Name: LoopFest XXIV
Start: 2026-05-27T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-29T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory

LoopFest XXIV

from Wednesday, 27 May 2026 (00:00) to Friday, 29 May 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 25 May 2026
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
08:50 Opening Session
08:50 - 10:30
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

08:50 Welcome - Sally Dawson (BNL)

09:00 Resurrecting LEP - Ian Moult

09:30 Heavy Quark Effects in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory - Rebecca von Kuk (Bern)

10:00 Local Unitarity and numerical perturbative QFT in momentum-space - Valentin Hirschl (CERN)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Large Seminar Room Lobby
11:00 Plenary Session 2
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:00 Two-Loop Spacelike Splitting Amplitudes for QCD in Full Color - Federico Buccioni (CERN)

11:30 The Charm of Charged Currents: Massive DIS at NNLO - Martin Link

12:00 The Alaric Project - Stefan Hoeche (Fermilab)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Cafeteria (on your own)
14:00 Plenary Session 3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 The Fermi Function, Factorization and the Neutron’s Lifetime - Peter Vander Grierd (Kentucky)

14:30 Three-loop rapidity anomalous dimension and N3LL resummation of jet-vetoed Higgs cross sections - Samuel Abreu

15:00 Climbing the Spin Tower: Spinning Black Holes from Fixed-Spin Theories - MANFRED KRAUS (IF-UNAM)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Large Seminar Room Lobby
16:00 Parallel Session a
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

16:00 Factorization and Resummation for PDFs at threshold - Marvin Schnubel (Nikhef)

16:20 The KLN theorem meets collinear factorisation - Zeno Capatti (University of Bern)

16:40 Collinear limits of multi-leg scattering amplitudes - Sebastian Jaskiewicz

17:00 Automated Calculation of Soft Functions for Non-global Observables - Rudi Rahn (University of Amsterdam)

17:20 Magic Relations and Critical Varieties of Feynman Integrals - Giulio Crisanti

17:40 An Analytic Regression Path to Precision QCD - Xiaoyuan Zhang (MIT)
Parallel Session b
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Physics Department (Bldg 510), Small Seminar Room
Contributions

16:00 Including Dimension-8 Effects in SMEFT: Renormalization, and Phenomenology - Supratim Das Bakshi (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:20 Higgs Production via Gluon Fusion in the SMEFT at Next-to-Leading Order - Luigi Bellafronte (Florida State University)

16:40 Parity-Violating Moller Scattering at NNLO: Electroweak bosonic contribution - Juhun Kwak (University of Pittsburgh)

17:00 Electroweak corrections to gg → γγ - Gabriele Fiore (ETH Zurich)

17:20 NLO corrections to inclusive $\bar{B} \to X_s \gamma$ decays at subleading power - Riccardo Bartocci (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

17:40 A perturbative framework to probe IR sensitivity in non-Abelian gauge theories - Duarte Fontes
Thursday, 28 May 2026
09:00 PDFs
09:00 - 10:55
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Precision matching kernels for lattice PDFs and TMDs in the HL-LHC era - Tobias Neumann (SMU)

09:30 Precision QCD and Nuclear Structure: Toward the EIC with Precision nPDFs - Fredrick Olness (SMU)

10:00 Higher order corrections and PDF determinations - Marco Guzzi (Kennesaw)
11:00 Jets and PDFs
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:00 PDFs at the precision frontier: collider phenomenology and jet physics - Tim Hobbs (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:30 Jet physics at higher perturbative orders - Giovanni Stagnitto (Milan)

12:00 Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC - Kyle Lee (ANL)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Cafeteria (on your own)
14:00 Parallel Session c
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Physics Department (Bldg 510), Small Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 The spectrum of Feynman-integral geometries at two loops - Piotr Bargiela (The University of Edinburgh)

14:20 Tropical Integration for Gauge Theory Feynman Integrals - Shun-Qing Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

14:40 On Leading Singularities and Canonical Bases beyond Polylogarithms - Cesare Mella

15:00 Calabi-Yau Periods in Black Hole Scattering at the Fifth Post-Minkowskian Order - Christoph Nega (employee@tum.de;member@tum.de;faculty@tum.de;alum@tum.de)
Parallel Session d
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 Color coherent subtraction at NNLO QCD - The double-real case - Max Knobbe

14:20 Integrated subtraction terms and finite remainders for arbitrary massless QCD processes with jets at colliders using the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme - Davide Maria Tagliabue (KIT - TTP)

14:40 On the local IR structure of scattering amplitudes - Giulio Gambuti (ETH Zurich)

15:00 Taking the First Step Toward the Higgs at N4LO in QCD: the Single-real Ingredient - Adi Suresh (SLAC)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Large Seminar Room Lobby
16:00 Parallel Session e
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Physics Department (Bldg 510), Small Seminar Room
Contributions

16:00 Extracting Meson Distribution Amplitudes from Nonlocal Euclidean Correlations at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order - Fei Yao

16:20 Quasi-PDFs and quasi-GPDs in the massive Schwinger model using tensor networks - Jake Montgomery (Stony Brook University)

16:40 Loops in Dense Fields: Precision QCD in the Color Glass Condensate - Farid Salazar (Temple University / Brookhaven National Lab)

17:00 Bootstrapping QCD amplitudes - Sergio Carrolo (Max Planck Institute For Physics)
Parallel Session f
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

16:00 Streamlining canonical differential equations through factorized Picard-Fuchs operators - Christoph Dlapa (University of Hamburg)

16:20 Advances in quantum computation of perturbative QFT scattering - Herschel Chawdhry (Florida State University)

16:40 $\mathcal{O}(\alpha \alpha_s^2)$ corrections to the top mass - Daniele Gaggero (SUNY Buffalo)

17:00 Off-shell triphoton production via quark loops from numerical integration - Dario Kermanschah
18:00 Dinner at Desmond's, East Wind, Meet in Seminar Lounge for carpools
Dinner at Desmond's, East Wind, Meet in Seminar Lounge for carpools
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Large Seminar Room Lobby-Transportation Gathering Area at 6pm
Friday, 29 May 2026

08:30 FRIDAY LUNCH INFO: FRIDAY LUNCH INFO
FRIDAY LUNCH INFO
08:30 - 08:45
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
08:45 FCC-ee: FCC-ee
FCC-ee
08:45 - 10:45
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

08:45 Higgs Physics for Future Colliders - Matthew Forslund (Princeton)

09:15 Event Generators for FCC-ee - Juergen Reuter (DESY)

09:45 Higher order corrections for FCC-ee - Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

10:15 Efficient computation of soft and beam functions at NNLO - Emmet Byrne
10:45 Coffee
Coffee
10:45 - 11:05
11:05 Closing Session
11:05 - 13:05
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:05 QED Corrections for e+e- - Francesco Ucci (Pavia)

11:35 Global Fits of the Standard Model and Beyond - Laura Reina (Florida State University)

12:05 Toward AI-based new physics searches at the EIC - Felix Ringer (YITP Stony Brook)

12:35 SubTropica - Sebastian Mizera (Columbia)
13:05 Conference Close
Conference Close
13:05 - 13:15