QCD Master Class 2026

from Friday, 28 August 2026 (19:00) to Thursday, 10 September 2026 (10:00)
Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Aug 2026
30 Aug 2026
31 Aug 2026
1 Sept 2026
2 Sept 2026
3 Sept 2026
5 Sept 2026
6 Sept 2026
7 Sept 2026
8 Sept 2026
9 Sept 2026
AM
08:00
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 12:30)
08:00
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 12:30)
08:00
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 12:30)
08:00
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 12:30)
08:00
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 12:30)
10:00 Excursion to Mont-Saint-Michel  
08:00
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 12:30)
08:00
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 12:30)
08:00
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 12:30)
08:00
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 12:30)
08:00
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 12:30)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Student talk (until 18:35)
16:30 Identified hadrons in Deep Inelastic Scattering - Samuel Johannes Bakker  
16:55 Open quantum system approach to high-energy parton propagation in a QGP - Pietro Benzoni (Subatech)  
17:20 The DIS dipole picture cross section at finite energy - Magnus Bertilsson  
17:45 Next-to-leading order corrections to the next-to-eikonal DIS structure functions - Jules Favrel  
18:10 Forward trijet production in pA scattering in the gluon-initiated channel within the CGC - Marcos Guerrero Morales  
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Student talk (until 18:35)
16:30 Constraining hot and cold nuclear matter properties from HIC and DIS - Ms Renata Krupczak (Universität Bielefeld)  
16:55 Exclusive photoproduction of a di-meson pair with large invariant mass - David Perez  
17:20 Onset of gluon saturation through incoherent J/psi production at large |t| - Saša Ridziková  
17:45 Generalized transverse momentum distributions at small-x - Boris Šarić (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)  
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Student talk (until 18:35)
16:30 Shear viscosity from fluctuations in linearized relativistic hydrodynamics - Jakub Štěrba  
16:55 Nucleon structure based on the Skyrme model with vector mesons: Spin, EMT, and topological charge density - Tomoya Uji (The University of Tokyo)  
17:20 Higher-Order Structure of Hamiltonian Truncation Effective Theory - Andrea Maestri (Pavia U. and INFN-Pavia)  
17:45 NLO corrections to transverse nucleon spin asymmetries and twist-3 factorization beyond LO - Diego Scantamburlo  
18:10 tba - Benedetta Bernardini  
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 18:30)
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 18:30)
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 18:30)
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 18:30)
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 18:30)
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Student talk (until 18:35)
16:30 Resummation of NGLs in isolated photon production - Michael Gerber (Universität Bern)  
16:55 Quantum Mechanical Bootstrap on the Interval - Chandrashekhar Kshirsagar (CEA-LIST, Universite Grenoble Alpes)  
17:20 Using Jet Substructure Observables to Reveal the Short-Distance Structure of Quark-Gluon Plasma - Arjun Srinivasan Kudinoor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
17:45 QCD–Gravity Duality and Discrete BFKL Evolution in Multi-Regge Kinematics - Josep Rubi Bort (IFT)  
18:10 Machine learning in lattice QCD - Chanju ­Park (Swansea University)  
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Student talk (until 18:35)
16:30 Multiloop calculations in light cone perturbation theory - Mikko Seppälä  
16:55 Accounting for the Effect of Fiducial Cuts on Energy-Energy Correlators - Alessio Vorona  
17:20 Transverse spin correlation and Anisotropic EEC - Lei Yang (Shandong University)  
17:45 tba - Tommaso Saracco (Nikhef)  
18:10 tba - Jingzhi Hu (University of Bern)  
19:30 --- Dinner ---