Name: High Precision for Hard Processes (HP2 2026)
Start: 2026-10-05T13:45:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-09T15:30:00+02:00
Location: KIT

High Precision for Hard Processes (HP2 2026)

from Monday, October 5, 2026 (1:45 PM) to Friday, October 9, 2026 (3:30 PM)

Monday, October 5, 2026
1:45 PM Plenary
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

1:45 PM Welcome and information - Gudrun Heinrich (KIT)

2:00 PM Recent LHC measurements and prospects for HL-LHC - Monica Dunford

2:45 PM Precision Higgs Physics - Alexander Karlberg (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

3:15 PM Top quark physics - Sven-Olaf Moch (Universität Hamburg)
3:45 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
4:15 PM Track 1 - IBP: Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
4:15 PM - 5:55 PM
Room: Seminar room 6.1, building 30.23
Contributions

4:15 PM Untangling the IBP equations - Junhan William Liu (University of Cambridge)

4:40 PM Progress towards numerical reduction at two-loops within the HELAC framework - Aris Spourdalakis (NCSR Demokritos)

5:05 PM Efficient Reconstruction of Scattering Amplitudes - Anton Olsson (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

5:30 PM Infrared divergences and Feynman integral reduction - Pavel Novichkov (Ghent University)
Track 2 - EW HH: Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
4:15 PM - 5:55 PM
Room: Seminar room 3.1, building 30.23
Contributions

4:15 PM NLO EW corrections to 𝑔𝑔 → 𝐻𝐻 in the forward limit - Dominik Grau (Karlsruher Institute of Technology)

4:40 PM Electroweak effects in Higgs boson pair production: The quark case - Philipp Rendler (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

5:05 PM Higgs-Pair Production via Gluon Fusion: Top-Yukawa- and light-quark-induced electroweak Corrections - Sauro Carlotti (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie - ITP)

5:30 PM On the road to full electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production in gluon fusion - Augustin Vestner (KIT-ITP)
Track 3 - Resummation / IR: Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
4:15 PM - 5:55 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

4:15 PM Automated calculation of gluon jet functions - Kevin Marc Brune (JGU Mainz)

4:40 PM Gluon Jet Function for transverse-momentum-like variables in NNLO QCD - Giovanbattista Favorito (University of Zurich)

5:05 PM Collinear functions up to NNLO in QCD - Prasanna Dhani (University of Zurich)

5:30 PM Precise predictions for Higgsstrahlung at future colliders - Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zurich)
6:30 PM Reception
Reception
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Foyer
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

9:00 AM Recent developments in slicing and subtraction methods for higher-order QCD calculations at colliders - Chiara Signorile-Signorile

9:30 AM Analyticity Bootstrap of Feynman Integrals - Yan-Qing Ma (Peking U.)

10:00 AM Recent developments in parton showers - Daniel Reichelt (CERN)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
11:00 AM Track 1 - Analytic integrals: Parallel Session II
Parallel Session II
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Seminar room 6.1, building 30.23
Contributions

11:00 AM Feynman Integrals from First Principles: Positivity, Analyticity, and Padé Approximants - Johannes Henn (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

11:25 AM Bootstrapping Six-Gluon QCD Amplitudes - Qinglin Yang (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Garching, Germany)

11:50 AM From Leading Singularities to Canonical Bases - Christoph Nega (Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik)

12:15 PM Feynman Integrals Meet Second-Order Partial Differential Equations - Hantian Zhang (CERN)
Track 2 - Soft Functions / Resummation: Parallel Session II
Parallel Session II
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Seminar room 3.1, building 30.23
Contributions

11:00 AM $N$-jettiness Soft function with massive partons at NNLO - Prem Agarwal

11:25 AM Universal feature of NLP corrections - Sourav Pal (JGU Mainz)

11:50 AM Soft-photon resummation for low-energy e⁺e⁻ scattering - Jeremy Paltrinieri (University of Liverpool)

12:15 PM Threshold resummation of rapidity distributions at fixed partonic rapidity - Davide Maria Tagliabue (KIT (TTP))
12:40 PM Conference Photo

12:40 PM - 12:50 PM

12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
2:00 PM Plenary
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

2:00 PM Precision electroweak physics at the LHC and at future colliders - Mathieu Pellen Mathieu Pellen (University of Freiburg)

2:30 PM Loop-Tree and Loop-Loop Duality with OpenLoops - Stefano Pozzorini

3:00 PM Numerical methods for electroweak corrections and applications - Simone Devoto Simone Devoto (University of Ghent)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
4:00 PM Track 1 - Numeric integration: Parallel Session III
Parallel Session III
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Seminar room 6.1, building 30.23
Contributions

4:00 PM Recursive reduction of two-loop tensor integrals for automated NNLO calculations - Fabian Lange (Universität Zürich and PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences)

4:25 PM Numerical Evaluation of Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions Using HyperPrecision - Souvik Bera (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)

