Scientific Program

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Monday, 26 Jan 2026. Setting the stage

9.00am - 9.15am. Introduction ✨
9.15am - 10:15am. Invited talks: GW problem intro ✨ (Alberto Vecchio, Colm Talbot)
10.15am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Invited talks: AI opportunity intro 🚀 (Jakob Macke, Gilles Louppe)
11.30am - 4.00pm. Lunch and Snow ❄️
4.00pm - 4.30pm. Refreshments ☕
4.30pm - 5.30pm. Discussion: How can ML help GWs?🔥 (Roberto Trotta, Uddipta Bhardwaj)
5.30pm - 6.30pm. Participant introductions
6.30. Welcome drinks 🍷

Tuesday, 27 Jan 2026. Applications

9.00am - 10.00am. Invited talks 🚀 (James Alvey, Annalena Kofler)
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Invited talks 🚀 (Michael Williams, Matthew Mould)
11.30am - 4.00pm. Lunch and Snow ❄️
4.00pm - 4.30pm. Refreshments ☕
4.30pm - 5.30pm. Discussion: What's missing in GW PE? What astro predictions can we test? 🚀 (Aleksandra Olejak, Rodrigo Tenorio)
5.30pm - 6.30pm. Flash talks ~5m+1m 📽️ (Stegmann, Tenorio, Rasamoela, Green, Crisostomi, Wang, Scialpi)

Wednesday, 28 Jan 2026. FUTURE

9.00am - 10.00am. Invited talks 🚀 (Irene Ferranti - PTA, Natalia Korsakova - Global fit)
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Invited talks 🚀 (Philippa Cole - EMRIs, Thea Aarrestad - What we can learn from HEP)
11.30am - 4.00pm. Lunch and Snow ❄️
4.00pm - 4.30pm. Refreshments ☕
4.30pm - 5.30pm. Discussion: From prototype to deployment 🔥 (Michael Pürrer, Jean-Baptiste Bayle)
5.30pm - 6.30pm. Flash talks ~5m+1m 📽️ (McLeod, Giarda, Lexmond, Ng, Ezquiaga, Gerosa, Dooney, Badaracco, Delmond, Srinivasan)
6.30. Bonfire drinks 🍷

Thursday, 29 Jan 2026. Working day

9.00am - 10.00am. Working on small projects in groups 💡
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Working on small projects in groups 💡
11.30am - 4.00pm. Lunch and Snow ❄️
4.00pm - 4.30pm. Refreshments ☕
4.30pm - 5.30pm. Working on small projects in groups 💡
5.30pm - 6.30pm. Flash talks ~5m+1m 📽️ (Negri, Carbone, De Santi, Servignat, Roussopoulos, Muccillo, Fabbri, Santoliquido, Wouters, Al-Shammari, Antonini)
8pm. Conference dinner, Bad Moos hotel. 🍷

Friday, 30 Jan 2026. Conclusions

9.00am - 10.00am. Working on small projects in groups 💡
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Presentations by working groups. Conclusions by organizers ✨

Some funny things AI did for us during the conference...

(The organizeres forgot about their dinner speech and had to get one done very quickly...)

Before we all head back to airports and inboxes, a few brief words.

Thank you to the speakers for genuinely substantive talks, and to the participants for real questions and discussions. This worked because people engaged, rather than just presenting.

This was meant to be a small, opinionated meeting. The problems we’re facing — inference at scale, population-level science, next-generation detectors — won’t be solved by incremental tweaks to old workflows. They force us to rethink assumptions, methods, and how we work together.

A clear theme has been moving beyond single events to populations and global inference. That’s uncomfortable, because it exposes degeneracies and biases we’d rather ignore — but that’s usually a sign we’re doing something worthwhile.

Sexten helps with perspective. On skis, bad models fail quickly. In research it takes longer, but the principle is the same.

If a conversation here sparked a collaboration, an idea, or even a disagreement worth pursuing, follow up on it. Don’t let it fade once everyone goes home.

Safe travels, enjoy the skiing if you can, and let’s make sure the next time we meet we’ve actually pushed the field forward.
Thanks.

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