Name: EMMI Workshop: QCD challenges from pp to AA collisions
Start: 2026-07-06T07:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-10T23:59:00+02:00
Location: Torino

EMMI Workshop: QCD challenges from pp to AA collisions

from Monday, July 6, 2026 (7:00 AM) to Friday, July 10, 2026 (11:59 PM)

Monday, July 6, 2026
2:00 PM Opening plenary session: Opening plenary session
Opening plenary session
2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Registration

2:30 PM Intro from IAC - Peter Christiansen (Lund University (SE))

2:45 PM Intro from LOC - Livio Bianchi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

3:00 PM Intro from wg1 - Govert Hugo Nijs (CERN)

4:00 PM Intro from wg2 - Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))

4:30 PM Intro from wg3 - Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE))

5:00 PM Intro from wg4 - Luca Micheletti (CERN)

6:30 PM Welcome drink
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
9:00 AM EVENT ENGINEERING: parallel session 1
parallel session 1
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Commonly used event estimators for small systems and the associated biases - Suraj Prasad (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))

11:00 AM Light-flavour particle production as a function of event-shape classifiers - Adrian Fereydon Nassirpour (Sejong University (KR))
HI AT THE TEMPERATURE AND SIZE FRONTIER: parallel session 1
parallel session 1
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM What does centrality mean in ultra-central collisions? - Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Torino (IT))
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS: parallel session 1
parallel session 1
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Synthesis of HF present results from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Andrea Rossi (INFN, Padova (IT))

11:00 AM Flow harmonics and saturation studies from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC (and EIC) - Audrey Francisco (CEA)
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS: parallel session 1
parallel session 1
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Modelling ultra-peripheral in pA - Oleh Fedkevych (University of Jyvaskyla)

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM UPC - Roman Nepeivoda (Lund University (SE))
2:00 PM EVENT ENGINEERING: parallel session 2
parallel session 2
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM How hard processes influence particle production in small systems? - Chiara De Martin (CERN)

4:00 PM Heavy-flavor particle production vs event shape in ALICE - Robert Vertesi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
HI AT THE TEMPERATURE AND SIZE FRONTIER
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Understanding the shape of the nucleus from central AA collisions - Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)

4:00 PM Experimental constraints of the QGP EOS using ultra-central collisions - Rene Bellwied (University of Houston (US))
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS: parallel session 2
parallel session 2
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Charged particle multiplicity from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Romain Schotter (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)) Valentina Zaccolo (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

4:00 PM How MC infrastructure can help in building a global picture of hadronic collisions - Federica Capellino (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Johannès Jahan (University of Houston)
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS: parallel session 2
parallel session 2
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Critical Look - Guy Paic (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))

4:00 PM Discussion of e+e- reanalysis - Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US))
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
9:00 AM EVENT ENGINEERING: parallel session 3
parallel session 3
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Event engineering techniques for small systems in CMS - Efe Yazgan (National Taiwan University (TW))

11:00 AM Event activity dependence of Y(nS) suppression in high-multiplicity pp collisions - Daniele Fasanella (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
HI AT THE TEMPERATURE AND SIZE FRONTIER: parallel session 3
parallel session 3
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM What is the temperature and size dependence of jet-quenching in AA collisions? - Isobel Kolbe (IGFAE)
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS: parallel session 3
parallel session 3
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Synthesis of LF present results from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Maximiliano Puccio (CERN)

11:00 AM Electromagnetic probes from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Ivan Vorobyev (CERN)
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS: parallel session 3
parallel session 3
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Parton level flow - Debojit Sarkar (IIT Bombay (IN))

11:00 AM Does hydro survive in small systems? - Victor Ambrus (West University of Timișoara) Victor Eugen Ambrus (West University of Timisoara (RO))

2:30 PM Hadrochemistry - Sara Pucillo (Universita e INFN, Salerno (IT))

4:30 PM Synthesis - David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2:00 PM EVENT ENGINEERING: parallel session 4
parallel session 4
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM How to correct for unwanted event classifier selection biases in small systems? - Lucia Anna Tarasovicova (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))

4:00 PM Future directions of event engineering and open questions - Alberto Caliva (Universita e INFN, Salerno (IT))
HI AT THE TEMPERATURE AND SIZE FRONTIER: parallel session 4
parallel session 4
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Latest progress on the QGP EOS from theory - Claudia Ratti
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS: parallel session 4
parallel session 4
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Combining measurements in HF, LF & quarkonia sector in AA collisions - Lucia Oliva (INFN Catania)

4:00 PM Jets structure from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Brian Andrew Cole (Columbia University (US))
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS: parallel session 4
parallel session 4
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday, July 9, 2026

9:00 AM CROSS SESSION - TBD 1

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

CROSS SESSION - TBD 2

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

2:00 PM CROSS SESSION

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

CROSS SESSION - TBD 1

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday, July 10, 2026
9:00 AM Closing plenary session: Closing plenary session
Closing plenary session
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Report from wg4 - Luca Micheletti (CERN)

9:30 AM Report from wg1 - Omar Vazquez Rueda (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))

10:00 AM Report from wg2 - David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

11:00 AM Report from wg3 - Andreas Morsch (CERN)

11:30 AM Wrap-up from Organizers