16th Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement

from Monday, 13 April 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 17 April 2026 (18:00)
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026
AM
09:00
Welcome - Urs Wiedemann (CERN) Maja Mackowiak-Pawlowska (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)) (until 09:10)
09:10
Session 1 - Tetyana Galatyuk (until 10:40)
09:10 ALICE overview - Swati Saha (IIT- Indian Institute of Technology (IN))  
09:40 HADES overview - Marvin Nabroth  
10:10 NA61 overview - Seweryn Kowalski (University of Silesia (PL))  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Session 2 - Enrico Scomparin (INFN Torino (IT)) (until 12:30)
11:00 STAR overview - Dr Fan Si (Heidelberg University (DE))  
11:30 CBM overview - Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
12:00 NA60/DiCE overview - Giacomo Alocco (Universita e INFN, Torino (IT))  
09:00
Session 5 - Steffen Bass (Duke University) (until 10:40)
09:00 Three regimes/phases of QCD at high T, their symmetries and Nc scaling - Leonid Glozman  
09:20 Bubble Nucleation in an Expanding Supercooled Quark–Gluon Plasma with a Critical-Point Equation of State - Noriyuki Sogabe  
09:40 Supercooled Goldstones at the QCD chiral phase transition - Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas  
10:00 Superfluid dynamics of the QCD chiral phase transition - Jannis Gebhard (Heidelberg University)  
10:20 Dissecting the moat regime at low energies - Shi Yin (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Justus Liebig University Giessen)  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Session 6 - Johanna Stachel (Heidelberg University (DE)) (until 12:40)
11:00 Transport properties from lattice QCD - Dibyendu Bala (Bielefeld University)  
11:30 HRG models - Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
12:00 Interplay of Electromagnetic Fields and Baryon Diffusion in Directed Flow Splitting - Mr Tribhuban Parida (AGH UST Krakow)  
12:20 Towards Physics-Informed Parameterization of QCD EoS - Dr Yi Yin (Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen))  
09:00
Session 10 - Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) (until 10:40)
09:00 CP and 1st-Order Phase Boundary: theory overview - Jamie Karthein (MIT) Dr Jamie Karthein (MIT)  
09:30 Experimental overview of net-proton fluctuations measurements - Xin Dong  
10:00 E-by-E fluctuations of proton and light nuclei numbers measured at HADES - Marvin Nabroth  
10:20 Relative particle yield fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC BES-II - Ashish Pandav  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:10
Session 11 -Dr Anar Rustamov (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH) (until 12:50)
11:10 Searching for echoes of criticality in OO collisions with ALICE - Mario Ciacco (Universita and INFN Torino (IT))  
11:30 News on (charged and neutral) hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions from NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS - Oleksandra Panova (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
11:50 QCD phase boundary from strangeness fluctuations on a high statistics lattice data set - Piyush Kumar (University of Wuppertal)  
12:10 Yang-Lee edge singularity structure beyond standard lattice algorithms - Szabolcs Istvan Borsanyi  
12:30 Directed and Triangular Flow of Protons and Vector Mesons in the High Baryon Density Region at RHIC - Guangyu Zheng (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
09:00
Session 14 - Jan M. Pawlowski (Heidelberg University) (until 10:20)
09:00 Full BSQ diffusion matrix effects in 3+1D simulations on conserved charge cumulants - Kevin P. Pala  
09:20 Constructing a 4D T'-expanded lattice QCD equation of state with a multi-dimensional critical contribution - Francesco Di Clemente (University of Houston)  
09:40 Towards a general framework for relativistic fluctuating hydrodynamics - Xin An (Ghent University)  
10:00 Real-time stochastic dynamics near a QCD critical point - Thomas Schaefer  
10:20 --- Workshop photo ---
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50
Session 15 - Misha Stephanov (UIC) (until 12:30)
10:50 Electromagnetic  probes experiments - Szymon Harabasz  
11:10 Low-mass, low-momentum virtual photon measurements with HADES - Ms Iuliana-Carina Udrea (Technische Universität Darmstadt)  
11:30 Combined Description of Thermal and Vacuum Contributions to the Dilepton Spectrum - Jessica Ou Ya Vogel  
11:50 How does a phase transition impact dilepton production? - Renan Góes-Hirayama (FIAS)  
12:10 Flow phenomena at high nuclear densities with HADES - Mr Behruz Kardan (IKF, Uni-Frankfurt)  
09:00 Next CPOD 2027 edition - Dr Yi Yin (Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)) Nu Xu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:10
Session 18 - Joachim Stroth (until 10:50)
09:10 Baryon junctions - Gregoire Marvin Nelson Pihan (University of Houston)  
09:40 Hydrodynamic models of heavy ion collisions - Dr Iurii Karpenko (FNSPE CTU in Prague)  
10:10 Charged Pion Production in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s) =3 - 4.5 GeV with the STAR Detector - Liubing Chen (Central China Normal University)  
