Frontiers in high-energy nuclear physics

19 Jul 2026, 09:00 → 23 Jul 2026, 18:00 Asia/Shanghai

The international workshop "Frontiers in high-energy nuclear physics" is organized by  The Department of Physics, Tsinghua University and will take place in Beijing from July 19th to 23rd of 2026 (19th is for registration). 

Conference venue: Marriott Hotel, Building 12, No. 3 Courtyard, Yongle North First Street, Huairou District, Beijing. Address in Chinese: 北京怀柔万豪酒店, 怀柔区永乐北一街3号院12号楼

 

The workshop is focused on recent trends and future developments in high-energy nuclear physics, and will highlight both experimental and theoretical achievements on broad physics topics related to high temperature and/or density quantum chromodynamics.

 

Registration will open until July 10th, 2026.

Registration fee: 2000CNY(faculty)/1000CNY(postdoc/student)

 

Sunday, 19 July

Registration

Registration (Lobby of Aloft)

Monday, 20 July

Onsite Registration

Onsite Registration at Marriott

Welcome

Welcome - Prof. Zhigang Xiao

Day 1

1 Flavor-Independent Baryon Transport

Speaker: Zhangbu Xu (Kent State University and Brookhaven National Lab)

2 From pp to AA collisions - a study with heavy flavour hadrons

Speaker: Joerg Aichelin

3 Assessment of recent results on experimental searches of CME

Speaker: Huan Zhong Huang (Fudan University/UCLA)

10:30 Coffee Break

4 Nucleon spin structure study at RHIC-STAR

Speaker: Qinghua Xu (Shandong University)

STAR-SPIN-Beijing-QXu.pdf

5 Anisotropic chromo-field fluctuations and quarkonium spin alignment

Speaker: Shu Lin (Sun Yat-Sen University)

12:00 Lunch Break

6 Ultra-Peripheral Collisions as a Nuclear-Structure Interferometer with Interpretable Multitask Deep Learning

Speaker: Guo-Liang Ma (Fudan University)

7 Weyl anomaly induced transport and Late-Time Relaxation from Landau Singularities

Speaker: Shi Pu (University of Science and Technology of China)

Weyl_Landau_shipu.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

8 Recent highlights on heavy-flavor production in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: XIAOMING ZHANG (Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University)

9 AI for Extreme QCD Matter

Speaker: Kai Zhou

17:00 Dinner

Buffet @ Marriott

Tuesday, 21 July

Day 2

10 Study QCD Phase Structure in High-Energy Collisions

Speaker: Nu Xu (CCNU)

11 QCD phase diagram and temperature fluctuations

Speaker: Wei-Jie Fu

12 QCD Phase Structure and Heavy-Ion Collisions

Speaker: Mei Huang

10:30 Coffee Break

13 QCD phase transitions in curved spacetime

Speaker: Xu-Guang Huang (Fudan University)

14 A possible relation between scale symmetry and deconfinement phase transition

Speaker: Yong-Liang Ma

12:00 Lunch Break

Buffet at Marriott

15 Heavy Quarkonia from Lattice QCD: In-Medium Properties and Mass Generation

Speaker: Heng-Tong Ding (Central China Normal University)

pengfeis_scientific_cloud.html

ZhuangFest_HTD.pdf

16 Dilepton production at the NLO in the QGP

Speaker: Min He

15:30 Group Photo, Coffee Break

17 One particle, many stories: exploring heavy-ion collisions with $J/\Psi$

Speaker: Shuai Yang (South China Normal University)

FrontierInHENP_sy_v2.pdf

18 Studies of $J/\psi$ production and its dynamics in hadronic and nuclear collisions

Speaker: Qian Yang (Shandong University)

Qian_yang_Study_of_JPsi_production_in_ppAndAA.pdf

18:00 Banquet

Banquet at Marriott

Wednesday, 22 July

Day 3

19 Hadrons in nuclear matter

Speaker: Su Houng Lee

20 CME perspective

Speaker: Fuqiang Wang (Huzhou University)

21 Jet quenching and medium response

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

10:30 Coffee break

22 Hydrodynamics and its initial condition

Speaker: Huichao Song

23 Towards building non- equilibrium EFT for QCD plasma

Speaker: Yi Yin (IMP)

12:00 Lunch break

Buffet at Marriott

24 Cluster production and EoS in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Elena Bratkovskaya

25 Heavy-Ion Collisions: A Unique Laboratory for New and Exotic Particles

Speaker: Jiaxing Zhao

15:30 Coffee break

26 Heavy-flavor hadronization at LHC energies

Speaker: Sanghoon Lim

Thursday, 23 July

Free discussion and departure