The VII-th International Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions : Initial Stages 2023

from Monday 19 June 2023 (08:00) to Friday 23 June 2023 (17:00)
Copenhagen

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Jun 2023
20 Jun 2023
21 Jun 2023
22 Jun 2023
23 Jun 2023
AM
08:00
Registration (until 09:00)
09:00
Opening (until 09:15)
09:00 Opening speech - Prof. Jens-Jorgen Gaardhoeje (University of Copenhagen (DK))  
09:05 Opening speech from the IS2023 chairs - You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute (DK))  
09:15
EXP review - You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute (DK)) (until 10:30)
09:15 ALICE overview on soft probes - Livio Bianchi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
09:45 ALICE overview on hard probes - Roman Lavicka (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
EXP review 2 - Julia Velkovska (Vanderbilt University (US)) (until 12:30)
11:00 ATLAS overview - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder)  
11:30 CMS overview - Prabhat Ranjan Pujahari (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN))  
12:00 LHCb overview - Giulia Manca (Universita` degli studi di Cagliari and INFN, Cagliari, IT)  
09:00
Plenary Day2-1 - Raju Venugopalan Raju Venugopalan UNKNOWN (until 10:30)
09:00 Dynamic mechanisms for shadowing - Vadim Guzey (NRC Kurchatov Institute PNPI (RU))  
09:30 Quantum information science for pdfs/saturation and non-equilibrium dynamics - João Barata  
10:00 NLO calculations in the CGC - Tolga Altinoluk  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary Day2-2 - Eero Aleksi Kurkela (University of Stavanger (NO)) (until 12:30)
11:00 Developments in TMDs, GPDs, Wigner functions - Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique)  
11:30 Spin polarization: from kinetic theory to hydrodynamics - Prof. Qun Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)  
12:00 Recent development of AI/ML in heavy-ion experiments - Hannah Bossi (Yale University (US))  
09:00
Plenary D3-1 - Barbara Jacak (University of California Berkeley (US)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Experimental signatures for nuclear structure at RHIC and the LHC - Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook University (US)) Chunjian Zhang (Stony Brook University)  
09:30 Intersection of nuclear structure and heavy ion collisions across energy scales: perspective from high-energy heavy ion collisions - Giuliano Giacalone (Universität Heidelberg)  
10:00 Intersection of nuclear structure and heavy ion collisions across energy scales: perspective from low-energy nuclear structure - Elena Litvinova  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary D3-2 - Wei Li (Rice University (US)) (until 12:40)
11:00 Experimental overview on UPC - Iwona Grabowska-Bold (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
11:30 Therotical overview on UPC - Mariola Klusek-Gawenda (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)  
12:00 NLO pQCD predictions for exclusive J/Psi and Upsilon photoproduction in A+A UPCs at the LHC - Prof. Kari J. Eskola (University of Jyväskylä (FI))  
12:20 Nuclear and nucleon structure impact on small-x evolution and rapidity dependence - Chun Shen (Wayne State University)  
09:00
Plenary D4-1 - Huichao Song (until 10:30)
09:00 Collective phenomena in small systems: initial vs final-state effects (soft probes) - Dr Debojit Sarkar (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)  
09:30 What have we learned from e+e-, ep, eA, M.B pp and UPC collectivity searches? - Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
10:00 Signals of collectivity from single (or few) scattering - Yuuka Kanakubo (University of Jyväskylä)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary D4-2 -Dr Guilherme Milhano (LIP-Lisbon & CERN TH) (until 12:30)
11:00 Jet quenching and heavy flavor dynamics in small systems: experimental overview - Deepa Thomas (University of Texas at Austin (US))  
11:30 Jet quenching and heavy flavor dynamics in small systems: theoretical overview - Dr Isobel Kolbe (IGFAE)  
12:00 Jet quenching in anisotropic media (how does non-equilibrium stage affect jet quenching and other hard probes) - Carlota Andres (Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT)  
09:00
Plenary D5-1 - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Recent development in Nuclear PDF - Maria Pia Zurita Maria Zurita (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)  
09:30 What will the EIC program teach us about heavy ion physics - Prof. Bowen Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (SZ))  
10:00 EIC progress report - Thomas Ullrich  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary D5-2 -Prof. Jens-Jorgen Gaardhoeje (University of Copenhagen (DK)) (until 12:40)
11:00 Future LHC program - Constantinos Loizides (ORNL)  
11:30 Flash talk 1: Extracting initial conditions from hydrodynamics from transport approach - Zuzana Paulinyova (Pavol Jozef Safarik University)  
11:40 Flash talk 2: Simulating heavy quarks and jets in the Glasma - Dana Avramescu (University of Jyväskylä)  
