Name: ICFA Seminar 2026 in TOYAMA Japan
Start: 2026-11-02T08:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-11-06T19:00:00+09:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 2 November 2026

15:00 ICFA Meeting (ICFA members only)

15:00 - 17:00

16:00 Registration

16:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, 3 November 2026

08:15 Registration

08:15 - 09:00
09:00 Opening Session: Welcome remarks and opening keynote
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Welcome by ICFA Chair - Pierluigi Campana (INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

09:10 Welcome by KEK DG - Shoji Asai (KEK)

09:20 Announcement by LOC - Shohei NISHIDA

09:30 Opening keynote: Where are we today? - Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Higgs/EWK/top session
10:30 - 11:45
Contributions

10:30 Precision EW measurements beyond Higgs - Kristin Lohwasser (Sheffield)

10:55 Top physics - Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY)

11:20 Higgs, EW and top physics at future e+e- colliders - Jorge de Blas
11:45 Higgs/EWK/top session
11:45 - 12:35
Contributions

11:45 Higgs couplings (incl. rare decays) - Paolo Francavilla (Pisa)

12:10 Searches for extended scalar sectors - Cristina Botta (CERN)
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 Flavour physics
14:00 - 15:45
Contributions

14:00 Flavour physics potential for new physics (theory) - Claudia Cornella

14:25 Flavour physics exp'ts at colliders - Marcella Bona (Queen Mary University of London)

14:50 Lepton flavour experiments with novel beams - Wataru Ootani (Univ. of Tokyo)

15:15 Quark flavour non-collider experiments - Hajime Nanjo (Osaka Univ.)
15:45 Science communication, outreach and citizen science
15:45 - 16:10
Contributions

15:45 Science communication, outreach and citizen science - Kate Shaw (Sussex)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40
16:40 EFT fits and searches for new physics
16:40 - 18:20
Contributions

16:40 Direct searches for new particles/resonances @ LHC - Seema Sharma (Pune IISER))

17:05 Searches: hidden sectors, heavy neutral leptons, etc. - - Tamara Vazquez chroeder (Barcelona)

17:30 SMEFT analysis of LHC data - Hannes Mildner (Mainz))

17:55 Searches for new physics at future colliders - Fabio Maltoni (Bologna))
19:00 Reception

19:00 - 20:30
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
08:30 QCD physics
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Hadron spectroscopy - Liming Zhang (Tsinghua))

08:55 QCD at the highest energies - Garvita Agarwal (Univ. of Notre Dame))

09:20 QCD at extreme densities and temperatures - Daiki Sekihata (Tsukuba Univ.)
10:00 The community perspective
10:00 - 10:25
Contributions

10:00 The community perspective - Marcel Demarteau
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:55
10:55 Software, computing and data
10:55 - 12:10
Contributions

10:55 Software&computing challenges for HEP - Borut Kersevan (Ljubjana)

11:20 Theory perspective - Koji Hashimoto (Kyoto Univ.)

11:45 Open and FAIR data, workflows, science - K. Lassila-Perini (Helsinki))
12:10 ECR

12:10 - 12:35

12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 Neutrino physics
14:00 - 15:45
Contributions

14:00 Theory overview - Eligio Lisi

14:25 ACC neutrino experiments with neutrino oscillations - Hirohisa Tanaka (SLAC)

14:50 Reactor neutrino experiments - Liangjian Wen (IHEP)

15:15 Neutrino properties (double-beta decay, mass, ...) - Itaru Shimizu (Tohoku Univ.)
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 ICFA, Eurpean Strategy, Panel Disussion
16:15 - 18:25
Contributions

16:15 Report from ICFA - Pierluigi Campana (INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

16:30 Implementatin of the European Strategy Outcome - Mark Thomson (CERN)

16:55 Panel: the role of the HEP world labs in planning future colliders: collaboration or competition? - Jun Cao (IHEP) Mark Thomson (CERN) Norbert Holtkamp (FNAL) Shoji Asai (KEK)
Thursday, 5 November 2026
08:30 Accelerators: R&D, projects, studies
08:30 - 10:40
Contributions

08:30 The FCC project - Michael Benedikt (CERN)

08:55 Status of ILC/LCF - Jenny List (DESY)

09:20 Status of CEPC - Yifang Wang (IHEP)

09:45 Status of SuperKEKB - Kodai Matsuoka (KEK)

10:10 Status of HL-LHC - Oliver Brüning (CERN)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:05
11:05 Accelerators: R&D, projects, studies
11:05 - 12:45
Contributions

11:05 High-gradient acceleration - Peter Mcintosh (STFC)

11:30 High-field magnets - Bernhard Auchmann (PSI)

11:55 The path to 10 TeV parton c.m. colliders - Sergey Belomestnykh (FNAL/SBNY)

12:20 Sustainable future colliders - Emilio Nanni (SLAC)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:05
14:05 Instrumentation
14:05 - 16:20
Contributions

14:05 Tracking (semiconductor and gaseous) - P. Merkel (FNAL)

14:30 Calorimetry - G. Gaudio (Pavia)

14:55 PID and photon detection - Peter Krizan (JSI)

15:20 Quantum sensing - Toshiyuki AZUMA

15:45 Trigger, DAQ, electronics and AI connection - T. Aarestad (ETHZ))
16:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:20 - 16:45
16:45 Dark matter physics
16:45 - 18:35
Contributions

16:45 Theory overview - Tracy Slayter (MIT)

17:15 Particle DM experimental overview: WIMPs, Light DM - Shingo Kazama (Institute of Science Tokyo)

17:40 Axions - Igor Irastorza (Zaragossa)

18:05 Cosmic probes of dark matter - Hendrik Hildebrandt (Bochum)
19:00 Conference Dinner

19:00 - 21:00
Friday, 6 November 2026
08:30 Astro- and astroparticle physics, cosmology and gravitational waves
08:30 - 10:20
Contributions

08:30 Theoretical Overview of Cosmology - Yuko URAKAWA (KEK, IPNS)

08:55 Recent and near-future experimental cosmic surveys - Masamune Oguri (Chiba University)

09:20 CMB: recent results and future plans - Akito Kusaka (Univ. of Tokyo)

09:45 Gravitational waves and MM follow-up - Marica Branchesi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:45
10:45 Summary
10:45 - 11:40
Contributions

10:45 Summary talk: Where do we go from here? (including astro etc. hints, and taking future machines into account) - Hitoshi Murayama (Berkeley)

11:25 ICFA Chairperson hand-over and farewell
13:00 HK Contruction Site Tour

13:00 - 18:00