ZIMÁNYI SCHOOL 2026

Preliminary agenda

The agenda is still preliminary and subject to change (last change Nov 05 12:27)

There will also be an Indico version of this agenda, where participants will be later on (once the indico agenda is filled) kindly asked to upload their talks in advance.

Monday, November 30th

Section a1, 08:50 - 10:40, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 08:50 Peter Levai: Opening remarks (10 min)
• 09:00 Jaroslav Bielcik: Recent results from the STAR experiment (30+5 min)
• 09:35 Attila Pásztor: Aspects of the QCD phase diagram (30+5 min)
• 10:10 Szabolcs Borsanyi: Onset of first order QCD transition in density-of-states lattice simulations (12+3 min)
• 10:25 Johannes Jahan: A 4D T'-expanded lattice QCD equation of state with a multi-dimensional 3D-Ising-type critical contribution (12+3 min)

Section a2, 11:10 - 12:30, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 11:10 Sándor Lökös: PHENIX overview (30+5 min)
• 11:45 Nour Abdulameer: Investigating Hot QCD Matter in AuAu Collisions at RHIC - From pi0 Reconstruction to Direct Photons (12+3 min)
• 12:00 Melinda Kazsukné Orosz: Neutral meson analysis in Au+Au collision at 200 GeV (12+3 min)
• 12:15 Diana Deara: Centrality Dependence of Mean Transverse Momenta of Strange Hadrons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (12+3 min)

Section a3, 14:00 - 15:35, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 14:00 Oleksandra Panova: Recent results from the NA61/SHINE experiment (30+5 min)
• 14:35 Győző Kovács: Locating the critical point from finite systems through Lee-Yang zeros (12+3 min)
• 14:50 Dávid Pesznyák: Charting Lee-Yang zeros in QCD with beyond-standard lattice algorithms (12+3 min)
• 15:05 Tudor Patuleanu: Strongly interacting fermions under imaginary rotation (12+3 min)
• 15:20 Zsolt Szép: Functional renormalization group study of the quark-meson and parity doublet models (12+3 min)

Section a4, 16:00 - 17:40, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 16:00 Suraj Prasad: Recent results from the ALICE experiment (30+5 min)
• 16:35 Ferenc Siklér: Recent results from the CMS experiment (30+5 min)
• 17:10 Istvan Szanyi: TBA (talk) (12+3 min)
• 17:25 Tamás Csörgő: Tsallis series expansion for elastic pp and pbarp collisions, analysis of ATLAS, D0, TOTEM and UA4 data (12+3 min)

Tuesday, December 1st

Section b1, 09:00 - 10:20, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 09:00 Giuliano Giacalone: Overview of nuclear structure studies in high-energy physics (30+5 min)
• 09:35 Hadi Mehrabpour: Fundamental geometric limitations on disentangling nuclear-surface properties in relativistic heavy ion collisions (12+3 min)
• 09:50 Daniel Kincses: Nuclear Geometry-Driven Femtoscopic Correlations in Light-Ion Collisions (12+3 min)
• 10:05 Giuseppe Verde: TBA (12+3 min)

Section b2, 10:50 - 12:30, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 10:50 Chunjian Zhang: Probing QGP Droplets and Nuclear Structure in O+O Collisions (30+5 min)
• 11:25 Raghunath Sahoo: Nuclear structure in TeV light-ion collisions (30+5 min)
• 12:00 Zhandong Sun: Update on the study of high-pT direct photon and neutral pions in small systems in PHENIX experiment (12+3 min)
• 12:15 Jakub Ceska: Quarkonium production in p+p collisions at the STAR experiment (12+3 min)

Section b3, 14:00 - 15:35, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 14:00 Daniel Wielanek: CBM femtoscopy overview (30+5 min)
• 14:35 Máté Csanád: Lévy-shaped femtoscopic sources from an exact solution of relativistic hydrodynamics (12+3 min)
• 14:50 Marton Nagy: TBA (Femtoscopy) (12+3 min)
• 15:05 Yan Huang: 3D Femtoscopy of pions with Levy sources (12+3 min)
• 15:20 Barnabás Pórfy: TBA (12+3 min)