4:50 PM Exponentially Converging Numerical Evaluation of Iterated Integrals - Thomas Stone (Technical University of Munich (TUM))

5:15 PM Feynman integrals numerical evaluation with LINE - Renato Maria Prisco (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Track 2 - IR: Parallel Session III
Parallel Session III
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Seminar room 3.1, building 30.23
Contributions

4:00 PM Local Analytic Sector Subtraction with initial-state hadrons: Infrared kernels and their integration - Yashasvee Goel (University of Torino and INFN Torino)

4:25 PM Recent developments in NNLOCAL - Gabor Somogyi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics)

4:50 PM A perturbative framework to probe infrared sensitivity in non-Abelian gauge theories - Dennis Horstmann (KIT)

5:15 PM A general subtraction formula at NNLO in QCD with massless partons - Matteo Tresoldi (KIT TTP)
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

9:00 AM Factorisation: violated or not? - Thomas Becher (Universität Bern)

9:30 AM Analytic methods for multi-loop amplitudes - Vasily Sotnikov (University of Zurich)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
10:30 AM Track 1 - Many Loops / Legs: Parallel Session IV
Parallel Session IV
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Seminar room 6.1, building 30.23
Contributions

10:30 AM QCD decoupling @ five loops - Peter Marquard (DESY)

10:55 AM Higher Intersection Pairings for Hard Processes - Giacomo Brunello (Scuola Normale Superiore)

11:20 AM Three-loop amplitudes for quark-initiated diboson production in the leading-color approximation - Dhimiter Canko (University of Turin)

11:45 AM Three-loop mixed QCD-EW form factors to the on-shell $Z$ production at hadron colliders - Tanmoy Pati (NISER-HBNI)
Track 2 - Parton Showers & Matching: Parallel Session IV
Parallel Session IV
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Seminar room 3.1, building 30.23
Contributions

10:30 AM Resonance aware QCD+EW MC@NLO matched parton showers - Joanne Roper (Durham University)

10:55 AM Automated matching of a QED parton shower with NLO EW at a future lepton collider - Lois Flower (University of Liverpool)

11:20 AM Event isotropy in perturbative QCD - Daniele Atzori (LPTHE Paris & INFN Genova)

11:45 AM Polarized Scattering at NLO+PS Accuracy in the POWHEG BOX - Ignacio Borsa (Tübingen University)
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10

2:00 PM Excursion
Excursion
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Thursday, October 8, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

9:00 AM Experimental opportunities and precision prospects at Future Colliders - Markus Klute

9:45 AM Precision meets BSM physics - Heidi Rzehak

10:15 AM Precision meets Effective Field Theories for BSM Physics - Anke Biekötter (KIT ITP)
10:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
11:15 AM Track 1 - Amplitudes (process-specific): Parallel Session V
Parallel Session V
11:15 AM - 12:55 PM
Room: Seminar room 6.1, building 30.23
Contributions

11:15 AM On non-factorizable corrections to vector boson fusion Higgs production - Linus Götzfried (Universität Regensburg)

11:40 AM Analytic two-loop amplitudes for $t\bar{t}j$ production at lepton colliders - Ming-Ming Long (INFN-LNF)

12:05 PM Non-factorisable electroweak corrections at two-loop order - Fazila Ahmadova (University of Zurich)

12:30 PM Towards NNLO QED corrections to radiative return processes - Thomas Dave (University of Liverpool) Pau Petit Rosas (University of Liverpool) William Torres Bobadilla (Universidad de Salamanca)
Track 2 - Pheno Top: Parallel Session V
Parallel Session V
11:15 AM - 12:55 PM
Room: Seminar room 3.1, building 30.23
Contributions

11:15 AM Two-loop QCD amplitudes for leading-colour ttW production at hadron colliders - Mattia Pozzoli (University of Bologna and INFN)

11:40 AM NNLO QCD Predictions for Top-Quark Pair Production in Association with a Jet at the LHC - Heribertus Bayu Hartanto (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)

12:05 PM Two-loop QCD amplitudes for qq->ttH production in the generalised leading-colour limit - Xiang Chen (University of Zurich)

12:30 PM Two-loop Feynman integrals for $t \bar{t} \gamma$ hadron production in the leading colour approximation - Colomba Brancaccio (University of Turin)
Track 3 - Precision Physics / BSM: Parallel Session V
Parallel Session V
11:15 AM - 12:55 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

11:15 AM Higgs boson decay to massive bottom quarks at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^4)$ - Marco Niggetiedt (University of Zurich)

11:40 AM Taking the First Steps Toward Higgs Production at N4LO in QCD - Adi Prasanna Suresh (SLAC and Stanford U.)

