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Galileo Galilei Institute

This small workshop, focuses on advanced topics in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), inspired by the scientific legacy of Stefano Catani The main topic of this year's edition is Sudakov resummation. We plan to critically compare different resummation approaches, calculations in direct and conjugate spaces, in Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) and direct QCD, parton showers and automated resummation techniques. We will also discuss the impact of resummation on the description of heavy-quark fragmentation and shape variables in e+e- annihilation, and its relevance for the accurate determination of the strong coupling.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

The lectures are primarily addressed to Ph.D. students in High Energy Particle and Astroparticle Physics. The aim of the school is to give a pedagogical introduction to the basic concepts and tools needed for research, covering the foundations of the subject at a deep and advanced level. The main topics include the Standard Model of Particle Physics and its extensions, Collider Physics, Quantum Field Theory and Cosmology.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

The aim of the school is to bring together PhD students with interests in low-dimensional quantum field theory, conformal field theory and integrable models, and their applications to statistical mechanics and condensed matter systems, and to help them build a solid and specialized background on these topics. The school provides a range of postgraduate courses covering introductory topics as well as recent developments.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

We will explore post-selection protocols in quantum measurements, emphasizing real time control and the role of exceptional points. Establishing a bridge between non-Hermitian and Lindbladian dynamics, we aim at a deeper insight into manipulated dissipative systems, aiming for dynamical error correction techniques.

Dissipative dynamics; Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians; Post-selection; Exceptional points; Quantum control; Quantum measurement; Quantum steering; Lindbladian dynamics; Quantum jumps; Weak values

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

The search for permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) of subatomic particles provide a powerful probe of CP violation and physics beyond the Standard Model. This second edition (following on a very succesful first workshop at ECT* in 2023), is part of a European initiative to strengthen connexions between experiment and theory, bringing together complementary methods from nuclear, particle, atomic and molecular physics, as well as advanced theoretical calculations.

Mathematical Physics,    Particle Accelerators

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

This workshop aims to explore both the similarities and complementarities between dark matter and the neutrino sector in the context of direct detection experiments with a particular focus on electronic excitations.

ITCP

ICTP's annual Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics provides pedagogical treatment of those subjects through lectures by some of the world's top string and quantum field theorists. The activity is intended for theoretical physicists or mathematicians with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity, and string theory.

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

ESA and CSIC.

The THESEUS science case will be presented through dedicated review talks, discussing the status-of-the-art knowledge on GRB science, early Universe studies, gravitation wave physics, and transient Universe phenomena in general. The development status of the instruments on-board THESEUS will be reported and discussed, together with the current assumptions for the mission profile. Contributed talks are expected to enrich the program and suggest further exploitations of the THESEUS instrumentation in many other fields of the modern Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, and fundamental physics. Through this conference, we aim at strengthening the involvement of the community in the project and boost even more the synergies being developed between THESEUS and all other facilities operational in the 2030s in the multi-wavelength domains.

Email: mcaballero@iaa.es

Physics; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Mathematics and Statistics; Physics; Engineering and Technology;

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

Fundamental symmetry breaking is important to understanding the formation of our universe including baryogenesis and the homochirality of living organisms. It plays an important role in finding a more complete theory than the Standard Model of particle physics. In recent years, molecules have become a leading platform to search for such symmetry breakings through precision metrology as they exhibit enhanced sensitivity and in particular, their many degrees of freedom can be leveraged to isolate violations of fundamental symmetries from the background. However, in recent years, the molecular precision spectroscopy community has become focused on simultaneous parity and time reversal symmetry violation, overlooking the equal importance of time-reversal symmetry even, parity violating effects. For example, despite its prediction in the 1960s, the parity violating energy difference between mirror-images of chiral molecules is yet to be observed, which is crucial for our understanding of molecular chirality. Only recently several individual works rediscovered the unique opportunities of molecular parity violation, indicating even its undiscovered potential in revealing new physics. Moreover, recent advancements in molecular quantum control and molecular theory may bring the detection of molecular parity violation now in reach for the first time. This workshop will use the momentum of these recent advances to refocus the attention on molecular parity violation experiments and foster collaboration in the field.

