Conferences

Conferences, workshops and schools in 2024

  • Seminar series for the High-TheQ theory group led by Michal P. Heller, 18.11.2024, Ghent University (online)
    Invited seminar: I. Soudi: “Thermalization of jets in QCD plasma”

  • Light ion collisions at the LHC , 11.-15.11.2024, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    Participants: P. Paakkinen, I. Soudi 
    Invited talks: P. Paakkinen: “EPPS21 progress report and perspectives on light ions”
    I. Soudi: “Finite size effects on jet thermalization”

  • Resummation, Evolution, Factorization 2024 , 14.-18.10.2024, Saclay, France
    Participants: P. Gimeno Estivill, X. Tong
    Contributed talks: P. Gimeno Estivill: “Inclusive J/ψ production in forward proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at high energy”,
    X. Tong: “The connection between nucleon energy correlators and fracture functions”
  • QCD@LHC 2024 , 7.-11.10.2024, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
    Participants: T. Lappi
    Organization: T. Lappi: Convener of Working Group “Soft interactions, non-perturbative QCD” 
  • Joint “20th International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy” and 5th workshop on “Correlations in Partonic and Hadronic Interactions” , 30.9.-4.10.2024,  Yerevan, Armenia
    Participants: X. Tong
    Invited talks: X. Tong: “Studying partonic structures via traget fragmentation in SIDIS”
  • Jet Modification and Hard-Soft Correlations (SoftJet 2024) , 28.-29.9.2024, Tokyo, Japan
    Participants: I. Soudi 
    Contributed talk: I. Soudi: “Thermalization of jets in QCD plasma”
  • Hard Probes 2024 , 22.–27.9.2024, Nagasaki, Japan
    Participants: D. Avramescu, D. J. Kim, P. Paakkinen, I. Soudi, M. Tevio
    Contributed talks: D. Avramescu: “The impact of glasma on heavy quark spectra and correlations”, 
    Invited talk: P. Paakkinen: “Hard probes and nuclear PDFs”I. Soudi: “Hard-soft correlation”,
    M. Tevio: “Evolution of structure functions at NLO without PDFs”
    Organization: K. J. Eskola: member of the International Advisory Committee
  • Diffraction and Low-x 2024 , 8.-14.9.2024, Palermo, Italy
    Participants: P. Gimeno Estivill, V. Guzey, T. Lappi, H. Mäntysaari
    Invited talk: H. Mäntysaari “Connections between heavy ion collisions and DIS”
    Contributed talks:     P. Gimeno Estivill: “Inclusive J/ψ production in forward proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at high energy”,
    V. Guzey: “Suppression of diffraction in deep-inelastic scattering on nuclei and dynamical mechanism of leading twist nuclear shadowing”, 
    Organization: T. Lappi, convener of Working Group “Low x, PDFs, and saturation”
  • International Workshop “QCD challenges from pp to AA collisions” , 2.-6.9.2024, Münster, Germany
    Participants: D. Avramescu, P. Paakkinen 
    Invited talks: D. Avramescu: “Heavy quark dynamics in the pre-equilibrium phase”, 
    P. Paakkinen: “Overview of nPDF progress and issues / problems”
  • 2024 CTEQ Summer School on QCD and Electroweak Phenomenology , 21.-31.8.2024, Münster, Germany
    Participants: M. Chithirasreemadam, S. Yrjänheikki
  • Heavy Ion Physics in the EIC Era 29.7.-23.8.2024, Seattle, USA,
    Participants: J. Auvinen (28.7.-3.8.), P. Duwentäster (11.8.-17.8.), T. Lappi (1.8.-10.8.)
    Contributed talks: J. Auvinen: “MC-EKRT: A 3-d Monte Carlo implementation of the EKRT initial state”,
    P. Duwentäster: “nCTEQ24 – A new global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions”, 
    T. Lappi: “Transport Coefficients in the Pre-Equilibrium Stage”
  • ICHEP 2024 , 17.-24.7.2024, Prague, Czech Republic
    Participant: A. Le
    Contributed talk: A. Le: “High-energy to ultra-high-energy neutrino-nucleus scattering in the dipole model”
  • Midsummer School in QCD 2024 , 24.6.-6.7.2024, Saariselkä, Finland
    Participants: M. Chithirasreemadam, P. Gimeno Estivill, V. Guzey, I. Helenius, T. Lappi, J. Laulainen, M. Tevio
    Lectures: I. Helenius: “Pythia”,
    V. Guzey: “QCD and PDF”
