ICFA Seminar 2026 in TOYAMA Japan

2 Nov 2026, 08:00 → 6 Nov 2026, 19:00 Asia/Tokyo

Every three years, the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) organises a seminar on “Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics”. This is a four-day international exchange of information concentrating on plans for future facilities in the field of particle physics. The meeting is by invitation only and comprises the directors of most of the world’s major laboratories in our field, senior particle and accelerator physicists, and government science officials from several countries.

The 14th ICFA Seminar 2026 is organised by the High Energy Accelerators Research Organization, KEK in Toyama / Japan.

See also Bulletin 2.  

 Important Notice

Participation in the ICFA seminar is by invitation only

A tour to Hyper Kamiokande (HK) is scheduled in the afternoon of the last day (Nov. 6). There is a limitation of the number of participants to HK tour; participation to the HK tour is accepted until capacity is reached. See "HK Site tour" in the menu for details.

The registration fee is 42,000 JPY for those who attend the HK tour and 37,000 JPY for those who do not attend the HK tour.

 

 

Find direction to our venue here ＊TOYAMA International Conference Center＊

ICFA Seminar 2026 Bulletin 2.pdf

Monday 2 November

15:00 → 17:00 ICFA Meeting (ICFA members only)

2F room 205

16:00 → 18:00 Registration

Tuesday 3 November

08:15 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:00 Opening Session: Welcome remarks and opening keynote

09:00 Welcome by ICFA Chair

Speaker: Pierluigi Campana (INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

09:10 Welcome by KEK DG

Speaker: Shoji Asai (KEK)

09:20 Announcement by LOC

Speaker: Shohei NISHIDA

09:30 Opening keynote: Where are we today?

Speaker: Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:45 Higgs/EWK/top session

10:30 Precision EW measurements beyond Higgs

Speaker: Kristin Lohwasser (Sheffield)

10:55 Top physics

Speaker: Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY)

11:20 Higgs, EW and top physics at future e+e- colliders

Speaker: Jorge de Blas

11:45 → 12:35 Higgs/EWK/top session

11:45 Higgs couplings (incl. rare decays)

Speaker: Paolo Francavilla (Pisa)

12:10 Searches for extended scalar sectors

Speaker: Cristina Botta (CERN)

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Flavour physics

14:00 Flavour physics potential for new physics (theory)

Speaker: Claudia Cornella

14:25 Flavour physics exp'ts at colliders

Speaker: Marcella Bona (Queen Mary University of London)

14:50 Lepton flavour experiments with novel beams

Speaker: Wataru Ootani (Univ. of Tokyo)

15:15 Quark flavour non-collider experiments

Speaker: Hajime Nanjo (Osaka Univ.)

15:45 → 16:10 Science communication, outreach and citizen science

15:45 Science communication, outreach and citizen science

Speaker: Kate Shaw (Sussex)

16:10 → 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 → 18:20 EFT fits and searches for new physics

16:40 Direct searches for new particles/resonances @ LHC

Speaker: Seema Sharma (Pune IISER))

17:05 Searches: hidden sectors, heavy neutral leptons, etc. -

Speaker: Tamara Vazquez chroeder (Barcelona)

17:30 SMEFT analysis of LHC data

Speaker: Hannes Mildner (Mainz))

17:55 Searches for new physics at future colliders

Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Bologna))

19:00 → 20:30 Reception

Wednesday 4 November

08:30 → 10:00 QCD physics

08:30 Hadron spectroscopy

Speaker: Liming Zhang (Tsinghua))

08:55 QCD at the highest energies

Speaker: Garvita Agarwal (Univ. of Notre Dame))

09:20 QCD at extreme densities and temperatures

Speaker: Daiki Sekihata (Tsukuba Univ.)

