Name: MENU 2026
Start: 2026-10-19T08:45:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-23T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Wang Center

Monday, October 19, 2026
8:45 AM Welcome - Jan Bernauer (Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science)
Welcome
- Jan Bernauer (Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science)
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Plenary I
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM ePIC experimental overview - Rongrong Ma (BNL)

9:45 AM EIC theory overview - Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)
10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Plenary I
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM Probing the Standard Model and Beyond at MESA - Achim Denig (University Mainz)

11:35 AM Hadron Physics at J-PARC - Shinya Sawada
12:20 PM Lunch

12:20 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM Plenary II
1:40 PM - 3:10 PM
Contributions

1:40 PM Theoretical Hadron Spectroscopy as a Probe of QCD - Andrew Jackura

2:25 PM Update on Hadron Spectroscopy in LHCb - Hangyi Wu (Syracuse University)
3:10 PM Coffee

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Plenary II
3:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Recent advances in Theory - Marc Vanderhaeghen (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

4:15 PM Exotic Hadrons at Twenty - Antonio Polosa

5:00 PM Born-Oppenheimer EFT: an unified description of ordinary and exotic quarkonia - Nora Brambilla (TUM)
6:00 PM Reception

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
9:00 AM Parallel: 1A
1A
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 201
Contributions

9:00 AM Feasibility of pion and kaon structure measurements at the EIC using the Sullivan process - Baptiste Fraisse (The Catholic University of America)

9:25 AM L/T Separated Exclusive Meson Cross Sections at High $Q^2$ from Hall C at Jefferson Lab - Chi Kin Tam (CUA)

9:50 AM Radiative two-pion amplitude from QCD - Felipe Ortega-Gama (William & Mary)
Parallel: 1B
1B
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 301
Contributions

9:00 AM Pion-Nucleon Scattering in BChPT combined with 1/Nc Expansion - Dulitha Jayakodige (Hampton University)

9:25 AM Nucleon Structure with charge correlation at EIC - Haotian Cao (Northwestern University)
10:15 AM Coffee

10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM Parallel: 2A
2A
10:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 201
Contributions

10:40 AM Nucleon Femtography with NPS Run Group 1a in Jefferson Lab Hall C - Mark Mathison (Ohio University)

11:05 AM Neutral-Pion Electroproduction and Hadron Femtography with Jefferson Lab Hall C - Avnish Singh (The Catholic University of America)

11:30 AM Simulation study of Deeply Virtual $\pi^0$ Production at the ePIC detector of the EIC - Li Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:55 AM Constraining Generalized Parton Distributions with Exclusive Lepton-Pair Photoproduction - Yangli Zeng
Parallel: 2B
2B
10:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 301
Contributions

10:40 AM Vector Meson Nucleon Scattering Length from Omega to Phi to J/Psi to Upsilon Meson - Igor Strakovsky (The George Washington University)

11:05 AM (remote)Study of Nucleon Resonances in Pion-Induced Reactions at J-PARC E45 - Shin Hyung Kim (Kyungpook National University)

11:30 AM Multiquark hadrons, hybrids and their mixing with the nucleon - Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook University)
12:20 PM Lunch

12:20 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Parallel: 3A
3A
1:45 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: 201
Contributions

1:45 PM The MUSE Experiment - Ethan Cline (Stony Brook University)

2:10 PM Pion-Proton Scattering in the MUSE Experiment - Kyle Salamone

2:35 PM The PRad-II Experiment at Jefferson Lab - Huong Nguyen

3:00 PM Two-photon exchange effects in muonic hydrogen - Panagiotis Kalamidas (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Parallel: 3B
3B
1:45 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: 301
Contributions

1:45 PM Unpolarized, helicity and transversity PDF from lattice QCD - Peter Petreczky (BNL)

2:10 PM Gravitational form factors and hadron mass decompositions from the three-loop energy-momentum tensor in QCD - Kazuhiro Tanaka (Juntendo University)

2:35 PM Hadron Mass and Trace-Anomaly Decompositions from Gradient-Flow-Based Renormalization of the QCD EMT - XIANG Gao

3:00 PM Mechanical stresses in two-body systems - Adam Freese (Jefferson Lab)
3:25 PM Coffee

3:25 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM Parallel: 4A
4A
3:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 201
Contributions

3:50 PM A new measurement of the $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ branching ratio at the NA62 experiment - Rado Marchevski

4:15 PM PHENIX MEASUREMENTS OF IDENTIFIED CHARGED HADRON PRODUCTION IN SMALL AND LARGE SYSTEMS - Chaitanya Prasad (Stony Brook University)

4:40 PM Feasibility of Testing Neutrality of Matter Using the Cryogenic Helium Atomic Beam Source Employed in the EIC Absolute Polarimeter - Prajwal MohanMurthy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Parallel: 4B
4B
3:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 301
Contributions

3:50 PM Evidence for Quark Confinement in the Proton - Chen Yang (University of Maryland, College Park)

4:15 PM Modeling QCD at Low Resolution: Applications to Hadron Form Factors - Wei-Yang Liu (Stony Brook University)

4:40 PM Topological QCD vacuum: hadrons from rest to light front - ismail zahed (Stony Brook University)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary III
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Multiplicities and spin asymmetries in SIDIS - Maria Żurek

