Name: EDS Blois 2019: The 18th Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering
Start: 2019-06-23T08:30:00+07:00
End: 2019-06-29T12:30:00+07:00
Location: ICISE

Monday 17 June 2019
Tuesday 18 June 2019
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Thursday 20 June 2019
Friday 21 June 2019
Saturday 22 June 2019
Sunday 23 June 2019

19:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
19:00 - 20:30

Monday 24 June 2019
08:30 Welcome to EDS 2019
Welcome to EDS 2019
08:30 - 09:30
Contributions

08:30 Presentation of guests

08:40 J. Tran Thanh Van: Welcome

08:50 Nguyen Phi Long, Vice President of the province

09:05 Presentation of the EDS Blois series - Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US))

09:15 Conference photograph
09:30 Diffraction and Central Exclusive Production I
Diffraction and Central Exclusive Production I
09:30 - 10:20
Contributions

09:30 Recent results from HERA - Peter Bussey (University of Glasgow, UK)
10:20 Break
Break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 Diffraction and Central Exclusive Production II
Diffraction and Central Exclusive Production II
10:50 - 12:40
Contributions

10:50 Measurements of single diffraction using forward proton tagging at ATLAS - Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL)) Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))

11:20 Recent CMS and CMS-TOTEM results on diffraction and exclusive production - Oliver Suranyi (Eötvös Loránd University)

11:50 gamma gamma production of heavy particle pairs in proton-proton collisions - Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow)

12:15 Diffractive onium - nucleus scattering and genealogy of partonic evolution - Anh Dung Le (CPhT - Polytechnique)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
14:00 Diffraction and Central Exclusive Production III / Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section I
Diffraction and Central Exclusive Production III / Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section I
14:00 - 16:15
Contributions

14:00 Using photon collisions to search for dark matter - Lydia Audrey Beresford (University of Oxford (GB))

14:25 Searches for Dark Matter at the LHC in forward proton mode - Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)

14:55 Searching for odderon exchange in exclusive reactions with $\phi$ meson - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

15:20 Result for Pomeron and Odderon parameter using IR regulators - Carlos Contreras (Santa Maria University)

15:45 PPS results and prospects from CMS/TOTEM - Justin Andrew Williams (The University of Kansas (US)) CMS Collaboration
16:15 Break
Break
16:15 - 16:45

16:45 Free Time at the Center
Free Time at the Center
16:45 - 18:00
Tuesday 25 June 2019
08:50 Heavy Ions
Heavy Ions
08:50 - 10:30
Contributions

08:50 Overview of recent ALICE results - Robert Vertesi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))

09:35 Photoproduction in pPb/PbPb collisions - Ruchi Chudasama (Eotvos Lorand University (HU)) CMS Collaboration

10:00 Review of Predictions for Production of Hard Probes in p+Pb Collisions at sqrt s_NN = 5.02 and 8.16 TeV and Comparison With Data - Ramona Vogt (LLNL)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Elastic Scattering and Total Cross Section II
Elastic Scattering and Total Cross Section II
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Schwinger based QCD formulation's derivation of elastic pp scattering - Peter Tsang (Brown University)

11:30 Results on Total and Elastic Cross Sections in Proton--Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV Obtained with the STAR Detector at RHIC. - Bogdan Pawlik (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

12:00 Recent Elastic and Total Cross-Section Measurements by TOTEM - Mario Deile (CERN)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Elastic Scattering and Total Cross Section III
Elastic Scattering and Total Cross Section III
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Pomeron and Odderon: J/psi and eta_c electroproduction - Tomasz Stebel (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

14:30 Size and Shape of Hadrons: From Pion Cloud to Pomeron/Odderon, and AdS/CFT - Chung-I Tan (Brown University)

15:00 Odderon, proton structure and hollowness from the model-independent Levy imaging of elastic hadron-hadron collisions - Roman Pasechnik (Lund university)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Free time at Center
Free time at Center
16:00 - 17:30
Wednesday 26 June 2019
08:30 Jet/High pT Final States
Jet/High pT Final States
08:30 - 09:55
Contributions

08:30 Measurements of jet substructure at ATLAS - Mario Campanelli (University College London (UK)) ATLAS Collaboration

