Talks and seminars

The list below contains a selected set of my talks at seminars, conferences, and workshops. Some of these talks are also available in SlideShare.

2023

• Stress-testing the Standard Model at ATLAS: a theorist viewpoint, introduction of the ATLAS physics session of the Nikhef Topical Lectures “Physics at the LHC”, Amsterdam, June 2023.
• At the Heart of Matter: the Inner Life of the Amazing Proton, inaugural lecture as professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, May 2023. Slides available in .key, .pptx, and .pdf (with animations). Recording of the lecture available here, and the text of the lecture has been published here.
• Applications of Machine Learning to Electron Microscopy and Electron-Based Spectroscopy, guest lecture at the “Electron Microscopy Characterisation of the Nanoscale” course, MSc program Applied Physics, TU Delft, May 2023.
• Differential measurements for global SMEFT analyses, invited vision talk at the CMS Physics Days: the Effective Field Theory program, Zoom, May 2023.
• A new era for hadronic physics: charting proton and nuclear structure from the LHC to the EIC and the FPF, talk at the HadNuc@UB seminar, University of Barcelona, May 2023.
• Neutrino Structure Functions from GeV to EeV Energies, talk at the Nikhef KM3NET program work meeting, Amsterdam, March 2023.
• QCD and neutrino physics at the FPF and the role of neutrino interaction modelling, invited talk at the FLArE Far Forward Physics Working Group, Online, March 2023.
• At the Heart of Matter: the Secret Inner Life of Protons, public outreach lecture in the framework of the STRONG-2020 European Research network, Online, March 2023.
• Unpolarised PDFs and the Jefferson Laboratory upgrade at 22 GeV, invited seminar at the Science at the Luminosity Frontier: Jefferson Lab at 22 GeV Workshop, JLab January 2023.
• Do protons really contain charm quarks? KIT Particle Physics Colloquium, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, January 2023.

2022

• Hadronic structure and neutrino interactions at the Forward Physics Facility, Neutriverse: a universe of neutrinos workshop, Nikhef, December 2022.
• Evidence and implications of intrinsic charm in the proton, Oxford Particle Theory seminar, Oxford, November 2022.
• WG1: Neutrino interactions and Hadron Structure, talk at the 5th general meeting of the Forward Physics Facility (FPF5), CERN, November 2022.
• An Effective (Field Theory) Pathway to the New Standard Model, plenary invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Subatomic Physics section of the Dutch Physics Association (NVV), Lunteren, November 2022.
• Evidence and Implications for Intrinsic Charm Quarks in the Proton, Angel Dacal Seminar, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Zoom, November 2022.
• Parton Distribution and New Physics Searches in the the Drell-Yan Forward-Backward Asymmetry, talk at the ATLAS PDF fitting forum, CERN/Zoom, October 2022. Zoom recording available.
• Evidence and Implications for Intrinsic Charm Quarks in the Proton, invited Theory Seminar at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Zoom, October 2022.
• Parton Distribution and New Physics Searches: the Drell-Yan Forward-Backward Asymmetry as Case Study, talk at the LHC Electroweak Working Grouo meeting, CERN/Zoom, October 2022
• Heavy flavour production in the very forward region at the LHC, talk at the 2nd Workshop on Electromagnetic Dipole Moments of Unstable Particles, Gargnano del Garda, September 2022
• Unbinned observables in global EFT fits from Machine Learning, talk at the Effective Field Theory working group of the CMS collaboration, CERN, Zoom, June 2022.
• Status of collinear (nuclear) PDFs and constraints from forward particle production, invited talk at the workshop on the Exploration of the small-x structure of nuclei and signals of saturation in forward measurements at the LHC, CERN, June 2022.
• Proton and nuclear structure at the cross-roads between LHC and EIC, invited review talk at the kick-off meeting of the Synergies between the EIC and the LHC JENAS initiative, CERN, June 2022.
• Particle Physics: the Decade Ahead, Colloquium of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU Amsterdam, June 2022.
• Higgs Physics and Parton Distributions, invited keynote talk at the Celebrating a Decade of the Higgs Boson conference, TIFR, Mumbay, June 2022.
• Applications of Machine Learning to Transmission Electron Microscopy, invited guest lecture at the course Electron Microscopy Characterisation of the Nanoscale, Applied Physics MSc program, TU Delft, May 2022.
• The measurement of the W boson mass at hadron colliders: a SM perspective, talk at the “Theory meets Experiment” mini-workshop on the W mass measurements, Nikhef, June 2022.
• Combined SMEFT interpretation of Higgs, diboson, and top quark data from the LHC, invited talk at the joint top+Higgs session of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference 2022 (LHCP2022), Zoom, May 2022.
• QCD studies at the Forward Physics Facility, review talk at the Spring Meeting of the QCD Working Group, CERN Physics Beyond Colliders initiative, Zoom May 2022.
• Precision QCD at colliders, invited plenary talk at the Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects 2022 Conference (DIS2022), Santiago de Compostela, May 2022.
• Deep-inelastic scattering with TeV neutrinos at the Forward Physics Facility, talk at the Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects workshop, Santiago de Compostela, May 2022.
• Intrinsic Charm in the Proton, Nikhef Colloquium, Amsterdam, April 2022.
• LHCb as a QCD Discovery Machine, invited talk at the LHCb Collaboration Plenary Meeting, Zoom, April 2022.
• A global combination of particle physics data in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, IFAE Theory Seminar, Barcelona, March 2022.
• Strong coupling fits for the NNPDF global analyses, talk at the “Alphas-2022 workshop” on precision measurements of the strong coupling constant, Trento+Zoom, January 2022.