Section b4, 16:05 - 18:00, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 16:05 Marvin Nabroth: Recent results from the HADES experiment (30+5 min)
• 16:40 Tom Reichert: Cluster production in heavy-ion collisions (30+5 min)
• 17:15 Boris Tomasik: Viscosity and linearised fluctuations in relativistic hydrodynamics (12+3 min)
• 17:30 Paolo Parotto: Electric charge fluctuations from lattice QCD in the continuum limit (12+3 min)
• 17:45 Damir Devetak: Fast Calculation of High-Order Q-Cumulants for Anisotropic Flow Analysis (12+3 min)

Section b5, 19:00, Cellar Garden (Budapest, Nagytétényi út 64, 1222) [map]

Wednesday, December 2nd

Section c1, 09:00 - 10:40, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 09:00 Zoltan Varga: Overview on jet quenching studies from ALICE (30+5 min)
• 09:35 Adam Takacs: An Equilibrating Parton Shower for Jet Quenching and Medium Response (30+5 min)
• 10:10 Lin Chen: Jet quenching and its substructure dependence due to color decoherence (12+3 min)
• 10:25 Robert Vertesi: Baryon formation dynamics in jets (12+3 min)

Section c2, 11:10 - 12:30, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 11:10 Martin Spousta: Overview on jet quenching studies from ATLAS (30+5 min)
• 11:45 Barbara Trzeciak: D-Meson-Tagged Jet Studies with STAR (12+3 min)
• 12:00 Monalisa Melo: Exploring QCD dynamics with heavy-flavour-tagged jets in ALICE (12+3 min)
• 12:15 Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi: Evolution of the underlying event and non-extensive thermodynamics in pp collisions from RHIC to LHC energies (12+3 min)

Section c3, 14:00 - 15:25, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 14:00 Emanuele Vincenzo Pagano: Latest Developments in the NArCoS Neutron Correlator and Potential Physics Applications (30+5 min)
• 14:35 Mariacristina Guarrera: Silicon Carbide for Advanced Dosimetry: Towards Integrated Radiation Detection and Monitoring for UHDR Proton Beams (30+5 min)
• 15:10 Rutuparna Rath: FIT upgrades for the LHC Run 4 and ALICE3 (12+3 min)

Section c4, 15:55 - 17:30, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 15:55 Jorge Luis Dasilva Golan: Lattice QCD calculations of heavy quark and quarkonium properties (30+5 min)
• 16:30 Oleksii Lubynets: Probing Heavy-Flavor Physics with ALICE (12+3 min)
• 16:45 Laszlo Gyulai: ALICE Heavy-flavour measurements (TBD) (12+3 min)
• 17:00 Peter Petreczky: Fluctuations of conserved charges in lattice QCD and HRG (12+3 min)
• 17:15 Emmanuel Ortiz Pacheco: Alleviating the sign problem with contour deformations in heavy-dense QCD (12+3 min)

Thursday, December 3rd

Section d1, 09:00 - 10:05, Eötvös U., Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, Council room (7.22) [map]

• 09:00 Hanna Zbroszczyk: Overview of STAR Correlations and Fluctuations (30+5 min)
• 09:35 György Wolf: Maximal mass of neutron stars (12+3 min)
• 09:50 Gábor Kasza: The Hadron-Quark Crossover Through the Eyes of Astrophysics (12+3 min)

Section d2, 10:35 - 12:05, Eötvös U., Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, Council room (7.22) [map]

• 10:35 Bianca Scavino: Recent results from the Belle-II experiment (30+5 min)
• 11:10 Marco Spreafico: Search for physics BSM in beam dump experiments (30+5 min)
• 11:45 Emese Árpási: TBA (poster) (2 min)
• 11:47 Kamilla Csengeri: TBA (poster) (2 min)
• 11:49 Krisztián Farkas: CMS luminosity measurement for nucleus-nucleus collisions (poster) (2 min)
• 11:51 Anna Fehérkuti: TBA (poster) (2 min)
• 11:53 Edit Fenyvesi: Monitoring, Predictive Modelling and mitigation of Radon Concentration in the Jánossy Underground Research laboratory (poster) (2 min)
• 11:55 Kangkan Goswami: Application of machine learning in heavy flavor sector (poster) (2 min)
• 11:57 Anna Horváth: Nuclear equation of state modifications from spacetime structure (poster) (2 min)
• 11:59 Srdjan Jakovljevic: Self-similarity in a non-interacting two-fluid model of a self-gravitating system (poster) (2 min)
• 12:01 Sofiya Kolesnyk: Studying electromagnetic and hadronic showers in the ePIC LFHCAL using machine learning methods (poster) (2 min)
• 12:03 László Kovács: TBA (poster) (2 min)