11:50 Flash talk 3: Investigating high energy proton-proton collisions with a multi-phase transport model coupled with PYTHIA8 initial conditions - Qiye Shou (Fudan University (CN))  
12:00 Flash talk 4: A Forward Hadronic Calorimeter for ALICE at the LHC - Laura Marie Dufke (University of Copenhagen (DK))  
12:10 Flash talk 5: Probing nucleon structure with fixed-target collisions at LHCb - Camilla De Angelis (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))  
12:20 Flash talk 6: Probing initial state using higher order correlations: Vn-[pT] and Higher-order [pT] correlations in ATLAS - Somadutta Bhatta (Stony Brook University (US))  
12:30 Next Initial Stages: IS2025 Taipei - Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central University (TW))  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
EXP review 3 - Alexander Milov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)) (until 15:30)
14:00 STAR overview - Nicole Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
14:30 PHENIX overview - Axel Drees  
15:00 sPHENIX progress report - Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central University (TW))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Theory session D1 - Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)) (until 17:30)
16:00 Development of MC models - Klaus WERNER (subatech)  
16:30 Universality, attractors and non-equilibrium physics - Dr Xiaojian Du (Galician Institute of High-Energy Physics (IGFAE))  
16:50 Parton showers with overlapping emissions - Peter Arnold (University of Virginia (US))  
17:10 AMY Lorentz invariant parton cascade - Robin Törnkvist (Lund University)  
17:30
IAC meeting (until 18:30)
19:00
Reception and poster session (until 22:00)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Parallel Session 1 - Raghunath Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IN)) Raghunath Sahoo (until 15:40) (Aud. 2)
14:00 Precision probe of the structure of atomic nuclei with heavy-ion collisions - Emil Gorm Nielsen (University of Copenhagen (DK))  
14:20 Imaging the shape of atomic nuclei in high-energy collisions from STAR - Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook University (US))  
14:40 Probing the nuclear structure with flow observables in ALICE - Zhiyong Lu (China Institute of Atomic Energy (CN))  
15:00 Understanding the deformed nuclear structure across different energy scales - Pragya Singh  
15:20 Methods for systematic study of nuclear structure in high-energy collisions - Prof. Matthew William Luzum (University of São Paulo)  
14:00
Parallel Session 2 - Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) Christian Bierlich (until 15:40) (Aud. 3)
14:00 Unequal rapidity correlators from a numerical implementation of the JIMWLK equation - Andrecia Ramnath  
14:20 Probing gluon saturation via diffractive jets in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions - Edmond Iancu (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
14:40 Transverse momentum broadening from NLL BFKL to all orders in pQCD - Dr Yacine Mehtar-Tani (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
15:00 The Black Hole CGC double copy: How the CGC can help compute gravitational radiation in BH mergers - Raju Venugopalan  
15:20 A novel saturation-based 3+1D initial state model for Heavy Ion Collisions - Oscar Garcia-Montero  
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10
Parallel Session 3 - Jean-Yves Ollitrault Jean-Yves OLLITRAULT (until 18:30) (Aud. 2)
16:10 Large-scale model-to-data comparison of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions using TRENTo-3D initial conditions - Derek Soeder (Duke University)  
16:30 Elliptic flow fluctuations of charged and identified hadrons relative to the participant and spectator planes in heavy-ion collisions with ALICE - Michael Rudolf Ciupek (Heidelberg University (DE))  
16:50 Charge-dependent correlation and fluctuation measurement at CMS - Subash Chandra Behera (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN))  
17:10 Attractors in the Adiabatic Hydrodynamization framework: how and where to find them - Rachel Steinhorst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
17:30 Condensation and early time dynamics in QCD plasmas - Lillian Margaret-Marie de Bruin (Universität Heidelberg)  
17:50 Pre-Equilibrium Evolution of Conserved Charges with ICCING Initial Conditions - Patrick Carzon  
16:10
Parallel Session 4 -Prof. Ian Gardner Bearden (University of Copenhagen (DK)) Ian Gardner Bearden (Niels Bohr Institute) (until 18:30) (Aud. 3)
16:10 Measurement of dijet production in UPC with the ATLAS detector - Riccardo Longo (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
16:30 Probing a new regime of ultra-dense gluonic matter using high-energy photons with the CMS experiment - Jiazhao Lin (Rice University (US))  
16:50 New ALICE results of the energy dependence of coherent photoproduction of J/ψ in ultra-peripheral Pb--Pb collisions - Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO))  
17:10 Recent quarkonium results from the STAR experiment - Dr Barbara Antonina Trzeciak (Czech Technical University in Prague) Barbara Trzeciak  
