Name: 54th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2026)
Start: 2026-08-17T09:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-08-21T18:50:00+08:00
Location: No location set

54th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2026)

from Monday, August 17, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, August 21, 2026 (6:50 PM)

Monday, August 17, 2026
9:00 AM Session 1
9:00 AM - 11:10 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Few-gluon interactions in high energy nuclear collisions - Thomas Trainor

9:25 AM Multi-charge QCD equation of state with a critical surface - Akihiko Monnai (Osaka Institute of Technology)

9:50 AM Anomalous dynamical screening of relativistic plasma in a magnetic field - Sota Hanai (Academia Sinica)

10:15 AM Local spin polarization by color-field correlators and momentum anisotropy - Haesom Sung

10:40 AM A novel higher-harmonic observable for the chiral magnetic effect in heavy-ion collisions - Han-Sheng Li

11:05 AM Exploring the Interplay of Inhomogeneity, First-Order Phase Transition, and the QCD Critical Point at Finite Density - Chiho Nonaka
11:10 AM Group photo/Coffee break
Group photo/Coffee break
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
11:40 AM Session 2
11:40 AM - 1:25 PM
Contributions

11:40 AM Boosted boson jet quenching - Yang-Ting Chien (Georgia State University)

12:05 PM QCD Radiation and the Dead-Cone Effect Across Heavy-Quark Jets - Redamy PEREZ RAMOS

12:30 PM Charmed meson production by recombination in relativistic heavy ion collisions - Sungtae Cho

12:55 PM Multiplicity-Dependent Charmonium Production in Small Collision Systems with PHENIX - Sanghoon Lim (Yonsei University)

1:20 PM Measurement of Charged Hadron Multiplicity in Oxygen-Oxygen and Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}=200~\mathrm{GeV}$ with the sPHENIX detector - Cheng-Wei Shih (National Central University)
1:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:25 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM Session 3
2:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM Multiparticle production in electron-positron annihilation - Elena Kokoulina (JINR)

3:05 PM Investigating Collectivity and Strangeness Enhancement in e+e- collisions - Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

3:30 PM Search for long-range di-hadron correlations in high multiplicity $p$+$p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$~GeV with STAR - Prithwish Tribedy (for the STAR Collaboration) (Brookhaven National Lab)

3:55 PM Differential measurements of $\phi$-meson global spin alignment and off-diagonal spin density matrix elements in Au+Au collisions at STAR - Zhenyu Ye (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
4:20 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
4:50 PM Session 4
4:50 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:50 PM Finite $V_{\rm 2\Delta}$ puzzle in low-multiplicity pp collisions from ultra-long-range azimuthal correlations in the string-shoving model - Gyula Bencedi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))

5:15 PM Longitudinal decorrelations in Xe+Xe collisions - Koichi Murase (The University of Osaka)

5:40 PM Collective signatures in thermal photons and initial fluctuations of EM-fields in event-by-event 3+1D relativistic resistive MHD - Nicholas J. Benoit (Academia Sinica)

6:05 PM Systematic evaluation of the space-time structure of QCD regimes with N-point Energy Correlators - Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University)
6:30 PM Poster Session
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Contributions

6:30 PM Reciprocal symmetry of the KNO-violating term,\\ its AGK extension, and the special point $z=2$ - Alex Prygarin (Ariel University)

6:35 PM Reconstructing Sudakov No-Emission Probabilities from $k_T$ Splitting Scales in Simulated Proton-Proton Collisions - Alvin Zhen Wei Leow

6:40 PM Diquarks in tetraquarks with static spectators from lattice QCD - Anthony Sebastian Francis (Chiao Tung University (TW))

6:45 PM Isolated Photon Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry with sPHENIX - Jaein Hwang (Korea University)

6:50 PM Hadron structure from Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory with tensor networks - Manuel Schneider (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

6:55 PM Parton physics from a heavy-quark operator product expansion: Dynamical lattice QCD calculation of moments of the pion and kaon light-cone distribution amplitudes - Alex Chang (Institute of Physics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

7:00 PM Overview of the intermediate tracker in the sPHENIX experiment - Shan-Yu Chen

7:05 PM Hit detection efficiency study of INTermediate silicon Tracker in the sPHENIX experiment - TAKAHIRO KIKUCHI

7:10 PM Measurement of Charged Hadron Multiplicity in Oxygen-Oxygen and Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}=200~\mathrm{GeV}$ with the sPHENIX detector - Cheng-Wei Shih (National Central University)

