Zimanyi Winter School

from Monday, December 1, 2025 (8:50 AM) to Friday, December 5, 2025 (5:05 PM)
Wigner Research Center for Physics (Bldg 3, Council room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 2, 2025
Dec 3, 2025
Dec 4, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
AM
8:50 AM
Zimányi József in memoriam and experimental highlights (until 10:30 AM)
8:50 AM Physics and Beyond with József Zimányi - Tamas Sandor Biro (MTA Wigner RCP) Tamas Biro (KFKI RMKI)  
9:10 AM József Zimányi in-memoriam - Peter Levai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU)) Peter Levai (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
9:30 AM Quark clustering and chemical freezeout - David Blaschke  
10:00 AM Overview of STAR results - Barbara Trzeciak (Czech Technical University in Prague) Dr Barbara Antonina Trzeciak (Czech Technical University in Prague)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Experimental highlights II. (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM ALICE Overview on recent results - Ivan Vorobyev (CERN)  
11:30 AM Upgrades of the ALICE experiment, towards the Alice3 challenge at LHC - Paola La Rocca (Universita e INFN, Catania (IT))  
12:00 PM NA61/SHINE overview - Elizaveta Zherebtsova (University of Wroclaw (PL)) Elisaveta Zherebtsova  
9:00 AM
Heavy flavor and correlations (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Heavy flavors and quarkonia in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions - Marco Ruggieri Marco Ruggieri Marco Ruggieri Marco Ruggieri  
9:30 AM Composite particle production phenomenology and interpretation at ALICE - Marika Rasà (University and INFN Catania)  
9:55 AM Probing Baryon Production through Angular Correlations with ALICE (online) - Daniela Ruggiano (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM
Femtoscopy and the EoS in HIC (until 12:20 PM)
10:50 AM Overview of the MUSES project and selected recent results - Dr Johannès Jahan (University of Houston - Department of Physics)  
11:15 AM ALICE femtoscopy: Accessing hadronic interactions and nuclei formation - Oton Vazquez Doce (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
11:45 AM Femtoscopy with Lévy-stable sources from SPS through RHIC to LHC - Mate Csanad (Eotvos University, Budapest)  
12:05 PM 3D Femtoscopy of pions with Levy sources - Yan Huang (University of Mainz)  
9:00 AM
Jets (until 10:35 AM)
9:00 AM Overview of recent results on hard probes in heavy ion collisions - Jana Bielcikova (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
9:30 AM Thermodynamical string fragmentation and QGP-like effects in jets - Robert Vertesi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
9:50 AM Soft and hard interaction separation in high multiplicity PP collisions at LHC energies - Gabor Biro (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
10:05 AM Effect of event classification on the Tsallis thermometer - Laszlo Gyulai (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
10:20 AM Exploring collective dynamics in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC using transverse spherocity - Mr Suraj Prasad (Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IN)) Mr Suraj Prasad Mr Suraj Prasad (IIT Indore)  
10:35 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:05 AM
Lattice QCD and effective theories (until 12:25 PM)
11:05 AM Overview of lattice QCD results at finite baryon density - Attila Pasztor (Eötvös University)  
11:35 AM UV properties of Wilsonian RG flows of Feynman measures - Andras Laszlo (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
11:55 AM Effect of QED interactions in the thermodynamics of QCD from the lattice - Eduardo Garnacho Velasco  
12:10 PM The axial anomaly, the Columbia plot, and the topological angle - Gyozo Kovacs (University of Wrocław, Wigner RCP)  
9:00 AM
Hydrodynamics and spin (until 10:15 AM) (7.22)
9:00 AM Spin hydrodynamics - Wojciech Florkowski (Jagiellonian University)  
9:30 AM On the local thermodynamic relations in relativistic spin hydrodynamics - Dr Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania) Dr Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania)  
9:45 AM Novel Wigner function for spin-1/2 particles in local equilibrium - Valeriya Mykhaylova (University of Wrocław) Valeriya Mykhaylova  
10:00 AM Classical vs quantum spin description in relativistic hydrodynamics - Zbigniew Drogosz (Jagiellonian University) Zbigniew Drogosz (Jagiellonian University Krakow) Zbigniew Drogosz (Jagiellonian University)  
