11–13 May 2026
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Plenary Program

 

Monday, May 11

Tuesday, May 12

Wednesday, May 13

Chair: Elizabeth Simmons (UCSD)

Chair: Lisa Everett (UW-Madison)

Chair: Patrick Huber (Virgina Tech)

8:40am - 8:45am 
Welcome: Andrew Zentner  
(U. Pittsburgh)

8:40am - 8:45am: Josh Sayre (Phys. Rev. D): APS & its Journals  
8:45am - 9:20am 
Hugh Lippincott (UCSB)
Progress and Prospects in Dark Matter Direct Detection
8:45am - 9:20am

Regina Demina (Rochester U.):

Highlights of the Recent LHC Results

  8:45am - 9:20am

Mark Ross-Lonergan (Columbia U)

Highlights of Neutrino Physics

9:20am - 9:55am
Nicholas Rodd (LBNL)    
Dark Matter Indirect Searches and Astroparticle Physics

9:20am - 9:55am

Sarah Demers (Yale University.)

HL-LHC and Future Perspectives

9:20am - 9:55am
Matheus Hostert (U. Iowa)
Neutrino Physics Phenomenology
9:55am - 10:30am
Colin Hill (Columbia U)
CMB Power Spectrum and New Physics from ACT-DR6
9:55am - 10:30am
Federico Buccioni (CERN)
Precision Physics in the LHC Era
9:55am - 10:30am
Konstantin Matchev (U Alabama) 
AI & ML for Particle Physics

10:30am - 11:00am  Coffee Break

10:30am - 11:00am  Coffee Break: Group Photo

10:30am - 11:00am  Coffee Break

Chair: Shufang Su (U Arizona)

Chair: Kaladi Babu (U Oklahoma)

Chair: Keith Dienes (U Arizona)

11:00am - 11:35am
Jonathan Blazek (Northeastern University)
Probing the Dark Energy
11:00am - 11:35am
Zoltan Ligeti (LBNL)
Flavor Physics in the New Era
11:00am - 11:35am
Prateek Agrawal (UCSB)
Strong CP Problem and the Physics with Axions
11:35am - 12:10pm
Yushin Tsai (Notre Dame)
Particle physics at Cosmic Frontier
11:35am - 12:10pm
Zhen Liu (U Minnesota):
New Directions in Collider Physics
11:35am - 12:10pm
Matt Reece (Harvard)
New Developments in Particle Theory

12:10pm - 12:45pm
Gordan Krnjaic (FNAL)
Primordial Black Holes and Particle Physics

12:10pm - 12:45pm

Fabio Maltoni (Bologna/UC Louvain)
Quantum Information Meets Collider Physics

12:10pm - 12:45pm

Marcela Carena (Perimeter Institute/U Chicago)
Pathways to Discoveries in Particle Physics

Lunch break until 2:15 PM

Lunch break until 2:00 PM

Symposium adjourns

1:00 - 2:00
Forum on early career development
Speaker: Gil Paz (Wayne State University)

   
2:15 - 6:30 PM
Parallel Sessions
Mini-review: 

Mini-review: 

2:00 - 6:30 PM
Parallel Sessions
Mini-review:

Sergei Gleyzer: (U of Alabama): Deep Learning in HEP 

 
 

6:45 - 7:45 PM: Cocktail hour

7:45 - 10:30 PM: Symposium banquet & Pheno prize ceremony