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

from Sunday 7 September 2025 (09:00) to Friday 12 September 2025 (17:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Sept 2025
8 Sept 2025
9 Sept 2025
10 Sept 2025
11 Sept 2025
12 Sept 2025
AM
09:00
Registration: IS2025 early-career researcher lectures (until 09:30)
09:30
Initial Stages 2025 early-career researcher lectures -Dr Yang-Ting Chien (Georgia State University) (until 12:00) (Auditorium, 1F)
09:30 Initial state and early time dynamics - Hidetoshi Taya (Keio University)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Partonic structure of protons and nuclei - Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
08:20
Registration: Initial Stages 2025 (until 09:00)
09:00
Plenary session - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (until 10:30)
09:00 Opening of Initial Stages 2025 - Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central University (TW))  
09:10 ALICE Highlights - Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE))  
09:35 ALICE results with small systems and light ions - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN)  
10:00 Overview of the ATLAS experiment at LHC - Brian Andrew Cole (Columbia University (US))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary session - Anne Marie Sickles (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)) (until 12:30) (The Forum)
11:00 Overview of the CMS experiment at LHC - Dr Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
11:30 Overview of the LHCb experiment at LHC - Saverio Mariani (CERN)  
12:00 Overview of the STAR experiment at RHIC - Andrew Tamis (Yale University)  
08:20
Registration: Initial Stages 2025 (until 09:00)
09:00
Plenary session -Mr Po-Ju Lin (National Central University (TW)) (until 10:30) (The Forum)
09:00 Status of the global analysis of nuclear PDF and future experimental priorities - Aleksander Kusina  
09:30 New constraints on nuclear structure and their interplay with final-state effects - Cristian Baldenegro (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
10:00 Calculations of transport coefficients - Ms Isabella Danhoni  
10:30 --- Coffe break ---
11:00
Plenary session - Yuji Goto (RIKEN (JP)) (until 12:30) (The Forum)
11:00 How do we obtain definitive evidence of gluon saturation and the CGC? - Dr Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä)  
11:20 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))  
11:40 Initial-State-Driven Spin and Polarization Effects - Di-Lun Yang (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)  
12:00 Status of global and toroidal vorticity studies - Mike Lisa (Ohio State University (US)) Mike Lisa (Ohio State University (US))  
08:30
Registration: Initial Stages 2025 (until 09:00)
09:00
Parallel session - Raghunath Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IN)) (until 10:40) (The Forum)
09:00 Experimental discovery of the nuclear shape phase transition and nuclear structure on ultrashort timescales at the LHC with ALICE - Maxim Virta (University of Jyväskylä)  
09:20 Probing Nuclear Structure and Parton Dynamics Using Jets with ATLAS - Matthew Caleb Hoppesch (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
09:40 Top-Quark and Jet Probes of nPDFs with the ATLAS Experiment - Benjamin Jacob Gilbert (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))  
10:00 Investigating nuclear shape effects in the Breit-Wheeler process through U+U UPCs at STAR - Nicholas Jindal (Ohio State University (US))  
10:20 Measurement of the Hard Exclusive π0 Muoproduction at COMPASS - Mr Po-Ju Lin (National Central University (TW))  
09:00
Parallel session - Yuko Sekiguchi (RIKEN) (until 10:40) (Plato)
09:00 Recent flow and correlation measurements in large and small collision systems with ATLAS - Somadutta Bhatta (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research (IN)) Somadutta Bhatta (Stony Brook University (US))  
09:20 QCD collectivity and searching for strangeness enhancement in photonuclear collisions and high-multiplicity jets at CMS - Prabhat Ranjan Pujahari (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN))  
09:40 Probing collectivity with multiparticle and charge-dependent correlations in small systems at CMS - Rohit Kumar Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN))  
10:00 Probing the Neutron-Skin Effect with Charged--Hadron Ratios in Pb--Pb Collisions at √sNN = 5.36 TeV with ALICE - Bong-Hwi Lim (University of Tokyo (JP))  
