Lake Louise Winter Institute 2026

Canada/Mountain
Mount Temple A (Chateau Lake Louise)

Mount Temple A

Chateau Lake Louise

Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
Description
The Lake Louise Winter Institute is devoted to particle physics and the study of fundamental interactions of matter. It is organized by the University of Alberta with support from the Perimeter Institute. It has been held annually since 1986.
Inquiries/Organizers
    • 18:00 20:00
      Dinner 2h Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 20:00 22:00
      Reception/Registration 2h Heritage hall

      Heritage hall

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 07:00 08:40
      Breakfast 1h 40m Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 08:40 12:00
      Monday: MON-AM - LHC Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 08:40
        Welcome 10m
      • 08:55
        LHC Physics 1h
        Speaker: Jeff Dandoy (Carleton University (CA))
      • 09:55
        Higgs boson properties 15m
        Speaker: Andrey Korytov (University of Florida (US))
      • 10:10
        HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential at the LHC 15m
        Speaker: Valerio D'Amico
      • 10:25
        Higgs boson production and decay rate measurements with the ATLAS experiment 15m
        Speaker: Kyle Amirie
      • 10:40
        Tea break 20m
      • 11:00
        Higgs property (mass, width, CP) and EFT measurements from ATLAS 15m
        Speaker: Lorenzo Rossini
      • 11:15
        Recent Diboson and VBF single-boson measurements in ATLAS 15m
        Speaker: Leonardo Toffolin
      • 11:30
        Performance of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter at LHC RUN 3 and new developments 15m
        Speaker: Samuele Ronchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
      • 11:45
        Revolutionizing the CMS High-Level Trigger System at HL-LHC with Next Generation Triggers 15m
        Speaker: Elena Vernazza (CERN)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 17:00 20:00
      Monday: MON-PM - Dark Matter Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 17:00
        Dark Matter review 1h
        Speaker: Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)
      • 18:00
        COSINUS 15m
        Speaker: Kumrie Shera
      • 18:15
        SuperCDMS 15m
        Speaker: Kelly Stifter
      • 18:30
        Tea break 15m
      • 18:45
        LZ 15m
        Speaker: Jack Genovesi (Pennsylvania State University)
      • 19:00
        XENON 15m
        Speaker: Barbara Paetsch (Weizmann Institute of Science)
      • 19:15
        PANDAX-4T 15m
        Speaker: Chencheng Han
      • 19:30
        DarkSide 15m
        Speaker: Paolo Agnes
      • 19:45
        PICO 15m
        Speaker: Quinn Malin (University of Alberta)
    • 20:00 21:30
      Dinner 1h 30m Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 07:00 08:45
      Breakfast 1h 45m Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 08:45 12:00
      Tuesday: TUE-AM LHC Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 08:45
        Precision physics at present and future high energy colliders’ 1h
        Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich (CH))
      • 09:45
        Top quark cross sections including ttbar, single top and Top+X in ATLAS 15m
        Speaker: Tadej Novak
      • 10:00
        Measurements of top properties and mass in ATLAS 15m
        Speaker: Pavol Bartos (Comenius University (SK))
      • 10:15
        Exploring QCD and Heavy-Flavor Physics ATLAS 15m
        Speaker: Kunihiro Nagano (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
      • 10:30
        Tea break 15m
      • 10:45
        ALICE 20m
        Speaker: Zoltan Varga (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
      • 11:05
        Preparing for Physics with CMS MIP Timing Detector at HL-LHC 15m
        Speaker: Carlo Giraldin
      • 11:20
        Precision Timing with the CMS MIP Timing Detector for High-Luminosity LHC 15m
        Speaker: Soham Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology (US))
      • 11:35
        Data squeezing in CMS: techninques and physics results 15m
        Speaker: Silvio Donato (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h Alpine Social

      Alpine Social

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 18:30 20:00
      Dinner 1h 30m Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 20:00 21:00
      Tuesday: Special evening session: Dark Stars Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 20:00
        Dark Stars 1h
        Speaker: Cosmin Ilie (Colgate University)
    • 21:00 22:30
      Reception 1h 30m Heritage hall

      Heritage hall

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 07:00 08:45
      Breakfast 1h 45m Lago (Chateau Lake Louise)

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 08:45 12:00
      Wednesday: WED-AM - Flavour Physics Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 08:45
        Flavour Physics 1h
        Speaker: Alexey Petrov (University of South Carolina)
      • 09:45
        Observation of a family of all-charm tetraquarks with spin-2 and positive parity 15m
        Speaker: Xining Wang
      • 10:00
        LHCb 1 15m
        Speaker: Elena Graverini (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH) and University of Pisa (IT))
      • 10:15
        LHCb 2 15m
        Speaker: Raphael van Laak
      • 10:30
        Tea break 15m
      • 10:45
        CP-violation in beauty and charm decays at Belle and Belle II 15m
        Speaker: Markus Reif
      • 11:00
        Decays of b and c hadrons and quarkonium at Belle and Belle II 15m
        Speaker: Kristof Spenko
      • 11:15
        Measurements of electroweak penguin and semileptonic B decays at Belle and Belle II 15m
        Speaker: Seema Choudhury
      • 11:30
        New BABAR precision results on e+e- → pi+pi-(gamma) for muon g-2 HVP calculations 15m
        Speaker: Michael Roney
      • 11:45
        Recent B physics results from BABAR 15m
        Speaker: Steven Robertson (IPP / University of Alberta)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h Fairview

