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)
Torino

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 6, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
Jul 8, 2026
Jul 9, 2026
Jul 10, 2026
AM
9:00 AM
EVENT ENGINEERING - Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE)) Francesca Ercolessi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Andreas Morsch (CERN) (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM Commonly used event estimators for small systems and the associated biases - Suraj Prasad (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Light-flavour particle production as a function of event-shape classifiers - Adrian Fereydon Nassirpour (Sejong University (KR))  
9:00 AM
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 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM What does centrality mean in ultra-central collisions? - Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Torino (IT))  
9:00 AM
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS - Klaus WERNER Luca Micheletti (CERN) Sarah Porteboeuf (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM Synthesis of HF present results from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Andrea Rossi (INFN, Padova (IT))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Flow harmonics and saturation studies from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC (and EIC) - Audrey Francisco (CEA)  
9:00 AM
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Dushmanta Sahu (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) (until 1:00 PM)
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))  
9:00 AM
EVENT ENGINEERING - Francesca Ercolessi (CERN) Andreas Morsch (CERN) Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE)) (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM Event engineering techniques for small systems in CMS - Efe Yazgan (National Taiwan University (TW))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Event activity dependence of Y(nS) suppression in high-multiplicity pp collisions - Daniele Fasanella (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
9:00 AM
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 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM What is the temperature and size dependence of jet-quenching in AA collisions? - Dr Isobel Kolbe (IGFAE)  
9:00 AM
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS - Luca Micheletti (CERN) Sarah Porteboeuf (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) Klaus WERNER (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM Synthesis of LF present results from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Maximiliano Puccio (CERN)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Electromagnetic probes from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Ivan Vorobyev (CERN)  
9:00 AM
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS - Dushmanta Sahu (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) Christian Bierlich (until 6:00 PM)
9:00 AM Parton level flow - Dr Debojit Sarkar (IIT Bombay (IN))  
11:00 AM Does hydro survive in small systems? - Victor Eugen Ambrus (West University of Timisoara (RO)) Dr Victor Ambrus (West University of Timișoara)  
2:30 PM Hadrochemistry - Sara Pucillo (Universita e INFN, Salerno (IT))  
4:30 PM Synthesis - David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
9:00 AM
CROSS SESSION - TBD 1 (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM
CROSS SESSION - TBD 2 (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM
Closing plenary session (until 1:00 PM)
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))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Report from wg3 - Andreas Morsch (CERN)  
11:30 AM Wrap-up from Organizers  
PM
2:00 PM
Opening plenary session (until 8:00 PM)
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)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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  
2:00 PM
EVENT ENGINEERING - Andreas Morsch (CERN) Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE)) Francesca Ercolessi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM How hard processes influence particle production in small systems? - Chiara De Martin (CERN)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Heavy-flavor particle production vs event shape in ALICE - Robert Vertesi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
2:00 PM
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 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Understanding the shape of the nucleus from central AA collisions - Dr Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)  
4:00 PM Experimental constraints of the QGP EOS using ultra-central collisions - Rene Bellwied (University of Houston (US))  
2:00 PM
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS - Luca Micheletti (CERN) Sarah Porteboeuf (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) Klaus WERNER (until 6:00 PM)
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))  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM 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))  
2:00 PM
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Dushmanta Sahu (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Critical Look - Guy Paic (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))  
4:00 PM Discussion of e+e- reanalysis - Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US))  
2:00 PM
EVENT ENGINEERING - Andreas Morsch (CERN) Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University (SE)) Francesca Ercolessi (CERN) (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM How to correct for unwanted event classifier selection biases in small systems? - Lucia Anna Tarasovicova (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Future directions of event engineering and open questions - Mr Alberto Caliva (Universita e INFN, Salerno (IT))  
2:00 PM
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 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Latest progress on the QGP EOS from theory - Claudia Ratti  
2:00 PM
SYNTHESIS OF PRESENT RESULTS - Klaus WERNER Luca Micheletti (CERN) Sarah Porteboeuf (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Combining measurements in HF, LF & quarkonia sector in AA collisions - Lucia Oliva (INFN Catania)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Jets structure from pp to Pb-Pb, from SPS to LHC - Brian Andrew Cole (Columbia University (US))  
2:00 PM
VERY SMALL SYSTEMS - Dushmanta Sahu (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX)) Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) Christian Bierlich (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM
CROSS SESSION (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM
CROSS SESSION - TBD 1 (until 6:00 PM)