Name: QCD Master Class 2026
Start: 2026-08-28T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-10T10:00:00+02:00
Location: Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France

Monday, August 24, 2026
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Friday, August 28, 2026
Saturday, August 29, 2026

8:00 AM Partonic structure of hadrons: Lecture #1
Lecture #1
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions: Lecture #1
Lecture #1
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Student talk
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Identified hadrons in Deep Inelastic Scattering - Samuel Johannes Bakker

4:55 PM Open quantum system approach to high-energy parton propagation in a QGP - Pietro Benzoni (Subatech)

5:20 PM The DIS dipole picture cross section at finite energy - Magnus Bertilsson

5:45 PM Next-to-leading order corrections to the next-to-eikonal DIS structure functions - Jules Favrel

6:10 PM Forward trijet production in pA scattering in the gluon-initiated channel within the CGC - Marcos Guerrero Morales
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Sunday, August 30, 2026

8:00 AM Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions: Lecture #2
Lecture #2
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Partonic structure of hadrons: Lecture #2
Lecture #2
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Student talk
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Constraining hot and cold nuclear matter properties from HIC and DIS - Renata Krupczak (Universität Bielefeld)

4:55 PM Exclusive photoproduction of a di-meson pair with large invariant mass - David Perez

5:20 PM Onset of gluon saturation through incoherent J/psi production at large |t| - Saša Ridziková

5:45 PM Generalized transverse momentum distributions at small-x - Boris Šarić (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

6:10 PM Probing the Eikonal Spin-Dependent Odderon: Challenges and Opportunities for the gluon Sivers function - Florian Hechenberger (Stony Brook University)
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Monday, August 31, 2026

8:00 AM Partonic structure of hadrons: Lecture #3
Lecture #3
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions: Lecture #3
Lecture #3
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Student talk
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Shear viscosity from fluctuations in linearized relativistic hydrodynamics - Jakub Štěrba

4:55 PM Nucleon structure based on the Skyrme model with vector mesons: Spin, EMT, and topological charge density - Tomoya Uji (The University of Tokyo)

5:20 PM Higher-Order Structure of Hamiltonian Truncation Effective Theory - Andrea Maestri (Pavia U. and INFN-Pavia)

5:45 PM NLO corrections to transverse nucleon spin asymmetries and twist-3 factorization beyond LO - Diego Scantamburlo

6:10 PM Differential higgs production at small-x - Benedetta Bernardini
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

8:00 AM Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions: Lecture #4
Lecture #4
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM QCD at small x and saturation: Lecture #1
Lecture #1
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Partonic structure of hadrons: Lecture #4
Lecture #4
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

8:00 AM QCD at small x and saturation: Lecture #2
Lecture #2
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions: Lecture #5
Lecture #5
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Partonic structure of hadrons: Lecture #5
Lecture #5
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, September 3, 2026

9:00 AM Excursion to Mont-Saint-Michel
Excursion to Mont-Saint-Michel
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The bus will depart from the Abbey at 9:00 am and leave Mont-Saint-Michel for the return journey at 5:00 pm.
Friday, September 4, 2026
Saturday, September 5, 2026

8:00 AM QCD at small x and saturation: Lecture #3
Lecture #3
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM QCD scattering amplitudes: Lecture #1
Lecture #1
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Jet physics and machine learning: Lecture #1
Lecture #1
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Sunday, September 6, 2026

8:00 AM Jet physics and machine learning: Lecture #2
Lecture #2
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM QCD scattering amplitudes: Lecture #2
Lecture #2
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM QCD at small x and saturation: Lecture #4
Lecture #4
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Monday, September 7, 2026

8:00 AM QCD at small x and saturation: Lecture #5
Lecture #5
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Jet physics and machine learning: Lecture #3
Lecture #3
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM QCD scattering amplitudes: Lecture #3
Lecture #3
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

8:00 AM Jet physics and machine learning: Lecture #4
Lecture #4
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM QCD scattering amplitudes: Lecture #4
Lecture #4
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Student talk
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Resummation of NGLs in isolated photon production - Michael Gerber (Universität Bern)

4:55 PM Quantum Mechanical Bootstrap on the Interval - Chandrashekhar Kshirsagar (CEA-LIST, Universite Grenoble Alpes)

5:20 PM Using Jet Substructure Observables to Reveal the Short-Distance Structure of Quark-Gluon Plasma - Arjun Srinivasan Kudinoor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

5:45 PM QCD–Gravity Duality and Discrete BFKL Evolution in Multi-Regge Kinematics - Josep Rubi Bort (IFT)

6:10 PM Machine learning in lattice QCD - Chanju Park (Swansea University)
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Wednesday, September 9, 2026

8:00 AM QCD scattering amplitudes: Lecture #5
Lecture #5
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Jet physics and machine learning: Lecture #5
Lecture #5
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Student talk
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Multiloop calculations in light cone perturbation theory - Mikko Seppälä

4:55 PM Accounting for the Effect of Fiducial Cuts on Energy-Energy Correlators - Alessio Vorona

5:20 PM Transverse spin correlation and Anisotropic EEC - Lei Yang (Shandong University)

5:45 PM tba - Tommaso Saracco (Nikhef)

6:10 PM tba - Jingzhi Hu (University of Bern)
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, September 10, 2026