October 12, 2026 to November 13, 2026
YITP, Kyoto University
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Program

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Week 1: High-energy QCD · 12–16 Oct 2026Open this week in Indico ↗
Mon
12 Oct
Tue
13 Oct
Wed
14 Oct
Thu
15 Oct
Fri
16 Oct
National holiday
no sessions
10:00–11:00
Jefferson Lab
Three-Dimensional Structure of Nucleons: Overview of TMDs and GPDs
10:00–11:00
University of Connecticut
Parton orbital dynamics from exclusive meson productions at the EIC
10:00–11:00
CPHT, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, IP Paris
Consistent handling of collinear logarithms in the NLL BK equation
10:00–11:00
Argonne
title to be announced
Coffee break · 11:00–11:30
11:30–12:30
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
From Scattering Events to Partonic Images: New Methods for QCD Global Analysis
11:30–12:30
University and INFN Cagliari
Photon GTMDs in lepton and heavy-quark pair production in UPCs
11:30–12:30
TBA
11:30–12:30
IIT Bombay
Effect of TMD Evolution on Sivers asymmetry in J/psi production processes at EIC
Lunch break · 12:30–14:00
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
Thu 15 Oct — Contributed talks (afternoon)
5 talks · 14:00–17:00
Mini party 18:00
See the detailed schedule below ↓
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
Thu 15 Oct — Contributed talks (afternoon)
14:00-14:30
Skewness dependence of the pion and kaon GPDs
14:30-15:00
Quark Orbital Angular Momentum from One-Loop GTMD–GPD Matching
15:00-15:30
Forward Hadron Production in p–p, p+Pb and d+Au Collisions within the CGC-Based Monte Carlo Model
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-16:30
Gravitational form factors and mass decompositions for hadrons from three-loop energy-momentum tensor in QCD
16:30-17:00
Treatment of Resonances in QCD Sum Rules — The Case of the Baryon Decuplet
18:00-20:00
Mini party

Week 2: QCD Matter under Extreme Conditions · 19–23 Oct 2026Open this week in Indico ↗
Mon
19 Oct
Tue
20 Oct
Wed
21 Oct
Thu
22 Oct
Fri
23 Oct
10:00–11:00
Academia Sinica
Initial-state and non-equilibrium effects on spin transport in nuclear collisions
10:00–11:00
University of Houston
From proton cumulants to baryon number susceptibilities at finite density
10:00–11:00
Texas A&M University
JETSCAPE Event Generators: What Are They and What Can You Do With Them?
10:00–11:00
Institute for Space Sciences (CSIC, IEEC)
Bulk-viscous dissipation effects in the merger of compact stars
 
Coffee break · 11:00–11:30
11:30–12:30
North Carolina State University
Real-time stochastic dynamics near a QCD critical point
11:30–12:30
LBL, Berkeley
Fluctuation probes of the QCD phase structure: results and prospects
11:30–12:30
UNC Chapel Hill
title to be announced
11:30–12:30
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jets and medium-induced radiation during the early nonequilibrium stages in heavy-ion collisions
11:30–12:30
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
What does the lattice QCD Dirac spectrum tell us about hot QCD?
Lunch break · 12:30–14:00
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
Thu 22 Oct — Contributed talks (afternoon)
7 talks · 14:00–17:00
Mini party 18:00
See the detailed schedule below ↓
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
Thu 22 Oct — Contributed talks (afternoon)
14:00-14:30
Diffusive hydrodynamic description of QCD matter in nuclear collisions
14:30-15:00
The QCD phase diagram for three-flavor Mobius domain-wall fermions
15:00-15:15
Symmetry of Meson 2-point Correlation Functions in Finite Temperature QCD
15:15-15:30
Bayesian analysis of QGP formation based on core-corona picture in high-energy proton-proton collisions
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-16:30
The screening spectrum of QCD up to Electroweak-scale temperatures
16:30-16:45
Imaginary rotation breaks charge conjugation in hot QCD
16:45-17:00
QCD Matter in de Sitter Spacetime
18:00-20:00
Mini party

Week 3: Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) · 26–30 Oct 2026Open this week in Indico ↗
Provisional program. Minor changes are still possible.
Mon
26 Oct
Tue
27 Oct
Wed
28 Oct
Thu
29 Oct
Fri
30 Oct
9:00–9:10
Opening
 
 
 