10:15 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Initial stages (until 12:05 PM) (7.22)
10:45 AM Entanglement entropy in high energy physics - Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook U./BNL) Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University and BNL) Dmitri Kharzeev  
11:15 AM The earliest phase of relativistic heavy ion collisions - Stanislaw Mrowczynski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)  
11:45 AM Scale dependence of parton distributions from consistency relations - Sam Van Thurenhout (Universität Hamburg)  
9:00 AM
Experimental highlights and light-ion collisions (until 10:35 AM)
9:00 AM CMS Overview Talk - Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))  
9:30 AM Overview of recent PHENIX results - Marton Nagy Marton Nagy Marton Nagy (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))  
10:00 AM Suppressed charged-particle production in OO and NeNe collisions from CMS - Ferenc Siklér (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))  
10:20 AM Event Shape Engineering Analysis of Identified Particle Production in Oxygen–Oxygen Collisions at 7 TeV using AMPT - Dr Aditya Nath Mishra (Wigner Research Centre for Physics Budapest, Hungary)  
10:35 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Intermediate energies II. (until 12:15 PM)
11:00 AM Heavy-ion physics at the CERN SPS H2: NA35, NA49 and NA61/SHINE - Marek Gazdzicki Marek Gazdzicki (Jan Kochanowski University (PL))  
11:30 AM HADES/CBM overview - Hanna Zbroszczyk (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
12:00 PM Measurement of charged and neutral kaons in Ar+Sc collisions at the NA61/SHINE experiment - Angelika Magdalena Tefelska (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:50 PM
Experimental highlights III. (until 3:25 PM)
1:50 PM In Memoriam József Zimányi (1931-2006) - Tamás Ferenc Csörgö (Wigner RCP Budapest and MATE Institute of Technology, Gyöngyös, Hungary) Tamas Csorgo (MATE Institute of Technology Karoly Robert Campus (HU)) Tamas Csorgo (Harvard University)  
2:05 PM Physics Opportunities at CBM FAIR - György Wolf György Wolf  
2:35 PM Probing the Structure of the Nucleon at JLab - Mariangela Bondì Mariangela Bondì (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics) Mariangela Bondi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
3:05 PM Hadron spectroscopy at JLAB - Mr Giorgio Foti (University of Messina & INFN Catania)  
3:25 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:55 PM
UPC and diffraction (until 5:50 PM)
3:55 PM Nuclear processes in ultrarelativistic collisions - Katarzyna Mazurek (IFJ PAN) Katarzyna Mazurek  
4:25 PM Nucleon emission from photon-nucleus interactions - Antoni Szczurek  
4:55 PM New development in the light-by-light scattering phenomenology - Paweł Jucha (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)  
5:15 PM Relation between geometric and H(x) scaling - Tamás Ferenc Csörgö (Wigner RCP Budapest and MATE Institute of Technology, Gyöngyös, Hungary) Tamas Csorgo (MATE Institute of Technology Karoly Robert Campus (HU)) Tamas Csorgo (Harvard University)  
5:35 PM Recent PPS results and prospects - Mr István Szanyi (Eötvös Loránd University) Istvan Szanyi (MATE KRC, University of Kansas, Wigner RCP)  
12:20 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:50 PM
Femtoscopy at intermediate energies (until 3:35 PM)
1:50 PM Femtoscopic introduction to HIC and symmetry energy at sub-relativistic energies - Giuseppe Verde Giuseppe Verde (INFN, Sezione di Catania) Giuseppe VERDE  
2:20 PM Constraints on the nuclear Equation of State from heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies - Maria Colonna  
2:50 PM Femtoscopy of rotating sources (online) - Mr Oleh Savchuk (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies) Oleh Savchuk (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)  
3:15 PM Femtoscopy at HADES - Michał Prędota Michal Predota Michał Prędota (Warsaw University of Technology)  
3:35 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:05 PM
Intermediate energies I. (until 6:10 PM)
4:05 PM The HIC studies at RIKEN with the Spirit TPC and the quest for the symmetry energy - Mizuki Kurata (Institute of Physics)  
4:35 PM Heavy-ion collisions dynamics and the symmetry energy at intermediate energies - Dr Elena Geraci (Department of Physics and Astronomy and INFN Catania)  
5:05 PM Investigation of the isopin influence in quasi projectile break-up reactions - Brunilde Gnoffo  