7:15 PM Exploring the Interplay of Inhomogeneity, First-Order Phase Transition, and the QCD Critical Point at Finite Density - Chiho Nonaka
7:00 PM Reception
Reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
9:00 AM Session 5
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Measurements of particle production in light ion collisions with the ATLAS detector - Krzysztof Wieslaw Wozniak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

9:25 AM System-size dependence of charged-particle production at mid and forward pseudorapidity with ALICE - Tulika Tripathy (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))

9:50 AM sPHENIX jet and photon measurements in p+p, O+O, and Au+Au collisions - Virginia Bailey (Georgia State University)

10:15 AM Light and heavy flavor measurements with sPHENIX at RHIC - Gunther Roland (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Session 6
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM Accessing hadronic interactions via femtoscopy with ALICE - Daniel Battistini (Czech Technical University in Prague)

11:35 AM Geometry of the pion emission source and charge-dependent effects in meson femtoscopy from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan - Yevheniia Khyzhniak

12:00 PM Probing light nuclei formation at the LHC with balance functions and long-lived resonances tagging - Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE))

12:25 PM Two-Particle Correlation Measurements in p+p Collisions at sPHENIX - Maya Shimomura (Nara Women's University (JP))
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 7
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Recent RHIC results from prospects for the EIC - Yuji Goto (RIKEN (JP))

2:25 PM Experiment design and detector R&D of the ePIC experiment - Ralf Seidl

2:50 PM Status and Prospects of the Barrel Imaging Calorimeter R&D for the Electron-Ion Collider - Shin Hyung Kim (Kyungpook National University (KR))

3:15 PM SoLID Program at JLab - Nilanga Kumara Liyanage (University of Virginia (US))

3:40 PM Detector and Streaming Readout DAQ Development for Measurement of in-medium $\phi$ Mass Modification and Hadron Femtoscopy in pA Collisions at J-PARC - Fumiya Oura (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

4:05 PM Overview of the intermediate tracker in the sPHENIX experiment - Shan-Yu Chen

4:10 PM Hit detection efficiency study of INTermediate silicon Tracker in the sPHENIX experiment - TAKAHIRO KIKUCHI
4:15 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM Session 8
4:45 PM - 6:50 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM ATLAS Upgrades for the High Luminosity LHC - Status and Perspectives - Alessandro Polini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

5:10 PM Overview of the Experiment Design and Detector R&D for the CMS Upgrade - Rong-Shyang Lu (National Taiwan University (TW))

5:35 PM Status of the Endcap Timing Layer for the CMS MIP Timing Detector - Hyunchul Kim (Chonnam National University (KR))

6:00 PM Status and Prospects of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter - Yu-Hsuan Chou (National Central University (TW))

6:25 PM ALICE Detector Upgrades for Future Precision Measurements: FoCal and ITS3 - Hadi Hassan (University of Tsukuba (JP))
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
9:00 AM Session 9
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Unpolarized gluon PDF of the nucleon from lattice QCD in the continuum limit - Chen Chen

9:25 AM Recent Advances and Challenges in Proton PDF Determinations - Emanuele Roberto Nocera

9:50 AM Large-x and small-x PDFs in the CT25 global analysis - Keping Xie (Michigan State University)

10:15 AM The Collins-Soper kernel from a vacuum soft function - Wayne Morris (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

10:40 AM Hadron structure from Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory with tensor networks - Manuel Schneider (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

10:45 AM Parton physics from a heavy-quark operator product expansion: Dynamical lattice QCD calculation of moments of the pion and kaon light-cone distribution amplitudes - Alex Chang (Institute of Physics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
10:50 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Session 10
11:10 AM - 12:55 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM Global extraction of unpolarised TMD distributions - Valentin Moos (NYCU)

11:35 AM The Partonic Structure of the Nucleon: Insights from GPDs - Adam HOBALLAH (IJCLab CNRS-IN2P3)

12:00 PM Pion and Kaon Structure at Jefferson Lab and the Electron-Ion Collider - Tanja Horn (The Catholic University of America)

12:25 PM PHENIX Spin physics results - Ralf Seidl

12:50 PM Isolated Photon Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry with sPHENIX - Jaein Hwang (Korea University)
1:00 PM Excursion
Excursion
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:30 PM ISMD 2026 Banque
ISMD 2026 Banque
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, August 20, 2026
9:00 AM Session 11
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Hadron Physics at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility - Kazuya Aoki (KEK)

9:25 AM Investigation of the Lambda-Antilambda configuration in a constituent quark model - Aaron Park (Yonsei University)

