Precision Frontier of QCD Matter: Inference and Uncertainty Quantification

1 Sep 2025, 00:00 → 12 Sep 2025, 18:00 Asia/Shanghai

Room 409 (Building 9 (Physics Building))

Jean-Francois Paquet (Vanderbilt University) , Kai Zhou (Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen) , Matt Luzum, Raymond Ehlers (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) , Wilke van der Schee (Utrecht University) , 伟尧 (Weiyao) 柯 (Ke) (华中师范大学)

This workshop's focus is the use of advanced statistical techniques for studying the properties of QCD matter. The workshop will cover Bayesian inference methods and uncertainty quantification to connect complex theoretical models with experimental data, aiming to constrain properties of QCD matter in various conditions. The workshop's scope encompasses various forms of QCD matter, including hot and dense systems as well as cold nuclear matter and neutron-rich matter in nuclear astrophysics contexts.

Additional workshop information, including the agenda, will be published soon.

Monday, 1 September

09:00 → 09:30 Registration (Week I)

09:30 → 10:15 Toward constraining QCD phase transitions in neutron star interiors: Bayesian inference with a Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkof linear response analysis

Speaker: Shuzhe Shi (Tsinghua University)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break + Week-I photo

11:00 → 11:45 Inferring the Equation of State from Neutron Star Observables via Machine Learning

Speaker: NARESH KUMAR PATRA (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, NH-B, South Goa, Goa, Pin-757040)

11:45 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Panel discussion

Tuesday, 2 September

09:15 → 10:00 Bayesian inference in heavy ion collisions

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

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Special Colloquium: From Quarks to Neutron Stars

Speaker: Prof. Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN iTHEMS)

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:45 Bayesian and frequentist model comparison for nuclear symmetry energy

Speaker: Prof. Zhen Zhang (SYSU)

Wednesday, 3 September

09:30 → 10:15 Calibration of rapidity dependent mulitplicities using a three-dimensional initial state model

Speaker: Dr Andreas Kirchner (Duke University)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 Hadron-Hadron Interaction from Lattice QCD: Theory meets experiments

Speaker: Prof. Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN iTHEMS)

11:45 → 13:00 Lunch Box

13:00 → 17:00 Hubei Province Museum Tour (Week-I)

Thursday, 4 September

09:30 → 10:15 High-Dimensional Unfolding in Large Backgrounds

Speaker: Adam Takacs (Heidelberg University)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 Deep generative event-by-event heavy-ion simulations for next-generation experiments

Speaker: Dr Manjunath Omana Kuttan (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies )

11:45 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:45 Emergence and quantification of collective effects across collision systems

Speaker: Dr Jasper Parkkila (Warsaw University of Technology)

18:00 → 21:00 Group Dinner (Week I)

Friday, 5 September

09:30 → 10:15 Extreme QCD matter exploration with machine learning

Speaker: 凯 周 (CUHK-Shenzhen)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 Quantifying the role of strangeness in baryon production mechanisms through angular correlations in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with ALICE 2

Speaker: Shirajum Monira (Warsaw University of Technology)

11:45 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:45 TBD

Saturday, 6 September

09:00 → 17:00 Free Weekend

Sunday, 7 September

09:00 → 17:00 Free Weekend

Monday, 8 September

09:00 → 09:30 Registration (Week II)

09:30 → 10:15 Experimental nuclear shape imaging meets bayesian inference: new connections

Speaker: Chunjian Zhang (Fudan University)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break + Week-II photo

11:00 → 11:45 Statistical Analysis of Energy Loss Across System Size

Speaker: Coleridge Faraday (University of Cape Town)

11:45 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Panel discussion

Tuesday, 9 September

09:30 → 10:15 Neural network enhanced Bayesian analysis of heavy-ion observables

Speaker: Henry Hirvonen (Vanderbilt University)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 TBD

Speaker: Kaiyi Wu (CCNU)

11:45 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:45 4D QCD EoS From A Quasi-Parton Model by Physics Informed Neural Network

Speaker: 甫鹏 李 (Central China Normal University)

Wednesday, 10 September

09:30 → 10:15 TBD

Speaker: Prof. Zhang Xiaoming (CCNU)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 Resolving the flow puzzle in relativistic heavy ion collisions with detailed nuclear structure

Speaker: Haojie Xu (Huzhou University)

11:45 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 17:00 Hubei Province Museum Tour (Week-II)

Thursday, 11 September

09:30 → 10:15 Extract QCD speed of sound in the presence of quantum fluctuations

Speaker: Yushan Mu (Fudan)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 TBD

Speaker: Li Yan (复旦大学)

11:45 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Panel discussion

18:00 → 21:00 Group Dinner (Week II)

Friday, 12 September

09:30 → 10:15 TBD

Speaker: Raymond Ehlers (UC Berkeley)

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Panel discussion