5:30 PM Nuclear Physics studies at intermediate energies with FAZIA - Dr Lucia Baldesi (Universita di Firenze, INFN di Firenze)  
5:50 PM Hoyle state studies at intermediate energies with FAZIA - Ms Ilham Dekhissi (LPC)  
7:00 PM --- Conference dinner - Cellar Garden (Budapest, Nagytétényi út 64, 1222) ---
12:25 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:50 PM
Lattice QCD and heavy flavor (until 3:30 PM)
1:50 PM Heavy quark diffusion coefficient and charm degrees of freedom from lattice QCD (online) - Peter Petreczky (BNL) Peter Petreczky  
2:20 PM Heavy quark potential and charmoium properties at T>0 from lattice - Rasmus Larsen Rasmus Normann Larsen (State University of New York (US))  
2:50 PM Bottomonium properties at non-zero temperatures from lattice NRQCD - Wei-Ping Huang  
3:15 PM Magnetic susceptibility of hot hadronic matter and degrees of freedom at QCD crossover - Dr Rupam Samanta (Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ, PAN), Poland)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Hydrodynamics (until 5:20 PM)
4:00 PM Thermodynamics of rotating fermions - Victor Eugen Ambrus (West University of Timisoara (RO)) Victor E. Ambrus Dr Victor Ambrus (West University of Timișoara)  
4:20 PM Dilepton Emission as a Probe of Local Acceleration in the Quark-Gluon Plasma - Aritra Bandyopadhyay  
4:35 PM Photon emission from magnetied and rotating hot QCD plasma - Matteo Buzzegoli Matteo Buzzegoli Matteo Buzzegoli Matteo Buzzegoli (Iowa State University)  
4:50 PM Hybrid approach at low energies: dynamical fluidization - Zuzana Paulinyova (Pavol Jozef Safarik University) Zuzana Paulinyova (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
5:05 PM Thermal Radiation from an Analytic Hydrodynamic Model with Hadronic and QGP Sources in Heavy-Ion Collisions - Gábor Kasza  
12:05 PM
Flash talks part I. (until 12:52 PM)
12:05 PM Three-dimensional sizes and shapes of pion emission in heavy-ion collisions (poster) - Emese Árpási (Eötvös Loránd University)  
12:07 PM Investigation of the particle-species dependence of the two-particle source function with EPOS (poster) - László Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University)  
12:09 PM Pion emission source from UrQMD at STAR energies ranging from 3 to 27 GeV (poster) - Mátyás Molnár  
12:11 PM Comparison of source shapes from EPOS and momentum correlations from CRAB (poster) - Mr Mate Szilagyi (Eötvös Loránd University)  
12:13 PM Lévy distributed sources from relativistic hydrodynamics - Bence Szentkuti (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)  
12:15 PM Feasibility study of femtoscopic correlations of π mesons in CBM experiment(poster) - Mr Kacper Zięba (Warsaw University of Technology)  
12:17 PM Same sign pion femtoscopy in AgAg beam 1.58A GeV in HADES experiment (poster) - Ms Anna Kodym (Warsaw University of Technology)  
12:19 PM Measuring the spatio-temporal characteristics of medium produced in heavy-ion collisions (poster) - Egor Nedorezov (JINR)  
12:21 PM Study of baryon-antibaryon interactions with the femtoscopy method (poster) - Alicja Plachta (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
12:23 PM Rotating isotropic harmonic oscillator - Mr Jonesie Aguiar (West University of Timisoara)  
12:25 PM Strongly interacting matter under imaginary rotation (poster) - Tudor Pătuleanu (West University of Timișoara)  
12:27 PM Quantum corrections in quark-meson model under rotation (poster) - Mr Aleksandar Gecic (Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara)  
12:29 PM Exploring Polarised Dilepton Production Rate as a QGP Signature (poster) - Moulindu Kundu (West University of Timisoara)  
12:31 PM Probing Hydrodynamics at 7.7 GeV: Model Comparisons of the Bulk Properties of Au+Au Collisions (poster) - Oris Eng  
12:35 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Flash talks part II. (until 2:40 PM)
2:00 PM Entropy and multiplicity of hadrons in the high energy limit within dipole cascade models (poster) - Sandor Lokos (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
2:02 PM Higher-order nonlocal thermodynamic theories of gravity (poster) - Máté Pszota (Eötvös University, Wigner RCP)  
2:04 PM Modified dispersion relation around neuton stars and black holes in exta-dimensional spacetime (poster) - Anna Horvath Anna Horvath (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))  
