Standard Model EFT meets Chiral EFT (SMEFT meets ChEFT)
from
Monday, 29 September 2025 (09:00)
to
Friday, 3 October 2025 (23:00)
Monday, 29 September 2025
09:00
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium
09:30
Lab & Workshop Introduction
-
Petr Navratil
(
TRIUMF
)
Carlos Henrique de Lima
(
TRIUMF
)
David Morrissey
(
TRIUMF
)
Georgios Palkanoglou
(
TRIUMF
)
Nigel Smith
(
TRIUMF
)
Lab & Workshop Introduction
Petr Navratil
(
TRIUMF
)
Carlos Henrique de Lima
(
TRIUMF
)
David Morrissey
(
TRIUMF
)
Georgios Palkanoglou
(
TRIUMF
)
Nigel Smith
(
TRIUMF
)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00
The Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian (HEFT): Implications for BSM Higgs Physics
-
Maria Jose Herrero
(
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
)
The Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian (HEFT): Implications for BSM Higgs Physics
Maria Jose Herrero
(
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
)
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium
10:40
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
10:40 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium
10:50
Beta decays from SMEFT to ChEFT
-
Vicenzo Cirigliano
(
University of Washington
)
Beta decays from SMEFT to ChEFT
Vicenzo Cirigliano
(
University of Washington
)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
11:30 - 11:40
Room: Auditorium
11:40
Lunch & Coffee
Lunch & Coffee
11:40 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium
13:30
Using functional methods for EFT calculations
-
Anders Eller Thomsen
(
Bern U
)
Using functional methods for EFT calculations
Anders Eller Thomsen
(
Bern U
)
13:30 - 14:10
Room: Auditorium
14:10
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
14:10 - 14:20
Room: Auditorium
14:20
Chiral forces with gradient flow regulator
-
Hermann Krebs
Chiral forces with gradient flow regulator
Hermann Krebs
14:20 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
15:00
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
15:00 - 15:10
Room: Auditorium
15:10
Geometry and Energy in EFT
-
Benoît Assi
(
Cincinnati U
)
Geometry and Energy in EFT
Benoît Assi
(
Cincinnati U
)
15:10 - 15:50
Room: Auditorium
15:50
Informal Discussion & Announcements
Informal Discussion & Announcements
15:50 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium
16:00
Pizza reception
Pizza reception
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Auditorium
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
09:30
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
09:30 - 09:50
Room: Auditorium
09:50
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: A Brief Overview
-
Douglas Tuckler
(
TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University
)
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: A Brief Overview
Douglas Tuckler
(
TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University
)
09:50 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00
Ab Initio Nuclear Theory for Tests of Fundamental Symmetries
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Petr Navratil
(
TRIUMF
)
Ab Initio Nuclear Theory for Tests of Fundamental Symmetries
Petr Navratil
(
TRIUMF
)
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium
10:40
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
10:40 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium
10:50
Ab initio nuclear theory for BSM searches in medium and heavy nuclei
-
Jason Holt
(
TRIUMF
)
Ab initio nuclear theory for BSM searches in medium and heavy nuclei
Jason Holt
(
TRIUMF
)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
11:30 - 11:40
Room: Auditorium
11:40
Lunch & Coffee
Lunch & Coffee
11:40 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium
13:30
Positivity in the SMEFT and HEFT
-
Nicholas Rodd
(
LBL
)
Positivity in the SMEFT and HEFT
Nicholas Rodd
(
LBL
)
13:30 - 14:10
Room: Auditorium
14:10
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
14:10 - 14:20
Room: Auditorium
14:20
The equivalent Electric Dipole Moment in SMEFT
-
Nicola Valori
(
IFIC (University of Valencia-CSIC)
)
The equivalent Electric Dipole Moment in SMEFT
Nicola Valori
(
IFIC (University of Valencia-CSIC)
)
14:20 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
15:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30
Predictions for multiple Higgs production: comparing HEFT and SMEFT
-
Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero
(
Madrid U
)
Predictions for multiple Higgs production: comparing HEFT and SMEFT
Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero
(
Madrid U
)
15:30 - 16:10
Room: Auditorium
16:10
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
16:10 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium
16:20
EFT for Future Colliders
-
Christophe Grojean
(
DESY
)
EFT for Future Colliders
Christophe Grojean
(
DESY
)
16:20 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium
17:00
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
17:00 - 17:10
Room: Auditorium
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
09:30
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00
EFT framework for neutrino experiments: application to CEvNS
-
Martin Gonzalez-Alonso
(
Valencia U
)
EFT framework for neutrino experiments: application to CEvNS
Martin Gonzalez-Alonso
(
Valencia U
)
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium
10:40
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
10:40 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium
10:50
Ab initio calculations of nuclear polarizability for light muonic atoms
-
Mehdi Drissi
(
TRIUMF
)
Ab initio calculations of nuclear polarizability for light muonic atoms
Mehdi Drissi
(
TRIUMF
)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
11:30 - 11:40
Room: Auditorium
11:40
Automated EFT matching and running: recent developments and applications
-
Javier Fuentes-Martín
(
Granada U
)
Automated EFT matching and running: recent developments and applications
Javier Fuentes-Martín
(
Granada U
)
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Auditorium
12:20
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
12:20 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
12:30
Lunch & Coffee
Lunch & Coffee
12:30 - 14:40
Room: Auditorium
13:30
Lab Tour
Lab Tour
13:30 - 14:40
Room: Auditorium
14:40
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Effective Field Theory
-
Wouter Dekens
(
Washington U
)
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Effective Field Theory
Wouter Dekens
(
Washington U
)
14:40 - 15:20
Room: Auditorium
15:20
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
15:20 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30
Are there enhanced three-nucleon forces in chiral EFT?