    Contributed talk: P. Gimeno Estivill: “Inclusive J/ψ production in forward proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at high energy”
    Organization: T. Lappi: Local organization committee
  • Diffraction and gluon saturation at the LHC and the EIC , 10.-14.6.2024, Trento, Italy
    Participants: C. Casuga, H. Mäntysaari, T. Lappi
    Contributed talks: C. Casuga: “Inferring the Initial Condition for the BK equation”,
    H. Mäntysaari: “Probing gluon saturation in exclusive vector meson production”, 
    T. Lappi: “NLO calculations in the dipole picture”
  • MC4EIC 2024 , 5.-7.6.2024, Durham, United Kingdom
    Participants: I. Helenius, J. Laulainen
    Invited talks: I. Helenius: “Pythia event generator” and “Photoproduction”,
    J. Laulainen: “Multijet merging in DIS with Pythia”
    Organization: I. Helenius: Local organization committee
  • Pythia Week 2024 , 29.4-3.5.2024, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Participants: I. Helenius
    Invited Particle Theory Seminar: I. Helenius: ”Photoproduction and Ultraperipheral collisions in Pythia 8”
  • 31st International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering , 8.-12.4.2024, Grenoble, France
    Participants: C. Casuga, P. Duwentäster, F. Hekhorn, I. Helenius, T. Lappi, J. Laulainen, H. Mäntysaari, P. Paakkinen, Y. Tawabutr, M. Tevio, X. Tong, S. Yrjänheikki
    Contributed talks: C. Casuga: “Inferring the Initial Condition for the BK Equation”, 
    P. Duwentäster: “Proton PDFs with non-linear corrections from gluon recombination”, 
    F. Hekhorn: “Towards NNPDFpol2.0″, 
    I. Helenius, L. Massacrier, G. Stagnitto: “WG4 Summary”,
    T. Lappi: “Dipole picture diffractive structure function at NLO”,
    J. Laulainen: “Multi-Jet Merging in Deep Inelastic Scattering with Pythia”,
    H. Mäntysaari: “Probing gluon saturation and nuclear structure in photon-nucleus collisions”,
    P. Paakkinen: ” Dijet photoproduction and transverse-plane geometry in ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions”,
    Y. Tawabutr: “Global analysis of polarized DIS & SIDIS data with improved small-x helicity evolution”,
    M. Tevio: “Evolution of structure functions at NLO without PDFs”,
    X. Tong: “Harmonics of Lepton-Jet Correlations in inclusive and diffractive scatterings”,
    S. Yrjänheikki: “Dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions – the SIDIS approach”
    Organization: I. Helenius: Co-convener of Working Group 4: QCD with Heavy Flavors and Hadronic Final States
  • Moriond QCD 2024 , 31.3.-7.4.2024, La Thuile, Italy
    Participant: F. Hekhorn
    Contributed talk: F. Hekhorn: “On the positivity of MSbar parton distributions“
  • Physical Society of Japan 79th Annual Meeting (online), 19.3.2024,
    online Participant: Y. Kanakubo
    Invited talk: Y. Kanakubo: “Development of a framework with quark-gluon plasma fluid generation based on the core–corona picture”
  • Physics Days 2024 , 4.-6.3.2024, Helsinki, Finland
    Participants: M. Tevio, S. Yrjänheikki
    Contributed talks: M. Tevio: “Evolution of structure functions at NLO without PDFs”,
    S. Yrjänheikki: “Dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions – the SIDIS approach”
  • EIC UG theory WG meeting , 15.2.2024, online
    Participants: I. Helenius
    Invited talk: Monte Carlo event generators for EIC
  • New jet quenching tools to explore equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions , 12.-16.2.2024, Trento, Italy
    Participants: D. Avramescu, T. Lappi, I. Soudi
    Invited talks: D. Avramescu: “Jet transport in the Glasma using colored particle-in-cell simulations”
    T. Lappi: “Attractor behavior of pre-equilibrium transport coefficients”
    I. Soudi: “Studying small systems using a multi-stage approach”
  • Workshop on tuning of hadronic interaction models , 22.–25.1.2024, Wuppertal, Germany
    Participants: P. Paakkinen
    Invited talk: P. Paakkinen: “Status of nuclear-PDF analyses and prospects with light ions”