Name: XVI NExT PhD Workshop
Start: 2026-08-24T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-08-26T17:55:00+01:00
Location: Cosener's House

XVI NExT PhD Workshop

from Monday, 24 August 2026 (10:30) to Wednesday, 26 August 2026 (17:55)

Monday, 24 August 2026

10:30 Registration and welcome coffee

10:30 - 11:20

11:20 Announcements

11:20 - 11:30

11:30 Holography/AdS/CFT: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
11:30 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Effective Field Theories with applications to collider phenomenology: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
13:30 - 14:30

14:30 DM/Cosmo/Neutrino: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
14:30 - 15:30

15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Holography/AdS/CFT: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
16:00 - 17:00
17:00 Early Career talks: Session 1
Session 1
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions

17:00 Unitarity at all scales: Towards 2-to-2 scattering of scalars in Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity. - Angelo P. Chiesa (University of Sussex)

17:15 Non-Adiabatic Transitions in the Density Matrix Formalism - Shreya Girishkumar Pandit (University of Southampton)

17:30 Investigating the Effect of Exotic Decoherence in Flavored Leptogenesis - Frederick Wehlen (UCL)

17:45 Probing Heavy Higgs Bosons and Vector-Like Leptons with ATLAS - Shaadil Shah Mandarry (University of Sussex (GB))

18:00 Higgs instability in BSM models - Alexander Jackson (University of Southampton)
18:30 Dinner
Dinner
18:30 - 20:00
Tuesday, 25 August 2026

09:00 Effective Field Theories with applications to collider phenomenology: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
09:00 - 10:00

10:00 Holography/AdS/CFT: Lecture 3
Lecture 3
10:00 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30

11:30 Holography/AdS/CFT: Lecture 4
Lecture 4
11:30 - 12:30

12:30 DM/Cosmo/Neutrino: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

14:30 Statistics for Particle Physics: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
14:30 - 15:30

15:30 SEPnet careers panel discussion

15:30 - 16:15

16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 16:45

16:45 Academic careers panel session

16:45 - 17:30
17:30 Student Flash Talks: Session 1
Session 1
17:30 - 18:30
Contributions

17:45 Exact U(1) Symmetry Breaking in an NJL-type Four Fermion Model - Freddie King (University of Sussex)

17:51 Scattering Black Holes and Neutron Stars in Worldline QFT - Dyako Arif (Queen Mary University of London)

17:57 A Dirac neutrino portal to SU(2)D dark matter - Gonzalo Benitez (University of Southampton)

18:03 Determining the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy - Fergus Howell (Queen Mary University of London)

18:09 Physics Opportunities at the PandaX Detector - Hong-Kai Tan (University of Warwick)

18:15 Towards a Post-quantum theory of gravity - Muhammad Sajjad (UCL)

18:21 Electrons for Neutrinos - Jhanzeb Ahmed (University of York)
18:30 Dinner

18:30 - 20:00
Wednesday, 26 August 2026

09:00 Hotel's check out

09:00 - 09:15

09:15 Statistics for Particle Physics: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
09:15 - 10:15

10:15 Coffee break

10:15 - 10:45

10:45 Statistics for Particle Physics: Lecture 3
Lecture 3
10:45 - 11:45
11:45 Early Career talks: Session 2
Session 2
11:45 - 12:45
Contributions

11:45 Probing Axion-Like Particles at the LHC through the off-shell Higgs portal - Enliang Ren (University of Southampton)

12:00 The impact of Drell-Yan data on SMEFT operators - Martina Fusi (University of Southampton)

12:15 B-tagging for Run 3 NMSSM Analysis at CMS - Emma Claraso Batllori (University of Bristol (GB))

12:30 Hunting the Unseen: Parameter-Agnostic Deep Learning for Semi Visible Jet Tagging - Miguel Angel Avendano Bernal (University of Southampton)
12:45 Lunch

12:45 - 13:45

13:45 DM/Cosmo/Neutrino: Lecture 3
Lecture 3
13:45 - 14:45

14:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:45 - 15:05

15:05 Effective Field Theories with applications to collider phenomenology: Lecture 3
Lecture 3
15:05 - 16:05

16:05 Departure: Farewell
Farewell
16:05 - 16:15