Atomic and Molecular Physics,    Condensed Matter Physics and Materials

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

Charged leptons have been key to the current understanding of physics at the shortest length scales and are the focus of precise tests of the Standard Model. In the coming years several experiments with increased sensitivity in charged lepton physics are expected to deliver exciting results. This workshop will offer the possibility for theoretical and experimental physicists to discuss the status and prospects of this field of research.

The workshop has three main topics: tau lepton precision physics (weeks 1+2), charged lepton flavour violation (weeks 2+3) and muon precision physics (weeks 3+4).

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

The study of flavor physics probes the structure of the Standard Model (SM) through the interactions and transitions among different generations of quarks and leptons. Despite its success, the SM cannot explain key features of our Universe, such as the dominance of matter over antimatter or the nature of dark matter. Semileptonic decays of beauty quarks play a central role in testing the SM and searching for new physics. They provide access to the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements Vcb and Vub and enable stringent tests of lepton flavor universality (LFU). However, persistent discrepancies between inclusive and exclusive determinations of Vcb and Vub, as well as tensions in LFU observables such as R(D/D*), highlight unresolved challenges in our understanding of quark mixing and heavy-quark dynamics. The Belle II and LHCb experiments are now entering an era of percent-level precision, placing new demands on theoretical inputs, including lattice QCD form factors, heavy-quark expansions, and the modeling of excited charm contributions. Progress requires close coordination between experiment and theory to reduce hadronic and systematic uncertainties and to develop consistent global interpretations. The 856. WE-Heraeus-Seminar “Challenges in Semileptonic Decays” will gather leading experts to assess the current status of Vcb and Vub determinations, review LFU measurements, identify strategies to reduce uncertainties, and foster synergies between Belle II, LHCb, lattice QCD, and effective field theory communities toward a coherent roadmap for the next decade.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee is an Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation

Nuclear Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

DIS2026 is the 33rd in an annual series of International Workshops covering a broad mixture of material related to Quantum Chromodynamics and Deep Inelastic Scattering as well as a general survey of the hottest topics in high energy physics. A significant part of the program is devoted to the most recent theoretical advances and results from large experiments at BNL, CERN, DESY, FNAL, JLab and KEK.

SCALE: Strings & Cosmology – All Lengths Explored is a conference on the intersection of fundamental physics and cosmology taking place on May 11-15, 2026 at Hotel Landmar Playa La Arena in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. It is organized by Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT UAM–CSIC) in Madrid in collaboration with Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Tenerife. The goal is to foster a vibrant environment that connects communities working on diverse aspects of high-energy physics, string theory, and cosmology.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Nuclear Physics,    Computational Physics and Numerical Simulation

Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

The Galactic Center (GC) plays a pivotal role in the evolution of the Milky Way. It is instrumental in mapping and understanding the central regions of quiescent galaxies since it is the closest galactic nucleus to us. It serves as a unique test bed for both stellar dynamics in an extremely dense environment as well as magnetohydrodynamics in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). It is fundamental for studying star formation, because the conditions of its interstellar medium (magnetic fields, temperature, turbulence) are unlike any other place in the Milky Way. Despite many detailed multiwavelength studies of the central regions of our Galaxy, we still have many open questions concerning its history and future evolution. This symposium will bring together experts working on both observational and theoretical studies of the Galactic Center so that they can “traverse” this exciting region from Sgr A* and the surrounding dense nuclear star cluster to the central molecular zone and back, covering about eight orders of magnitude in spatial length. Looking at the Galactic nucleus from this vantage point will uncover details of its past processes and potential future. We will explore the remarkable progress made since the last major meeting of the community—the Galactic Center Workshop in Granada (April 24–28, 2023). We will examine exciting new results, including those from JWST and GRAVITY/ERIS at the VLT, as well as insights from ALMA and MeerKAT.