 
9:10–9:55
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Nucleon tomography through the study of exclusive processes
9:00–9:45
University of Maryland
What can we learn about the cold matter equation of state of QCD while evading the sign problem?
9:00–9:45
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
New developments and open problems in relativistic fluid dynamics
9:00–9:45
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Frankfurt, Germany
Binary Neutron Stars: from macroscopic collisions to microphysics
9:00–9:45
University of Minnesota
Anomalies versus the chiral phase transition in QCD
9:55–10:25
SKCM2, Hiroshima University
Glueball gravitational form factor within the Skyrme-Faddev model
9:45–10:15
Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS
Anisotropic Holographic QCD: Phase Diagram and Signatures
9:45–10:15
Tokyo University of Science
Quantum-Metric Correction to Kinetic Theory and Liouville’s Theorem
9:45–10:15
University of Wroclaw
Microscopic Equation of State: From In-Medium Hyperon Potentials to the Neutron-Star Matter
9:45–10:15
Chiba University
Understanding Color Confinement through Quantum Reference Frames and Relational Observables
Coffee break · 10:25–10:45
Coffee break · 10:15–10:45
Coffee break · 10:15–10:45
Coffee break · 10:15–10:45
Coffee break · 10:15–10:45
10:45–11:30
Temple University
Mining for gluon saturation at colliders
10:45–11:30
INFN - sezione Milano Bicocca
QCD Thermodynamics and the Energy–Momentum Tensor on the Lattice
10:45–11:30
Institute for Theoretical Phyiscs, Heidelberg University
Sof pion signatures of QCD chiral crossover at the LHC
10:45–11:30
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
First-principles motivated priors for neutron-star equation-of-state inference
10:45–11:30
Maynooth University
Recent progress on dense QC2D
11:30–12:00
Academia Sinica
Nonperturbative particle production and evolution in the dynamic Glasma
11:30–12:00
YITP, Kyoto University
Thermodynamics and Polyakov-Loop Potential in Accelerated QCD at Finite Temperature
11:30–12:00
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR)
Towards to realistic QGP holographic model: recent results, challenges and perspectives
11:30–12:00
University of Ferrara (Italy)
Quark stars or neutron stars? A Bayesian analysis on the two-families scenario
11:30–12:00
Kyungdong University
Quantum Yang Baxter Equations and their role in QCD
Lunch break · 12:00–14:00
12:00–12:45
University of Illinois Chicago
title to be announced
12:45–12:55
Closing
14:00–14:45
Stony Brook University
Quantum simulations of lattice field theory with qubits and qumodes
14:00–14:45
University of Chicago
title to be announced
14:00–14:45
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
The chiral phase transition in many flavour QCD and onset of the conformal window
14:00–14:45
University of Stavanger
QCD and quark matter in the neutron star cores
 
14:45–15:05
Niigata University
Long-Range Heavy-Quarkonium–Nucleon Interactions in Chiral EFT: Comparison with Lattice QCD
14:45–15:05
Niigata university
Dynamics of quantum vortex rings in superfluids
14:45–15:05
Kyoto University/YITP
A New Method for Locating a Tricritical Point Using Binder-Cumulant Derivatives and Its Application to Heavy-Quark QCD
14:45–15:05
University of Wroclaw, Institute of Theoretical Physics
Probing Neutron-to-Dark-Matter Conversion with Multimessenger Neutron-Star Observations
15:05–15:25
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Cold, Dense 2-Flavour Symmetric QCD Phase and P-wave colour superconductors
15:05–15:25
Niigata University
Effective Field Theory of Surface Oscillations in Self-Bound Quantum Droplets
15:05–15:25
Sophia University, BITS Pilani
Hydrodynamic fluctuations in dissipative spin hydrodynamics for Bjorken flow
15:05–15:25
Nagoya University
Phase Transition to Hyperon Matter in Neutron Stars using an Effective Model with Chiral Invariant Masses
Coffee break · 15:25–15:55
Coffee break · 15:25–15:55
Coffee break · 15:25–15:55
Coffee break · 15:25–15:55
 
15:55–16:25
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara
Heavy Quark Dynamics at Nonzero Temperature
15:55–16:25
YITP, Kyoto U.
Soft modes associated with QCD critical point and color superconductivity and Their Observability through Electro-magnetic Probes
15:55–16:25
University of Wrocław & Wigner RCP
Lee-Yang zeros and edge singularity in a finite-size effective model
15:55–16:25
Fudan University
Novel Scalings of Neutron Star Mass, Radius, and Tidal Deformability for Probing the Core Equation of State
 
16:25–16:55
Fundamental Quantum Science Program, RIKEN
Recent developments in the HAL QCD method on hadron interactions in lattice QCD
16:25–16:55
University of Osaka
Quantum-Geometric Meissner Effect in Magnetized Color Superconductors
16:25–16:55
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Syncreticity with fractional 't Hooft instantons in the chiral phase transition
18:00–20:00
Banquet
16:55–17:25
KEK
Hyperons in nuclear matter toward dense QCD matter
16:55–17:25
Hiroshima University
Hadron spectra and thermodynamics for all quark flavors from a universal Hagedorn temperature
16:55–17:25
University of Kentucky
IR Phase & IR Decoupling: their Meaning & Purposes
 

