Lake Louise Winter Institute 2026

1 Mar 2026, 14:00 → 7 Mar 2026, 10:30 Canada/Mountain

Mount Temple A (Chateau Lake Louise)

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.

Sunday 1 March

18:00 Dinner

20:00 Reception/Registration

Monday 2 March

07:00 Breakfast

Monday: MON-AM - LHC

08:40 Welcome

1 LHC Physics

Speaker: Jeff Dandoy (Carleton University (CA))

2 Higgs boson properties

Speaker: Andrey Korytov (University of Florida (US))

3 HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential at the LHC

Speaker: Valerio D'Amico

4 Higgs boson production and decay rate measurements with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Kyle Amirie

10:40 Tea break

5 Higgs property (mass, width, CP) and EFT measurements from ATLAS

Speaker: Lorenzo Rossini

6 Recent Diboson and VBF single-boson measurements in ATLAS

Speaker: Leonardo Toffolin

7 Performance of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter at LHC RUN 3 and new developments

Speaker: Samuele Ronchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

8 Revolutionizing the CMS High-Level Trigger System at HL-LHC with Next Generation Triggers

Speaker: Elena Vernazza (CERN)

12:00 Lunch

Monday: MON-PM - Dark Matter

9 Dark Matter review

Speaker: Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

10 COSINUS

Speaker: Kumrie Shera

11 SuperCDMS

Speaker: Kelly Stifter

18:30 Tea break

12 LZ

Speaker: Jack Genovesi (Pennsylvania State University)

13 XENON

Speaker: Barbara Paetsch (Weizmann Institute of Science)

14 PANDAX-4T

Speaker: Chencheng Han

15 DarkSide

Speaker: Paolo Agnes

16 PICO

Speaker: Quinn Malin (University of Alberta)

20:00 Dinner

Tuesday 3 March

07:00 Breakfast

Tuesday: TUE-AM LHC

17 Precision physics at present and future high energy colliders’

Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich (CH))

18 Top quark cross sections including ttbar, single top and Top+X in ATLAS

Speaker: Tadej Novak

19 Measurements of top properties and mass in ATLAS

Speaker: Pavol Bartos (Comenius University (SK))

20 Exploring QCD and Heavy-Flavor Physics ATLAS

Speaker: Kunihiro Nagano (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

10:30 Tea break

21 ALICE

Speaker: Zoltan Varga (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))

22 Preparing for Physics with CMS MIP Timing Detector at HL-LHC

Speaker: Carlo Giraldin

23 Precision Timing with the CMS MIP Timing Detector for High-Luminosity LHC

Speaker: Soham Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology (US))

24 Data squeezing in CMS: techninques and physics results

Speaker: Silvio Donato (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

12:00 Lunch

18:30 Dinner

Tuesday: Special evening session: Dark Stars

25 Dark Stars

Speaker: Cosmin Ilie (Colgate University)

21:00 Reception

Wednesday 4 March

07:00 Breakfast

Wednesday: WED-AM - Flavour Physics

26 Flavour Physics

Speaker: Alexey Petrov (University of South Carolina)

27 Observation of a family of all-charm tetraquarks with spin-2 and positive parity

Speaker: Xining Wang

28 LHCb 1

Speaker: Elena Graverini (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH) and University of Pisa (IT))

29 LHCb 2

Speaker: Raphael van Laak

10:30 Tea break

30 CP-violation in beauty and charm decays at Belle and Belle II

Speaker: Markus Reif

31 Decays of b and c hadrons and quarkonium at Belle and Belle II

Speaker: Kristof Spenko

32 Measurements of electroweak penguin and semileptonic B decays at Belle and Belle II

Speaker: Seema Choudhury

33 New BABAR precision results on e+e- → pi+pi-(gamma) for muon g-2 HVP calculations

Speaker: Michael Roney

34 Recent B physics results from BABAR

Speaker: Steven Robertson (IPP / University of Alberta)

12:00 Lunch

Wednesday: WED-PM - Neutrinos

35 Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Afroditi Papadopoulou

18:00 Tea break

36 CUORE

Speaker: Danielle Speller (Johns Hopkins)

37 CUPID

Speaker: Kenny Vetter

38 LEGEND

Speaker: Harisree Krishnamoorthy

39 NEXT

Speaker: Dr Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

40 PTOLEMY

Speaker: Wonyong Chung (Princeton University (US))

19:30 Dinner

Thursday 5 March

06:30 Breakfast

Thursday: THU-AM: Neutrinos

41 Katrin

Speaker: Seung Mok Lee

42 Project 8

Speaker: Prof. Luiz de Viveiros (Pennsylvania State University)

43 NOvA

Speaker: Taylor Contreras

44 IceCube low-energy + upgrade

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Kamp (Harvard University)

45 MicroBoone

Speaker: Benjamin Bogart

46 The BeEST Experiment: Sterile neutrinos and other BSM Physics

Speaker: Stephan Friedrich

10:15 Tea break

47 FaserNu

Speaker: Anna Mascellani

48 JUNO

Speaker: Daniel Bick (Universität Hamburg)

49 DUNE

Speaker: Mr Robert Mihai Amarinei (Universite de Geneve)

50 HyperK

Speaker: Dr Anna Holin

12:00 Lunch

Thursday: THU-PM - Astro

51 Multimessenger Astronomy

Speaker: Darren Grant

52 IceCube astro+Gen2

Speaker: Aswathi Balogopal

53 P-ONE

Speaker: Patrick Krause (SFU)

18:45 Tea break

54 Pierre Auger

Speaker: Laura Valore

55 HAWC

Speaker: David Guevel

56 CTAO

Speaker: David Kieda

20:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 6 March

07:00 Breakfast

Friday: FRI-AM - BSM

57 Astrophysical probes of BSM physics

Speaker: Katelin Schutz

58 Searches for BSM physics in non-resonant final states with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Bertrand Martin Dit Latour (University of Bergen (NO))

59 Searches for BSM physics in resonant final states with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Raphael Alain Hulsken (McGill University (CA))

60 Searches for BSM physics using challenging and long-lived signatures with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Laura Elaine Bruce

10:30 Tea break

61 SHIP

Speaker: Daniel Bick (Universität Hamburg)

62 FASER BSM

Speaker: Benjamin James Wilson (The University of Manchester (GB))

63 DAMIC-M

Speaker: Carlos Centeno Lorca (IFCA)

64 Dark sector and tau physics at Belle and Belle II

Speaker: Hobin Lee

12:00 Lunch

Friday: FRI-PM - Flavor

65 NA62

Speaker: Victor Shang (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

66 Muon g-2

Speaker: Sean Foster

67 mu2e

Speaker: Sophie Middleton (Caltech)

68 MEG-II

Speaker: Kensuke Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo)

69 Future Charged Lepton Flavor Violation searches

Speaker: Daniel Ambrose (Fermilab)

18:10 Tea break

70 Electron EDM measuremen

Speaker: Kia Boon Ng

19:30 Dinner

Saturday 7 March

06:15 Breakfast