10:00 → 10:25 The community perspective

10:00 The community perspective

Speaker: Marcel Demarteau

10:25 → 10:55 Coffee Break

10:55 → 12:10 Software, computing and data

10:55 Software&computing challenges for HEP

Speaker: Borut Kersevan (Ljubjana)

11:20 Theory perspective

Speaker: Koji Hashimoto (Kyoto Univ.)

11:45 Open and FAIR data, workflows, science

Speaker: K. Lassila-Perini (Helsinki))

12:10 → 12:35 ECR

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Neutrino physics

14:00 Theory overview

Speaker: Eligio Lisi

14:25 ACC neutrino experiments with neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Hirohisa Tanaka (SLAC)

14:50 Reactor neutrino experiments

Speaker: Liangjian Wen (IHEP)

15:15 Neutrino properties (double-beta decay, mass, ...)

Speaker: Itaru Shimizu (Tohoku Univ.)

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 18:25 ICFA, Eurpean Strategy, Panel Disussion

16:15 Report from ICFA

Speaker: Pierluigi Campana (INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

16:30 Implementatin of the European Strategy Outcome

Speaker: Mark Thomson (CERN)

16:55 Panel: the role of the HEP world labs in planning future colliders: collaboration or competition?

Convenor: F. Canelli (Zurich)

Speakers: Jun Cao (IHEP), Mark Thomson (CERN), Norbert Holtkamp (FNAL), Shoji Asai (KEK)

Thursday 5 November

08:30 → 10:40 Accelerators: R&D, projects, studies

08:30 The FCC project

Speaker: Michael Benedikt (CERN)

08:55 Status of ILC/LCF

Speaker: Jenny List (DESY)

09:20 Status of CEPC

Speaker: Yifang Wang (IHEP)

09:45 Status of SuperKEKB

Speaker: Kodai Matsuoka (KEK)

10:10 Status of HL-LHC

Speaker: Oliver Brüning (CERN)

10:40 → 11:05 Coffee Break

11:05 → 12:45 Accelerators: R&D, projects, studies

11:05 High-gradient acceleration

Speaker: Peter Mcintosh (STFC)

11:30 High-field magnets

Speaker: Bernhard Auchmann (PSI)

11:55 The path to 10 TeV parton c.m. colliders

Speaker: Sergey Belomestnykh (FNAL/SBNY)

12:20 Sustainable future colliders

Speaker: Emilio Nanni (SLAC)

12:45 → 14:05 Lunch

14:05 → 16:20 Instrumentation

14:05 Tracking (semiconductor and gaseous)

Speaker: P. Merkel (FNAL)

14:30 Calorimetry

Speaker: G. Gaudio (Pavia)

14:55 PID and photon detection

Speaker: Peter Krizan (JSI)

15:20 Quantum sensing

Speaker: Toshiyuki AZUMA

15:45 Trigger, DAQ, electronics and AI connection

Speaker: T. Aarestad (ETHZ))

16:20 → 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 → 18:35 Dark matter physics

16:45 Theory overview

Speaker: Tracy Slayter (MIT)

17:15 Particle DM experimental overview: WIMPs, Light DM

Speaker: Shingo Kazama (Institute of Science Tokyo)

17:40 Axions

Speaker: Igor Irastorza (Zaragossa)

18:05 Cosmic probes of dark matter

Speaker: Hendrik Hildebrandt (Bochum)

19:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 6 November

08:30 → 10:20 Astro- and astroparticle physics, cosmology and gravitational waves

08:30 Theoretical Overview of Cosmology

Speaker: Yuko URAKAWA (KEK, IPNS)

08:55 Recent and near-future experimental cosmic surveys

Speaker: Masamune Oguri (Chiba University)

09:20 CMB: recent results and future plans

Speaker: Akito Kusaka (Univ. of Tokyo)

09:45 Gravitational waves and MM follow-up

Speaker: Marica Branchesi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

10:20 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 11:40 Summary

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

Speaker: Hitoshi Murayama (Berkeley)

11:25 ICFA Chairperson hand-over and farewell

13:00 → 18:00 HK Contruction Site Tour