9:45 AM Light Nuclei from Ab Initio Theory - Petr Navratil
10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Plenary III
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM News from Belle II - Renu Garg

11:35 AM Reconstructing hadron structure using AI/ML - Wally Melnitchouk
12:20 PM Lunch

12:20 PM - 1:45 PM

1:45 PM Excursion

1:45 PM - 5:45 PM

6:30 PM Conference Dinner

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, October 22, 2026
9:00 AM Parallel: 5A
5A
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 201
Contributions

9:00 AM Measurement of the isolated photon transverse single spin asymmetry with the sPHENIX detector - Rowan Kelleher (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

9:25 AM Early-science physics prospects with Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with ePIC at the EIC - Oliver Jevons (University of Glasgow)

9:50 AM Recent and future measurements of Virtual Compton Scattering and Generalized Polarizabilities of Proton - Sangbaek Lee (Temple University)
Parallel: 5B
5B
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 301
Contributions

9:00 AM From Inverse Problems to Foundation Models in Hadron Structure - Brandon Kriesten (Argonne National Lab)

9:25 AM Variable Rate Neural Compression for Sparse Detector Data - Yi Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)

9:50 AM Fast-ML for sPHENIX and EIC - Ming Liu (Los Alamos National Lab)
10:15 AM Coffee

10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM Parallel: 6A
6A
10:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 201
Contributions

10:40 AM Back-to-back dijet production in DIS: TMD framework up to twist-3 for all Bjorken-x - Fei Yao

11:05 AM A new operator expansion connecting eikonal and TMD regimes - Shaswat Tiwari (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:30 AM Symbolic Extraction of Non-Perturbative Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Distributions from Drell-Yan Data - Cole Granger (College of William and Mary)

11:55 AM Probing Gluon Saturation with Dijet Observables at the Electron-Ion Collider - Sasha Lempert (Stony Brook University)
Parallel: 6B
6B
10:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 301
Contributions

10:40 AM Toward a helicity resolved parton shower for longitudinally polarized scattering processes. - Pubasha Shome (Stony Brook University)

11:05 AM Probing Nucleon Structure and QCD Dynamics with STAR - Xiaoxuan Chu (BNL)

11:30 AM New Results on the Polarized and Unpolarized Structure of the Neutron from Jefferson Lab - Todd Averett

11:55 AM ePIC inclusive physics program - Win Lin (Stony Brook University)
12:20 PM Lunch

12:20 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Parallel: 7A
7A
1:45 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: 201
Contributions

1:45 PM Beam-spin induced polarization of lambda and anti-lambda hyperons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering - Gunar Schnell (Ikerbasque & UPV/EHU)

2:10 PM Dihadron Production in Electron-Positron Annihilation at Next-to-Leading Order - Yorgo Sawaya (Temple University)

2:35 PM Evolution of Dihadron Fragmentation Functions with Nonperturbative behavior - Kazuki Makino (Old Dominion University)

3:00 PM Charged kaon SIDIS with CLAS12 - Aron Kripko (University of Connecticut)
Parallel: 7B
7B
1:45 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: 301
Contributions

1:45 PM EXPLORING THE NUCLEAR REPULSIVE CORE VIA DEUTERON ELECTRO-DISINTEGRATION AT HIGH-MOMENTUM TRANSFERS ($(Q^{2})$) [E12-10-003] - Pramila Pokhrel (The Catholic University of America)

2:10 PM Generalized TMDs at the Electron-Ion Collider and Partonic Orbital Angular Momentum - Brandon Manley (University of Connecticut)

2:35 PM Recent open heavy flavor physics studies for the future Electron-Ion Collider - Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

3:00 PM Deep Inelastic Scattering with massive quarks - Clara Del Pio (BNL)
3:25 PM Coffee

3:25 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM Parallel: 8A
8A
3:50 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: 201
Contributions

3:50 PM Bayesian Gaussian Reconstruction: A Transparent Approach to Inverse Problems in Hadron Structure - Poonam Choudhary (Jefferson Lab)

4:15 PM Small x evolution meets DGLAP - Yacine Mehtar-Tani (BNL)

4:40 PM Measurement of Transverse Spin Dependent Di-Hadron Asymmetry and Unpolarized Cross Section in polarized pp Collisions at RHIC - Bernd Surrow (Temple University)
Parallel: 8B
8B
3:50 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: 301
Contributions

3:50 PM Beam asymmetry Σ of the α0(980)0 photoproduced in the GlueX experiment - Marshall Scott (George Washington University)

4:15 PM Helicity Amplitudes and Exclusive Phi-Meson Electroproduction with CLAS12 - Bhawani Singh (Jefferson Lab)

4:40 PM Spin resummation in heavy-quarkonium photoproduction: from gluonic gravitational form factors to the Pomeron - Kiminad Mamo (University of Connecticut)
Friday, October 23, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary IV
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of the PIONEER Experiment - Sean Foster

9:45 AM AI and Machine Learning Across Experimental Nuclear Physics - Yeonju Go (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Plenary IV
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM Recent results from BES III - Hong-Fei Shen

11:35 AM Hadron Spectroscopy with GlueX: Exotic States, Spin Dynamics, and Hadronization - Hao Li
12:20 PM AOB
AOB
12:20 PM - 12:35 PM