2021

• Probing QCD and hadron structure at the Forward Physics Facility of the LHC, invited review talk at the General Meeting of the LHC Forward Physics Working Group, Zoom, December 2021.
• The path to proton structure at one-percent accuracy, invited DFG-RTG Colloquium at RWTH Aachen University, Zoom, November 2021.
• Mapping processes with operators in the SMEFT, talk at the 3rd General Meeting of the LHC Effective Field Theory working group, Zoom, November 2021.
• Why Open Likelihoods? The PDF viewpoint, talk at the Publication of Statistical Models: hands-on Workshop, Zoom, November 2021.
• Nucleon PDFs: what we know and what is missing, invited review talk at the 14th European Research Conference on Electromagnetic Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei, Zoom, November 2021.
• Neutrino interactions at TeV energies and beyond, review talk at the 3rd Workshop of the Forward Physics Facility, Zoom, October 2021.
• Z+charm at the LHC: implications for proton structure, invited talk at the LHC Electroweak Working Group, Zoom, October 2021.
• Parton Distributions at the LHC Run III and beyond, invited talk at the ATLAS Collaboration Week plenary meeting, CERN, October 2021.
• The NNPDF4.0 global analysis of proton structure, invited talk at the ATLAS Standard Model working group plenary meeting, Zoom, October 2021.
• Towards proton structure at 1% accuracy, invited talk given at QCD’N 2021, the 5th Workshop on the QCD Structure of the Nucleon, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, October 2021.
• The path to proton structure at 1% accuracy, talk given at PANIC2021, the Particles and Nuclei International Conference 2021, QCD and Spin Physics session, Zoom, September 2021.
• A global SMEFT analysis of LHC data, talk given at PANIC2021, the Particles and Nuclei International Conference 2021, Standard Model physics at the TeV scale session, Zoom, September 2021.
• A combined SMEFT interpretation of Higgs, diboson, and top quark data from the LHC, talk given at European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2021), top quark and electroweak physics session, Zoom, July 2021.
• The quest towards high-precision global parton distributions, talk at the 50th International Symposium of Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD2021), Zoom, July 2021.
• Unravelling Proton Structure with Hyperoptimised Machine Learning, Nikhef Lunch Talk about the Netherlands eScience Center and the award of the Accelerating Scientific Discoveries (ASDI) awards to Nikhef researchers.
• Charting Electron Energy Loss Spectra with Machine Learning, talk at the Material Research Society Spring 2021 Symposium, Artificial Intelligence and Automation for Materials Design session,  Zoom, April 2021. Talk recording available here.
• The structure of the proton at 1% accuracy: NNPDF4.0, talk at the Recontres de Moriond 2021: QCD and High-Energy Interactions, Zoom, April 2021.
• Charting proton structure (and beyond) with deep learning, invited lecture at the Machine Learning for High Energy Physics master course at Radboud University Nijmegen, Zoom, March 2021.
• Self-consistent determination of proton and nuclear PDFs at the Electron Ion Collider, talk given at the EIC opportunities for Snowmass workshop, Zoom, January 2021.
• SMEFiT: a flexible toolbox for Effective Theory interpretations of HEP data, talk at the Area 4: Fits and Related Systematics meeting of the LHC Effective Field Theories Working Group, Zoom, January 2021.
• An Effective Pathway to the New Standard Model, talk at the Focus Session FM02: Journeys through the Zeptouniverse: particle physics and the quest for a new standard model at the Physics@Veldhoven 2021 conference, Zoom, January 2021. The video recording of the presentation can be accessed here.