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Evgeny Epelbaum
(
Bochum
)
Are there enhanced three-nucleon forces in chiral EFT?
Evgeny Epelbaum
(
Bochum
)
15:30 - 16:10
Room: Auditorium
16:10
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
16:10 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium
16:20
Pinning the subleading three-body contact interactions from ChEFT to light nuclei
-
Georgios Palkanoglou
(
TRIUMF
)
Pinning the subleading three-body contact interactions from ChEFT to light nuclei
Georgios Palkanoglou
(
TRIUMF
)
16:20 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium
17:00
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
17:00 - 17:10
Room: Auditorium
18:30
Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Auditorium
Thursday, 2 October 2025
09:30
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00
Connecting BSM physics to Chiral EFT through the 1/Nc expansion
-
Thomas Richardson
(
UC Berkeley
)
Connecting BSM physics to Chiral EFT through the 1/Nc expansion
Thomas Richardson
(
UC Berkeley
)
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium
10:40
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
10:40 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium
10:50
Entanglement and Symmetries in Pionless EFT
-
Ian Low
(
Northwestern U
)
Entanglement and Symmetries in Pionless EFT
Ian Low
(
Northwestern U
)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
11:30 - 11:40
Room: Auditorium
11:40
Lunch & Coffee
Lunch & Coffee
11:40 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium
14:00
Colloquium: Chiral EFT meets lattice QCD
-
Evgeny Epelbaum
(
Bochum
)
Colloquium: Chiral EFT meets lattice QCD
Evgeny Epelbaum
(
Bochum
)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
Absrtact: Lattice QCD provides a truly ab-initio approach to the structure and dynamics of hadronic and nuclear systems. I will discuss how this method can be further enhanced by explicitly taking into account long-range pion dynamics that can be described in a systematic and model-independent fashion using chiral EFT. I will show how these ideas allow one to solve the long-standing left-hand cut problem in Lüscher's method for extracting two-body scattering information from finite-volume energy levels. Applications considered include the analysis of lattice QCD data for the two-nucleon and DD* meson systems.
15:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30
EFT breakdown of dynamical couplings
-
Carlos Henrique de Lima
(
TRIUMF
)
EFT breakdown of dynamical couplings
Carlos Henrique de Lima
(
TRIUMF
)
15:30 - 16:10
Room: Auditorium
16:10
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
16:10 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium
16:20
Modelling Electroweak Processes in Light Nuclei
-
Michael Gennari
(
TRIUMF
)
Modelling Electroweak Processes in Light Nuclei
Michael Gennari
(
TRIUMF
)
16:20 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium
17:00
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
17:00 - 17:10
Room: Auditorium
17:10
Probing Light Nuclei with the Transition Density Method
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Harald W Griesshammer
(
George Washington University
)
Probing Light Nuclei with the Transition Density Method
Harald W Griesshammer
(
George Washington University
)
17:10 - 17:50
Room: Auditorium
17:50
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
17:50 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Friday, 3 October 2025
09:30
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
Morning Reception (coffee & pastries)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00
Fermi Geometry of the Higgs Sector
-
Yu-Tse Lee
(
UC Santa Barbara
)
Fermi Geometry of the Higgs Sector
Yu-Tse Lee
(
UC Santa Barbara
)
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium
10:40
Informal Discussion
Informal Discussion
10:40 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium
10:50
Violating parity in the in medium similarity renormalization group
-
Antoine Belley
(
TRIUMF/UBC
)
Violating parity in the in medium similarity renormalization group
Antoine Belley
(
TRIUMF/UBC
)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30
Discussion and closing
Discussion and closing
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium
12:00
Lunch & Coffee
Lunch & Coffee
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium
16:00
BBQ
BBQ
16:00 - 22:00
Room: Auditorium