      Fairview

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 17:00 19:30
      Wednesday: WED-PM - Neutrinos Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 17:00
        Neutrino Physics 1h
        Speaker: Afroditi Papadopoulou
      • 18:00
        Tea break 15m
      • 18:15
        CUORE 15m
        Speaker: Danielle Speller (Johns Hopkins)
      • 18:30
        CUPID 15m
        Speaker: Kenny Vetter
      • 18:45
        LEGEND 15m
        Speaker: Harisree Krishnamoorthy
      • 19:00
        NEXT 15m
        Speaker: Dr Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))
      • 19:15
        PTOLEMY 15m
        Speaker: Wonyong Chung (Princeton University (US))
    • 19:30 21:00
      Dinner 1h 30m Fairview

      Fairview

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 06:30 08:45
      Breakfast 2h 15m Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 08:45 12:00
      Thursday: THU-AM: Neutrinos Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 08:45
        Katrin 15m
        Speaker: Seung Mok Lee
      • 09:00
        Project 8 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Luiz de Viveiros (Pennsylvania State University)
      • 09:15
        NOvA 15m
        Speaker: Taylor Contreras
      • 09:30
        IceCube low-energy + upgrade 15m
        Speaker: Dr Nicholas Kamp (Harvard University)
      • 09:45
        MicroBoone 15m
        Speaker: Benjamin Bogart
      • 10:00
        The BeEST Experiment: Sterile neutrinos and other BSM Physics 15m
        Speaker: Stephan Friedrich
      • 10:15
        Tea break 30m
      • 10:45
        FaserNu 15m
        Speaker: Anna Mascellani
      • 11:00
        JUNO 15m
        Speaker: Daniel Bick (Universität Hamburg)
      • 11:15
        DUNE 15m
        Speaker: Mr Robert Mihai Amarinei (Universite de Geneve)
      • 11:30
        HyperK 15m
        Speaker: Dr Anna Holin
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h Victoria

      Victoria

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 17:15 20:00
      Thursday: THU-PM - Astro Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 17:15
        Multimessenger Astronomy 1h
        Speaker: Darren Grant
      • 18:15
        IceCube astro+Gen2 15m
        Speaker: Aswathi Balogopal
      • 18:30
        P-ONE 15m
        Speaker: Patrick Krause (SFU)
      • 18:45
        Tea break 15m
      • 19:00
        Pierre Auger 15m
        Speaker: Laura Valore
      • 19:15
        HAWC 15m
        Speaker: David Guevel
      • 19:30
        CTAO 15m
        Speaker: David Kieda
    • 20:00 22:00
      Conference Dinner 2h Victoria

      Victoria

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 07:00 08:45
      Breakfast 1h 45m Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 08:45 12:00
      Friday: FRI-AM - BSM Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 08:45
        Astrophysical probes of BSM physics 1h
        Speaker: Katelin Schutz
      • 09:45
        Searches for BSM physics in non-resonant final states with the ATLAS detector 15m
        Speaker: Bertrand Martin Dit Latour (University of Bergen (NO))
      • 10:00
        Searches for BSM physics in resonant final states with the ATLAS detector 15m
        Speaker: Raphael Alain Hulsken (McGill University (CA))
      • 10:15
        Searches for BSM physics using challenging and long-lived signatures with the ATLAS detector 15m
        Speaker: Laura Elaine Bruce
      • 10:30
        Tea break 15m
      • 10:45
        SHIP 15m
        Speaker: Daniel Bick (Universität Hamburg)
      • 11:00
        FASER BSM 15m
        Speaker: Benjamin James Wilson (The University of Manchester (GB))
      • 11:15
        DAMIC-M 15m
        Speaker: Carlos Centeno Lorca (IFCA)
      • 11:30
        Dark sector and tau physics at Belle and Belle II 15m
        Speaker: Hobin Lee
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 17:00 19:25
      Friday: FRI-PM - Flavor Mount Temple A

      Mount Temple A

      Chateau Lake Louise

      Lake Louise, AB, CANADA
      • 17:00
        NA62 15m
        Speaker: Victor Shang (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))
      • 17:15
        Muon g-2 15m
        Speaker: Sean Foster
      • 17:30
        mu2e 10m
        Speaker: Sophie Middleton (Caltech)
      • 17:40
        MEG-II 15m
        Speaker: Kensuke Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo)
      • 17:55
        Future Charged Lepton Flavor Violation searches 15m
        Speaker: Daniel Ambrose (Fermilab)
      • 18:10
        Tea break 15m
      • 18:25
        Electron EDM measuremen 1h
        Speaker: Kia Boon Ng
    • 19:30 21:00
      Dinner 1h 30m Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise

    • 06:15 08:30
      Breakfast 2h 15m Lago

      Lago

      Chateau Lake Louise