The 13th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2026, HP2026) will take place in Nashville, Tennessee on the picturesque campus of Vanderbilt University from 22 to 26 June 2026. The Student Day will take place on Sunday, June 21.
The conference is focused on experimental and theoretical developments on perturbative probes of hot and dense QCD matter as studied in high-energy nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus and proton-proton collisions. Specifically, topics for discussion will include:
- Jet modification and medium response
- High-momentum hadrons and correlations
- Heavy quarks and quarkonia
- Electromagnetic and electroweak probes
- Nuclear PDFs, saturation, and early-time dynamics
- Future experimental facilities and new techniques
- ML/AI and quantum computing in high-energy nuclear physics