Precision Frontier of QCD Matter: Inference and Uncertainty Quantification (1-12 September 2025)

Precision Frontier of QCD Matter: Inference and Uncertainty Quantification

from Monday, 1 September 2025 (00:00)to Friday, 12 September 2025 (18:00)

Monday, 1 September 2025

09:00 Registration (Week I)
Registration (Week I)
09:00 - 09:25
Room: Room 409

09:25

09:25 - 09:30
Room: Room 409
09:30 Toward constraining QCD phase transitions in neutron star interiors: Bayesian inference with a Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkof linear response analysis-Shuzhe Shi(Tsinghua University)
Toward constraining QCD phase transitions in neutron star interiors: Bayesian inference with a Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkof linear response analysis
- Shuzhe Shi(Tsinghua University)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break + Week-I photo
Coffee Break + Week-I photo
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 Inferring the Equation of State from Neutron Star Observables via Machine Learning-NARESH KUMAR PATRA(BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, NH-B, South Goa, Goa, Pin-757040)
Inferring the Equation of State from Neutron Star Observables via Machine Learning
- NARESH KUMAR PATRA(BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, NH-B, South Goa, Goa, Pin-757040)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 14:00
Room: Room 409

14:00 Panel discussion
Panel discussion
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Room 409
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
09:15 Bayesian inference in heavy ion collisions-Wilke Van Der Schee(CERN / Utrecht University)
Bayesian inference in heavy ion collisions
- Wilke Van Der Schee(CERN / Utrecht University)
09:15 - 10:00
Room: Room 409
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Room 409
10:30 Special Colloquium: From Quarks to Neutron Stars-Tetsuo Hatsuda(RIKEN iTHEMS)
Special Colloquium: From Quarks to Neutron Stars
- Tetsuo Hatsuda(RIKEN iTHEMS)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Room 409
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 14:00
Room: Room 409
14:00 Bayesian and frequentist model comparison for nuclear symmetry energy-Zhen Zhang(SYSU)
Bayesian and frequentist model comparison for nuclear symmetry energy
- Zhen Zhang(SYSU)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: Room 409
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
09:30 Calibration of rapidity dependent mulitplicities using a three-dimensional initial state model-Andreas Kirchner(Duke University)
Calibration of rapidity dependent mulitplicities using a three-dimensional initial state model
- Andreas Kirchner(Duke University)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 Hadron-Hadron Interaction from Lattice QCD: Theory meets experiments-Tetsuo Hatsuda(RIKEN iTHEMS)
Hadron-Hadron Interaction from Lattice QCD: Theory meets experiments
- Tetsuo Hatsuda(RIKEN iTHEMS)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409
11:45 Lunch Box
Lunch Box
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Room 409

13:00 Hubei Province Museum Tour (Week-I)
Hubei Province Museum Tour (Week-I)
13:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 409
Thursday, 4 September 2025
09:30 High-Dimensional Unfolding in Large Backgrounds-Adam Takacs(Heidelberg University)
High-Dimensional Unfolding in Large Backgrounds
- Adam Takacs(Heidelberg University)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 Quantifying the impact of longitudinal information on ultra-relativistic collision measurement across systems at the RHIC top energy with a 3D Bayesian calibration-Andi Mankolli(Vanderbilt University)
Quantifying the impact of longitudinal information on ultra-relativistic collision measurement across systems at the RHIC top energy with a 3D Bayesian calibration
- Andi Mankolli(Vanderbilt University)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 14:00
Room: Room 409
14:00 Emergence and quantification of collective effects across collision systems-Jasper Parkkila(Warsaw University of Technology)
Emergence and quantification of collective effects across collision systems
- Jasper Parkkila(Warsaw University of Technology)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: Room 409
18:00 Group Dinner (Week I)
Group Dinner (Week I)
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Room 409
Friday, 5 September 2025
09:30 Extreme QCD matter exploration with machine learning-凯周(CUHK-Shenzhen)
Extreme QCD matter exploration with machine learning
- 凯周(CUHK-Shenzhen)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 Quantifying the role of strangeness in baryon production mechanisms through angular correlations in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with ALICE 2-Shirajum Monira(Warsaw University of Technology)
Quantifying the role of strangeness in baryon production mechanisms through angular correlations in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with ALICE 2
- Shirajum Monira(Warsaw University of Technology)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 14:00
Room: Room 409
14:00 Deep generative event-by-event heavy-ion simulations for next-generation experiments-Manjunath Omana Kuttan(Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies )
Deep generative event-by-event heavy-ion simulations for next-generation experiments
- Manjunath Omana Kuttan(Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies )
14:00 - 14:45
Room: Room 409
Saturday, 6 September 2025

