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)
Kraków, Poland

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Jan 2026
13 Jan 2026
14 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2026
16 Jan 2026
AM
08:00
Registration (until 09:00)
09:00
Opening and Welcome (until 09:30)
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 (until 10:00)
09:30 Ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions: Overview of recent developments - Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
10:00
Experimental Overview (until 10:30)
10:00 ALICE experimental overview - Wioleta Rzesa (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
Experimental Overview (until 12:30)
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))  
09:00
Nuclear PDFs (until 10:30)
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 (until 11:00)
11:00
Ultraperipheral collisions (until 12:30)
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) - Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)  
09:00
Small systems (until 10:30)
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 (until 11:00)
11:00
Small systems (until 12:30)
11:00 Theory for intermediate systems OO, NeNe - Dr 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))  
09:00
Jets in heavy ion collisions (until 10:30)
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 (until 11:00)
11:00
Jets in heavy ion collisions (until 11:30)
11:00 Theoretical insights into jet quenching and medium response in heavy ion collisions - Konrad Tywoniuk (University of Bergen (NO))  
11:30
Collective dynamics (until 12:30)
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))  
09:00
Low energy (until 10:30)
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 (until 11:00)
11:00
Young Scientist (until 12:30)
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)  
PM
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
Experimental Overview (until 16:00)
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 (until 16:30)
16:30
Open Lecture (until 17:15)
16:30 Wounded nucleons, wounded quarks - a personal story - Andrzej Bialas  
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
Ultraperipheral collisions (until 15:30)
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) - Dr Heikki Mäntysaari  
15:00 Phenomenology developments in UPC - Paweł Jucha (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)  
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
Young Scientist (until 16:30)
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)  
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
Small systems (until 15:00)
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 (until 15:30)
15:00 Charge-Dependent Directed Flow Splitting from EM Fields and Conserved-Charge Dynamics - Mr 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 (until 16:00)
16:00
Young Scientist (until 17:15)
16:00 Fast Interpolation Grids and Determination of Parton Distribution Functions - Mr 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)  
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
Collective dynamics (until 15:30)
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 - Dr Radoslaw Ryblewski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)  
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
Young Scientist (until 17:00)
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 (until 22:00)
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
Future projects for heavy ion physics (until 16:00)
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 (until 16:30)
16:30
Closing words and farewell (until 16:40)