Collective Dynamics in Little Big Bangs

from Wednesday, August 6, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, August 8, 2025 (6:30 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 6, 2025
Aug 7, 2025
Aug 8, 2025
AM
8:30 AM
Registration (until 8:50 AM)
8:50 AM Welcome Address - Bjoern Schenke  
9:00 AM Modeling the Little Bang: 50 years in 20 minutes - Ulrich Heinz (The Ohio State University)  
9:25 AM Light from the Little Big Bangs - Charles Gale (McGill University)  
9:50 AM Nuclear Matter Equation of State, QGP Dynamics & Jets - John Harris (Yale University)  
10:15 AM
Coffee (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM Dissociation and Regeneration of Charmonia within microscopic Langevin simulations - Naomi Oei  
11:25 AM Shakhov collision model in relativistic kinetic theory - Dr Victor Ambrus (West University of Timișoara)  
11:50 AM Polarization phenomena in heavy-ion collisions: from initial to final state - Enrico Speranza (CERN)  
9:00 AM Spin alignment from gluon polarization - Mei Huang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(UCAS))  
9:25 AM Spin physics in heavy ion collisions - Prof. Qun Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)  
9:50 AM Advancements in relativistic spin hydrodynamics - David Wagner (Florence University)  
10:15 AM
Coffee (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM Hybrid stars: equilibrium structure and bulk viscosity - Prof. Armen Sedrakian (University of Wrocław and FIAS)  
11:25 AM Neutrino emission from magnetized quark matter in compact stars - Igor Shovkovy (Arizona State University)  
11:50 AM NJL-model studies of color superconductivity revisited: removing cutoff artifacts using an RG consistent approach - Michael Buballa (TU Darmstadt)  
9:00 AM From gluon radiation to gravitational radiation: A classical double copy - Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University)  
9:25 AM What neutron stars say about the properties of strong interaction - György Wolf (Wigner RCP)  
9:50 AM Chromo-dynamics of Jet-Fluid Interaction - Dr Xin-Nian Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
10:15 AM
Coffee (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM Captain Dirk, I, and color superconductivity - Robert Pisarski  
11:25 AM Femtoscopy of kaon-deuteron pairs - Juan Torres-Rincon (Universitat de Barcelona)  
11:50 AM Pseudogauge-invariant local equilibrium distribution - Francesco Becattini (Università di Firenze)  
PM
12:15 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM Exact solutions for the moments of the binary collision integral and its relation to the relaxation-time approximation in leading-order anisotropic fluid dynamics - Etele Molnar (University of Wroclaw)  
2:25 PM Analytic structure of stress-energy tensor correlation functions and new Kubo formulae - Juhee Hong (Yonsei University) Alina Czajka (National Centre for Nuclear Research) Sangyong Jeon (McGill University)  
2:50 PM Local symmetries of the effective field theory of hydrodynamics - Giorgio Torrieri (Unicamp)  
3:15 PM
Coffee (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM The Climate Apocalypse is Coming! How can Nuclear Physicists Help? - Wolfgang Bauer (Michigan State University)  
4:25 PM From QGP and DCC to nanofusion - memories of collaboration with Frankfurt - Tamas Biro (Wigner RCP)  
4:50 PM Hydrodynamics of spin and conformal currents - Prof. Xu-Guang Huang (Fudan University)  
12:15 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Tributes and reflections and coffee (until 5:00 PM)
7:00 PM
Dinner at MainNizza (until 10:00 PM)
12:15 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM Heavy Quarks as Messengers of the Little Bang - Steffen Bass (Duke University)  
2:25 PM The Extended Linear Sigma Model: History, Ideas, and Lessons Learned - Prof. Francesco Giacosa (Jan Kochanowski University)  
2:50 PM Chiral symmetry restoration in hot and dense baryon-rich QCD matter - Jochen Wambach (TU Darmstadt)  
3:15 PM
Coffee (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM Rare Connections: Physics and Apfelwine - Agnes Mocsy  
4:25 PM Two Conjectures about Late-Time Dynamics in Diffusive Systems - Navid Abbasi