12:05 PM Two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to quark-induced Higgs production at hadron colliders - Federico Ripani

12:30 PM Renormalization of the general Two-Higgs-Doublet Model - Martin Gabelmann (U. Freiburg)
12:55 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:55 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
2:15 PM Plenary
2:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

2:15 PM Recent developments in PDFs - Juan Rojo

2:45 PM Precision meets Machine Learning - Daniel Maitre

3:15 PM Quantum Machine Learning for Particle Physics - Michael Spannowsky (ITP, KIT)
3:45 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
4:15 PM Track 1 - Amplitudes (process-specific): Parallel Session VI
Parallel Session VI
4:15 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Seminar room 6.1, building 30.23
Contributions

4:15 PM Two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs plus two-jet production through gluon fusion - Viktor Kuschke (PSI, UZH)

4:40 PM Analytic form of the elliptic master integrals for gg->hg at two loops - Bakul Agarwal (University of Edinburgh)

5:05 PM NLO corrections to inclusive $\bar{B} \to X_s \gamma$ decays at subleading power - Riccardo Bartocci (KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology))

5:30 PM FeynGraph - A Modern High-Performance Feynman Diagram Toolkit - Jens Braun (Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP))

5:55 PM Two-Loop Electroweak Renormalization in the Standard Model and NNLO Corrections to $H\to b\bar{b}$ - Zhe Li (Shandong University)
Track 2 - Pheno Top: Parallel Session VI
Parallel Session VI
4:15 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Seminar room 3.1, building 23.23
Contributions

4:15 PM Hadron Fragmentation at Past, Present and Future Colliders - Francesco Merlotti (ETH Zürich)

4:40 PM A first extraction of gluon TMDs at N3LL from Higgs data - Giuseppe Bozzi (University of Cagliari and INFN, Cagliari)

5:05 PM Stable NNLO QCD predictions for quarkonium production and decay - Luca Maxia (LPTHE - CNRS et Sorbonne Université)

5:30 PM Amplitude Factorization Prescription for Exclusive Processes and NNLO Application to Quarkonium $\to 3\gamma$ Decay - Jianxiong Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science)

5:55 PM DIS-secting the universe with high-energy neutrinos - Lorenzo Guerra (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Track 3 - Precision Physics / BSM: Parallel Session VI
Parallel Session VI
4:15 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

4:15 PM Next-to-Leading-Order QCD and EW Corrections to the Dark Matter Relic Density in the Framework of the CxSM - Karim Elyaouti (KIT - Institut für Theoretische Physik)

4:40 PM ZH production in gluon fusion at NLO QCD within SMEFT - Benjamin Campillo (KIT)

5:05 PM Higgs Mass Predictions in the CP-Violating High-Scale NMSSM - Christoph Borschensky (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

5:30 PM NNLO QCD predictions for identified hadron production in association with neutral electroweak gauge bosons. - Gabriele Fiore (ETH Zurich)

5:55 PM Reconstructing distributions from Monte-Carlo simulations using orthogonal basis functions - Ivan Novikov (KIT)
7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 11:59 PM
Room: Haid-und-Neu-Str. 18 [Höpfner Brewery, Schalander Room, Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 18][1] [1]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hoepfner+Schalander+%7C+Hochzeits-+und+Veranstaltungslocation/@49.0122014,8.4245052,752m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x47970728f6184f47:0x3ab324767609ab77!8m2!3d49.012687!4d8.4281637!16s%2Fg%2F11hz0jzz1j?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Friday, October 9, 2026
9:00 AM Track 1 - Amplitude (generic): Parallel Session VII
Parallel Session VII
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Seminar room 6.1, building 30.23
Contributions

9:00 AM OpenLoops+LTD: new developments at NLO and beyond - Nicolo Giraudo (University of Zurich)

9:25 AM Local factorisation of arbitrary two-loop QED amplitudes - Christian Biello (ETHZ)

9:50 AM Acyclicity, causality and infrared singularities - Germán Rodrigo (IFIC UV-CSIC)

10:15 AM The software stack behind Local Unitarity and how it can help you too - Valentin Hirschi
Track 2 - High energy: Parallel Session VII
Parallel Session VII
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Seminar room 3.1, building 30.23
Contributions

9:00 AM Top quark mass effects in WW production through gluon fusion - Mateusz Pawel Czaja (KIT TTP)

9:25 AM The emerging importance of high energy logarithms for LHC studies - Sebastian Jaskiewicz (Bern U.)

9:50 AM ggxy: Fast and flexible NLO QCD corrections to ZH and VV in gluon fusion - Daniel Stremmer (KIT)

10:15 AM Three-loop QCD corrections to gg->HH at leading power in the high-energy limit - Ajjath A H (IISc, Bangalore, India)
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
11:10 AM Plenary
11:10 AM - 1:35 PM
Room: NTI Hörsaal, building 30.10
Contributions

11:10 AM The two-loop pentagon frontier - Simone Zoia (University of Zurich)

11:40 AM Numerical Methods and Phenomenological Applications - Stephen Jones (IPPP Durham)

12:10 PM Closing Talk - Thomas Gehrmann

12:55 PM Farewell