15 March 2026
Colorado Convention Center: Room 708/710 (online attendence available)
America/Denver timezone

Program topics

With a perspective on current efforts and future prospects, the meeting will cover: 

  • The emergence of strongly coupled matter in heavy-ion collisions
  • Small wavelength probes of heavy-ion collisions from experiment
  • Theory developments on hard processes revealing the microscopics of QCD matter
  • Pushing the limits of QGP formation in small systems

  • Connecting nuclear structure with high-energy nuclear collisions
  • New insights from quantum information for hadronization
  • Using the energy frontier of hadronic collisions to explore the cosmos
  • The small-x horizon of cold nuclear matter

  • Resolving outstanding questions in heavy-ion physics with the EIC
  • What can the Genesis mission mean for high-energy nuclear physics?
  • ALICE and LHCb upgrades for the 2030s

  • ATLAS and CMS upgrades for the 2030s

  • Advancing the silicon detector frontier with ITS3, ALICE 3, and ePIC SVT

 

Towards the end of the meeting, an opportunity to present flash-talks from any of the attendees will be available.