09:00 Free Weekend
Free Weekend
09:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 409
Sunday, 7 September 2025

09:00 Free Weekend
Free Weekend
09:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 409

Monday, 8 September 2025

09:00 Registration (Week II)
Registration (Week II)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Room 409
09:30 High-energy experimental imaging of nuclear shapes for precise constraints on QGP initial conditions-Chunjian Zhang(Fudan University)
High-energy experimental imaging of nuclear shapes for precise constraints on QGP initial conditions
- Chunjian Zhang(Fudan University)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break + Week-II photo
Coffee Break + Week-II photo
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 Statistical Analysis of Energy Loss Across System Size-Coleridge Faraday(University of Cape Town)
Statistical Analysis of Energy Loss Across System Size
- Coleridge Faraday(University of Cape Town)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 14:00
Room: Room 409

14:00 Panel discussion
Panel discussion
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Room 409
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
09:30 Neural network enhanced Bayesian analysis of heavy-ion observables-Henry Hirvonen(Vanderbilt University)
Neural network enhanced Bayesian analysis of heavy-ion observables
- Henry Hirvonen(Vanderbilt University)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 Event-by-event jet-induced hydrodynamic response from machine learning-Kaiyi Wu(CCNU)
Event-by-event jet-induced hydrodynamic response from machine learning
- Kaiyi Wu(CCNU)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 14:00
Room: Room 409

14:00 Panel discussion
Panel discussion
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Room 409
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
09:30 Extract QCD speed of sound in the presence of quantum fluctuations-Yushan Mu(Fudan)
Extract QCD speed of sound in the presence of quantum fluctuations
- Yushan Mu(Fudan)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 Resolving the flow puzzle in relativistic heavy ion collisions with detailed nuclear structure-Haojie Xu(Huzhou University)
Resolving the flow puzzle in relativistic heavy ion collisions with detailed nuclear structure
- Haojie Xu(Huzhou University)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Room 409

13:00 Hubei Province Museum Tour (Week-II)
Hubei Province Museum Tour (Week-II)
13:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 409
Thursday, 11 September 2025
09:30 Shear and bulk viscosities of gluon plasma across the transition temperature-Zhang Cheng(CCNU)
Shear and bulk viscosities of gluon plasma across the transition temperature
- Zhang Cheng(CCNU)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 An end-to-end generative diffusion model for high-energy heavy-ion collisions-Li Yan(复旦大学)
An end-to-end generative diffusion model for high-energy heavy-ion collisions
- Li Yan(复旦大学)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 14:00
Room: Room 409

14:00 Panel discussion
Panel discussion
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Room 409

18:00 Group Dinner (Week II)
Group Dinner (Week II)
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Room 409
Friday, 12 September 2025
09:30 Open challenges for Bayesian inference in heavy-ion collisions-Raymond Ehlers(UC Berkeley)
Open challenges for Bayesian inference in heavy-ion collisions
- Raymond Ehlers(UC Berkeley)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Room 409
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room 409
11:00 Constraining the Vacuum–Medium Transition with Hadron and Jet $R_{AA}$ and Substructure (EEC)-Lin Li(CCNU)
Constraining the Vacuum–Medium Transition with Hadron and Jet $R_{AA}$ and Substructure (EEC)
- Lin Li(CCNU)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Room 409