Name: Light Cone 2026: Applications at EIC era (LC 2026)
Start: 2026-06-22T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-26T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Stony Brook University/Online

Monday, June 22, 2026

8:00 AM Registration/Coffee
Registration/Coffee
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building

8:50 AM Welcome note
Welcome note
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
9:00 AM Hamiltonian Methods, and Light-Front QCD
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

9:00 AM Basis Light Front Quantization (BLFQ) for QCD: hadrons without spatially confining terms - James Vary (Iowa State University)

9:40 AM Toward First-Principles Calculations of Nucleon Structure in Full Light-Front QCD - Siqi Xu (Iowa State University)
10:20 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
10:45 AM Hamiltonian Methods, and Light-Front QCD
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

10:45 AM Bridging hadronic spectroscopy with partonic observables - Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook University)

11:25 AM Gluon mass bridge between partons and constituents in QCD hadrons - Stanislaw Glazek (University of Warsaw)

12:05 PM Higher-Order Structure of Hamiltonian Truncation Effective Theory - Andrea Maestri (Pavia U. and INFN-Pavia)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Light-Front Wave Functions and Hadron Structure
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

2:00 PM Nucleon structure in Minkowski space - Tobias Frederico (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronáutica)

2:30 PM Transverse-momentum-dependent distributions and form factors of the pion and kaon in a self-consistent light-front quark model - Ho-Meoyng Choi (Kyungpook National University)

2:50 PM Spin-orbit correlation within heavy quarkonium - Xianghui Cao (University of Science and Technology of China)

3:10 PM Interpolating Instant and Light-Front Dynamics - Chueng-Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University)
3:50 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:50 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
4:15 PM Light-Front Wave Functions and Hadron Structure
4:15 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

4:15 PM Reappraising Light Front Densities - Adam Freese (Jefferson Lab)
7:00 PM Dinner for the International Committee and Local Organizers
Dinner for the International Committee and Local Organizers
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

8:30 AM Coffee and scientific exchanges
Coffee and scientific exchanges
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
9:00 AM Confinement, Form Factors, and Tomography
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

9:00 AM Evidence for Quark Confinement in the Proton - Gerald Miller (University of Washington, Seattle)

9:40 AM GPD and gravitational form factor at large momentum transfer - Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)
10:20 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
10:45 AM Confinement, Form Factors, and Tomography
10:45 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

10:45 AM From GTMDs to GPDs: Worldsheet Factorization with Strings Attached - Kiminad Mamo (UConn/JLab)

11:25 AM EIC impact on TMD phenomenology - Marco Radici (INFN - Sezione di Pavia (Italy))

11:55 AM Sivers Asymmetry in J/psi Production processes at the EIC : Effect of TMD Evolution - Asmita Mukherjee (IIT Bombay)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
2:00 PM GPDs, Fragmentation, and Gravitational Structure
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

2:00 PM Orbital angular momentum from exclusive meson production - Shohini Bhattacharya (University of Connecticut)

2:40 PM Probing the Nucleon’s Gravitational structure through Near-Threshold heavy quarkonium photoproduction at JLab - Bheemsehan Gurjar (University of Science and Technology of China)

3:10 PM NLO Heavy Quark Contributions to Polarized DIS Structure Functions in the EIC Era - Edoardo Spezzano (University of Münster)

3:30 PM Charge Correlations in Deep-Inelastic Scattering - Haotian Cao (Northwestern University)
3:50 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:50 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
4:15 PM GPDs, Fragmentation, and Gravitational Structure
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

4:15 PM Lattice QCD study of nonzero skewness GPDs - Min-Huan Chu (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

8:30 AM Coffee and networking
Coffee and networking
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
9:00 AM QCD Dynamics, Instantons, and Nuclear Structure
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

9:00 AM Instantons and QCD orbital angular momentum in the nucleon - Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)

9:40 AM Hadronic Light-Front Wave Functions from the Instanton Vacuum - Wei-Yang Liu (Stony Brook University)

10:20 AM Second-order effective Hamiltonian of QCD - Kamil Serafin (Tufts University)
10:50 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
11:10 AM QCD Dynamics, Instantons, and Nuclear Structure
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

