorates a landmark achievement in physics—the 70th Anniversary of neutrino detection by Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines. Notably, Fred Reines, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, established the School of Physical Sciences at UC Irvine as its founding Dean.

This biennial event brings together leading researchers to share groundbreaking discoveries, explore cutting-edge concepts, and chart the future of neutrino science and its connections to astronomy and cosmology. The scientific program includes invited plenary talks and interactive poster sessions.

Join us as we advance our understanding of the cosmos through neutrino research. We eagerly anticipate your participation at UC Irvine.

Bulletins

• Bulletin 1.pdf
• Bulletin 2.pdf
• Bulletin 3.pdf

Sunday 21 June

15:00 → 18:00 Opening: Registration

Opening

Convener: Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)

Monday 22 June

07:30 → 08:45 Registration

Registration

08:45 → 09:00 Welcome

Convener: Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Talks: Opening Talk

09:00 Neutrino Discovery

Speaker: Bob Svoboda (University of California Davis (US))

09:30 Theory Perspective

Speaker: Prof. Stuart Raby (The Ohio State University)

10:00 Global Fit

Speaker: Prof. Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (YITP, Stony Brook and ICREA, U. Barcelona)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Talks: Plenary 2

11:00 JUNO TAO

Speaker: Yichen Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing)

11:25 JUNO

Speaker: Prof. Yifang Wang

12:00 Anomalies in Reactor Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Chao Zhang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:25 Plenary Talks: Plenary 3

14:00 Review on Coherent Scattering

Speaker: Janina Dorin Hakenmueller (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

14:30 COHERENT

Speaker: Sam Hedges (Virginia Tech)

15:00 LZ

Speaker: Dongqing Huang (University of California, Los Angeles)

15:25 → 15:55 Coffee break

15:55 → 18:00 Plenary Talks: Plenary 4

15:55 Sterile Neutrino Theory

Speaker: Matheus Hostert (University of Iowa)

16:20 MicroBOONE

Speaker: Jay Hyun Jo (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:45 JSNA

Speaker: ChangDong Shin

17:10 SBND

Speaker: Linyan Wan (FNAL)

17:35 ICARUS

Speaker: Prof. Michael Mooney (Colorado State University)

18:00 → 19:30 Welcome Reception

Tuesday 23 June

09:00 → 10:25 Plenary Talks: Plenary 5

09:00 NOvA

Speaker: Prof. Zoya Vallari (The Ohio State University)

09:30 MINOS

Speaker: Jennifer Thomas (University College London)

09:55 T2K

Speaker: Sophie King

10:25 → 10:55 Coffee break

10:55 → 12:15 Plenary Talks: Plenary 6

10:55 Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Prof. Ryosuke Akutsu

11:20 DUNE

Speaker: Sowjanya Gollapinni (Los Alamos National Laboratory (US))

11:45 Future Long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiments (including ESSnuSB) - Beyond DUNE, HK

Speaker: Dr Budimir Klicek (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:45 Plenary Talks: Plenary 7

14:00 KATRIN

Speaker: Christoph Wiesinger (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

14:25 Project 8

Speaker: Pranava Teja Surukuchi (University of Pittsburgh)

14:50 Cosmology: N_eff and m_nu

Speaker: Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)

15:15 E&M properties

Speaker: Prof. Yufeng Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing)

15:45 → 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 → 18:10 Poster session

Wednesday 24 June

09:00 → 10:40 Plenary Talks: Plenary 8

09:00 SuperKamiokande

Speaker: Dr Zhoujun Hu (Ecole Polytechnique)

09:25 SNO+

Speaker: Dr Tanner Kaptanoglu (LBNL)

09:50 PandaX

Speaker: Prof. Ke Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

10:15 IceCube

Speaker: Ali Kheirandish

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 12:35 Plenary Talks: Plenary 9

11:10 Cross Sections (Theory)

Speaker: Joanna Sobczyk

11:40 MicroBooNE

Speaker: Patrick James Green (University of Oxford (GB))

12:05 Current State: Minerva/NOvA/T2K

Speaker: Bryan Ramson (Fermilab)

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:15 Plenary Talks: Plenary 10

14:00 ANNIE

Speaker: Mayly Sanchez (Florida State University)

14:25 Theory of neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Vincenzo Cirigliano

14:50 Nuclear matrix elements for double beta decay

Speaker: Jonathan Engel (University of North Carolina)

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 17:25 Plenary Talks: Plenary 11

15:45 CUORE

Speaker: Monica Sisti

16:10 KamLAND Zen

Speaker: Ömer Penek (Boston University)

16:35 LEGEND

Speaker: Prof. Carmen Romo Luque (LANL)

17:00 Future of Doube Beta Decay Experiments

Speaker: Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)

Thursday 25 June

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Talks: Plenary 12

09:00 Neutrino Mass Theory

Speaker: Ks Babu (Oklahoma State University)

09:30 Flavor Models

Speaker: Michael Schmidt (UNSW Sydney)

10:00 Non-standard Models

Speaker: Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Talks: Plenary 13

11:00 Supernova Neutrinos (Theory)

Speaker: Prof. John Beacom

11:30 Nonstandard Cosmology and Neutrinos

Speaker: Graciela Beatriz Gelmini (University of California Los Angeles (US))

12:00 Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Dr Kohta Murase (Penn State University)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:20 Plenary Talks: Plenary 14

14:00 PTOLEMY

Speaker: Prof. Christopher Tully (Princeton University)

14:25 Super-Kamiokande

Speaker: Hiroyuki Sekiya

14:50 Overview Radio-wave neutrino astrophysics

Speaker: Prof. Abigail Vieregg (University of Chicago)

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 17:20 Poster session: Poster 2

18:00 → 20:30 Conference Dinner

Friday 26 June

09:00 → 10:20 Plenary Talks: Plenary 15

09:00 IceCube

Speaker: Spencer Axani (University of Delaware)

09:25 KM3Net

Speaker: Paul De Jong (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

09:50 KM3Net

Speaker: Dr Silvia Celli (La Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:40 Plenary Talks: Plenary 16

10:50 Future astrophysical neutrino experiments

Speaker: Prof. Donglian Xu

11:20 Dark Matter & Neutrinos

Speaker: Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)

11:45 HNL Searches

Speaker: renata zukanovich funchal (Universidade de São Paulo)

12:10 Neutrinos at LHC

Speaker: Tomoko Ariga (Kyushu University (JP))

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary Talks: Plenary 17

14:00 Future of Neutrino Interactions

Speaker: Laura Iuliana Munteanu (CERN)

14:30 Liquid Scintillator

Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey John Hartnell (University of Sussex (GB))

15:00 AI/ML

Speaker: Leigh Howard Whitehead (University of Cambridge (GB))

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Plenary Talks: Plenary 18

16:00 AI/MP: Report from NPML Satellite Workshop

Speaker: kazuhiro terao

16:25 Theia (report from workshop)

Speaker: Joshua R Klein (University of Pennsylvania (US))

16:50 Outlook into the Future

Speaker: Callum David Wilkinson (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

17:20 Neutrino 2028

17:25 Closing