Phone: [00420 549 49 8773];     Email: info.gc2026@muni.cz

Galactic Center, supermassive black hole, nuclear star cluster, nuclear stellar disk, central molecular zone

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Computational Physics and Numerical Simulation

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

The Strings and Geometry conference is a continuation of the series of conferences "Physics and Geometry of F-theory", established in 2012. After it was renamed in 2019, it brings together leading international experts working more broadly at the interface of string theory and mathematics. Topics of the 2026 edition include: Mathematical aspects of string compactifications, geometric engineering of field theories, symmetries in their various incarnations, as well as geometrical aspects of the swampland program.

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from mathematics, quantum field theory, string theory and cosmology to make progress on an ambitious research program to obtain emergent space-time and early universe cosmology from a well defined quantum mechanical matrix model. The aim of the research program is nothing less than to develop a unified quantum theory of space, time and matter based on a well-defined mathematical foundation.

Mathematical Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee is an Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation

Nuclear Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

The Cracow School of Theoretical Physics is organized yearly since 1961 The main idea of the School consists in reviewing the important results in particle and nuclear physics, both experimental and theoretical focusing on speci/ic topics that are chosen each year by the Organizing Committee. The School is typically organized in mid-June and lasts 5-8 days. The program consists of 10-20 plenary lectures, each one-three hours long and a number of 20 min. talks by young scientists. All lectures and talks are linked to the School web page, and the written versions of the lectures are published as a regular issue of Acta Physica Polonica B.

Recent years have seen major advances in our understanding of the quark and gluon content of hadrons. Yet, achieving a fully quantitative three-dimensional picture of parton distributions within nucleons remains a critical challenge in QCD. We propose a workshop titled “Toward Next-Generation QCD for Hadron Imaging: High-Precision Global Analysis and Lattice QCD" with the goal of fostering a focused, synergistic effort toward the high-precision extraction of GPDs. This workshop will bring together experts in global QCD analysis, lattice QCD, and advanced data analysis techniques to develop a common framework for GPD reconstruction. We also plan to include experts in TMD studies to explore methodological overlap and complementarity. Key goals include refining theoretical formulations, integrating lattice constraints into global fits, and advancing strategies to solve the underlying inverse problems using modern tools. In contrast to previous ECT* workshops, which emphasized interpretative aspects of hadron structure, this workshop will focus on theoretical and numerical strategies for precision extraction. By doing so, it aims to create a new momentum for quantitative hadron tomography. The workshop will also promote interdisciplinary collaboration by bringing together students, postdoctoral fellows, and senior scientists, fostering the exchange of innovative ideas across all career stages.

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Mathematical Physics

The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS)

The String Math conference has been running annually since 2011, bringing together mathematicians and physicists who work at the interface between string theory, quantum field theory, and mathematics.

LHC physics, dark matter and dark energy, string theory, neutrino physics, precision measurements, non-accelerator probes of new physics, inflation, gravitational waves, cosmic tensions, and modified gravity.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Mathematical Physics

The Institute of Physics of Jagiellonian University, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, INFN-LNF Frascati and Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS Cracow are organizing a biennial workshop to establish closer contacts between experimentalists and theorists involved in the studies of meson production, properties and interaction. The workshop will cover lectures on both experimental and theoretical aspects, in particular the presentation of new results.

hadronic and electromagnetic meson production, meson interaction with mesons, baryons, ground state nuclei as well as hot and dense nuclear matter, structure of hadrons, precision measurements as tests of fundamental symmetries, exotic systems in QCD, novel approaches in theory and experiment.