11:10 AM Light-front nuclear structure from chiral EFT dynamics: Deuteron - Frank Vera (NSF-JLab)

11:30 AM Insights from Light-Front Quantization on the Unruh Effect - Alexandre Deur (Jefferson Lab)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
1:30 PM Jets, Small-x Dynamics, and Saturation Physics
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

1:30 PM Light-cone ordered perturbation theory in coordinate space - George Sterman

2:10 PM Spectator tagging in DIS on the polarized deuteron - Wim Cosyn (Florida International University)

2:30 PM Gluon Production in the Saturation Region - José Garrido (UTFSM)

2:50 PM Back-to-back dijet production in DIS: TMD framework up to twist-3 for all Bjorken-$x$ - Fei Yao
3:10 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
3:35 PM Jets, Small-x Dynamics, and Saturation Physics
3:35 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

3:35 PM Single Inclusive Gluon Production at Central Rapidity in the Small-$x$ Regime at NLO - Ramkumar Radhakrishnan (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA)

3:55 PM Gluon in the pion gravitational form factors - Murilo Pedroso Tobias Frederico (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronáutica)

4:15 PM Relativistic Electron and Neutrino Scattering off of light nuclei - wayne polyzou* (University of Iowa)
6:00 PM Conference dinner
Conference dinner
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Thursday, June 25, 2026

8:30 AM Coffee and networking
Coffee and networking
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
9:00 AM Lattice QCD, LaMET, PDFs
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

9:00 AM What is light front quantization? - Xiangdong Ji (U. Maryland)

9:40 AM Recent lattice results in nucleon PDF from LaMET - Peter Petreczky (BNL)
10:20 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
10:45 AM Lattice QCD, LaMET, PDFs
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

10:45 AM Nucleon electromagnetic form factors at large momentum from Lattice QCD - Sergey Syritsyn (Stony Brook University)

11:25 AM Quasidistribution functions in the Schwinger model - Sebastian Grieninger (University of Washington)

11:55 AM Connected and disconnected contributions to nucleon form factors and parton distributions - Saraswati Pandey (University of Virginia)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building

2:00 PM BNL visit / Free afternoon
BNL visit / Free afternoon
2:00 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Friday, June 26, 2026

8:30 AM Coffee and networking
Coffee and networking
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
9:00 AM Quantum Computing, AI, and Computational Methods
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

9:00 AM Light Front Calculations on Quantum Computers - Peter Love (Tufts University)

9:30 AM String breaking in the Schwinger model: jet fragmentation and thermalization - David Frenklakh

9:55 AM Machine-Learning-Assisted Fock-Space Truncation for Light-Front Hamiltonian Calculations - Jie Pan (Stony Brook University)
10:15 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
10:35 AM Quantum Computing, AI, and Computational Methods
10:35 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

10:35 AM Quasi-GPDs in the Massive Schwinger Model using Tensor Networks - Jake Montgomery (Stony Brook University)

11:05 AM Toward quantum simulations of lattice field theory in 2+1 dimensions - Felix Ringer (Stony Brook University)

11:45 AM JIMWLK on a quantum computer - Shaswat Tiwari (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:05 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:05 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
1:30 PM McCartor Awardees
1:30 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

1:30 PM McCartor Award Distribution

1:35 PM Relativistic centers and spatial distributions of angular momentum in the nucleon - Ho-Yeon Won (École Polytechnique.edu)

2:05 PM Updates on the Gluon PDF from Large Momentum Effective Theory - William Good (Michigan State University)

2:35 PM Hidden-Color Dynamics of the Deuteron on the Light Front - Satvir Kaur (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
3:05 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:05 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
3:30 PM EIC Future Directions and Facility Program
3:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building
Contributions

3:30 PM Energy Momentum Tensor Form factors of the Proton: From JLab to EIC - Zein-Eddine Meziani (Argonne National Laboratory)

4:10 PM EIC Physics Experiment and Future Collider Opportunities - Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & CFNS)
4:50 PM Closing remarks and acknowledgements
Closing remarks and acknowledgements
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building

5:00 PM Open Collaboration / Local Departure Window
Open Collaboration / Local Departure Window
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building