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, May 27, 2026 (12:00 AM) to Friday, May 29, 2026 (5:00 PM)

Monday, May 25, 2026
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

8:45 AM Welcome
Welcome
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
9:00 AM Resurrecting LEP - Ian Moult
Resurrecting LEP
- Ian Moult
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
9:30 AM TBA - Rebecca von Kuk (Bern)
TBA
- Rebecca von Kuk (Bern)
9:30 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
10:00 AM Local Unitarity and numerical perturbative QFT in momentum-space - Valentin Hirschl (CERN)
Local Unitarity and numerical perturbative QFT in momentum-space
- Valentin Hirschl (CERN)
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Large Seminar Room Lobby
11:00 AM Two-Loop Spacelike Splitting Amplitudes for QCD in Full Color - Federico Buccioni (CERN)
Two-Loop Spacelike Splitting Amplitudes for QCD in Full Color
- Federico Buccioni (CERN)
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
11:30 AM The Charm of Charged Currents: Massive DIS at NNLO - Martin Link
The Charm of Charged Currents: Massive DIS at NNLO
- Martin Link
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
12:00 PM The Alaric Project - Stefan Hoeche (Fermilab)
The Alaric Project
- Stefan Hoeche (Fermilab)
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria (on your own)
2:00 PM The Fermi Function, Factorization and the Neutron’s Lifetime - Peter Vander Grierd (Kentucky)
The Fermi Function, Factorization and the Neutron’s Lifetime
- Peter Vander Grierd (Kentucky)
2:00 PM - 2:25 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
2:30 PM TBA - Samuel Abreu
TBA
- Samuel Abreu
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
3:00 PM Climbing the Spin Tower: Spinning Black Holes from Fixed-Spin Theories - MANFRED KRAUS (IF-UNAM)
Climbing the Spin Tower: Spinning Black Holes from Fixed-Spin Theories
- MANFRED KRAUS (IF-UNAM)
3:00 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Factorization and Resummation for PDFs at threshold - Marvin Schnubel (Nikhef)

4:20 PM The KLN theorem meets collinear factorisation - Zeno Capatti (University of Bern)

4:40 PM Toward an All-order Understanding of Region Structures - Yao Ma (ETH Zurich)

5:00 PM Collinear limits of multi-leg scattering amplitudes - Sebastian Jaskiewicz

5:20 PM Automated Calculation of Soft Functions for Non-global Observables - Rudi Rahn (University of Amsterdam)

5:40 PM Reconstructing Landau Singularities over Finite Fields - Giulio Crisanti
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Including Dimension-8 Effects in SMEFT: Renormalization, and Phenomenology - Supratim Das Bakshi (Argonne National Laboratory)

4:20 PM Higgs Production via Gluon Fusion in the SMEFT at Next-to-Leading Order - Luigi Bellafronte (Florida State University)

4:40 PM Parity-Violating Moller Scattering at NNLO: Electroweak bosonic contribution - Juhun Kwak (University of Pittsburgh)

5:00 PM Electroweak corrections to gg → γγ - Gabriele Fiore (ETH Zurich)

5:20 PM NLO corrections to inclusive $\bar{B} \to X_s \gamma$ decays at subleading power - Riccardo Bartocci (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

5:40 PM A perturbative framework to probe IR sensitivity in non-Abelian gauge theories - Duarte Fontes
Thursday, May 28, 2026
9:00 AM Precision matching kernels for lattice PDFs and TMDs in the HL-LHC era - Tobias Neumann (SMU)
Precision matching kernels for lattice PDFs and TMDs in the HL-LHC era
- Tobias Neumann (SMU)
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
9:30 AM Precision QCD and Nuclear Structure: Toward the EIC with Precision nPDFs - Fredrick Olness (SMU)
Precision QCD and Nuclear Structure: Toward the EIC with Precision nPDFs
- Fredrick Olness (SMU)
9:30 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
10:00 AM Higher order corrections and PDF determinations - Marco Guzzi (Kennesaw)
Higher order corrections and PDF determinations
- Marco Guzzi (Kennesaw)
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room We discuss important aspects of global PDF analyses beyond NNLO in QCD with emphasis on the impact of recent higher-order calculations that are part of the ingredients of recent approximate N^3LO PDF determinations. In particular, we discuss the role of heavy-quark mass treatments and DGLAP evolution at N^3LO in QCD.
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Large Seminar Room Lobby
11:00 AM TBA - Tim Hobbs (Argonne National Laboratory)
TBA
- Tim Hobbs (Argonne National Laboratory)
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
11:30 AM Jet physics at higher perturbative orders - Giovanni Stagnitto (Milan)
Jet physics at higher perturbative orders
- Giovanni Stagnitto (Milan)
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
12:00 PM TBA - Kyle Lee (ANL)
TBA
- Kyle Lee (ANL)
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria (on your own)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

