XXXII Cracow Epiphany Conference on the recent results from Heavy Ion Physics (12-16 January 2026) · Indico

XXXII Cracow Epiphany Conference on the recent results from Heavy Ion Physics

from Monday, 12 January 2026 (00:00) to Friday, 16 January 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 12 January 2026

08:00 Registration

08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Opening and Welcome
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Opening and Welcome - Agnieszka Oblakowska-Mucha (AGH University of Krakow (PL)) Dominik Karol Derendarz (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Tadeusz Lesiak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
09:30 Introduction Lecture
09:30 - 10:00
Contributions

09:30 Ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions: Overview of recent developments - Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
10:00 Experimental Overview
10:00 - 10:30
Contributions

10:00 ALICE experimental overview - Wioleta Rzesa (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))
10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Experimental Overview
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 ATLAS experimental overview - Tomasz Bold (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

11:30 CMS experimental overview - Jelena Mijuskovic (University of Montenegro (ME))

12:00 LHCb experimental overview - Cesar Luiz Da Silva (Los Alamos National Laboratory (US))
12:30 Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Experimental Overview
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 sPhenix experimental overview - Benjamin Kimelman (Vanderbilt University)

14:30 Star experimental overview - Isaac Mooney

15:00 NA61/SHINE experimental overview - Andrzej Krzysztof Rybicki (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

15:30 Studies of baryonic matter with HADES at GSI/FAIR - Izabela Ciepał (H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)
16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Open Lecture
16:30 - 17:15
Contributions

16:30 Wounded nucleons, wounded quarks - a personal story - Andrzej Bialas
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
09:00 Nuclear PDFs
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 nCTEQ25 nuclear PDFs - Tomas Jezo (WWU ITP)

09:30 nNNDPF updates - Emanuele Roberto Nocera Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Università degli Studi di Torino and INFN Torino)

10:00 EPPS nPDF update - Petja Kalle Matias Paakkinen
10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Ultraperipheral collisions
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 ATLAS overview of physics of ultraperipheral collisions - Krzysztof Cieśla (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

11:30 ALICE overview of physics of ultraperipheral collisions - Roman Lavicka (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

12:00 Recent theory developments in UPC (gamma-gamma collisions) - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)
12:30 Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Ultraperipheral collisions
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Ultraperipheral collisions in LHCb experiment - Pedro Nogarolli (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BR))

14:30 Recent theory developments in UPC (photonuclear interactions) - Heikki Mäntysaari

15:00 Phenomenology developments in UPC - Paweł Jucha (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)
15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Young Scientist: Young Scientists
Young Scientists
16:00 - 16:30
Contributions

16:00 Measurement of coherent exclusive $J/\psi$ production in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.36$ TeV with the ATLAS detector - Pawel Rybczynski (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

16:15 Probing the $X(6900)$ via Two-Photon Production in Ultraperipheral Collisions - Longjie Chen (Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN)
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
09:00 Small systems
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Experimental overview of results from small systems (pp, pPb) with the ALICE detector - Fabio Catalano (University of Houston (US))

09:30 Experimental overview of results from small systems (pp, pPb) with the CMS detector - Xiaoyu Liu (Rice University (US))

10:00 Experimental overview of results from small systems (pp, pPb) with the ATLAS detector - Patrik Novotny (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))
10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Small systems
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Theory for intermediate systems OO, NeNe - Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University (DE))

11:30 Recent results from intermediate collision systems (OO/NeNe) from the ATLAS experiment - Pavel Vana (Charles University (CZ))

12:00 Recent results from intermediate collision systems (OO/NeNe) from the ALICE experiment - Abhi Modak (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))
12:30 Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Small systems
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Quarkonium in heavy ion (quantum master equation) - Stéphane Delorme (University of Silesia)

14:30 The charm quark hadronisation with the PYTHIA8/Angantyr model - Harsh Rajendrabhai Shah (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
15:00 Young Scientist
15:00 - 15:30
Contributions

15:00 Charge-Dependent Directed Flow Splitting from EM Fields and Conserved-Charge Dynamics - Tribhuban Parida (IISER Berhampur)