9:50 AM Quark-model search for hidden-charm pentaquark states - Georg Wolschin

10:15 AM Fully charmed tetraquarks: two photon decay width and prospects for ultraperipheral collisions - Wolfgang Schaefer

10:40 AM Diquarks in tetraquarks with static spectators from lattice QCD - Anthony Sebastian Francis (Chiao Tung University (TW))
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Session 12
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM Recent Results and New Developments from the Telescope Array Experiment - Kozo Fujisue

11:35 AM Constraints on forward hadron production in proton-air interactions at √s ~ 100 TeV from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Miguel Martins (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

12:00 PM Bayesian hierarchical cross-calibration of hybrid air-shower detectors - Anton Prosekin (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

12:25 PM High-Energy Neutrinos at the LHC - Dennis Soldin (University of Utah)
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 13
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Constraining dark sectors from the search of neutrino signatures induced by galactic dark matter annihilation - Guey-Lin Lin (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

2:25 PM Supernovae as versatile probes of physics beyond the Standard Model - Yen-Hsun Lin (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

2:50 PM Quarkonium states in compact astrophysical objects - Andrew Koshelkin
3:15 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM Session 14
3:45 PM - 5:35 PM
Contributions

3:45 PM Recent Results on Resonance Production and Exotic States with ALICE Run 3 at the LHC - Hirak Kumar Koley (Jadavpur University (IN))

4:10 PM Recent Developments in Experimental Quarkonium Physics in Light-Ion Collisions at the LHC - Soohwan Lee (Korea University (KR))

4:35 PM sPHENIX Spin Program Highlights - Genki Nukazuka (JAEA)

5:00 PM Evidence of Lambda-antiLambda spin correlation in p+p collisions at STAR - Qinghua Xu (Shandong University)

5:25 PM Reconstructing Sudakov No-Emission Probabilities from $k_T$ Splitting Scales in Simulated Proton-Proton Collisions - Alvin Zhen Wei Leow

5:30 PM Reciprocal symmetry of the KNO-violating term,\\ its AGK extension, and the special point $z=2$ - Alex Prygarin (Ariel University)
5:00 PM Board of Elders Meeting

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

7:00 PM Board of Elders Dinner

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, August 21, 2026
9:00 AM Session 15
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Coulomb–Nuclear Interference in Phillips–Barger model - Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))

9:25 AM Determination of the Odderon amplitude in elastic cross-sections at high energies from scaling and analyticity - Jesus Alberto Velazquez Corral (The University of Kansas (US))

9:50 AM Recent results on ultraperipheral collisions by ATLAS and CMS - Cristian Baldenegro (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

10:15 AM Gluon saturation effects in exclusive heavy vector meson and charm, beauty photoproduction - Jarno Johannes Vierros (The University of Kansas (US))
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Session 16
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM How the SM can be extended to explain our Universe? - Seong Chan Park (Yonsei & KIAS)

11:35 AM BSM CP Violation and the Neutron EDM - Jangho Kim (Seoul National University)

12:00 PM Generative AI for Discovery in Fundamental Physics - DavidTest ShihTest (Rutgers University)

12:25 PM BSM and New Developments in the CMS Experiment - Kai-Feng Chen (National Taiwan University (TW))
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 17
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM A Novel Approach for Dark Sector Search in the CMS Experiment - Taehee Kim (Seoul National University (KR))

2:25 PM Exploring the NMSSM using deep learning in search for new scalars - Raymundo Ramos

2:50 PM Searches for new light particles at the Troitsk Meson Factory (TiMoFey) - Dmitry Kalashnikov (INR RAS)

3:15 PM Physics-Aware Compilation Digital Twin for Observable-Preserving Three-Flavor Collective Neutrino Simulation on IBM Quantum - Jianlong Lu (National University of Singapore)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Session 18
4:10 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM The phenomenology of photon-induced processes at the LHC: and overview - Lucian Alexander Harland-Lang (University College London)

4:35 PM Recent UPC results from LHCb and ALICE - Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))

5:00 PM Diffractive resonance production with proton excitation in pp-collisions at high energies - Rainer Schicker (Heidelberg University (DE))

5:25 PM Investigation of the origin of transverse single spin asymmetry for forward neutral pions in diffractive processes at RHICf and STAR - Seunghwan Lee
5:50 PM ANPhA Award Presentation

5:50 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM Closing of ISMD 2026 and the future of ISMD - Stefan Kluth (Max Planck Society (DE))
Closing of ISMD 2026 and the future of ISMD
- Stefan Kluth (Max Planck Society (DE))
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM