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ICFA Seminar 2026 in TOYAMA Japan

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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
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  • Monday 2 November
    • ICFA Meeting (ICFA members only)

      2F room 205

    • Registration
  • Tuesday 3 November
    • Registration
    • Opening Session: Welcome remarks and opening keynote
      • 1
        Welcome by ICFA Chair
        Speaker: Pierluigi Campana (INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)
      • 2
        Welcome by KEK DG
        Speaker: Shoji Asai (KEK)
      • 3
        Announcement by LOC
        Speaker: Shohei NISHIDA
      • 4
        Opening keynote: Where are we today?
        Speaker: Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
    • 10:00
      Coffee Break
    • Higgs/EWK/top session
      • 5
        Precision EW measurements beyond Higgs
        Speaker: Kristin Lohwasser (Sheffield)
      • 6
        Top physics
        Speaker: Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY)
      • 7
        Higgs, EW and top physics at future e+e- colliders
        Speaker: Jorge de Blas
    • Higgs/EWK/top session
      • 8
        Higgs couplings (incl. rare decays)
        Speaker: Paolo Francavilla (Pisa)
      • 9
        Searches for extended scalar sectors
        Speaker: Cristina Botta (CERN)
    • 12:35
      Lunch
    • Flavour physics
      • 10
        Flavour physics potential for new physics (theory)
        Speaker: Claudia Cornella
      • 11
        Flavour physics exp'ts at colliders
        Speaker: Marcella Bona (Queen Mary University of London)
      • 12
        Lepton flavour experiments with novel beams
        Speaker: Wataru Ootani (Univ. of Tokyo)
      • 13
        Quark flavour non-collider experiments
        Speaker: Hajime Nanjo (Osaka Univ.)
    • Science communication, outreach and citizen science
      • 14
        Science communication, outreach and citizen science
        Speaker: Kate Shaw (Sussex)
    • 16:10
      Coffee Break
    • EFT fits and searches for new physics
      • 15
        Direct searches for new particles/resonances @ LHC
        Speaker: Seema Sharma (Pune IISER))
      • 16
        Searches: hidden sectors, heavy neutral leptons, etc. -
        Speaker: Tamara Vazquez chroeder (Barcelona)
      • 17
        SMEFT analysis of LHC data
        Speaker: Hannes Mildner (Mainz))
      • 18
        Searches for new physics at future colliders
        Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Bologna))
    • Reception
  • Wednesday 4 November
    • QCD physics
      • 19
        Hadron spectroscopy
        Speaker: Liming Zhang (Tsinghua))
      • 20
        QCD at the highest energies
        Speaker: Garvita Agarwal (Univ. of Notre Dame))
      • 21
        QCD at extreme densities and temperatures
        Speaker: Daiki Sekihata (Tsukuba Univ.)
    • The community perspective
      • 22
        The community perspective
        Speaker: Marcel Demarteau
    • 10:25
      Coffee Break
    • Software, computing and data
      • 23
        Software&computing challenges for HEP
        Speaker: Borut Kersevan (Ljubjana)
      • 24
        Theory perspective
        Speaker: Koji Hashimoto (Kyoto Univ.)
      • 25
        Open and FAIR data, workflows, science
        Speaker: K. Lassila-Perini (Helsinki))
    • ECR
    • 12:35
      Lunch
    • Neutrino physics
      • 26
        Theory overview
        Speaker: Eligio Lisi
      • 27
        ACC neutrino experiments with neutrino oscillations
        Speaker: Hirohisa Tanaka (SLAC)
      • 28
        Reactor neutrino experiments
        Speaker: Liangjian Wen (IHEP)
      • 29
        Neutrino properties (double-beta decay, mass, ...)
        Speaker: Itaru Shimizu (Tohoku Univ.)
    • 15:45
      Coffee break
    • ICFA, Eurpean Strategy, Panel Disussion
      • 30
        Report from ICFA
        Speaker: Pierluigi Campana (INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)
      • 31
        Implementatin of the European Strategy Outcome
        Speaker: Mark Thomson (CERN)
      • 32
        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
    • Accelerators: R&D, projects, studies
      • 33
        The FCC project
        Speaker: Michael Benedikt (CERN)
      • 34
        Status of ILC/LCF
        Speaker: Jenny List (DESY)
      • 35
        Status of CEPC
        Speaker: Yifang Wang (IHEP)
      • 36
        Status of SuperKEKB
        Speaker: Kodai Matsuoka (KEK)
      • 37
        Status of HL-LHC
        Speaker: Oliver Brüning (CERN)
    • 10:40
      Coffee Break
    • Accelerators: R&D, projects, studies
      • 38
        High-gradient acceleration
        Speaker: Peter Mcintosh (STFC)
      • 39
        High-field magnets
        Speaker: Bernhard Auchmann (PSI)
      • 40
        The path to 10 TeV parton c.m. colliders
        Speaker: Sergey Belomestnykh (FNAL/SBNY)
      • 41
        Sustainable future colliders
        Speaker: Emilio Nanni (SLAC)
    • 12:45
      Lunch
    • Instrumentation
      • 42
        Tracking (semiconductor and gaseous)
        Speaker: P. Merkel (FNAL)
      • 43
        Calorimetry
        Speaker: G. Gaudio (Pavia)
      • 44
        PID and photon detection
        Speaker: Peter Krizan (JSI)
      • 45
        Quantum sensing
        Speaker: Toshiyuki AZUMA
      • 46
        Trigger, DAQ, electronics and AI connection
        Speaker: T. Aarestad (ETHZ))
    • 16:20
      Coffee break
    • Dark matter physics
      • 47
        Theory overview
        Speaker: Tracy Slayter (MIT)
      • 48
        Particle DM experimental overview: WIMPs, Light DM
        Speaker: Shingo Kazama (Institute of Science Tokyo)
      • 49
        Axions
        Speaker: Igor Irastorza (Zaragossa)
      • 50
        Cosmic probes of dark matter
        Speaker: Hendrik Hildebrandt (Bochum)
    • Conference Dinner
  • Friday 6 November
    • Astro- and astroparticle physics, cosmology and gravitational waves
      • 51
        Theoretical Overview of Cosmology
        Speaker: Yuko URAKAWA (KEK, IPNS)
      • 52
        Recent and near-future experimental cosmic surveys
        Speaker: Masamune Oguri (Chiba University)
      • 53
        CMB: recent results and future plans
        Speaker: Akito Kusaka (Univ. of Tokyo)
      • 54
        Gravitational waves and MM follow-up
        Speaker: Marica Branchesi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
    • 10:20
      Coffee break
    • Summary
      • 55
        Summary talk: Where do we go from here? (including astro etc. hints, and taking future machines into account)
        Speaker: Hitoshi Murayama (Berkeley)
      • 56
        ICFA Chairperson hand-over and farewell
    • HK Contruction Site Tour