5th International Workshop on Emergent QCD Collectivity Across Scales: From Small System Collisions to Jets
from
Monday, 29 June 2026 (08:40)
to
Thursday, 2 July 2026 (20:35)
Monday, 29 June 2026
08:45
Welcome
08:45 - 09:00
09:00
Collectivity and Initial States
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions
09:00
Probing collectivity in small collision systems with asymmetric d+Au and symmetric O+O collisions
-
Shengli Huang
09:40
Collective flow and hydrodynamization as a function of system size from kinetic theory simulations
-
Clemens Werthmann
(
Ghent University
)
10:20
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50
Collectivity and Initial States
10:50 - 12:10
Contributions
10:50
Collective Flow Across System Size: An Experimental Perspective from Light Ions to the Smallest Systems
-
You Zhou
(
Niels Bohr Institute (DK)
)
11:30
Balance functions as probes of particle production mechanisms
-
Alice Ohlson
(
Lund University (SE)
)
12:10
lunch
lunch
12:10 - 14:00
14:00
Equation of States, Speed of Sound
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions
14:00
Extracting the speed of sound of QCD from transverse momentum fluctuations
-
Jean-Yves OLLITRAULT
Jean-Yves OLLITRAULT
14:40
Feasibility of measuring the QGP speed of sound from ultracentral heavy-ion collisions
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Jean-Francois Paquet
(
Vanderbilt University
)
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50
To be collective or not: methods, nonflow, etc.
15:50 - 17:30
Contributions
15:50
Nonflow Subtraction Beyond Two-Particle Correlations
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Jiangyong Jia
(
Stony Brook University (US)
)
16:30
Methodological Challenges and Possible Solutions for Differential Flow Measurements in Small-System Collisions
-
Rohit Kumar Singh
(
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN)
)
18:00
Reception
Reception
18:00 - 19:30
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
09:00
Vorticity, Polarization, Chiral Condensate
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions
09:00
Polarization & collectivity across scales - correlated or not?
-
Zhenyu Chen
(
Shandong University (CN)
)
09:40
Dynamical chiral condensate as a coherent sigma/f_0(500) field
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Stefan Floerchinger
(
University of Jena
)
10:20
coffee break
coffee break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50
Intra-jet Collectivity, Partonic Transport
10:50 - 12:10
Contributions
10:50
Toward Improved Transport Modeling of Collectivity
-
Zi-Wei Lin
(
East Carolina University
)
11:30
TBD
-
Xiaoyu Liu
(
Rice University (US)
)
12:10
lunch
lunch
12:10 - 14:00
14:00
e+e-, jets, EEC
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions
14:00
TBD
-
Yen-Jie Lee
(
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)
)
14:40
TBD
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Carlota Andres
(
MIT
)
15:20
coffee break
coffee break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50
Parton Energy Loss, Medium Response, Jet Substrcture
15:50 - 17:30
Contributions
15:50
To scatter or not to scatter: effects of the first re-scattering
-
Korinna Zapp
16:30
Breakdown of LPM Suppression in Extremely High-Energy Bremsstrahlung
-
Omar Elgedawy
(
CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique
)
19:00
Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
09:00
Heavy Flavor & Small Systems
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions
09:00
Heavy Quarks across Scales: QGP, Hadronization & CNM effects
-
Wei Xie
(
Purdue University (US)
)
09:40
Light-Ion Physics at LHCb
-
JiaZhao Lin
(
Indiana University (US)
)
10:20
coffee break
coffee break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50
Light Ions
10:50 - 12:10
Contributions
10:50
Dynamical core-corona initialisation in p+p and O+O collisions
-
Tetsufumi Hirano
11:30
New collectivity measurements of light ions and small systems at CMS
-
Aryaa Dattamunsi
(
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN)
)
12:10
Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 14:00
14:00
Light Ions
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions
14:00
The unexpected uses of a bowling pin
-
Govert Hugo Nijs
(
CERN
)
14:40
Studying the nuclear structures with high-energy collisions of light and heavy ions at the LHC
-
Maxim Virta
(
University of Jyväskylä
)
15:20
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50
Balance Function, Summary, Wrap-ups
15:50 - 17:30
Contributions
16:30
How can we tell if QGP droplets form in Small Systems at RHIC and the LHC?
Thursday, 2 July 2026
09:00
EIC physics and experiment
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions
09:00
Fluctuating Proton Geometry: Constraints from Charge Radius, Diffraction, and Flow
-
Wenbin Zhao
(
Wayne State University
)
09:40
DDbar correlations in eA
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Cyrille Marquet
(
CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique
)
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50
EIC physics and experiment
10:50 - 12:10
Contributions
10:50
ePIC experiment
-
Carlos MUNOZ CAMACHO
11:30
EICROC development
-
Christophe De La Taille
(
OMEGA (FR)
)
12:10
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:10 - 14:00
14:00
ePIC experiment collaboration: simulation, ASICs, frontend readout etc.
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions
14:00
Frontend electronics and DAQ for AC-LGADs: status and plan
-
Tonko Ljubicic
(
Rice University
)
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50
More discussions on ePIC, Closing
15:50 - 17:10