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

One of the most important tools to quantitatively describe families of two-dimensional conformal field theories are gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs). As such they offer a powerful and indispensable method to study string compactifications and their phase structures from a worldsheet perspective. Over the years, the scope of GLSMs has developed much further, namely not only as a methodology to study string theories, but also to address fundamental questions of (supersymmetric) quantum field theories, in particular in two, three and four dimensions. That is to say, GLSMs have provided key insights into numerous aspects of mathematical physics, offering a bridge to various fields in mathematics such as enumerative and algebraic geometry and category theory. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from physics and mathematics in order to address topical research questions and to identify new applications for GLSMs.

Mathematical Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Describing the interaction between nucleons and understanding how nuclei behave at the extremes of stability are two major goals of modern nuclear theory. Electroweak responses in nuclei from the low-energy to quasi-elastic regimes provide a means to address these aims. The study of electromagnetic nuclear responses has a direct impact on understanding the correlations of nucleons inside halo systems, determining the slope of the symmetry energy, and illuminating the nature of short-range correlations in nuclei. Moreover, reliable predictions of electroweak responses are pivotal for fundamental symmetries research, and have direct implications for a deeper understanding of astrophysical phenomena. The main aims of the program will be to assess state-of-the-art ab initio frameworks to study nuclei and nuclear matter, to identify possible benchmarks of the available methods, and to determine how we can use our frameworks to consistently make inferences about the nature of the nuclear interaction from terrestrial experiments and astrophysical observations. To gain insight into how we can improve our methods, we will include experts studying the dynamics of other strongly-interacting quantum-systems; for instance, such as systems encountered in condensed-matter and atomic physics. Further, we will emphasize how we can use advances in AI/ML to improve our models and assess theoretical uncertainties, as well as discussing how quantum computing could allow us to study the dynamics of nuclei and nuclear matter.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Particle Accelerators

The combined “standard models" of fundamental interactions and cosmology leave a number of questions about the observed universe without answer. Outstanding puzzles include the origin and nature of neutrino mass, the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, and the nature of dark matter. Low-energy processes involving neutrinos, hadrons, and nuclei have the potential to shed light directly or indirectly on some of these great mysteries. Given the potentially very high impact of the experimental program of electroweak and Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics with nuclei and the crucial need for the corresponding theory, we propose a DTP focused on ‘nuclear theory for new physics’. Through lectures and problem-solving sessions this DTP will provide nuclear theory students the motivation and context for electroweak and BSM studies with nuclei as well as the basic theoretical and computational tools needed in these studies. This DTP aims to establish a common ground for nuclear theory students in different sub-communities interfacing in the study of electroweak and BSM physics with nuclei: phenomenology and Effective Field Theory, lattice QCD, and nuclear structure. The concepts and tools presented at this DTP will prepare the students to apply cutting edge methodologies to challenging problems in the field and to identify new directions.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

Dark matter and dark energy dominate the mass and energy density in the universe but their composition is still unknown. There are various experimental efforts to solve this “elephant-in-the-room” problem. Some of the promising techniques involve areas of physics that are not widely known to workers in the field and are rarely discussed in “dark-sector” conferences and schools. An example is searches for axionlike particles with a ferromagnetic phase in liquid 3He. We will attempt to remedy this and several other similar gaps between seemingly disjunct research fields with this school for junior scientists, primarily, PhD students and postdocs on “Dark Intersections” ‒ the subdisciplines in physics that are used for the dark-sector and gravitational-wave research but are rarely studied in this context.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Dark matter and dark energy dominate the mass and energy density in the universe but their composition is still unknown. There are various experimental efforts to solve this “elephant-in-the-room” problem. Some of the promising techniques involve areas of physics that are not widely known to workers in the field and are rarely discussed in “dark-sector” conferences and schools. An example is searches for axionlike particles with a ferromagnetic phase in liquid 3He. We will attempt to remedy this and several other similar gaps between seemingly disjunct research fields with this school for junior scientists, primarily, PhD students and postdocs on “Dark Intersections” ‒ the subdisciplines in physics that are used for the dark-sector and gravitational-wave research but are rarely studied in this context.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

This workshop will address the low-energy probes that access the electroweak lepton-quark interactions using atomic nuclei, elaborate on connections between beta decays, parity violation, and the physics of exotic and ordinary atoms, and study the impact of these probes in a broader context through the global electroweak fit to low-energy and collider data in the Standard Model and beyond. The atomic, nuclear, and particle communities often work separately. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together experts from these fields, both theorists and experimentalists, and create an exciting context for them to interact, recognize intersections, foster connections, and seek possibilities to guide the planning of future scientific programs.

