The 2026 International Workshop on Baryon and Lepton Number Violation (BLV2026) will be organized by the Yale Wright Laboratory, Yale Center for the Invisible Universe, and the Physics Department at Yale University. It will take place in New Haven, CT on October 22-24, 2026.
After Berkeley (2007), Madison (2009), Gattinburg (2011), Heidelberg (2013), UMass (2015), Cleveland (2017), Madrid (2019), Brussels (2022), and Karlsruhe (2024), this will be the 10th edition of this workshop.
The main topics of this workshop are:
- Neutrino physics
- Baryogenesis mechanisms
- Baryon number violating processes
- Lepton number violation in low energy processes
- Lepton flavor violating processes
- Baryon and lepton number violation at colliders
- Dark matter
and it covers a wide range of BSM physics, with both a theoretical and an experimental component.
The preliminary schedule for the conference is to start on Thursday, 22 Oct 2026, 9:00 am, and end on Saturday, 24 Oct 2026 at lunch time.
This workshop is supported by the Yale Wright Laboratory, Yale Center for the Invisible Universe, and the Physics Department at Yale University.
International Organizing Committee:
- Michelle Dolinski (Drexel Univ., USA)
- Pavel Fileviez Perez (CWRU, USA) co-chair
- Thomas Hambye (ULB, Belgium)
- Ke Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China)
- Karsten Heeger (Yale Univ., USA) co-chair
- Franco Iachello (Yale Univ., USA)
- David Kawal (UMass-Amherst, USA)
- Yeongduk Kim (CUP, IBS, South Korea)
- Reina Maruyama (Yale Univ., USA) co-chair
- Andrea Pocar (UMass-Amherst, USA)
- Marieke Postma (Nikhef, Netherlands)
- Stefan Schönert (TUM, Germany)
- Thomas Schwetz (KIT, Germany)
- Geraldine Servant (DESY, Germany)
Local Organizing Committee:
- Sarah Demers (Yale University)
- Karsten Heeger (Yale University)
- Reina Maruyama (Yale University)
- David Moore (Yale University)
Program Support Team:
- Jenn Arnone (Admin. Support, Wright Lab, Yale University)
- Dan McGurk (Admin. Support, Wright Lab, Yale University)
- Victoria Misenti (Program Manager, Wright Lab, Yale University)