QCD Master Class 2026

from Friday, August 28, 2026 (7:00 PM) to Thursday, September 10, 2026 (10:00 AM)
Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 29, 2026
Aug 30, 2026
Aug 31, 2026
Sep 1, 2026
Sep 2, 2026
Sep 3, 2026
Sep 5, 2026
Sep 6, 2026
Sep 7, 2026
Sep 8, 2026
Sep 9, 2026
AM
8:00 AM
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 12:30 PM)
8:00 AM
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 12:30 PM)
8:00 AM
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 12:30 PM)
8:00 AM
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 12:30 PM)
8:00 AM
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
Aspects of the theory of heavy-ion collisions - Francois Gelis (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM Excursion to Mont-Saint-Michel  
8:00 AM
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 12:30 PM)
8:00 AM
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 12:30 PM)
8:00 AM
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 12:30 PM)
8:00 AM
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 12:30 PM)
8:00 AM
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 12:30 PM)
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Student talk (until 6:35 PM)
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 ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Student talk (until 6:35 PM)
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 ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Student talk (until 6:35 PM)
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 ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 6:30 PM)
7:30 PM --- Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Partonic structure of hadrons - Markus Diehl (until 6:30 PM)
7:30 PM --- Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Jet physics and machine learning - Andrew Larkoski (American Physical Society) (until 6:30 PM)
7:30 PM --- Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
QCD at small x and saturation - Tuomas Lappi (until 6:30 PM)
7:30 PM --- Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
QCD scattering amplitudes - Ruth Britto (until 6:30 PM)
7:30 PM --- Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Student talk (until 6:35 PM)
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 ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Student talk (until 6:35 PM)
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 ---