10:20 Studies of the nuclear initial state and early EM fields in PbPb with measurements of top quark pair production and Z boson dimuon decays at CMS - Andre Govinda Stahl (CERN)  
09:00
Parallel session - Di-Lun Yang (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica) (until 10:40) (Socrates)
09:00 Next-to-leading order dilepton production from the pre-equilibrium - Mika Spier  
09:20 Quantum Evolution and Gluon Emission of Dressed Quarks in a SU(3) Colored Background - Meijian Li (University of Santiago de Compostela)  
09:40 Thermalization in $\phi^4$ theory via quantum computing - Iván Cuntín Broullón (IGFAE)  
10:00 Nonperturbative particle production and evolution in the dynamic Glasma - Nicholas Benoit (Hiroshima University)  
10:20 Observation of Universal Expansion Anisotropy from Cold Atoms to Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma - Fuqiang Wang (Purdue University (US))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Parallel session - Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US)) (until 12:30) (The Forum)
11:10 The first measurement of two-particle correlation function with W-boson-pair events using archived ALEPH data at 183-209 GeV - Tzu-An Sheng (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
11:30 Quantifying the role of strangeness in baryon production mechanisms through angular correlations in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with ALICE - Shirajum Monira (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
11:50 Probing strangeness enhancement in proton-proton collisions using rapidity correlations among a ϕ meson and a strange hadron with ALICE - Stefano Cannito (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))  
12:10 Femtoscopic correlations between heavy and light flavor hadrons in heavy-ion collisions by STAR - Yi Yang (Academia Sinica (TW))  
11:10
Parallel session - Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University (JP)) (until 12:30) (Plato)
11:10 SMOG: a high-density gas target at the LHCb experiment - Chiara Lucarelli (CERN)  
11:30 FoCal - ALICE forward calorimeter upgrade - Takashi Hachiya (Nara Women's University (JP))  
11:50 Measurement of pion structure with Sullivan process and ePIC ZDC ECal development - Chia-Yu Hsieh (Academia Sinica (TW))  
12:10 Target jet substructure - Meng-Hsiu Kuo  
11:10
Parallel session - Dana Avramescu (University of Jyväskylä) (until 12:30) (Socrates)
11:10 Initial stage jet momentum broadening in a Light-Front Hamiltonian approach - Carlos Lamas (IGFAE-USC)  
11:30 Tracing early time dynamics through high energy probes - Dr Souvik Priyam Adhya (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)  
11:50 Equilibration and Hydrodynamic Onset in Small and Large Systems. - Cendikia Abdi (Hiroshima University)  
12:10 Inferring the initial condition for the BK evolution at next-to-leading order accuracy - Carlisle Aurabelle Casuga  
08:30
Registration: Initial Stages 2025 (until 09:00)
09:00
Plenary session -Dr Maya Shimomura (Nara Women's University (JP)) (until 10:30) (The Forum)
09:00 How does low energy nuclear structure influence initial conditions in high-energy heavy-ion collisions? - Christopher Plumberg (Pepperdine University)  
09:20 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)  
09:40 New developments in direct constraints of the speed of sound and equation of state in HIC - Gabriel Soares Rocha (Vanderbilt University)  
10:05 Predictions and interpretation for O-O and p-O collisions and other small collision systems - Aleksas Mazeliauskas Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University (DE))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary session - Dieter Roehrich (University of Bergen (NO)) (until 11:30) (The Forum)
11:00 What have we learned from the light ion program at RHIC and LHC? - Giacomo Graziani (INFN, Sezione di Firenze (IT))  
11:30
New results with light ions - Dieter Roehrich (University of Bergen (NO)) (until 12:30) (The Forum)
11:30 Nuclear modification of π0 production in O-O collisions with ALICE - Nicolas Strangmann (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))  
11:50 Revealing the Bowling-Pin Geometry of Ne via O+O and Ne+Ne Collisions with ATLAS - Aman Dimri (Stony Brook University (US))  
12:10 Characterizing initial and final state effects in O-O collisions at CMS - Austin Alan Baty (University of Illinois Chicago)  
09:00
Plenary session - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 10:30)
09:00 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)  
