XVIII Polish Workshop on Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: Strange and Heavy Flavour Physics

from Saturday 13 December 2025 (08:00) to Sunday 14 December 2025 (17:00)
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science JU (A-1-06)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Dec 2025
14 Dec 2025
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:00) (A-1-06)
09:00
Session 1 - Wojciech Florkowski (Jagiellonian University) (until 10:30) (A-1-06)
09:00 Highlights in heavy-ion physics including strangeness and heavy-flavour production from ATLAS - Iwona Grabowska-Bołd (AGH University of Kraków)   (A-1-06)
09:25 Measurement of coherent exclusive $J/\psi$ production in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.36$ TeV with the ATLAS detector - Paweł Rybczyński (AGH University of Kraków)   (A-1-06)
09:40 ALICE Experiment: Recent Highlights and Upgrade Plans - Jacek Otwinowski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)   (A-1-06)
10:05 Low-mass Drell-Yan measurements at forward rapidity with the upgraded ALICE detector in LHC Run 3 - Sahil Upadhyaya (IFJ PAN)   (A-1-06)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Session 2 - Piotr Salabura (Jagiellonian University) (until 12:30) (A-1-06)
11:00 Heavy-ion program of the HADES experiment at GSI - Hanna Zbroszczyk (Warsaw University of Technology)   (A-1-06)
11:25 Review of strangeness production in elementary collisions at HADES - Rafał Lalik (Jagiellonian University)   (A-1-06)
11:50 Exploring the QCD matter at the crossroads with CBM - Krzysztof Piasecki (University of Warsaw)   (A-1-06)
12:15 $^3$H and $^3$He nuclei production in a combined thermal and coalescence framework for heavy-ion collisions in the few-GeV energy regime - Nikodem Witkowski (Jagiellonian University)   (A-1-06)
09:00
Session 5 - Francesco Giacosa (Jan Kochanowski University) (until 11:10) (A-1-06)
09:00 Spin hydrodynamics - Wojciech Florkowski (Jagiellonian University)   (A-1-06)
09:25 From novel Wigner function for spin-1/2 particles to causal and stable spin hydrodynamics - Valeriya Mykhaylova (Jagiellonian University)   (A-1-06)
09:40 Spin description in relativistic hydrodynamics: classical vs. quantum - Zbigniew Drogosz (Jagiellonian University)   (A-1-06)
09:55 Boost-invariant perfect Fermi–Dirac spin hydrodynamics - Natalia Łygan (Jagiellonian University)   (A-1-06)
10:10 Exact Wigner functions for chiral spirals - Sudip Kumar Kar (Jagiellonian University)   (A-1-06)
10:25 Neural network enhanced Bayesian global analysis of EKRT+viscous hydrodynamics model of relativistic heavy ion collisions - Jussi Auvinen (University of Wrocław)   (A-1-06)
10:40 Magnetic susceptibility of hot hadronic medium and quark degrees of freedom near the QCD cross-over point - Rupam Samanta (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)   (A-1-06)
10:55 Baryon Dynamics as a Background to Electromagnetic Signatures in Directed Flow Observables at RHIC - Tribhuban Parida (AGH University of Kraków)   (A-1-06)
11:10 International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (QCHS 2026) - David Blaschke (University of Wrocław)   (A-1-06)
11:15 --- Conference photo ---
11:20 --- Coffee break ---
11:40
Session 6 - Marek Gazdzicki (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce) (until 13:40) (A-1-06)
11:40 Glueballs in the Hopfion approach - Chihiro Sasaki (University of Wrocław & SKCM2 at Hiroshima University)   (A-1-06)
12:05 The Wróblewski factor revisited for proton-proton at $\sqrt{s}\simeq$10 GeV - Tomasz Matulewicz (University of Warsaw)   (A-1-06)
12:20 Quantum mechanics in heavy-ion collisions - Leonardo Tinti (Jan Kochanowski University)   (A-1-06)
12:35 Abrupt switching from hadron gas to quark-gluon plasma at smooth chiral crossover - Oleksii Ivanytskyi (University of Wrocław)   (A-1-06)
12:50 Eta condensates on the extended Columbia plot with axial anomaly - Győző Kovács (University of Wrocław & Wigner RCP)   (A-1-06)
13:05 Overview of femtoscopic analyses at HADES - Michał Prędota (Warsaw University of Technology)   (A-1-06)
13:20 Photon-photon femtoscopy in Ag+Ag collisions at $ \sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.55$ GeV - Mateusz Grunwald (Warsaw University of Technology)   (A-1-06)
13:35 The XIX Polish Workshop - Marek Gazdzicki (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce)   (A-1-06)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session 3 - Andrzej Rybicki (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS) (until 16:05) (A-1-06)
14:00 Some thoughts on Silicon Pixel Detectors, disorganized, still hopefully interesting, reflecting the personal point of view of the speaker - Paolo Martinengo (CERN)   (A-1-06)
14:20 Open charm measurements with the upgraded NA61/SHINE detector system - Mateusz Bajda (Jagiellonian University)   (A-1-06)
14:40 Testing c-cbar creation properties with correlations at the CERN SPS - Marek Gazdzicki (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce)   (A-1-06)
15:00 Measurement of charged and neutral kaons in Ar+Sc collisions at the NA61/SHINE experiment - Angelika Tefelska (Politechnika Warszawska)   (A-1-06)
15:20 Theoretical status of the kaon isospin anomaly - Francesco Giacosa (Jan Kochanowski University)   (A-1-06)
15:45 News on charged hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions from NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS - Oleksandra Panova (IFJ PAN)   (A-1-06)
16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Session 4 - Stanisław Mrówczyński (National Centre for Nuclear Research) (until 18:20) (A-1-06)
16:30 Lambda hyperon production in central Ar+Sc collisions at CERN SPS energies - Yuliia Balkova (National Centre for Nuclear Research)   (A-1-06)
16:55 Production of Σ⁰ hyperons and first results from NA61/SHINE - Damian Pszczel (National Centre for Nuclear Research)   (A-1-06)
17:20 Cooper Triples Formalism for the Sexaquark Mass - Biplab Mahato (University of Wrocław)   (A-1-06)
17:35 Interactions between heavy and light flavor hadrons in heavy-ion collisions by STAR - Priyanka Roy Chowdhury (Warsaw University of Technology)   (A-1-06)
17:50 Constrained kinetics and nonabelian symmetry driven correlations - Ludwik Turko (University of Wrocław)   (A-1-06)
18:05 Multi-fluid description of heavy-ion collisions - Pasi Huovinen (University of Wrocław)   (A-1-06)
19:30 --- Dinner ---