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18–24 Aug 2024
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Australia/Brisbane timezone

Scientific Programme

Parallel Sessions/Tracks - talk durations

  • Days 1-4, 14:00-15:30 (30mins / 20mins / 20mins / 20mins)
  • Days 1-4, 16:00-17:30 (20mins / 20mins / 20mins / 30mins)
  • Day 5, 14:00-15:00 (30mins / 30mins)

All parallel talks have common durations and start and end times,
across all Sessions/Tracks.


Plenary Speakers
JACKIE BONDELL
University of Melbourne, Australia
Bridging Scientists and Students with Regional School Partnerships

JOHANNES HEINRICH WEBER
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
In-medium heavy-quark interactions from lattice QCD

KARL JANSEN
DESY, Germany
Quantum Computing: a future perspective for scientific computing

KAZUYA AOKI
KEK, Japan
Physics Overview of J-PARC

MARK WISE
California Institute of Technology, United States
Hadronic vacuum polarization and some atomic binding effects relevant for the MUonE experiment

NORA BRAMBILLA
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Summary talk

RAIMOND SNELLINGS
Utrecht University and Nikhef, Netherlands
Recent experimental results on QGP formation and properties from the LHC

RAJAN GUPTA
Los Alamos National Lab, United States
Nucleon charges from Lattice QCD and their Implications for BSM Physics

RAUL BRICENO
UC Berkeley & LBNL, United States
Three-hadron systems

TETSUO HATSUDA
RIKEN iTHEMS, Japan
Hadron-Hadron Interactions from Lattice QCD: Theory meets Experiments

TETSUO HYODO
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Femtoscopy for exotic hadrons and nuclei

VERONICA DEXHEIMER
Kent State University, United States
Neutron stars and Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense Matter

YIOTA FOKA
GSI, Switzerland
IPPOG and spin-offs from particle and nuclear physics

YUKINAO AKAMATSU
Osaka University, Japan
Complex potential and open system applications in heavy-ion and cold atoms

ALESSANDRO STRUMIA
University of Pisa, Italy
Solving the strong CP problem

ANDRE WALKER-LOUD
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Beta decay as probe of new physics

ANDREAS KRONFELD
Fermi National Accelerator Lab., United States
Perturbation theory, power corrections, renormalons, and precise extraction of quark masses and α_s

ANTONIO VAIRO
Technical University of Munich, Germany
30 years highlight of NREFTs for quarkonium

CATALINA CURCEANU
INFN-LNF, Italy
Carlo Guaraldo Memorial Talk

CHENGPING SHEN
Fudan University, China
Experimental review of exotic states discoveries in the last 20 years

CLAUDIA RATTI (University of Houston, United States
Lattice and phenomenology of the Quark Gluon Plasma

CRAIG ROBERTS
Nanjing University, China
Hadron Structure: Perspective and Insights

DOMENEC ESPRIU CLIMENT
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
A tribute to Alexander Andrianov: a life for physics

FABIAN RENNECKE
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
The QCD phase structure and its signatures from functional approaches

FINN STOKES
University of Adelaide, Australia
Review of muon g-2: lattice, dispersive, and data-driven results

FRANCESCO SANNINO (University Federico II, Denmark) Strong Dynamics: A Treasure Trove for Standard Model Physics and Beyond

FRANCISCO MATORRAS
Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain
Open Questions in Statistical Practice for Particle Physics

GERNOT EICHMANN
University of Graz, Austria
Functional methods for hadron spectroscopy

HUEY-WEN LIN
Michigan State University, United States
Parton Distributions from Lattice and Impacts on Global QCD Analysis


Round Table Discussions
Round Table 1 (session C), Tuesday August 20th, 09:00-10:00
XYZ twenty years later: the known and the unknown
Chair: Nora Brambilla
Panel: Bruce Yabsley, Christopher Thomas, Makoto Oka, Thomas Mehen, Roberto Mussa

Round Table 2 (session B), Wednesday August 21st, 12:00-13:00
Precision QCD : What we know, what we don't know
Chair: Janwei Qiu
Panel: Ian Cloët, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Wei Wang

Round Table 3 (session E), Friday August 23rd, 12:00-13:00
QCD and New Physics in Extreme Astrophysical Environments - in Neutron Stars and their Mergers
Chair: Nicole Bell
Panel: Susan Gardner, Anthony W. Thomas, Stephen Harris


Poster Session Information
The conference poster session will be held on Wednesday August 21st 2024, 18:30-20:00, in the Plenary 1 & 2 room, with drinks and nibbles provided on the Mezzanine Exhibition level.

