Name: TaoFest
Start: 2026-05-14T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-15T13:30:00-04:00
Location: No location set

TaoFest

from Thursday, May 14, 2026 (8:30 AM) to Friday, May 15, 2026 (1:30 PM)

Monday, May 11, 2026
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Thursday, May 14, 2026

8:30 AM Breakfast and registration
Breakfast and registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Talks: Day1 Monring1
Day1 Monring1
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 157
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Adam Leibovich (University of Pittsburgh)

9:10 AM The Madison–Pitt Legacy: From Theoretical Beauty to Collider Discovery - Vernon Barger

9:30 AM Doing Particle Physics because It is Fun - Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

9:55 AM The Tao of Leadership - Elizabeth Simmons (University of California, San Diego)
10:20 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Talks: Day1 Morning2
Day1 Morning2
10:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 157
Contributions

10:55 AM Pheno from Madison to Pittsburgh - FRANCIS HALZEN Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

11:20 AM Nano-Hz Gravitational Waves and Supernova Neutrinos. - Hooman Davoudiasl

11:45 AM Colored Resonances with Tao - Zhen Liu (University of Minnesota (US)) Zhen Liu Zhen Liu

12:10 PM TBD - Marcela Carena Marcela Carena Lopez
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Talks: Day1 Afternoon1
Day1 Afternoon1
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: 157
Contributions

2:00 PM Parton level Monte Carlos, vector boson scattering and other fun work with Tao - Dieter Zeppenfeld Dieter Zeppenfeld (KIT, Karlsruhe)

2:25 PM The Colorful Life of Tao in the Colorless H Branch - Shufang Su (University of Arizona) Shufang Su (University of Arizona) Shufang Su (University of Arizona)

2:50 PM LNV and VBS in the Tao Sector - Richard Ruiz (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN))
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM Talks: Day1 Afternoon2
Day1 Afternoon2
3:45 PM - 5:25 PM
Room: 157
Contributions

3:50 PM High Energy Physics in the Times of Tao - Carlos E.M. Wagner

4:15 PM From TASI to the CSM - Neil Christensen (Illinois State University) Neil Christensen (Illinois State University)

4:40 PM Dark Matter Scattering: New Signals and Models - Bhaskar Dutta Bhaskar Dutta Bhaskar Dutta

5:05 PM TBD - Jack Gunion
6:30 PM Banquet

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Lower Lounge
Friday, May 15, 2026

8:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Talks: Day2 Monring1
Day2 Monring1
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 157
Contributions

9:00 AM Electroweak Restoration at the LHC and beyond - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)

9:25 AM TAO at future lepton colliders - Yang Ma (UCLouvain)

9:50 AM A Journey Through the Energy Frontier with Tao - Dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)
10:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM Talks: Day2 Monring2+Remarks
Day2 Monring2+Remarks
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 157
Contributions

10:50 AM What Can Tao and I Do With High-Energy Neutrinos? - Dan Hooper (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

11:15 AM The Tao (道）of Symmetry: an Information-theoretic Perspective - Ian Low (Argonne National Lab/Northwestern Univ) Ian Low Ian Low (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

11:40 AM My quantum journey with Tao - Liantao Wang Liantao Wang