2020

• What hides inside a proton? From heavy quarks and photons to leptons and Higgs bosons, lecture at the High Energy Physics Graduate School seminar series, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, November 2020. Part I of the lecture (introduction to PDFs): slides and recordings (Part A, Part B). Part II of the lecture (technical seminar): slides and recording.
• Constraints on heavy flavour PDFs from LHC data, invited talk at the Opportunities with Heavy Flavour at the EIC Workshop, Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science, Zoom, November 2020.
• Towards a new PDF benchmarking and combination: PDF4LHC20, talk at the PDF4LHC Working Group meeting, Zoom, September 2020.
• Parton Distributions: Towards SnowMass 2021, invited review talk at the Energy Frontier working group on Hadronic Structure and Forward QCD (EF06), Zoom, July 2020.
• What we can learn from high-energy neutrino nucleon collisions? talk at the Nikhef workshop “Theory meets Experiment: High-energetic neutrino scattering processes and interactions of cosmic rays”, Nikhef, May 2020.
• Artificial Intelligence to map the proton structure, talk at the AI for Nuclear Physics Workshop, Bayesian Inference for Quantum Correlators workgroup, JLAB, March 2020.
• The PDF4LHC20 benchmarking exercise, talk at the PDF4LHC Working Group meeting, Zoom, October 2020.

2019

• Updates from NNPDF, invited review talk during the CMS Collaboration General Meeting, Bangkok, December 2019.
• A combined analysis of Higgs and top quark data within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, seminar at the Departamento de Fisica Teorica of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, December 2019.
• A combined analysis of Higgs and top quark data within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, seminar at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), Durham, November 2019.
• Towards a combined top+Higgs global analysis in the Standard Model EFT, seminars at the Institut de Ciences del Cosmos (ICC) of the University of Barcelona and at Institut de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) in Valencia, October 2019.
• Disentangling non-linear QCD dynamics at the Large Hadron electron Collider, talk at the LHeC PDFs and small-x Working Group meeting, September 2019.
• Towards a global analysis of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, seminars at the University of Portland in Eugene and at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), August 2019.
• The structure of the proton: QCD at work from the LHC to IceCube, Nuclear Physics seminar at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), August 2019.
• Parton Distributions with Theoretical Uncertainties, seminar at Elementary Particle Physics group at the University of Freiburg, Germany, July 2019.
• The structure of the proton and precision LHC phenomenology, review talk at the Standard Model at the LHC 2019 workshop, Zurich, April 2019
• SMEFiT: A Monte Carlo global analysis of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, talk at the Higgs and Effective Field Theories workshop, CP3, Louvain-la-Neuve, April 2019
• Proton Structure and PDFs, keynote opening talk of the Deep Inelastic Scattering 2019 Workshop, Torino, Italy, April 2019.
• Neutrino Telescopes as QCD Microscopes, talk at the Deep Inelastic Scattering 2019 Workshop, Torino, Italy, April 2019.
• The structure of the proton: QCD at work from the LHC to IceCube, the Nico van Kampen Colloquium in Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht, March 2019.

2018

• PDF projections for the Large Hadron electron Collider, meeting of the PDFs and Low x at LHeC / FCC-he Working Group, CERN, December 2018.
• Global NLO SMEFT analysis of top quark production at the LHC, meeting of the LHC Top Quark Working group, CERN, November 2018.
• Machine Learning Tools for Global PDF fits, talk at the Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum conference, Maynooth, Ireland, August 2018.
• Discovery through precision at the Large Hadron Collider, Cosmology and Particle Physics seminar, Physics Department, University of Basel, May 2018.
• Quantifying the impact of HL-LHC measurements into parton distributions, talk given at the HL/HE-LHC Working Group meeting, CERN, May 2018.
• The structure of the proton in the LHC precision era, Physics Department Colloquium, University of Bonn, April 2018.
• Parton distributions in the high-precision LHC era , review talk at the “Getting to Grips with QCD 2018” workshop, Paris, April 2018.
• Bridging collider physics and neutrino telescopes with charm production, talk at the Focus Session The neutrino universe at Physics @ Veldhoven 2018, January 2018.