A vision for U.S. leadership in relativistic heavy-ion physics

Sunday, 15 March 2026 - 09:00
Colorado Convention Center: Room 708/710 (online attendence available)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Mar 2026
AM
09:00 Welcome to the meeting - Anthony Timmins (University of Houston) Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder)  
09:10 The emergence of strongly coupled matter in heavy-ion collisions - Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Lab)  
09:35 Small wavelength probes of heavy-ion collisions from experiment - Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US))  
10:00 Theory developments on hard processes revealing the microscopics of QCD matter - Krishna Rajagopal (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
10:25 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 Pushing the limits of QGP formation in small systems - Wei Li (Rice University (US))  
11:10 Connecting nuclear structure with high-energy nuclear collisions - Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook University (US))  
11:35 New insights from quantum information for hadronization - Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Using the energy frontier of hadronic collisions to explore the cosmos - Rene Bellwied (University of Houston (US))  
14:25 The small-x horizon of cold nuclear matter - Thomas Boettcher (Indiana University (US))  
14:50 Resolving outstanding questions in heavy-ion physics with the EIC - Rosi Reed (Lehigh University)  
15:15 What could the Genesis mission mean for high-energy nuclear physics? - Mateusz Ploskon (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
15:55 ALICE and LHCb upgrades for the 2030s - Friederike Bock (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))  
16:20 ATLAS and CMS upgrades for the 2030s - Anne Sickles (University of Illinois) Anne Marie Sickles (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
16:45 Advancing the silicon detector frontier with ITS3, ALICE 3, and ePIC SVT - Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
17:10 --- Break ---
17:25 Flash talk: System-size dependence of the charged-particle RAA in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions - Cristian Baldenegro (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
17:30 Flash talk: Ion-species agility at the LHC - Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))  
17:35 Flash talk: Probing QGP and the chiral transition with high-order cumulants of conserved charges with high-luminosity runs at LHC - Dr Volodymyr Vovchenko (University of Houston)  
17:40 Flash talk: Heavy ion physics beyond the standard model - Spencer Robert Klein (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
17:45 Flash talk: Fixed target at the EIC - Matt Durham (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
17:55 --- Discussion and closing comments ---