The Ⅷ-th International Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions : Initial Stages 2025

Session

Plenary session

8 Sept 2025, 09:00

The Forum

Conveners

Plenary session: 1

• John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Plenary session: 2

• Anne Marie Sickles (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

Plenary session: 3

• You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute (DK))

Plenary session: 4

• Yang-Ting Chien (Georgia State University)

Plenary session: 5

• Po-Ju Lin (National Central University (TW))

Plenary session: 6

• Yuji Goto (RIKEN (JP))

Plenary session: 7

• Maya Shimomura (Nara Women's University (JP))

Plenary session: 8

• Dieter Roehrich (University of Bergen (NO))

Plenary session: 9

• Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Plenary session: 10

• Olga Evdokimov (University of Illinois Chicago (US))

Plenary session: 11

• Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Plenary session: 12

• Sasha Milov

Plenary session: 13

• Taku Gunji (University of Tokyo (JP))

Plenary session: 14

• Itaru Nakagawa (RIKEN)

168. Opening of Initial Stages 2025

Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central University (TW))

08/09/2025, 09:00

Opening of Initial Stages 2025

169. ALICE Highlights

Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE))

08/09/2025, 09:10

ALICE overview on soft probes

170. ALICE results with small systems and light ions

Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN)

08/09/2025, 09:35

ALICE overview on hard probes

167. Overview of the ATLAS experiment at LHC

Brian Andrew Cole (Columbia University (US))

08/09/2025, 10:00

Oral presentation

Overview of the ATLAS experiment at LHC.

166. Overview of the CMS experiment at LHC

Dr Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

08/09/2025, 11:00

Oral presentation

This talk will present an overview of the CMS experiment at the LHC.

150. Overview of the LHCb experiment at LHC

Saverio Mariani (CERN)

08/09/2025, 11:30

Oral presentation

This will be an experimental overview of the LHCb at LHC.

152. Overview of the STAR experiment at RHIC

Andrew Tamis (Yale University)

08/09/2025, 12:00

Oral presentation

This is an overview of the STAR experiment at RHIC.

128. Overview of PHENIX experiment at RHIC

Susumu Sato

08/09/2025, 14:00

Oral presentation

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has been in operation since 2001, contributing significantly to the study of strong interactions and nuclear matter under extreme conditions. The PHENIX experiment, operated from 2001 to 2016, has collected a comprehensive dataset that continues to yield impactful results in initial stages of nucleus collisions. These measurements have provided...

156. Overview of the sPHENIX experiment at RHIC

Blair Daniel Seidlitz (Columbia University (US))

08/09/2025, 14:30

Oral presentation

This is an overview of the sPHENIX experiment at RHIC.

171. Many-body fragmentation of the initial state

Christian Bierlich, Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))

08/09/2025, 15:00

172. Recent Development in Initial State Modeling and challenges in incoorportating higher-order QCD corrections

Oscar Garcia-Montero (Universität Bielefeld)

08/09/2025, 16:00

173. What constraints do experimental data impose on Monte Carlo models of the initial state?

Katarina Krizkova Gajdosova (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

08/09/2025, 16:25

174. Physics Insights into the Initial State from Global Bayesian Analyses

Prof. Matthew William Luzum (University of São Paulo)

08/09/2025, 16:50

175. Bayesian Constraints on Initial-State Models in the Earliest Stages of the Collision

Xiang-Yu Wu (McGill University)

08/09/2025, 17:10

177. Status of the global analysis of nuclear PDF and future experimental priorities

Aleksander Kusina

09/09/2025, 09:00

178. New constraints on nuclear structure and their interplay with final-state effects

Cristian Baldenegro (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

09/09/2025, 09:30

209. Calculations of transport coefficients

Ms Isabella Danhoni

09/09/2025, 10:00

180. How do we obtain definitive evidence of gluon saturation and the CGC?

Dr Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä)

09/09/2025, 11:00

181. What is the role of color coherence and gluon saturation effects in Monte Carlo simulations of small and large collision systems?