09:30 What have UPCs taught us about small-x, saturation physics and initial conditions of heavy-ion collisions? - Wenbin Zhao (Wayne State University)  
10:00 Experimental measurements in UPCs and constraints on the initial stages - Sruthy Jyothi Das (University of Illinois Chicago (US))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary session - Sasha Milov (until 12:30)
11:00 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))  
11:30 What can we learn from heavy flavor measurements in small and large systems for the initial stages - Cameron Dean (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:00 Emergent many-body dynamics at its limits: from ultracold atoms to high-energy collisions - Giuliano Giacalone  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Initial Stages 2025 early-career researcher lectures -Dr Yang-Ting Chien (Georgia State University) (until 17:00) (Auditorium, 1F)
13:30 Formation of the quark-gluon plasma - Chiho Nonaka  
14:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:00 PDFs and initial stages in the EIC era - Wen-Chen Chang (Academia Sinica (TW))  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Recitation - Hidetoshi Taya (Keio University) Dr Yang-Ting Chien (Georgia State University) Wen-Chen Chang (Academia Sinica (TW)) Chiho Nonaka Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary session - You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute (DK)) (until 15:30) (The Forum)
14:00 Overview of PHENIX experiment at RHIC - Susumu Sato  
14:30 Overview of the sPHENIX experiment at RHIC - Blair Daniel Seidlitz (Columbia University (US))  
15:00 Many-body fragmentation of the initial state - Christian Bierlich Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Plenary session -Dr Yang-Ting Chien (Georgia State University) (until 17:30) (The Forum)
16:00 Recent Development in Initial State Modeling and challenges in incoorportating higher-order QCD corrections - Oscar Garcia-Montero (Universität Bielefeld)  
16:25 What constraints do experimental data impose on Monte Carlo models of the initial state? - Katarina Krizkova Gajdosova (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))  
16:50 Physics Insights into the Initial State from Global Bayesian Analyses - Prof. Matthew William Luzum (University of São Paulo)  
17:10 Bayesian Constraints on Initial-State Models in the Earliest Stages of the Collision - Xiang-Yu Wu (McGill University)  
18:00 --- Reception ---
19:00 IAC meeting   (Locke)
19:00
Poster presentations (until 21:00) (Plato)
19:00 Investigating non-perturbative QCD mechanisms in pp collisions via forward-backward correlations - Mr Rohit Agarwala (Bodoland University)  
19:01 Real-Time Detection of QGP Signatures in the CBM Experiment using Convolutional Neural Networks - Prof. Ivan Kisel (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE)) Ivan Kisel (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
19:02 First jet results from the ATLAS Oxygen-Oxygen program - Matthew Caleb Hoppesch (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
19:03 Enhancing Experimental Plot Retrieval with Large Language Models - Fish Yu (Institute for Information Industry)  
19:04 Lattice computation of the Collins-Soper kernel using complex directional Wilson lines - Wayne Morris (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)  
19:05 ART25: global extraction of unpolarised TMD distributions - Valentin Moos (NYCU)  
19:06 Direct calculation of Parton Distribution Functions in Minkowski space - Manuel Schneider (NYCU)  
19:07 Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect by Event Shape Engineering Differentially in Invariant Mass in Au+Au Collisions at √s_NN = 200 GeV from STAR - Han-Sheng Li  
19:08 Dimuon production in DIS with charm-mass effects - Sami Yrjänheikki (University of Jyväskylä)  
19:09 Matching the dipole picture with collinear factorization - Magnus Bertilsson  
19:10 Thermoelectric-induced electric field in magnetized and evolving quark-gluon plasma - Kamaljeet Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IN))  
19:11 Hadronic scattering effects on Λ polarization in relativistic heavy ion collisions - HAESOM Sung  
19:12 Impact of α-clustered nuclear density profiles on medium anisotropy in p-O and p-C collisions at the LHC - Aswathy Menon K R (Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IN))  
19:13 Nuclear deformation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions using Bayesian analysis - Eri Miyoshi (Hiroshima Univ.)  