2:06 PM Direct Photon Measurements in Au+Au Collisions at $sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV (poster) - Mrs Nour Abdulameer (Debrecen University)  
2:08 PM Nuclear modification factor of inclusive charged particles in Au+Au collisions with the STAR experiment (poster) - Alisher Aitbayev  
2:10 PM Lepton Flavour Violation with bottom quark candidates (poster) - Ms Swagata Biswas (National Institute of Technology Durgapur)  
2:12 PM Aymmetries with bottom baryons (poster) - Rajesh Chakrabarty  
2:14 PM Open charm angular correlation studies at LHC energies (poster) - Barbara Chytla (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
2:16 PM Strange hadron production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 3-27 GeV with UrQMD (poster) - Artem Timofeev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)  
2:18 PM Event selection strategy in light-ion collisions (poster) - Dorottya Judit Cynolter (Eotvos Lorand University (HU)) Ms Dorottya Cynolter  
2:20 PM Hadron suppression measurements and simulation for the ALICE 3 MuonID upgrade (poster) - Daniel Szaraz (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
2:22 PM SiPM sensors for luminosity measurement at Electron Ion Collider (poster) - Ms Jana Demjančuková (FNSPE CTU)  
2:24 PM Novelties of measuring the XY factorization bias in precision luminosity determination (poster) - Anna Feherkuti (Eotvos Lorand University (HU), Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
2:26 PM Beam position calibration for precision luminosity measurements at the CMS Experiment (poster) - Attila Jozsef Radl (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
2:28 PM Latest results of the HIJING++ MC event generator (poster) - Szabolcs Molnár (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics)  
2:30 PM Impact of the Pauli blocking and particle exchange on the four-body systems (poster) - Morgan Kuchta (University of Wrocław)  
2:32 PM Inversion of Equation of State with a First-Order Phase Transition (poster) - Tomás Poledníek (Czech Technical University in Prague)  
2:34 PM Lattice-compatible QCD equation of state with the first order phase transition and critical point (poster) - Mr Oleksandr Vitiuk (University of Wroclaw, Institute of Theoretical Physics) Mr Oleksandr Vitiuk (University of Wroclaw (PL))  
2:36 PM TBA - Reka Somogyfoki (Wigner RCP Budapest)  
2:38 PM TBA - Madeeha Nazish  
2:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:00 PM
Ortvay Colloquium (until 4:00 PM) (1.71)
3:00 PM The tiniest and hottest fluid: exploring the quark.gluon plasma - Tetsufumi Hirano  
4:00 PM
Posters and wine (until 6:30 PM) (1.71)
6:00 PM IAC discussion and dinner   (7.22)
12:15 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:45 PM
Nuclear structure (until 2:50 PM)
1:45 PM Nuclear structure measurements in pO and OO collisions at LHC energies - Dr Gergely Gabor Barnafoldi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU)) Gergely Barnafoldi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU)) Gergely Barnafoldi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))  
2:05 PM Femtoscopic signatures of unique nuclear structures in relativistic collisions - Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University) Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)  
2:20 PM From Nuclei to Neutron Stars: A study on the neutron skin of 48Ca in high energy heavy ion collisions - Ms Leonora Misciattelli Mocenigo Soranzo (University of Copenhagen)  
2:35 PM Imprint of alpha-clustering on nucleon-nucleon correlations in relativistic light ion collisions - Hadi Mehrabpour (Peking Univresity) Hadi Mehrabpour (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)) Hadi Mehrabpour (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IR)) Dr Hadi Mehrabpour (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)  
2:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:20 PM
Plasma physics (until 4:30 PM)
3:20 PM Quarks to Cosmos: Particles and plasma in cosmological evolution - Johann Rafelski (Arizona, Tucson (US)) Johann Rafelski (Arizona, Tucson (US))  
3:40 PM Laser Induced Nanofusion - Norbert Kroó  
4:10 PM Organizing Committee: Closing, awards, followed by small farewell gathering - Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University) Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) Sandor Lokos (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Péter Kovács (Wigner Research Centre for Physics) Dr Péter Kovács (Wigner Research Centre for Physics) Mate Csanad (Eotvos University, Budapest)