10:30 Packing baryons into a lattice: lattice QCD canonical results at physical quark masses - Ludovica Pirelli (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)  
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Session 19 - Larry McLerran (until 12:00)
11:20 How soft is strangeness-neutral QCD matter? Contrasting material parameters at finite baryon density from (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD with heavy-ion data - Jishnu Goswami (Bielefeld University)  
11:40 Antiproton puzzle - Dr Volodymyr Vovchenko (University of Houston)  
PM
14:00
Session 3 - Marek Gazdzicki (Jan Kochanowski University (PL)) (until 15:20)
14:00 Physics opportunities for fixed target experiments at EIC. - Charles Joseph Naim  
14:20 Probes of collectivity in large and small systems with ATLAS - Patrycja Anna Potepa (AGH University of Krakow (PL))  
14:40 CMS overview - Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))  
15:00 LHCb overview - Imanol Corredoira (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
15:20 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50
Session 4 - Alexander Philipp Kalweit (CERN) (until 17:50)
15:50 QCD phase structure from Lattice QCD - Jana N. Guenther (University of Wuppertal)  
16:20 FRG approach to the QCD phase diagram - Prof. Wei-jie Fu (Dalian University of Technology)  
16:50 Bridging Theory/Phenomenology and Experiment in Fluctuation Studies - Dr Anar Rustamov (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)  
17:20 Quarkyonic matter - Larry McLerran  
17:50 --- Reception ---
14:00
Session 7 - Nu Xu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 15:40)
14:00 Non-Monotonicity of pT Correlations in Au + Au Collisions at RHIC-STAR - Mr Rutik Manikandhan (University of Houston)  
14:20 State of the art in fluctuation dynamics theory - Prof. Gokce Basar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)  
14:50 MUSES: results on the critical point - Dr Johannès Jahan (University of Houston - Department of Physics)  
15:20 Unveiling QCD Criticality in Rapidity Scan via Cross-Cumulant - Jianing Li  
15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:10
Session 8 - David Blaschke (until 16:50)
16:10 Probing Three-Body Baryonic Interactions via Triplet Femtoscopy at STAR - Ke Mi (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Central China Normal University)  
16:30 Relating the onset density of quark deconfinement in neutron stars and heavy ion collisions - Oleksii Ivanytskyi (University of Wroclaw)  
16:50
Session 9 - David Blaschke (until 17:40)
16:50 Connecting neutron stars to heavy-ion collisions theory - Agnieszka Sorensen (Institute for Nuclear Theory) Agnieszka Sorensen (University of Washington)  
17:20 Isospin symmetry violation measurements by NA61/SHINE - Andrzej Krzysztof Rybicki (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
14:00
Session 12 - Volker Koch (until 16:00)
14:00 Probing the QCD critical point by finite-size scaling of fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC - Yige Huang  
14:20 News in the search for the critical point at NA61/SHINE. - Barnabas Porfy (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
14:40 Measurement of (Net-)Proton Number Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions from RHIC-STAR : A Centrality-independent Method - Zhaohui Wang (Central China Normal University)  
15:00 Inhomogeneous instabilities in high-density QCD - Franz Richard Sattler (University Bielefeld)  
15:20 Performance of the CBM experiment to study the net-proton fluctuations - Rudrapriya Das (Bose Institute)  
15:40 Residual 3rd-body Coulomb Effect on Identical Charged Pion Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at STAR - Nu Xu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
Session 13 - Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) (until 17:30)
16:30 Dectector development: DRD5 - Michael Doser (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
16:50 CERN ion accelerator complex - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)  
17:10 ALICE 3: a next-generation heavy-ion detector for LHC Run 5 - Marianna Mazzilli (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
14:00
Session 16 - Andrzej Krzysztof Rybicki (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) (until 15:00)
14:00 Correlation of baryon number and charge at finite baryon density from S-matrix calculation - Vojtěch Honěk (FNSPE, CTU in Prague)  
14:20 Elliptic flow of deuterons and the mechanism of their production - Boris Tomasik  
14:40 Canonical statistical hadronization with local charge conservation for fluctuations and correlations - Dr Volodymyr Vovchenko (University of Houston)  
15:00
Session 17 - Xin Dong (until 16:00)
15:00 Hidden news on strangeness production in NA61/SHINE - Antoni Marcinek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
15:20 Strange hadron production in O+O collisions at sqrt(s_NN)= 200 GeV at STAR - Iris Ponce (Yale University)  
15:40 System size dependence of particle production with ALICE - Nicolò Jacazio (Universita del Piemonte Orientale (IT))  
16:30
IAC+LOC meeting (until 18:00)
19:30 --- Social dinner ---
12:00
Closing (until 12:20)