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SUMMARY:Buenas Ideas on the QCD Phase Diagram
DTSTART:20260525T230500Z
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DESCRIPTION:⚠️ Important Notice: Scam Emails  Some participants have 
 received scam emails from third parties offering to arrange hotel reservat
 ions.  The organizers do NOT work with any external travel agency.  If y
 ou receive such an email\, please ignore or delete it.\n\n \nOne of the c
 entral challenges in hadron physics is to elucidate the phase structure of
  quantum chromodynamics (QCD)\, the fundamental theory of the Strong Inter
 action in terms of quarks and gluons. Understanding the QCD phase diagram 
 is of crucial importance for the physics of hot media in relativistic heav
 y-ion collisions and nuclear/quark matter in neutron stars\, and even for 
 uncovering states in the Early Universe.\nStudies of the QCD phase structu
 re have a long history dating back to the birth of QCD itself in 70's. In 
 recent years\, however\, significant new insights have been gained owing t
 o advances in numerical simulation techniques\, the accumulation of high-p
 recision data from heavy-ion collision experiments\, progress in neutron s
 tar observations\, and developments in theoretical analysis. Examples incl
 ude the emergence of new symmetries near the chiral crossover (i.e.\, chir
 al spin symmetry)\, the possible separation of deconfinement and chiral tr
 ansitions based on large-$N_c$​ approximations and the associated nontri
 vial intermediate state (i.e. spaghetti of quarks with glueballs called SQ
 BG)\, the possible disappearance of a first-order phase transition in the 
 chiral limit on the Columbia plot\, and experimental results suggesting th
 e existence of the QCD critical point. In addition\, understanding the equ
 ation of state of neutron-star matter in the quarkyonic picture proposed w
 ithin the large-$N_c$ framework has provided new perspectives on high-dens
 ity QCD physics\, such as the IR-suppressed distribution function of baryo
 ns\, a nearly conformal quarkyonic window\, etc.\nThrough active discussio
 ns spanning a broad range of perspectives\, this workshop seeks to clarify
  the current challenges in QCD phase diagram research\, identify future re
 search directions\, and promote further progress in this field.\n\nDate an
 d Venues\nDate: May 26 (Tuesday) - May 29 (Friday)\, 2026\nVenue: Maskawa 
 Hall\, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics\, Kyoto University\nDirect
 ions to the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP) can be found o
 n this page. \n\nImportant Registration Deadlines\nOnsite participants re
 questing VISA support: March 15\, 2026Onsite participants requesting finan
 cial support: March 31\, 2026Onsite participants without any support: Apri
 l 15\, 2026Online participants: May 25\, 2026 \n\nList of Invited Speaker
 s and Topics (tentative to be updated)\nChristian Fischer (University of G
 iessen)    Columbia plot\, critical point and bound states in dense QCDL
 eonid Glozman (University of Graz)    QCD regimes/phases at small mu\, t
 heir symmetries and Nc scalingMasanori Hanada (Queen Mary University of Lo
 ndon) [TBD]    Partial DeconfinementYui Hayashi (University of Tokyo)  
   Semiclassical description of confinement and anomalyEtsuko Itou (YITP)
     First-Principles Lattice Study of Dense QCD-like TheoriesToru Kojo (
 KEK)    Quarkyonic Matter and the QCD Phase Diagram at High DensityJinfe
 ng Liao (Indiana University)    Evidence for the magnetic component of
  quark-gluon plasmaPeter Lowdon (Goethe University Frankfurt)     Spec
 tral Properties of QCD at Finite TemperatureMichal Marczenko (University o
 f Wrocław)　 Hadron spectra and thermodynamics for all quark flavors fro
 m a universal Hagedorn temperatureLarry McLerran (University of Washington
 )　Spaghetti of Quarks with GlueballsSeung-il Nam (Pukyong National Univ
 ersity)    K1(1270) decay in a hot hadronic mediumÁlvaro Pastor-Gutiér
 rez (RIKEN)   Phases of QCD-like and chiral gauge theoriesJan Pawlowski
  (Heidelberg University)   Phase structure and dynamics of QCD at high d
 ensitiesRobert Pisarski (Brookhaven National Laboratory)    Semi-QGP\, 
 Moat Regime\, and Chiral AnomalyAlexander Rothkopf (Korea University)   
  Unscreened inter-quark potential at high temperaturesVolodymyr Vovchenko 
 (University of Houston)    QCD phase diagram with constant entropy conto
 urs and fluctuations in heavy-ion collisionsNaoki Yamamoto (Keio Universi
 ty)    Color Superconductivity Revisited\n\nOrganizers\nYasumichi Aoki (
 RIKEN)\, Yuki Fujimoto (Niigata U)\, Kenji Fukushima (U Tokyo)\, Yui Hayas
 hi (U Tokyo)\, Yoshimasa Hidaka (YITP\, Kyoto)\, Masakiyo Kitazawa (YITP\,
  Kyoto)\, Larry McLerran (U Washington)\, Yuya Tanizaki (YITP\, Kyoto)\n\n
 Support\nYukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics\, Kyoto UniversityRIKEN 
 iTHEMSQuark Nuclear Science Institute\, The University of TokyoInternation
 al Leading Research: Origins of Matter Explored through Femtoscale Quantum
  Many-Body Systems\nIn case this conference was helpful for your research 
 projects\, we really appreciate if you could mention it in the acknowledge
 ments of the related papers. [sample sentence: The authors are grateful fo
 r the opportunity to engage in discussions at the YITP conference  "Buena
 s Ideas on the QCD Phase Diagram" (YITP-26-4)\, which helped initiate/deve
 lop/complete this work.]\n\nRelated workshop\nIn the following week (June 
 1-4\, 2026)\, "QCD Critical Point and Hydrodynamic Evolution" will be held
 . If you are interested\, please look at the following webpage.  \nhttps:
 //indico.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/79\n\nhttps://indico.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac
 .jp/event/77/
LOCATION:Maskawa Hall (YITP\, Kyoto University)
URL:https://indico.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/77/
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