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

The main goal of PHENOEXP 2026 is to bring experimentalists and theorists together to reflect on the current and future opportunities in the field of particle physics.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Recent years have seen an explosion of cross-disciplinary research linking machine learning and theoretical physics. In this workshop, we focus on generative methods as applied to lattice field theory, with QCD as a long-term target. With many approaches being explored at various levels of maturity (normalising flow, including stochastic and continuous normalising flow, diffusion models, transport models, ...) and a deepening understanding from the perspective of theoretical physics (links to the renormalisation group, gauge symmetries, stochastic quantisation, random matrix theory, ...), it is time to take stock and constructively assess the applicability of the methodology and future perspectives in the field. The meeting will bring together researchers from the theoretical physics community, active in lattice field theory and statistical physics, with researchers in ML, to optimise the possibility of knowledge exchange. As the field is evolving rapidly, we take care to invite proponents of new and promising methods, as they are developed between the submission of the proposal and the delivery of the workshop. The key outcome will be the advancement of a common foundation and the agreement on a set of targets for the short and intermediate term.

Cluj-Napoca, Babeş – Bolyai University

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Nuclear Physics

The symposium addresses experimental and theoretical studies of the equation-of-state (EoS) of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter, with its implications in astrophysics. The scientific sessions of NuSym26 will present latest results and new ideas on probes of the symmetry energy below and above saturation density from laboratory experiments as well as from astrophysical observations, gravitational waves and supernova neutrinos.

Neutron-star mergers and core-collapse supernovae are among the most promising sites for the synthesis of heavy elements in the universe. These astrophysical phenomena bring together a rich interplay of general relativity, neutrino physics, nuclear reactions, and magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD). Among these factors, magnetic fields are increasingly recognized as playing a pivotal role in shaping the dynamics and nucleosynthetic outcomes of these events. Recent observational breakthroughs, from the detection of gravitational waves (e.g., GW170817) with EM counterparts and increasingly detailed supernova spectra, demand a deeper theoretical understanding of how magnetic fields interact with nuclear physics and influence heavy-element nucleosynthesis. At the same time, simulations of these events now routinely include magnetic fields and detailed neutrino transport demonstrating the potential of magneto-rotational supernovae and neutron-star mergers to produce rich nucleosynthesis yields including the heaviest elements produced by the r-process and set the stage for GRB jets. Given all these recent developments we are at a critical moment to advance the field but there is a need for detailed discussions and interactions among nuclear physicists, astrophysicists, and computational modelers to address key open questions and make the most of the available observational datasets and computational resources. This workshop aims to bring these communities together.