2:00 PM The spectrum of Feynman-integral geometries at two loops - Piotr Bargiela (The University of Edinburgh)

2:20 PM Tropical Integration for Gauge Theory Feynman Integrals - Shun-Qing Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

2:40 PM 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)

3:00 PM On Leading Singularities and Canonical Bases beyond Polylogarithms - Cesare Mella

3:20 PM Bootstrapping QCD amplitudes - Sergio Carrolo (Max Planck Institute For Physics)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Color coherent subtraction at NNLO QCD - The double-real case - Max Knobbe

2:20 PM 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)

2:40 PM On the local IR structure of scattering amplitudes - Giulio Gambuti (ETH Zurich)

3:00 PM RVVxV: Interference contributions to inclusive Higgs boson and Drell-Yan production at N4LO in QCD - Adi Suresh (SLAC)

3:20 PM Off-shell triphoton production via quark loops from numerical integration - Dario Kermanschah

3:40 PM An Analytic Regression Path to Precision QCD - Xiaoyuan Zhang (MIT)
4:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

4:30 PM Streamlining canonical differential equations through factorized Picard-Fuchs operators - Christoph Dlapa (University of Hamburg)

4:50 PM Advances in quantum computation of perturbative QFT scattering - Herschel Chawdhry (Florida State University)

5:10 PM $\mathcal{O}(\alpha \alpha_s^2)$ corrections to the top mass - Daniele Gaggero (SUNY Buffalo)
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Contributions

4:30 PM Extracting Meson Distribution Amplitudes from Nonlocal Euclidean Correlations at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order - Fei Yao

4:50 PM Quasi-PDFs and quasi-GPDs in the massive Schwinger model using tensor networks - Jake Montgomery (Stony Brook University)

5:10 PM Loops in Dense Fields: Precision QCD in the Color Glass Condensate - Farid Salazar (Temple University / Brookhaven National Lab)
6:00 PM Dinner at Desmond's, East Wind
Dinner at Desmond's, East Wind
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Friday, May 29, 2026
8:45 AM Higgs Physics for Future Colliders - Matthew Forslund (Princeton)
Higgs Physics for Future Colliders
- Matthew Forslund (Princeton)
8:45 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
9:15 AM Event Generators for FCC-ee - Juergen Reuter (DESY)
Event Generators for FCC-ee
- Juergen Reuter (DESY)
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
9:45 AM Higher order corrections for FCC-ee - Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)
Higher order corrections for FCC-ee
- Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
10:15 AM Efficient computation of soft and beam functions at NNLO - Emmet Byrne
Efficient computation of soft and beam functions at NNLO
- Emmet Byrne
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
10:45 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
11:05 AM QED Corrections for e+e- - Francesco Ucci (Pavia)
QED Corrections for e+e-
- Francesco Ucci (Pavia)
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
11:35 AM Global Fits of the Standard Model and Beyond - Laura Reina (Florida State University)
Global Fits of the Standard Model and Beyond
- Laura Reina (Florida State University)
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
12:05 PM TBA - Felix Ringer (YITP Stony Brook)
TBA
- Felix Ringer (YITP Stony Brook)
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
12:35 PM SubTropica - Sebastian Mizera (Columbia)
SubTropica
- Sebastian Mizera (Columbia)
12:35 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
1:00 PM Conference end and lunch
Conference end and lunch
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: Cafeteria (on your own)

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