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UK HEP Forum 2026: "Will the LLM revolution uncover the secrets of the Universe?"

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Jacob Linacre (STFC RAL), Rodrigo Alonso (Durham)
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The UK HEP Forum 2026 will take place on 24-25 November at The Cosener's House in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and also broadcast via Zoom.

Large Language Models are reshaping what is possible in high energy physics — from automating routine analysis to acting as active partners in literature synthesis, hypothesis generation, and complex scientific workflows. But will they genuinely transform fundamental discovery, or merely accelerate what we already know how to do? This workshop brings together experimentalists and theorists to critically examine the promise, the pitfalls, and the profound implications of LLMs for the future of HEP.1

In-depth presentations will be given by invited speakers. In addition, the forum will feature a session of short talks giving UK PhD students the opportunity to present their work in all areas of HEP. Interested students are encouraged to submit a talk via the registration form.

The forum is sponsored by the IPPP and STFC. There is no registration fee. Accommodation will be free of charge for all attendees. Travel expenses within the UK (ground transport only) will be reimbursed to students who present a talk.

Registration is required and is open to participants with UK affiliation only. We look forward to welcoming you.

UK HEP Forum Organising Committee [R. Alonso (co-Chair), J. Biswal, T. Cornford, D. Croon, S. Dixon, J. Ellis, J. Frost, A. Holin, J. Linacre (co-Chair), K. Manolopoulos, D. van Dyk]

Email: UKHEPForum@stfc.ac.uk

1 Paragraph prepared using Claude Sonnet 4.6 Thinking

UK HEP forum 2026 poster.pdf
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  • Monday 23 November
    • 20:00 → 21:30
      Dinner 1h 30m
  • Tuesday 24 November
    • 10:00 → 10:25
      Registration and coffee 25m
    • 10:25 → 10:30
      Welcome 5m
    • 10:30 → 11:05
      HEP: the big questions 35m
      Speaker: Gavin Salam (University of Oxford and All Souls College)
    • 11:15 → 11:50
      Collider anomalies, tensions, and opportunities 35m
    • 12:00 → 12:35
      Noncollider anomalies, tensions, and opportunities 35m
      Speaker: Juri Smirnov
    • 12:45 → 13:45
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 → 14:35
      Introduction to LLMs 35m
    • 14:45 → 15:20
      LLMs in industry 35m
    • 15:30 → 16:05
      Student talks: 1
    • 16:05 → 16:35
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:35 → 17:10
      Student talks
      • 16:35
        Coffee break 30m
    • 17:10 → 17:45
      Proving theorems using LLMs 35m
      Speaker: Sven Krippendorf (University of Cambridge)
    • 17:55 → 18:30
      AI and QCD 35m
      Speaker: Daniel Maitre (IPPP)
    • 18:40 → 19:15
      LLMs and AI and phenomenology 35m
      Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)
    • 19:30 → 21:30
      Dinner 2h
  • Wednesday 25 November
    • 09:00 → 09:15
      Hotel checkout
    • 09:15 → 09:50
      LLMs: research tool or research assistant? 35m
      Speaker: Veronica Sanz
    • 10:00 → 10:35
      LLMs and scientific integrity 35m
      Speaker: Joseph Tooby-Smith
    • 10:45 → 11:10
      Coffee break 25m
    • 11:10 → 11:45
      Will the LLM bubble burst? 35m
    • 11:55 → 12:30
      Computing, grid and sustainability 35m
      Speaker: Alastair Dewhurst (STFC)
    • 12:40 → 13:00
      Transformers for low-energy neutrino triggers in Hyper-Kamiokande 20m
      Speaker: Saúl Alonso-Monsalve
    • 13:05 → 14:05
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:05 → 14:25
      What can LHC triggers learn from LLMs? 20m
      Speaker: Benedikt Maier
    • 14:30 → 15:05
      Using LLMs for physics analysis 35m
      Speaker: Caterina Doglioni
    • 15:15 → 15:50
      Future of LLMs in HEP 35m
      Speaker: Daniel Murnane
    • 16:00 → 16:05
      Farewell 5m