Planar fermions underpin much interesting physics in layered systems and are extensively studied in condensed matter physics; for instance, electronic properties of graphene have long been understood in terms of relativistic fermions centred on Dirac points in momentum space, but the influence of interactions between charge-carrying degrees of freedom is less well-understood and remains an active field of study. More recently, layered structures exhibiting moiré patterns—arising from slight rotational misalignments or lattice constant mismatches between individual layers—have emerged as highly tunable platforms for studying interacting relativistic fermion systems. Quantum fermions in 2+1d also present many theoretical challenges, and there is an encouraging parallel renaissance of interest involving among others workers in large loop-order perturbation theory, functional renormalisation group, conformal bootstrap, and lattice simulation, for whose practitioners such systems encapsulate essential challenges for their respective agendas. Another recent promising technique is quantum simulation, which is particularly suited for dynamics due to its use of unitary operations. Current digital quantum hardware available for cloud computing offers on the order of a hundred physical qubits, with analog computers offering on the order of a thousand qubits. These numbers are promising for out-of-equilibrium simulations of planar systems, and theoretical progress has been made for algorithms involving computers based on fermionic components rather than the usual bosonic qubits, which holds promise for efficient fermionic simulations. A week-long workshop hosted at ECT* is a perfect forum to assemble attendees spanning this diverse community, stimulate knowledge exchange, and spawn fresh research directions.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Exotic atoms—where electrons are replaced by heavier particles such as muons, pions, kaons, antiprotons or heavier antinuclei—serve as very powerful precision laboratories to investigate the fundamental interactions and symmetries of nature. By generating and measuring these atoms and their transitions, we are able to uniquely explore low-energy QCD effects through hadronic atoms, test strong-field QED, and, in very recent years, search for interactions that go beyond the Standard Model (BSM) and their carriers (dark bosons). The search of antinuclei in cosmic rays is also a possible way to detect BSM particles. Recent milestones in exotic atoms include the first-ever 2023-2024 measurement of the strong-interaction-induced energy shift and width in kaonic deuterium by the SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration, as well as highly accurate spectroscopic measurements of kaonic neon and test measurements of muonic atoms probing QED at field strengths approaching and exceeding the Schwinger limit. Studies of antiprotonic and pionic atoms in heavy nuclei are also setting new limits on possible fifth forces. The NEW-EXOTICA workshop aims to provide, for the first time, a unified platform for expert and young experimentalists and theorists from major universities and institutions working in the field and from major international facilities—including DAFNE, J-PARC, PSI, CERN-ELENA, and RIKEN—to share their latest findings, engage in deep discussions on theoretical frameworks, and define future paths for exotic atoms joint research.

The past fifteen years have seen a remarkable evolution in our perception of hadron structure. Especially within the past five years, modern experimental facilities, new techniques for the continuum bound-state problem, and progress with lattice-regularized QCD have begun pointing to a crucial role for soft quark + quark (diquark) correlations in forming the structure of hadrons. For instance, theory indicates that diquark correlations within baryons are a necessary consequence of emergent hadron mass mechanisms; that the presence and character of diquark correlations make heavy impressions on helicity dependent baryon structure functions; experiments have uncovered signals for such correlations in the flavour-separation of the proton’s electromagnetic form factors and the appearance of zeroes therein; and the possibility that diquarks play a role in forming some of the XYZ states is hotly debated. Today’s key questions are: “If diquark correlations are real, then where should physics best look to find, understand, and exploit them?” This workshop will gather experimentalists, phenomenologists, and theorists to undertake a critical review of existing information, consolidate the facts, and therefrom develop a coherent, unified picture of hadron structure.

MDPI

We are pleased to announce the 1st International Online Conference on Symmetry (IOCSYM2026). This event is organized by the MDPI open access journal Symmetry (ISSN: 2073-8994; Impact Factor: 2.2) and will take place online from 20 to 22 October 2026. We look forward to bringing together researchers to explore the world of symmetry in this brand-new, interactive online format.

Email: iocsym2026@mdpi.com

Mathematical Physics; High Energy Physics; Particle Physics; Astronomy; Cosmology; Algebra; Geometry; Mathematical Analysis; Statistics

The proposed workshop will cover one of the most outstanding topics of strong interaction physics which is the dynamics of quark-gluon interaction in the nuclear medium. Understanding how quarks and gluons behave as they are embedded in the nuclear medium is essential to series of strong interaction phenomena as modification of quark and gluon distributions of nucleons in nuclear medium, hadron-quark gluon transition at extreme nuclear environment, role of the super-fast quarks in nuclear PDF’s at very large Q2 and its relevance to the composition of superdense cold nuclear matter. Expected outcome of the workshop will be theoretical analysis of the new series of experimental data that will be available from Jefferson Lab and LHC as well as discussion of new theoretical approaches which are currently being developed by several groups also for the experimental program of the future Electron Ion Collider.