17:30 Small-x physics programme of the ALICE FoCal upgrade - Peter Martin Jacobs (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
17:50 Prototype test beam results and design of the future Forward Calorimeter in ALICE - Max Philip Rauch (University of Bergen (NO))  
18:10 Probing gluon saturation through two-particle correlations at STAR - Matt Posik  
19:30
Boat tour (until 20:30)
12:40 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Parallel Session 5 - Mateusz Ploskon (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 15:40) (Aud. 2)
14:00 Probing nuclear symmetry energy with structures and reactions of heavy nuclei - Bao-An Li  
14:20 Dimuon production from photon fusion in hadronic Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
14:40 Heavy flavor physics at the sPHENIX experiment - Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
15:00 Measurements of jet substructure in p+p and jet-event activity correlations in p+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV at STAR - David Stewart (Wayne State University)  
15:20 Open heavy-flavour and quarkonia production at LHCb - Jianqiao Wang (Tsinghua University (CN))  
14:00
Parallel Session 6 - Katarina Krizkova Gajdosova (CERN) (until 15:40) (Aud. 3)
14:00 Probing partonic collectivity in pp and p--Pb collisions with ALICE - Wenya Wu (Fudan University (CN))  
14:20 Systematic study of flow harmonics via di-hadron correlations at mid-rapidity in p+Au, d+Au and ^{3}He+Au collisions at 200 GeV - Zhenyu Chen (Shandong University) Zhenyu Chen (Shandong University) Dr Shengli Huang (Stony Brook University)  
14:40 Multiparticle cumulants in 13 TeV p+p collisions and effects of the proton substructure from a transport model - Zi-Wei Lin (East Carolina University)  
15:00 Anisotropic flow in small systems - Dr Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)  
15:20 Exploring the importance of quark recombination in high multiplicity small system collisions - Huichao Song Yuanyuan Wang (Peking University)  
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10
Parallel Session 7 - Alice Ohlson (Lund University (SE)) (until 18:30) (Aud. 2)
16:10 Probing the initial state of nuclear collisions using isolated prompt photons with ALICE - Barbara Jacak (University of California Berkeley (US))  
16:30 Measurements of J/ψ production vs event multiplicity in the forward rapidity in p+p and p+Au collisions in the PHENIX experiment - Dr Zhaozhong Shi (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
16:50 Recent quarkonium results in small systems with ALICE - Ingrid Mckibben Lofnes (University of Bergen (NO))  
17:10 New constraints on nucleon structure from LHCb - Federica Fabiano (Università e INFN Cagliari (IT))  
17:30 Dependence of heavy-flavour production on event activity in small systems with ALICE - Shreyasi Acharya (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))  
17:50 Collider physics with no PDFs - Mirja Tevio  
16:10
Parallel Session 8 -Dr Debojit Sarkar (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) (until 18:30) (Aud. 3)
16:10 Search for QCD collectivity inside high-multiplicity jets in pp collisions with the CMS experiment - Parker Gardner (Rice University (US))  
16:30 Collectivity in small and large systems with heavy-flavour observables with ALICE - Stefano Trogolo (University of Houston (US))  
16:50 Measurement of the Sensitivity of Two-Particle Correlations in pp Collisions to the Presence of Hard Scatterings - Pengqi Yin (Columbia University (US))  
17:10 Non-Hydrodynamic Modes from Linear Response in Kinetic Theory - Stephan Ochsenfeld (Bielefeld University)  
17:30 Deep learning for flow observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions - Henry Hirvonen (University of Jyväskylä)  
17:50 Does quark-gluon plasma feature an extended hydrodynamic regime? - Dr Yi Yin (Institute of modern physics, Chinese Academy of Sciencessti)  
19:30
IAC dinner (until 21:30)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Plenary D4-3 - Giulia Manca (Universita` degli studi di Cagliari and INFN, Cagliari, IT) (until 15:30)
14:00 Motivation and predictions for O-O and p-O collisions - Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University (DE))  
14:30 Topical discussion about small systems - Jurgen Schukraft (University of Copenhagen (DK)) Raju Venugopalan Huichao Song Peter Christiansen (Lund University (SE)) Katarina Krizkova Gajdosova (CERN) Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Lab)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Plenary D4-4 - Sangyong Jeon (until 17:30)
16:00 Recent results in particle production and flow from Bayesian analysis - Govert Nijs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
16:30 Deep learning in initial conditions, particle production and flow - Dr Kai Zhou (FIAS, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)  
17:00 Status of thermalization at weak and strong coupling - Prof. Soeren Schlichting (Universität Bielefeld)  
19:00
Conference Banquet (until 22:00)
12:40
Closing (until 13:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---