15:15 Entropy and multiplicity of hadrons in the high energy limit within dipole cascade models - Sandor Lokos (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Young Scientist
16:00 - 17:15
Contributions

16:00 Fast Interpolation Grids and Determination of Parton Distribution Functions - BUDDHADEB DEY (IFJ PAN)

16:15 Towards the search for lepton flavor violating B→Kτl (l=e,μ) decays at Belle and Belle II - Junaid ur rehman

16:30 D* polarisation measurements in semitauonic B-meson decays at Belle and Belle II experiments - Mateusz Kaleta (IFJ PAN)

16:45 Four Polarizations of the W at High Energies - Trina Basu (IFJ PAN)

17:00 The Lund String Hadronization model with Herwig 7 and its effect on collider observables - Pratixan Sarmah (UJ)
Thursday, 15 January 2026
09:00 Jets in heavy ion collisions
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Jet production and modification in heavy ion collisions with the ATLAS detector - Agnieszka Ewa Ogrodnik (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

09:30 Jet production and modification in heavy ion collisions with the CMS detector - Vangelis Vladimirov (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

10:00 Jet production and modification in heavy ion collisions with the ALICE detector - Filip Krizek (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))
10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Jets in heavy ion collisions
11:00 - 11:30
Contributions

11:00 Theoretical insights into jet quenching and medium response in heavy ion collisions - Konrad Tywoniuk (University of Bergen (NO))
11:30 Collective dynamics
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Bulk properties of matter created in heavy-ion collisions from the CMS experiment - Subash Chandra Behera (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

12:00 Bulk properties of matter created in heavy-ion collisions from the ATLAS experiment - Petr Balek (AGH University of Krakow (PL))
12:30 Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Collective dynamics
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Bulk properties of matter created in heavy-ion collisions from the ALICE experiment - Sebastian Scheid (CERN)

14:30 Spin hydrodynamics - Wojciech Florkowski (Jagiellonian University)

15:00 Spin and polarisation effects in heavy-ion collisions - Radoslaw Ryblewski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)
15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Young Scientist
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Drift circle error calibration in the TRT detector - Julia Leszczynska (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

16:15 On the Charged Fragments Tagging in the ATLAS Detector during the 2025 Oxygen Campaign - Weronika Karolina Sobien (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

16:30 Extraction of quark/gluon jets angularities at the LHC using OpenData - Van Dung Le (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

16:45 $D^{0}$-Tagged Jet Substructure in pp Collisions with ALICE - Christian Reckziegel (Universidade Federal Do ABC (BR))
19:00 Conference Dinner

19:00 - 22:00
Friday, 16 January 2026
09:00 Low energy
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Star results from Beam Energy Scan - Hanna Zbroszczyk (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

09:30 Investigating the onset of deconfinement with NA61/SHINE - Oleksandra Panova (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

10:00 NA61/SHINE results on search for critical point - Nikolaos Davis (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Young Scientist
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Characterization of the custom step-down DC/DC converter system for the ATLAS ITk Strip detector - Weronika Emilia Bulanowska (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

11:15 Development of Pacific++ front-end ASIC for SciFi and Magnet Station detectors in LHCb Upgrade experiment - Patryk Artur Prus (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

11:30 Machine learning based tracking for MUonE experiment - Damian Artur Mizera (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

11:45 Atmospheric Muon Simulation and study of Reconstruction resolutions for P-ONE - Shreya Sharma (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN))

12:00 Fast Cascade Generator GAN in the P-ONE Experiment - Rafał Wroński (IFJ PAN)

12:15 Fast Photon Propagation Simulation for the P-ONE Optical Calibration System - Wojciech Noga (The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)
12:30 Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Future projects for heavy ion physics
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Heavy Ion and Hadron Physics at FAIR - Hanna Zbroszczyk (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

14:30 ALICE upgrade plans - Jacek Tomasz Otwinowski (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

15:00 Physics opportunities at the Electron-Ion Collider - Pawel Nadel-Turonski (University of South Carolina)

15:30 Potential of the FCC-hh as a heavy ion collider - John Jowett (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:30

16:30 Closing words and farewell: Closing words
Closing words
16:30 - 16:40