Week 4: Dense QCD Matter and Compact Stars · 2–6 Nov 2026Open this week in Indico ↗
Mon
2 Nov
Tue
3 Nov
Wed
4 Nov
Thu
5 Nov
Fri
6 Nov
10:00–11:00
University of Washington
title to be announced
National holiday
no sessions
10:00–11:00
The Ohio State University
Phase quenched QCD, or: How to fix the sign problem perturbatively
10:00–11:00
Columbia University
Bootstrapping spectral functions
10:00–11:00
ICE-CSIC & IEEC
Perturbative dense quark matter in and (slightly) out of equilibrium
Coffee break · 11:00–11:30
Coffee break · 11:00–11:30
11:30–12:30
Bielefeld University
Bounds on the high density QCD equation of state from phase quenched simulations
11:30–12:30
Keio University
title to be announced
11:30–12:30
Iowa State University
Shock-induced chiral magnetic effect
11:30–12:30
East Texas A&M University
Precision-Dependent EOS Inference from Neutron Star Radii: Universal Inverse Mappings and Nonlinear Filtering
Lunch break · 12:30–14:00
Lunch break · 12:30–14:00
14:00–15:00
Zhejiang University
Moat regime under a magnetic field
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
Thu 5 Nov — Contributed talks (afternoon)
6 talks · 14:00–17:30
Mini party 18:00
See the detailed schedule below ↓
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
15:30–16:00
Academia Sinica
Anomalous dynamical screening of relativistic plasma in a magnetic field
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
16:00–16:30
TWCU
Toward the Low-Temperature Finite-Density Phase Diagram of Two-Flavor G2-QCD
 
 
16:30–17:00
TUM
Recent results of BOEFTs for XYZ
Thu 5 Nov — Contributed talks (afternoon)
14:00-14:30
TBD
14:30-15:00
Discerning exotic phases with core g-modes in neutron stars
15:00-15:30
Constraining the nonperturbative gluon mass by neutron star observations
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-16:30
Angular-momentum eigenchannels of the Cooper instability in a color superconductor
16:30-17:00
Cold quark matter: Renormalization group improvement
17:00-17:30
Probing the High-Density Equation of State with Deformed Nuclear Collisions
18:00-20:00
Mini party

Week 5: Theoretical Developments in QCD and related topics · 9–13 Nov 2026Open this week in Indico ↗
Mon
9 Nov
Tue
10 Nov
Wed
11 Nov
Thu
12 Nov
Fri
13 Nov
10:00–11:00
UTokyo
Center-vortex condensation and monopole condensation in 4d gapped phases
10:00–11:00
University of Iowa
Applications of the Tensor Renormalization group for lattice field theory
10:00–11:00
Durham University
title to be announced
Thu 12 Nov — Mini-workshop (25 min talks)
14 talks · 9:20–17:40
Mini party 18:00
See the detailed schedule below ↓
10:00–11:00
Indiana University Bloomington
Search for the topological components of QCD and QGP in heavy-ion collisions
Coffee break · 11:00–11:30
Coffee break · 11:00–11:30
11:30–12:30
Vassar College
title to be announced
11:30–12:30
University of Tsukuba
title to be announced
11:30–12:30
Institute for Advanced Study Tsinghua University
title to be announced
11:30–12:30
University of Washington
Quantum Simulation of Lattice QED and QCD in Non-Temporal Gauge
Lunch break · 12:30–14:00
Lunch break · 12:30–14:00
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
14:00–15:00
Free discussion
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
Afternoon tea · 15:00–15:30
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
15:30–17:30
Free discussion
Thu 12 Nov — Mini-workshop (25 min talks)
9:20-9:45
Gauge-invariant PEPS for pure Z_2 gauge theory and its entanglement
9:45-10:10
Dense \mathrm{QCD_2} with uniform matrix product states
10:10-10:35
A Machine Learning Approach for Lattice Gauge Fixing
10:35-11:00
Lattice chiral gauge symmetry via non-Abelian bosonization
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-11:55
Supersymmetric partition functions on $T^2 \times S^2$ and the global structure of gauge groups
11:55-12:20
Toward a Semi-Abelian Cardy–Rabinovici Model: Twist Vortices and Gapped Phases of Yang–Mills Theory
12:20-13:50
Lunch break
13:50-14:15
SUSY and non-SUSY analysis of truly confining gauge theories
14:15-14:40
Two- and three-particle states investigation with tensor renormalization group method
14:40-15:05
Symmetric Mass Generation of Eight Majorana Domain-Wall Fermions
15:05-15:30
Lattice Gauge Topology through Gradient Flow: Stability, Continuum Limit, and Application to the ’t Hooft Loop
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-16:25
Nonequilibrium Effective Field Theory of Axion Electrodynamics and Its Generalized Symmetries
16:25-16:50
Non-perturbative news from the conformal window
16:50-17:15
Exact SL(2,Z)-Structure of Lattice Maxwell Theory with θ-term in Modified Villain Formulation
17:15-17:40
Emergence of Magnetic Monopoles and Quark Confinement due to Violation of the Non-Abelian Bianchi Identity
18:00-20:00
Mini party