Monday, Mar 30, 2026 |
| 8:50am |
Lars Bildsten (KITP) |
Welcome[Video] |
| 9:00am |
Berndt Mueller (Duke) |
Quark-Gluon Plasma: Assessment of current status - theory[Slides][Video] |
| 9:45am |
Chun Shen (Wayne State) |
Evidence for hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions[Slides][Video] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Barbara Jacak (UCB) |
Status of the Heavy lon Field - A critical assessment from an experimentalist[Slides][Video] |
| 11:45am |
Lijuan Ruan (BNL) |
Critical assessment of recent RHIC results[Slides][Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Bruno Scheihing (KITP) |
Heavy quark transport for heavy flavor hadron and quarkonia production[Video] |
| 2:45pm |
Gianluca Usai (U Cagliari) |
Electromagnetic probes of heavy ion collisions[Video] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Volodymyr Vovchenko (U. Houston) |
The search for the QCD Critical Point[Slides][Video] |
| 4:45pm |
Mateusz Ploskon (LBNL) |
JSE: Jet Shape Engineering[Video] |
| 5:30pm |
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Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Zhoudunming Tu (BNL) |
Understanding nuclear matter — a new era with the Electron-lon Collider[Slides][Video] |
| 9:45am |
Austin Baty (UIC) |
Collectivity in the smallest systems[Slides][Video] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Farid Salazar Wong (Temple) |
Initial Particle Production: At the Crossroads of Hadron Structure, Heavy lons, and High-Energy QCD[Slides][Video] |
| 11:45am |
Florian Lindenbauer (MIT) |
Thermalization in heavy-ion collisions: What we have learned and what is still missing[Slides][Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Dana Avramescu (U Jyvaskyla) |
Initial stage energy loss for jets and heavy flavor[Slides][Video] |
| 2:45pm |
Jing Wang (MIT) |
Collisions with Oxygen and Neon[Slides][Video] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook) |
Nuclear structure heavy-ion collisions[Video] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Wednesday, Apr 1, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Gergely Endrodi (Eotvos U) |
Latest developments from lattice QCD under extreme conditions[Slides][Video] |
| 9:45am |
Govert Nijs (CERN) |
Extracting the QCD EOS from experiment[Video] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Bedangadas Mohanty (NISER) |
The RHIC Beam Energy Scan[Slides][Video] |
| 11:45am |
Peter Petreczky (BNL) |
Heavy Flavor Theory Overview[Slides][Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Jocelyn Read (Cal State Fullerton) |
Dense Matter in Neutron Stars[Slides][Video] |
| 2:45pm |
Tyler Gorda (U Frankfurt) |
Neutron Stars and the connection to heavy ion physics[Slides][Video] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Varun Vaidya (U. South Dakota) |
An EFT for Jet Quenching[Slides][Video] |
| 4:45pm |
Gian Michele Innocenti (MIT) |
Ultraperipheral collisions: a tool to study high-density nuclear matter[Video] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Thursday, Apr 2, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Raghav Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt) |
Jet measurements and connections to hadronization[Slides][Video] |
| 9:45am |
Yi Luna Chen (Vanderbilt) |
Medium response to jet quenching[Video] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Laura Havener (Yale) |
Jet measurements in heavy ion collisions[Video] |
| 11:30am |
Hannah Bossi (MIT) |
Energy Correlators across collision systems[Slides][Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) |
Outlook for the field of heavy ion physics[Slides][Video] |
| 3:30pm |
All participants |
Discussion: Big questions for our field (heavy ion physics / quark-gluon matter)[Video] |
| 4:00pm |
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