EMMI Workshop: QCD challenges from pp to AA collisions

from Monday, 6 July 2026 (07:00) to Friday, 10 July 2026 (23:59)
Torino

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026
AM
09:00
EVENT ENGINEERING - Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE)) Francesca Ercolessi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Andreas Morsch (CERN) (until 13:00)
09:00 Commonly used event estimators for small systems and the associated biases - Suraj Prasad (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Light-flavour particle production as a function of event-shape classifiers - Adrian Fereydon Nassirpour (Sejong University (KR))  
09:00
HI AT THE TEMPERATURE AND SIZE FRONTIER - Omar Vazquez Rueda (University of Houston (US)) Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) Govert Nijs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (until 13:00)
09:00 What does centrality mean in ultra-central collisions? - Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Torino (IT))  
09:00
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS - Klaus WERNER Luca Micheletti (CERN) Sarah Porteboeuf (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) (until 13:00)
09:00 Synthesis of HF present results from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Andrea Rossi (INFN, Padova (IT))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Flow harmonics and saturation studies from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC (and EIC) - Audrey Francisco (CEA)  
09:00
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Dushmanta Sahu (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) (until 13:00)
09:00 Modelling ultra-peripheral in pA - Oleh Fedkevych (University of Jyvaskyla)  
10:30 Coffee break  
11:00 UPC - Roman Nepeivoda (Lund University (SE))  
09:00
EVENT ENGINEERING - Francesca Ercolessi (CERN) Andreas Morsch (CERN) Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE)) (until 13:00)
09:00 Event engineering techniques for small systems in CMS - Efe Yazgan (National Taiwan University (TW))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Event activity dependence of Y(nS) suppression in high-multiplicity pp collisions - Daniele Fasanella (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
09:00
HI AT THE TEMPERATURE AND SIZE FRONTIER - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) Omar Vazquez Rueda Omar Vazquez Rueda (University of Houston (US)) Govert Nijs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (until 13:00)
09:00 What is the temperature and size dependence of jet-quenching in AA collisions? - Dr Isobel Kolbe (IGFAE)  
09:00
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS - Luca Micheletti (CERN) Sarah Porteboeuf (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) Klaus WERNER (until 13:00)
09:00 Synthesis of LF present results from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Maximiliano Puccio (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Electromagnetic probes from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Ivan Vorobyev (CERN)  
09:00
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS - Dushmanta Sahu (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) Christian Bierlich (until 18:00)
09:00 Parton level flow - Dr Debojit Sarkar (IIT Bombay (IN))  
11:00 Does hydro survive in small systems? - Victor Eugen Ambrus (West University of Timisoara (RO)) Dr Victor Ambrus (West University of Timișoara)  
14:30 Hadrochemistry - Sara Pucillo (Universita e INFN, Salerno (IT))  
16:30 Synthesis - David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
09:00
CROSS SESSION - TBD 1 (until 13:00)
09:00
CROSS SESSION - TBD 2 (until 13:00)
09:00
Closing plenary session (until 13:00)
09:00 Report from wg4 - Luca Micheletti (CERN)  
09:30 Report from wg1 - Omar Vazquez Rueda (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))  
10:00 Report from wg2 - David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Report from wg3 - Andreas Morsch (CERN)  
11:30 Wrap-up from Organizers  
PM
14:00
Opening plenary session (until 20:00)
14:00 Registration  
14:30 Intro from IAC - Peter Christiansen (Lund University (SE))  
14:45 Intro from LOC - Livio Bianchi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
15:00 Intro from wg1 - Govert Hugo Nijs (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Intro from wg2 - Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))  
16:30 Intro from wg3 - Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE))  
17:00 Intro from wg4 - Luca Micheletti (CERN)  
18:30 Welcome drink  
14:00
EVENT ENGINEERING - Andreas Morsch (CERN) Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE)) Francesca Ercolessi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) (until 18:00)
14:00 How hard processes influence particle production in small systems? - Chiara De Martin (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Heavy-flavor particle production vs event shape in ALICE - Robert Vertesi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
14:00
HI AT THE TEMPERATURE AND SIZE FRONTIER - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) Govert Hugo Nijs (CERN) Omar Vazquez Rueda (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) (until 18:00)
14:00 Understanding the shape of the nucleus from central AA collisions - Dr Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)  
16:00 Experimental constraints of the QGP EOS using ultra-central collisions - Rene Bellwied (University of Houston (US))  
14:00
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS - Luca Micheletti (CERN) Sarah Porteboeuf (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) Klaus WERNER (until 18:00)
14:00 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))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 How MC infrastructure can help in building a global picture of hadronic collisions - Dr Johannès Jahan (University of Houston) Federica Capellino (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
14:00
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Dushmanta Sahu (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) (until 18:00)
14:00 Critical Look - Guy Paic (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))  
16:00 Discussion of e+e- reanalysis - Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US))  
14:00
EVENT ENGINEERING - Andreas Morsch (CERN) Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE)) Francesca Ercolessi (CERN) (until 18:00)
14:00 How to correct for unwanted event classifier selection biases in small systems? - Lucia Anna Tarasovicova (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Future directions of event engineering and open questions - Mr Alberto Caliva (Universita e INFN, Salerno (IT))  
14:00
HI AT THE TEMPERATURE AND SIZE FRONTIER - Govert Hugo Nijs (CERN) Omar Vazquez Rueda Omar Vazquez Rueda (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Govert Nijs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) (until 18:00)
14:00 Latest progress on the QGP EOS from theory - Claudia Ratti  
14:00
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS - Klaus WERNER Luca Micheletti (CERN) Sarah Porteboeuf (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) (until 18:00)
14:00 Combining measurements in HF, LF & quarkonia sector in AA collisions - Lucia Oliva (INFN Catania)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Jets structure from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Brian Andrew Cole (Columbia University (US))  
14:00
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS - Dushmanta Sahu (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) Christian Bierlich (until 18:00)
14:00
CROSS SESSION (until 18:00)
14:00
CROSS SESSION - TBD 1 (until 18:00)