Peter Christiansen (Lund University (SE))

09/09/2025, 11:20

182. Initial-State-Driven Spin and Polarization Effects

Di-Lun Yang (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

09/09/2025, 11:40

183. Status of global and toroidal vorticity studies

Mike Lisa (Ohio State University (US)), Mike Lisa (Ohio State University (US))

09/09/2025, 12:00

184. How does low energy nuclear structure influence initial conditions in high-energy heavy-ion collisions?

Christopher Plumberg (Pepperdine University)

11/09/2025, 09:00

185. Imaging Shapes of Atomic Nuclei in Heavy-ion Collisions and effect of sub-nucleonic fluctuations: what can we learn uniquely from HIC?

Dr Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)

11/09/2025, 09:20

186. New developments in direct constraints of the speed of sound and equation of state in HIC

Gabriel Soares Rocha (Vanderbilt University)

11/09/2025, 09:40

187. Predictions and interpretation for O-O and p-O collisions and other small collision systems

Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University (DE))

11/09/2025, 10:05

188. What have we learned from the light ion program at RHIC and LHC?

Giacomo Graziani (INFN, Sezione di Firenze (IT))

11/09/2025, 11:00

189. Emergence of hydrodynamic behavior in far-from-equilibrium strongly interacting systems

Clemens Werthmann (Ghent University)

11/09/2025, 14:00

190. Thermalization at Weak and Strong Coupling: Status and recent developments

Bruno Sebastian Scheihing Hitschfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Bruno Sebastian Scheihing Hitschfeld (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

11/09/2025, 14:30

191. Pre-Equilibrium and Early-Time Jet Momentum Broadening and HQ diffusion

Dana Avramescu (University of Jyväskylä)

11/09/2025, 15:00

194. Can we disentangle collectivity-like signals by separating few-scattering effects from QGP formation?

Eero Aleksi Kurkela (University of Stavanger (NO))

11/09/2025, 16:00

192. What have we learned about the minimal condition for flow-like signal from ee to AA collisions?

Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US))

11/09/2025, 16:25

193. Theoretical overview of jet quenching and heavy quark diffusion signal in small systems

Dr Andrey Sadofyev (LIP, Lisbon)

11/09/2025, 16:50

196. How can future experiments at EIC and LHC help resolve open questions in UPC physics? (How does the UPC help with EIC program)

Kazuhiro Watanabe (Tohoku University)

12/09/2025, 09:00

197. What have UPCs taught us about small-x, saturation physics and initial conditions of heavy-ion collisions?

Wenbin Zhao (Wayne State University)

12/09/2025, 09:30

198. Experimental measurements in UPCs and constraints on the initial stages

Sruthy Jyothi Das (University of Illinois Chicago (US))

12/09/2025, 10:00

199. What can we learn from jet measurements in small and large systems for the initial stages

Anne Marie Sickles (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

12/09/2025, 11:00

200. What can we learn from heavy flavor measurements in small and large systems for the initial stages

Cameron Dean (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

12/09/2025, 11:30

201. Emergent many-body dynamics at its limits: from ultracold atoms to high-energy collisions

Giuliano Giacalone

12/09/2025, 12:00

202. LHC future projects: LHeC and LHCspin

Pasquale Di Nezza (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

12/09/2025, 14:00

203. Status of EIC and EIF, and what they can teach us about the initial stages of heavy ion collisions

Olga Evdokimov (University of Illinois Chicago (US))

12/09/2025, 14:30

154. Overview of the ePIC experiment at EIC

Carlos MUNOZ CAMACHO

12/09/2025, 15:00

Oral presentation

This is an overview of the ePIC experiment at EIC.

204. Direct calculation of Partonic Functions in Minkowski space

Manuel Schneider (NYCU)

12/09/2025, 16:00

205. sPHENIX measurement of underlying event production in p+p collisions at 200 GeV

Emma McLaughlin

12/09/2025, 16:10

206. Dynamics of Heavy Quarks in Quark-Gluon Plasma towards a systematic characterization

Bruno Scheihing (KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara)

12/09/2025, 16:20

313. Remarks on the initial stages

Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

12/09/2025, 16:30

207. Next Initial Stages

Dr Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä)

12/09/2025, 16:40

208. Closing

Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central University (TW))

12/09/2025, 16:50