09:00 Measurement of W and Z boson production at ATLAS - Aleksei Ezhilov (NRC Kurchatov Institute PNPI (RU))

09:30 New insights on the lepton angular distributions in the Drell-Yan process and Z-boson production at the LHC - Jen-Chieh Peng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
09:55 Break
Break
09:55 - 10:25
10:25 Topics in Astrophycis and Ultra High Energy Interactions
Topics in Astrophycis and Ultra High Energy Interactions
10:25 - 11:40
Contributions

10:25 Recent IceCube Measurements Using High Energy Neutrinos - Hans Niederhausen (Technical University of Munich)

10:55 Astrophysics in Vietnam - Tuan-Anh Pham (Vietnam National Space Center)
11:40 Lunch
Lunch
11:40 - 12:45

12:45 Excursions
Excursions
12:45 - 17:15
Thursday 27 June 2019
08:30 3D Structure of the Proton I
3D Structure of the Proton I
08:30 - 10:10
Contributions

08:30 Proton spin in 3D momentum space - Andrea Signori (Argonne National Laboratory)

08:55 Overview of COMPASS results on spin - Marcia Quaresma (Academia Sinica (TW))

09:20 Recent Results of the RHIC Spin Program - Amilkar Quintero (Temple University)

09:45 Status and prospects of a future Electron-Ion Collider - Salvatore Fazio
10:10 Break
Break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 3D Structure of the Proton II
3D Structure of the Proton II
10:40 - 12:20
Contributions

10:40 Gluon polarization measurements from longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions at STAR - Zilong Chang (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Zilong Chang

11:05 Quark transverse dynamics in hadrons from Lattice QCD - Michael Engelhardt

11:30 Generalized Parton Distributions and the Center for Nuclear Femtography - liuti simonetta

11:55 Exclusive Drell-Yan for studying GPDs at J-PARC - Wen-Chen Chang (Academia Sinica (TW))
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:50
13:50 PDFs and MPI I
PDFs and MPI I
13:50 - 15:05
Contributions

13:50 New CTEQ global analysis with high precision data from the LHC - Tie-Jiun Hou (Northeastern University)

14:15 Determination of proton parton distribution functions using ATLAS data - Gavin Pownall (University of Oxford (GB), DESY (DE))

14:40 Recent QCD results from the xFitter project - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
15:05 Break
Break
15:05 - 15:35
15:35 PDFs and MPI II
PDFs and MPI II
15:35 - 16:25
Contributions

15:35 Latest results on Soft QCD and DPS from the CMS experiment - Rajat Gupta (Panjab University (IN))

16:00 Measurements of multi-parton interactions at ATLAS - Robert Astalos (Comenius University (SK))
16:25 Visit to Science Center
Visit to Science Center
16:25 - 17:30

17:30 Free Time at Center
Free Time at Center
17:30 - 19:00

19:00 Banquet
Banquet
19:00 - 21:30
Friday 28 June 2019
08:30 Theoretical developments 1
Theoretical developments 1
08:30 - 09:45
Contributions

08:30 From quarkonium wave functions to ${\gamma^* \gamma^* \to \eta_c (1S,2S)}$ transition form factors - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

08:55 Extracting jet transport coefficient of cold nuclear matter - Hongxi Xing

09:20 Quasi Parton Distribution Functions for Gluons - Wei Wang (SJTU)
09:45 Break
Break
09:45 - 10:15
10:15 Theoretical developments 2
Theoretical developments 2
10:15 - 11:45
Contributions

10:15 Quantum Computing and lattice gauge theories - Richard Brower (Boston Univ.)

10:45 Tensor network in complex scalar theory toward lattice studies of AdS/CFT - Daisuke Kadoh (Chulalongkorn)

11:15 What QCD teaches us about Quantum Gravity, and vise versa - Masanori Hanada
11:45 Lunch
Lunch
11:45 - 12:45
12:45 Conference Summary and Panel Session
Conference Summary and Panel Session
12:45 - 14:30
Contributions

12:45 Conference Summary - Bob Hirosky (University of Virginia (US))

13:15 Panel Discussion
14:30 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
14:30 - 14:40

14:40 Break and departure from ICISE
Break and departure from ICISE
14:40 - 15:15
Saturday 29 June 2019