19:14 Application of (3+1)D Glasma Simulation to Au-Au Collisions at √s_NN= 200$ GeV: Eccentricity, and Angular Momentum - Dr Hidefumi Matsuda (Zhejiang University)  
19:15 Extending the fluid-dynamic description to the initial state - Andreas Kirchner  
19:16 Recovery of malfunctioning data transfer of readout in sPHENIX-INTT detector - TOMOKI HARADA  
19:17 sPHENIX measurement of underlying event production in p+p collisions at 200 GeV - Emma McLaughlin  
19:18 Performance of sPHENIX Intermediate silicon tracker - Ryotaro Koike (Kyoto Universuty)  
19:19 Studies of long-range two-particle correlations in proton-proton collisions with sPHENIX - Yuko Sekiguchi (RIKEN)  
19:20 Measurements of the proton-to-pion production ratio as a function of the distance from the jet axis in pp collisions at √s  = 13.6 TeV and Pb--Pb collisions at √s_NN  = 5.36 TeV with ALICE - Yuto Nishida (University of Tsukuba (JP))  
19:21 Measurements of electro weak-boson production via electrons in pp collisions at √s= 13.6 TeV with ALICE - Subaru Ito (University of Tsukuba (JP))  
19:22 Detectors calibration for spin physics analysis of sPHENIX experiment - TAKAHIRO KIKUCHI (Rikkyo university)  
19:23 Diffusion of Charm Quarks and the Search of QCD Critical Point - Kangkan Goswami (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)  
19:24 Exploring strangeness enhancement feature in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with event shape classifiers - Raghunath Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IN))  
19:25 Spin-alignment of quarkonia in a thermal rotating medium - Bhagyarathi Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IN))  
19:26 Towards a systematic characterization of the dynamics of heavy quarks in quark-gluon plasma - Bruno Sebastian Scheihing Hitschfeld (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Bruno Sebastian Scheihing Hitschfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Bruno Scheihing (KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara)  
19:27 Decoding nuclei production mechanism at the LHC through deuteron-nucleon correlation studies - Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Parallel session - Prabhat Ranjan Pujahari (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN)) (until 16:00) (The Forum)
14:00 Charged particle production at mid and forward rapidities from small to large collision systems with ALICE - Marta Urioni (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))  
14:20 sPHENIX measurements of bulk properties of Au+Au collisions - Cheng-Wei Shih (National Central University)  
14:40 Reconstructed Jets and Jet Substructure in 200 GeV p+p/p+Au/d+Au Collisions with PHENIX - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
15:00 sPHENIX measurements of jet and isolated photon production in p+p collisions at RHIC - Daniel Lis Daniel Lis  
15:20 Probing the initial state with dijets in pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV with CMS - Vipul Pant (University of Illinois Chicago (US))  
15:40 Jet and heavy-flavor jet production in ultraperipheral proton-proton and PbPb collisions with CMS and TOTEM - Jordan Lang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
14:00
Parallel session - Clemens Werthmann (Ghent University) (until 16:00) (Plato)
14:00 The Imprint of Preequilibrium in Jet Flow and Suppression - Adam Takacs (Heidelberg University)  
14:20 Universal behaviour in 3+1D Full Relativistic Boltzmann in terms of Knudsen number and opacity - Vincenzo Nugara  
14:40 Studying Collectivity in High-Multiplicity Proton-Proton Collisions with Viscous Anisotropic Hydrodynamics - Shujun Zhao  
15:00 Rapidity-dependent QGP equilibration in QCD kinetic theory - Luyao Fabian Zhou (ITP Heidelberg)  
15:20 Anisotropic flow in small collision systems from a hybrid approach - Lucas Constantin  
15:40 Beyond Hydrodynamics: Modeling Early-Time Dynamics and Collective Flow in Small Systems with CoMBolt-ITA - Seyed Farid Taghavi (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
14:00
Parallel session - Aleksander Kusina (until 16:00) (Socrates)
14:00 Parton structures in deep inelastic scattering with quantum computing - Wenyang Qian (University of Santiago de Compostela)  
14:20 Signals for fluctuating constituent numbers in small systems - Andreas Kirchner  
14:40 New parton distributions of the real photon. - Madhav Chithirasreemadam  
15:00 Rapid adiabatic hydrodynamization and a generalized picture of attractors in kinetic theory - Rachel Steinhorst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
15:20 Yoctosecond imaging of the shape of Xe-129 at the Large Hadron Collider - Govert Hugo Nijs (CERN)  
15:40 (3+1)D event-by-event pre-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions - Dr Jie Zhu (Bielefeld University)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Parallel session - Cameron Dean (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 18:10) (The Forum)
