Name: Special Challenges in Quantum Chromodynamics
Start: 2026-01-08T13:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-09T14:30:00+01:00
Location: Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics

Special Challenges in Quantum Chromodynamics

from Thursday, 8 January 2026 (13:30) to Friday, 9 January 2026 (14:30)

Monday, 5 January 2026
Tuesday, 6 January 2026
Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Thursday, 8 January 2026

13:30 Welcome
Welcome
13:30 - 14:00

14:00 Introduction

14:00 - 14:15
14:15 Afternoon session
14:15 - 16:30
Contributions

14:15 Resummation ambiguities in SCET vs. direct QCD - Giovanni Ridolfi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:00 Diagrammatic approaches, effective field theory, parton showers: Similarities and differences among resummation methods - Thomas Becher (University of Bern)

15:45 Discussion
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 Afternoon session
17:00 - 19:15
Contributions

17:00 Resummation for heavy-quark fragmentation in e+e- collisions - Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)

17:45 Parton Shower approach to Sudakov resummation - Silvia Ferrario Ravasio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:30 Discussion
20:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Friday, 9 January 2026
09:00 Morning session
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Experimental determination of alpha_S from semi-inclusive hard processes - Stefan Kluth (Max Planck Institute)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Group photo
Group photo
10:30 - 10:35
10:35 Morning session
10:35 - 12:50
Contributions

10:35 Saddle-Point approximation in threshold resummation - Ugo Giuseppe Aglietti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:20 Automated resummation for event-shape variables - Giulia Marcella Maria Zanderighi

12:05 Discussion
12:50 Closing

12:50 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30

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