Nuclear physics across energy scales

18 Sep 2025, 14:00 → 21 Sep 2025, 18:00 Asia/Shanghai

We are delighted to announce the three-day program "Nuclear Physics Across Energy Scales," which will be held at the Central China Center for Nuclear Theory (C3NT) in Wuhan, China, from September 19th to September 21st（5 pm）, 2025(Registration on the 18th.). This program will bring together leading theorists and experimentalists in high-energy nuclear physics and nuclear structure physics to explore the latest advancements and interdisciplinary studies on high and low energy nuclear physics, fostering collaborative research and in-depth discussions on this cutting-edge topic.

The program will include a dynamic mix of invited keynote talks, short presentations, and discussion sessions, fostering a vibrant environment for idea exchange and exploration of emerging trends in the field. With an anticipated attendance of approximately 70 participants, the event is intentionally designed to promote close collaboration, meaningful networking, and in-depth dialogue among attendees, ensuring a rich and engaging experience for all. 

 

The conference registration fee is 1,500 RMB per person, and accommodation and meals are at the participants' own expense.

 

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Thursday, 18 September

14:00 → 21:00 Registration

GuiYuan Hotel

Friday, 19 September

09:00 → 09:30 Opening Ceremony + Group Photo

Convener: Xin-Nian Wang (Central China Normal University)

09:00 Opening address

Speaker: Prof. ShuangJie Peng

09:30 → 12:30 Morning Session

Convener: Prof. Michal Heller

09:30 Surprises and challenges in the QCD phase diagram

Speaker: Prof. Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo)

10:00 Investigating nuclear structure with LHCb and SMOG2

Speaker: Prof. Giacomo Graziani (INFN, Sezione di Firenze)

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10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Diffusion models for lattice field theory

Speaker: Prof. Gert Aats

11:30 An improved formula for spin polarization at local thermodynamic equilibrium

Speaker: Prof. Francesco Becattini

12:00 Overview for AMPT and nuclear structure

Speaker: Prof. Zi-Wei Lin (East Carolina University)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch (Buffet)

Buffet

14:00 → 17:00 Afternoon Session

Convener: Prof. Defu Hou (CCNU)

14:00 Essentials of nuclear imaging at high-energy colliders

Speaker: Prof. Giuliano Giacalone

14:30 Sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo simulation towards heavy nuclei

Speaker: Prof. Bingnan Lu (Institute of theoretical physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Exploring dense nuclear matte in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Prof. Masakiyo Kitazawa (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

16:00 Can the strong interactions between hadrons be determined using femtoscopy?

Speaker: Prof. Evgeny Epelbaum (Ruhr University Bochum)

16:30 Emergent Cluster Structures in Light Nuclei

Speaker: Prof. Bo Zhou (复旦大学)

17:00 → 18:00 Group Discussion: Nuclear theoretical computational methods and models

Saturday, 20 September

09:00 → 12:00 Morning Session

Convener: Prof. HuiChao Song

09:00 Understanding Xe isotopes near A=130 from the prolate-oblate shape phase transition

Speaker: Prof. Yu Zhang

09:30 Mystery of Calcium production in the first generation stars

Speaker: Prof. JianJun He

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Light nuclei structure by lattice effective field theory

Speaker: Prof. Shihang Shen (Beihang University)

11:00 Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei from large to small via high-energy nuclear collisions

Speaker: Prof. Chunjian Zhang (Fudan University)

11:30 Probe the nuclear shape with relativistic heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Prof. ShuJun Zhao

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch (Buffet)

14:00 → 16:30 Afternoon Session

Convener: Prof. Raimond Snellings

14:00 Probing QGP in light-ion collisions with ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Qipeng Hu (University of Science and Technology of China)

14:30 Small scale fluctuations and flow correlations

Speaker: Prof. Piotr Bożek

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Resolving the PREX-CREX puzzle in nuclear density functional theory

Speaker: Prof. Zhen Zhang

16:00 Octupole correlations in super-deformed bands in 56Ni

Speaker: Prof. Hiroyuki Sagawa

16:30 → 17:30 Group Discussion: Nuclear structure and collision dynamics

19:00 → 21:30 Banquet

Sunday, 21 September

09:00 → 12:00 Morning Session

Convener: Guang-You Qin (Central China Normal University)

09:00 SRC study with multiple probes

Speaker: Prof. Zhihong Ye (Tsinghua University)

09:30 Engineering shape of QGP droplets by comparing flow in small symmetric-asymmetric collisions

Speaker: Prof. Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook University)

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Machine learning density functional theory for atomic nuclei

Speaker: Prof. Pengwei Zhao (Peking University)

11:00 Probing nuclear structure in heavy-ion reactions: similarities between subbarrier fusion and relativistic HIC

Speaker: Prof. Kouichi Hagino

11:30 Alpha Cluster Formation and Decay in Nuclei

Speaker: Prof. Chang Xu

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch (Buffet)

14:00 → 15:30 Afternoon Session

Convener: Prof. Long-Gang Pang

14:00 Fermi operator expansion method for nuclei and inhomogeneous nuclear matter at finite temperature

Speaker: Prof. Takashi Nakatsukasa

14:30 A theory discussion on new results from oxygen and neon collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN / Utrecht University)

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:30 Group Discussion

16:30 → 16:40 Closing Ceremony