ZIMÁNYI SCHOOL 2024

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to participate in this year's Zimányi School Winter Workshop that aims to summarize the developments of 2024 in high energy heavy ion physics, with particular attention to the new data emerging from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), SPS and J-PARC. We will discuss results from other high energy nuclear and particle physics facilities of the world, most importantly lower energy colliders, exploring the nuclear phase diagram (with special attention to FAIR as well). Another important point of the School is to discuss important new results in hydrodynamics, flow and femtoscopy. One of the main aims of the School is to encourage interaction between the theoretical and experimental community. A slightly overlapping and not fully exclusive list of topics of the School includes (in alphabetical order):

• Effective QCD theory/model approaches
• Elastic scattering and diffraction (experiment+theory)
• Femtoscopy (experiment+theory)
• Flow and hydrodynamics (experiment+theory)
• Gluon saturation and electron-ion collider (experiment+theory)
• Heavy flavor and quarkonia (experiment+theory)
• Intermediate energies (FAIR, J-PARC, nuclear physics)
• Jets and high pT probes (experiment+theory)
• Magnetic field in heavy ion collisions (experiment+theory)
• Photons and dileptons (experiment+theory)
• QCD at non-zero temperature and density
• Search for the QCD critical point (experiment+theory)
• Strongly coupled gauge theories (beyond SM, AdS/CFT)
• Vorticity and polarization in heavy ion physics (experiment+theory)

Deadline for registration is September 30, 2024.

We are looking forward to the continuation of this series and hope to welcome our colleagues and friends in Hungary.

Flyer: if possible, please be so kind and print the poster of the school [pdf], and put next to your door or to the notice-board of your department.

Location: The school/workshop is usually held at the HUN-REN Wigner Research Center for Physics (a Hungarian Academy of Sciences Excellence Research Center). The HUN-REN Wigner RCP is located on the "KFKI campus", in building no. 3. (see a map of the campus here, more details here). On Thursday, talks will take place at the Lágymányos Campus of the Eötvös University, in the "Northern Building" (see a map of the campus here, more details here).

Talks: Participants are encouraged to present their recent heavy ion physics results in contributed talks. We also invite excellent researchers from other fields to present their results to encourage discussions and interactions between different but related communities. Please register on our website, giving us your name, institute and the talk title, and other logistical details. If your contribution was not discussed with us before and you are not a regular presenter at the Zimányi Schools, please email us a brief abstract, or in case of students, a short recommendation from your supervisor. Please note that our event is a school for students of high energy heavy ion physics, a workshop for researchers (working in high energy heavy ion physics) and a symposium for experts of related fields.

Posters: We organize a dedicated poster session with posters and 3 minute flash talks. Students are encouraged to submit poster presentations to this; they can note this by writing "(poster)" after the end of their suggested talk title. Note that participants are expected to bring their posters along, or print them at one of the print shops in Budapest.

Students (BSc, MSc, PhD included) are particularly encouraged to attend the school (and they may apply for a waiver of the registration fee, based on a recommendation from the supervisor).

Participation fee: The registration fee is 100 EUR for seniors (40 kHUF if paid in HUF), and specially this year, 0 EUR for students (made possibly be a grant from NKFIH). Participants are kindly asked to transfer the participation fee to the following account (noting their name(s) and mentioning "Zimanyi School 2024" as a comment):

Account holder:	Wigner Research Centre for Physics
Address:	1121 Budapest, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33.
Bank name:	Magyar Államkincstár (Hungarian State Treasury)
Bank address:	1139 Budapest, Váci u. 71.
Account number:	10032000-01731134-00000000
IBAN account number:	HU15 1003 2000 0173 1134 0000 0000
SEPA transfer
SWIFT code 1:	HUSTHUHB
non-SEPA transfer
Correspondent bank:	Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian National Bank)
SWIFT code 2:	MANEHUHB

Please note your invoice address in the registration form!

Lunches and dinners are not covered by the registration fee. Participants are suggested to use the Wigner Institute cafeteria (building 23 on this map) or the cafeterias at/around the Eötvös University (see this map).

Conference dinner will be held Tuesday evening, location to be announced later.

Registration is requested by filling in the registration form on this webpage, no later than the registration deadline. Additionally, you are invited to join the event's Facebook page and invite friends and colleagues there.

Housing: We recommend staying in Mercure & Ibis Budapest Castle Hill, as there is a bus from there to Wigner, and the Eötvös University is also reachable comfortably by public transport. The price should be around 70 EUR for a single room. Alternatively, Ibis Styles Budapest City Hotel could be recommended, which is close to the Eötvös University, but also right at the final stop of bus 212 which goes up to Normafa, near the Wigner campus. Participants may of course solve their housing in Budapest on their own, links to Budapest hotels are provided here.

Looking forward to a stimulating and fruitful meeting,