Section d3, 14:20 - 14:52, Eötvös U., Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, Pócza lecture hall (1.71) [map]

• 14:20 Aditya Nath Mishra: Sensitivity of Dihadron Correlations to the Initial Nuclear Geometry in O+O Collisions at √sNN = 7 TeV (poster) (2 min)
• 14:22 Szabolcs Molnár: Watts per event: evaluating Sustainability of HEP Event Generators beyond the LHC era (poster) (2 min)
• 14:24 Mátyás Molnár: TBA (poster) (2 min)
• 14:26 Richard Nagy: Feasibility study on centrality differentiated charged hadron spectrum in p+Pb collisions at 158 GeV/c (poster) (2 min)
• 14:28 Madeeha Nazish: Production of Heavy Quarkonic at LHC (poster) (2 min)
• 14:30 Balázs Pál: Escaping the torus of numerical cosmology (poster) (2 min)
• 14:32 Máté Pszota: Ghost-free higher-gradient Newtonian gravity from the Second Law of Thermodynamics (poster) (2 min)
• 14:34 Attila Rádl: TBA (poster) (2 min)
• 14:36 Réka Somogyfoki: Symmetric Hyperbolicity and Stability (poster) (2 min)
• 14:38 Franciska Sprok: Low-background and long-term decay-rate measurements at JURLab (poster) (2 min)
• 14:40 Mátyás Szücs: Exact analytical solution for the non-selfadjoint problem of Maxwell--Cattaneo--Vernotte heat conduction with heat-transfer boundary condition (poster) (2 min)
• 14:42 Daniel Szaraz: Testing and Simulating MWPCs in the ALICE Cavern for the ALICE 3 Muon Identification System (poster) (2 min)
• 14:44 Máté Szilágyi: TBA (poster) (2 min)
• 14:46 Adam Varga: TBA (poster) (2 min)
• 14:48 Paola Vargas Torres: Performance of a scintillator-based chamber for the ALICE 3 MID subsystem (poster) (2 min)
• 14:50 Kacper Zieba: Femtoscopy in CBM (poster) (2 min)

Section d4, 15:00 - 16:00, Eötvös U., Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, Pócza lecture hall (1.71) [map]

• 15:00 Ashik Ikbal Sheikh: Imaging Atomic Nuclei with Photons: From Quantum Interference at STAR to Mapping Gluons at the Electron-Ion Collider (50+10 min)

Section d5, 16:00, Eötvös U., Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, Pócza lecture hall (1.71) [map]

Section d6, 18:30, Eötvös U., Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, Council room (7.22) [map]

Friday, December 4th

Section e1, 09:00 - 10:45, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 09:00 Norbert Kroo: TBA (30+5 min)
• 09:35 Giorgio Foti: S-Matrix approaches to study hadron spectroscopy (30+5 min)
• 10:10 Marco Filippini: Meson spectroscopy with quasi-virtual photons at JLAB12 (30+5 min)

Section e2, 11:10 - 12:40, Wigner RCP, Building 3, "Tanácsterem" [map]

• 11:10 Victor E. Ambrus: Moment of inertia of the self-interacting scalar field (30+5 min)
• 11:45 Aleksandar Gecic: Modeling $Lambda$ polarization in Pb+Pb collisions at $sqrt{s_{m NN}}=5.36$ TeV using relativistic spin hydrodynamics (12+3 min)
• 12:00 Sudip Kumar Kar: Wigner function and spin hydrodynamics (12+3 min)
• 12:15 Rajeev Singh: A (1+1+2)D spin-hydrodynamic model for Lambda spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions (12+3 min)
• 12:30 IAC: Closing, awards (10 min)