Lattice@CERN 2026: Improved estimators for lattice QCD correlation functions

from Monday, 6 July 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 17 July 2026 (17:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026
13 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026
15 Jul 2026
16 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026
AM
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:10 Welcome  
11:15 Master field, stochastic locality, and position-space methods - Jeremy Russell Green  
09:30 Taming excited-state contamination for precision hadron structure - Lorenzo Barca  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:15 Application of Laplace filters to the analysis of lattice time correlators - Tobias Tsang (University of Liverpool (GB)) Dr Antonin Portelli  
09:30 High-precision QCD+QED simulations - Christoph Lehner (University of Regensburg & BNL)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:15 Spectral Reconstruction: Rigorous Bounds from Noisy, Finite Data - William Jay  
09:30 Machine learning approaches to lattice QCD - Akio Tomiya (Tokyo Woman's Christian University)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 About the application of the blending method in the nucleon scalar and tensor charge - Yi-Bo Yang  
09:30 Investigations of loops in a two-level sampling algorithm - Jacob Friedrich Finkenrath (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:15 Operator and correlator construction with distillation - John Bulava  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:10 Welcome  
11:15 Divide and conquer: splitting methods for lattice QCD - Tim Harris (ETH Zürich)  
09:30 Limitations and new directions for contour deformations to minimize observable noise - Gurtej Kanwar (University of Edinburgh)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:15 Learning the generating functional for variance reduction in lattice QCD - Fernando Romero Lopez  
09:30 Stochastic automatic differentiation and noise reduction - Alberto Ramos Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:15 A variational framework for variance reduction - Alessandro Nada (Università di Torino)  
09:30 Spectral densities from Euclidean correlators via integral transforms - Leonardo Giusti (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 High-Precision scale setting with the Omega baryon mass - Oleksiy Bazavov (Michigan State University (US))  
09:30 First-principles determination of anomaly-induced pion decay beyond the chiral limit - Xu Feng (Peking University)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:15 Chiral gauge theories and gauge field flow - Srimoyee Sen  
PM
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Improving operators and correlation functions for mesons, glueballs and baryons - Juan Andres Urrea Nino  
14:30 Accessing form factors at imaginary momentum in lattice QCD - Max Hansen  
15:00 --- Coffee ---
18:00
Reception (until 19:00)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Lattice QCD two- and three-point functions using exact distillation with multi-particle interpolators - Dr Sven Lingscheid  
14:30 "Blending": an unbiased estimator for all-to-all quark propagators - Zhicheng Hu  
15:00 --- Coffee ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 TH Colloquium: "Hamiltonian Methods from Quantum Information Technologies" - Enrique Rico Ortega (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Emergence of the $\pi(1300)$ Resonance from Lattice QCD - Haobo Yan  
14:30 Advancing measurements of the topological charge correlator in finite-temperature simulations - Andrey Kotov  
15:00 --- Coffee ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:00 --- Coffee ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Performance of Low Mode Averaging on physical pion mass Twisted-Mass ensembles - Antonio Evangelista (University of Cyprus)  
14:30 Bayesian Model Averaging for Lattice Practitioners - Jake Sitison  
15:00 --- Coffee ---
18:00
Reception (until 19:00)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Normalising flows for all-orders QED corrections - Nils Hermansson Truedsson  
15:00 --- Coffee ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Gluonic hadron structure
 and new machine-learning approaches for lattice QCD (TH colloquium) - Phiala Elisabeth Shanahan (MIT)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:00 --- Coffee ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Four-point Correlation Functions: Computation, Applications, and Systematics - Zhaolong Zhang  
14:30 Practical info - Harvey Byron Meyer (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:00 --- Coffee ---