  • A: Vacuum Structure and Confinement

    Mechanisms of quark confinement (vortices, monopoles, calorons…) and the structure of the vacuum in non-Abelian gauge theories. Chiral symmetry breaking, and the Dirac spectrum in the low-momentum region. Studies of ghost and gluon propagators. Confining strings and flux tubes, their effective actions. Renormalons and power corrections. Interface between perturbative and non-perturbative physics.

    Conveners: D. Antonov (ITP, U. Heidelberg), J. Greensite (San Francisco State U.), M. Faber (Technical U., Vienna), T. Cohen (U. Maryland) Local Convener: D. Leinweber (U. Adelaide)

  • A*: VSC Focus Subsection

    Topology and confinement at borderlines of particle physics and condensed matter: emergent confinement in cold atoms and Anderson criticality in the QCD deconfinement transition.

    Conveners: I. Horvath (U. Kentucky), J. C. Halimeh (Ludwig Maximilian U. of Munich), M. C. Diamantini (U. Perugia)

  • B: Light Quarks

    Chiral and soft collinear effective theories; sum rules; lattice calculations; Schwinger-Dyson equations; masses of light quarks; light-quark loops; phenomenology of light-hadron form factors, spectra and decays; structure functions and generalised parton distributions; exotics and glueballs; experiments.

    Conveners: B. Ketzer (Bonn U.), M. Constantinou (Temple U.), H. Sazdjian (IJCLab, Orsay), N. G. Stefanis (Ruhr U. Bochum) Local Conveners: J. Zanotti, A. Kizilersu (U. Adelaide)

  • C: Heavy Quarks

    Heavy-light mesons, heavy quarkonia, heavy baryons, heavy exotics and related topics: phenomenology of spectra, decays, and production; effective theories for heavy quarks (HQET, NRQCD, pNRQCD, vNRQCD, SCET); sum rules for heavy hadrons; lattice calculations of heavy hadrons; heavy-quark mass determinations; experiments.

    Conveners: H. S. Chung (Korea U.), R. Mussa (INFN Torino), J. Soto (U. Barcelona), A. Vairo (Technical U. Munich), F. Knechtli (U. Wuppertal) Local Convener: U. Can (U. Adelaide)

  • D: Deconfinement

    QCD at finite temperature; quark-gluon plasma detection and characteristics; jet quenching; transport coefficients; lattice QCD and phases of quark matter; QCD vacuum and strong fields; heavy-ion experiments; experiments.

    Conveners: P. Foka (GSI), J. Ghiglieri (SUBATECH, Nantes), P. Petreczky (BNL), F. Ringer (JLab), J. Pawlowski (U. Heidelberg)

  • E: QCD and New Physics

    Physics beyond the Standard Model from hadronic physics, including precision experimental data and precision calculations.

    Conveners: W. Detmold (MIT), S. Gardner (U. Kentucky), W. Marinkovic (ETH Zürich), G. Ricciardi (U. Napoli), W. Korsch (U. Kentucky) Local Convener: R. Young (U. Adelaide)

  • F: Nuclear and Astro-Particle Physics

    Nuclear matter; nuclear forces; quark matter; neutron and compact stars.

    Conveners: M. Alford (Washington U. St. Louis), D. Blaschke (U. Wroclaw), J. Marton (SMI Vienna), A. Schmitt (U. Southampton), E. Epelbaum (Ruhr U. Bochum) Local Conveners: A.W. Thomas (U. Adelaide), W. Melnitchouk (JLab, USA & U. Adelaide)

  • G: Strongly-Coupled Theories and Dark Matter

    Hints on the confinement/deconfinement mechanisms from supersymmetric and string theories; strongly-coupled theories beyond the Standard Model; applications of nonperturbative methods of QCD to other fields; strongly-coupled scenarios of BSM and Dark Matter.

    Conveners: D. Espriu (U. Barcelona), Z. Fodor (U. Wuppertal), R. Pasechnik (Lund U.), V. Vento (U. Valencia), M. Spannowsky (U. Durham) Local Convener: A.G. Williams (U. Adelaide)

  • H: Statistical Methods for Physics Analysis in the XXIst Century

    Machine learning techniques; data fitting and extraction of signals; new developments in unfolding methods; averaging and combination of results.

    Conveners: T. Dorigo (U. Padova), S. V. Gleyzer (U. Alabama), E. Rinaldi (RIKEN iTHEMS) Local Convener: M. White (U. Adelaide)