Name: 2025 Belle II Summer Workshop
Start: 2025-06-23T07:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-27T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Inn at Virginia Tech

2025 Belle II Summer Workshop

from Monday 23 June 2025 (07:00) to Friday 27 June 2025 (19:00)

Monday 23 June 2025
09:00 Explorer Event
Explorer Event
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Smithfield
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Leo Piilonen (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

09:10 Introduction to Particle Physics - Tommy Lam (Virginia Tech (BELLE II Experiment))

09:25 Q&A

09:35 Introduction to the Physics of Particle Flavors - Valeria Fioroni (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

09:50 Q&A

10:30 The Belle II Experiment - Haruki Kindo (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

10:45 Q&A

10:55 Student panel on graduate school in physics - Alexander Gale (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Jaime Cayo (Carnegie Mellon University) Maedeh Farhoush (University of Cincinnati) Noah Brenny (Iowa State University) Quinn Campagna (University of Mississippi)
Registration, one-on-one meetings
Registration, one-on-one meetings
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Cascades

12:00 Complimentary Lunch
Complimentary Lunch
12:00 - 13:15
Room: Break Area
13:15 Afternoon
Afternoon
13:15 - 17:30
Room: Cascades
Contributions

13:15 Hadronic amplitudes and related fits - Milind Purohit (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

14:15 Belle II software roadmap - Frank Meier (Duke University)

14:45 basf2 introduction - Alexander Gale (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Logan Benninghoff (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

15:45 basf2 hands-on - Alexander Gale (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Logan Benninghoff (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))
Explorer Event
Explorer Event
13:15 - 17:30
Room: Smithfield
Contributions

13:15 Belle II MasterClass - Alexander Gale (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Jake Bennett (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Leo Piilonen (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Quinn Campagna (University of Mississippi) Richard Santiago Naylor (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Ryan Mueller (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

15:45 Student research showcase - Noah Brenny (Iowa State University) Quinn Campagna (University of Mississippi) Richard Santiago Naylor (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

16:45 Q&A - Alexander Gale (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Jake Bennett (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Leo Piilonen (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Quinn Campagna (University of Mississippi) Richard Santiago Naylor (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Ryan Mueller (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))
18:00

18:00 - 20:00
Room: Latham Ballroom C
Tuesday 24 June 2025
08:00 Morning
Morning
08:00 - 12:00
Room: Cascades
Contributions

08:00 Registration

08:30 Welcome - Leo Piilonen (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

08:45 Belle II introduction - Jake Bennett (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

10:00 Belle II physics - Kay Kinoshita (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

10:45 Tau physics - Swagato Banerjee (University of Louisville (U.S.))

11:15 Belle II detector overview - Haruki Kindo (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: on your own
13:30 Afternoon
Afternoon
13:30 - 17:40
Room: Cascades
Contributions

13:30 MC truth-matching intro - Tia Crane (DESY (Belle II Group))

13:50 MC truth-matching hands-on - Tia Crane (DESY (Belle II Group))

15:50 gbasf2 introduction - Quinn Campagna (University of Mississippi)

16:10 gbasf2 hands-on - Quinn Campagna (University of Mississippi)
Wednesday 25 June 2025
08:30 Morning
Morning
08:30 - 11:30
Room: Cascades
Contributions

08:30 CP violation - Soeren Prell (Iowa State University)

09:00 Time-dependent CP violation in B to eta' KS - Noah Brenny (Iowa State University)

09:20 B to omega KS - Maedeh Farhoush (University of Cincinnati)

09:40 Slow control - Naveen Baghel (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

10:30 Professional Development - Jake Bennett (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))
11:30 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 13:00
Room: on your own
13:00 Afternoon
Afternoon
13:00 - 17:30
Room: Cascades
Contributions

13:00 Probability and statistics - some basics for HEP - Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnati)

13:30 Stat/syst uncertainties hands-on - Boyang Zhang (University of Hawaii [Belle II])

15:30 ML/AI tools in Belle II analyses - Boyang Zhang (University of Hawaii [Belle II]) Tommy Lam (Virginia Tech (BELLE II Experiment))

15:50 ML/AI tools hands-on - Boyang Zhang (University of Hawaii [Belle II]) Tommy Lam (Virginia Tech (BELLE II Experiment))
18:00

18:00 - 21:00
Room: Latham Ballroom A
Thursday 26 June 2025
08:30 Morning
Morning
08:30 - 11:30
Room: Cascades
Contributions

08:30 Semileptonic B decays - Florian Bernlochner (Belle (SuperKEKB Experiment))

09:00 B- to D**0 pi- - Alexander Gale (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

09:20 Backgrounds - Qingyuan Liu (BELLE (BELLE Gruppe))

10:30 Dark Matter (non-Belle II) - Ian Shoemaker (Virginia Tech)
11:30 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 13:00
Room: on your own
13:00 Afternoon
Afternoon
13:00 - 17:45
Room: Cascades
Contributions

13:00 Dark matter searches in Belle II - Savino Longo (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

13:30 Inelastic dark matter search in Belle II - Tommy Lam (Virginia Tech (BELLE II Experiment))

13:50 D*0 to D0 A’ dark photon search in Belle - Haruki Kindo (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

14:10 AI/ML techniques in B to K* l l' - Ethan Lee (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) T B D

15:00 Lambda-Lambda correlations - Cynthia Nunez (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

15:20 b to s nu nu-bar - Yubo Han (BELLE (BELLE II Gruppe))

15:40 Decoherence in B Bbar quantum entanglement - Lucas Stoetzer (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

16:00 CDC - Peter Lewis (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

16:45 Early career focus session - Kay Kinoshita (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)) Tommy Lam (Virginia Tech (BELLE II Experiment))
Friday 27 June 2025
08:30 Morning
Morning
08:30 - 12:10
Room: Cascades
Contributions

08:30 SuperKEKB - Thomas Browder (University of Hawaii (Belle II))

09:15 Machine-detector interface - Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Hawaii)

10:30 Flash talks

11:30 Challenge contest results - Boyang Zhang (University of Hawaii [Belle II])

11:50 Closeout - Leo Piilonen (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:40
Room: on your own