16:30 J/ψ polarization measurement with ALICE at the LHC energies - Bhagyarathi Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IN))  
16:50 Upsilon production and polarization measurements in pp collisions with ALICE - Kshitish Kumar Pradhan (IIT Indore)  
17:10 Associated production of charm mesons in pp collisions with ALICE - Andrea Tavira (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
17:30 sPHENIX measurement of open-charm baryon-to-meson ratios in p+p collisions at RHIC - Michael Joseph Peters (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
17:50 Fraction of B-meson decays in J/ψ yields in p+p Collisions at √s = 200 GeV measured by the PHENIX detector at RHIC - Rachid Nouicer  
16:30
Parallel session - Kenta Shigaki (Hiroshima University (JP)) (until 18:10) (Plato)
16:30 Measurements of J/Ψ and impact of coincident photon induced processes in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
16:50 Exploring the dense gluonic matter via charmonium and bottomonium photoproduction in Ultra Peripheral Collisions at CMS - Yu-Chen (Janice) Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
17:10 Probing gluonic matter with photoproduction of vector mesons in ultraperipheral collisions at CMS - Ms Pranjal Verma (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN))  
17:30 Study of Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference in peripheral Au+Au collisions with coherently photoproduced mesons in the STAR experiment - Dr Leszek Krzysztof Kosarzewski (Ohio State University)  
17:50 Investigating Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference in photonuclear ρ0→π+π- and γγ→π+π- in Au+Au collisions at STAR - Samuel Corey (Ohio State University)  
16:30
Parallel session -Dr Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä) (until 18:10) (Socrate)
16:30 Glasma Role in Jet Quenching Effects - Pablo Guerrero Rodríguez (Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE))  
16:50 Entanglement-Driven Correlations: A New Window into Early-Time QCD Dynamics - James Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University (US))  
17:10 From JIMWLK to CSS - Prof. Michael Lublinsky  
17:30 Exploring the nuclear structure at the TeV energy scale using reverse engineering - You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute (DK))  
17:50 Small systems with JEWEL and Trajectum - Isobel Kolbe (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
12:30 --- Excursion ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary session - Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)) (until 15:30) (The Forum)
14:00 Emergence of hydrodynamic behavior in far-from-equilibrium strongly interacting systems - Clemens Werthmann (Ghent University)  
14:30 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))  
15:00 Pre-Equilibrium and Early-Time Jet Momentum Broadening and HQ diffusion - Dana Avramescu (University of Jyväskylä)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Plenary session - Olga Evdokimov (University of Illinois Chicago (US)) (until 17:10) (The Forum)
16:00 Can we disentangle collectivity-like signals by separating few-scattering effects from QGP formation? - Eero Aleksi Kurkela (University of Stavanger (NO))  
16:25 What have we learned about the minimal condition for flow-like signal from ee to AA collisions? - Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US))  
16:50 Theoretical overview of jet quenching and heavy quark diffusion signal in small systems - Dr Andrey Sadofyev (LIP, Lisbon)  
17:10 Panel discussion: On the Theoretical and Experimental Validity of the CGC–Glasma–Kinetic–Hydrodynamic Framework: Challenges and Perspectives - Wei Li (Rice University (US)) Joao Lourenco Henriques Barata   (The Forum)
19:00 --- Banquet ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary session - Taku Gunji (University of Tokyo (JP)) (until 15:30)
14:00 LHC future projects: LHeC and LHCspin - Pasquale Di Nezza (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
14:30 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))  
15:00 Overview of the ePIC experiment at EIC - Carlos MUNOZ CAMACHO  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Plenary session - Itaru Nakagawa (RIKEN) (until 17:00)
16:00 Direct calculation of Partonic Functions in Minkowski space - Manuel Schneider (NYCU)  
16:10 sPHENIX measurement of underlying event production in p+p collisions at 200 GeV - Emma McLaughlin  
16:20 Dynamics of Heavy Quarks in Quark-Gluon Plasma towards a systematic characterization - Bruno Scheihing (KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara)  
16:30 Remarks on the initial stages - Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
16:40 Next Initial Stages - Dr Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä)  
16:50 Closing - Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central University (TW))