Name: Attractors and thermalization in nuclear collisions and cold quantum gases
Start: 2025-09-22T08:15:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-26T19:00:00+02:00
Location: ECT*

Attractors and thermalization in nuclear collisions and cold quantum gases

from Monday, September 22, 2025 (8:15 AM) to Friday, September 26, 2025 (7:00 PM)

Monday, September 22, 2025

9:00 AM Registration of participants
Registration of participants
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

9:45 AM ECT* Director's address
ECT* Director's address
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

10:00 AM Opening and participants' introduction
Opening and participants' introduction
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM Nonthermal fixed points: a theory perspective - Kirill Boguslavski (TU Wien)
Nonthermal fixed points: a theory perspective
- Kirill Boguslavski (TU Wien)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:00 AM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:30 AM Hydrodynamic attractors: an overview - Alexander Soloviev
Hydrodynamic attractors: an overview
- Alexander Soloviev
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:00 PM Experimental results on universal dynamics in spinor Bose condensates and the emergence of the Sine-Gordon model - Markus Oberthaler
Experimental results on universal dynamics in spinor Bose condensates and the emergence of the Sine-Gordon model
- Markus Oberthaler
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK AND UNSTRUCTURED TIME
LUNCH BREAK AND UNSTRUCTURED TIME
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:00 PM Hydrodynamic transport in ultracold atoms - Tilman Enss
Hydrodynamic transport in ultracold atoms
- Tilman Enss
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:30 PM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
4:00 PM Hydrodynamic attractor in ultracold atoms - Keisuke Fujii (Institute of Science Tokyo)
Hydrodynamic attractor in ultracold atoms
- Keisuke Fujii (Institute of Science Tokyo)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
4:30 PM Early time hydrodynamic attractor in a nearly-unitary Fermi gas - Clemens Werthmann (Ghent University)
Early time hydrodynamic attractor in a nearly-unitary Fermi gas
- Clemens Werthmann (Ghent University)
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
5:00 PM Nonthermal fixed points beyond the transport paradigm - Aleksandr Mikheev
Nonthermal fixed points beyond the transport paradigm
- Aleksandr Mikheev
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
5:30 PM Kelvin waves in nonequilibrium universal dynamics of relativistic scalar field theories - Viktoria Noel (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University Heidelberg)
Kelvin waves in nonequilibrium universal dynamics of relativistic scalar field theories
- Viktoria Noel (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University Heidelberg)
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
10:00 AM Analytic methods for uncovering attractors - Ines Aniceto (University of Southampton)
Analytic methods for uncovering attractors
- Ines Aniceto (University of Southampton)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM Hydrodynamic attractors in periodically driven systems - Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University)
Hydrodynamic attractors in periodically driven systems
- Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:00 AM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:30 AM Relaxation to Nonthermal Attractors: Prescaling and Hydrodynamics - Thimo Preis (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Heidelberg University)
Relaxation to Nonthermal Attractors: Prescaling and Hydrodynamics
- Thimo Preis (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Heidelberg University)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:00 PM Adiabatic Hydrodynamization: The Adiabatic Picture of Attractors - Bruno Scheihing (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara)
Adiabatic Hydrodynamization: The Adiabatic Picture of Attractors
- Bruno Scheihing (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK AND UNSTRUCTURED TIME
LUNCH BREAK AND UNSTRUCTURED TIME
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:00 PM Quasinormal modes of nonthermal fixed points - Matisse De Lescluze (Ghent University)
Quasinormal modes of nonthermal fixed points
- Matisse De Lescluze (Ghent University)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:30 PM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
4:00 PM Quark production in the bottom-up thermalization - Xiaojian Du (IGFAE)
Quark production in the bottom-up thermalization
- Xiaojian Du (IGFAE)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
4:30 PM Limiting attractors: new universality in heavy-ion collisions and jet quenching - Florian Lindenbauer (MIT Center for Theoretical Physics - a Leinweber Institute)
Limiting attractors: new universality in heavy-ion collisions and jet quenching
- Florian Lindenbauer (MIT Center for Theoretical Physics - a Leinweber Institute)
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
5:00 PM Transport at Large N -- Unexpected New Results for Old Problems - Paul Romatschke (TU Wien)
Transport at Large N -- Unexpected New Results for Old Problems
- Paul Romatschke (TU Wien)
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
10:00 AM Universal coarsening in homogeneous Bose gases - Zoran Hadzibabic (University of Cambridge)
Universal coarsening in homogeneous Bose gases
- Zoran Hadzibabic (University of Cambridge)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:00 AM Far-from equilibrium 1D Bose gases - from Kibble-Zurek to NTFPs - Sebastian Erne (Atominstitut, TU Wien)
Far-from equilibrium 1D Bose gases - from Kibble-Zurek to NTFPs
- Sebastian Erne (Atominstitut, TU Wien)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:30 AM Topology in far-from-equilibrium dynamics: Sine-Gordon-class universality - Thomas Gasenzer (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Topology in far-from-equilibrium dynamics: Sine-Gordon-class universality
- Thomas Gasenzer (Heidelberg University, Germany)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:00 PM DISCUSSION: NONTHERMAL ATTRACTORS AND EXPERIMENTS
DISCUSSION: NONTHERMAL ATTRACTORS AND EXPERIMENTS
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

1:00 PM LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Thursday, September 25, 2025
10:00 AM Quantum thermalization of QCD matter by Schwinger model - Li Yan
Quantum thermalization of QCD matter by Schwinger model
- Li Yan
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM Restoring causality in far-from-equilibrium fluids - Lorenzo Gavassino (University of Cambridge)
Restoring causality in far-from-equilibrium fluids
- Lorenzo Gavassino (University of Cambridge)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:00 AM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:30 AM Hydrodynamic attractors in simulations of heavy ion collisions - Gabriel Silveira Denicol (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Hydrodynamic attractors in simulations of heavy ion collisions
- Gabriel Silveira Denicol (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:00 PM Non-hydrodynamics from hidden symmetry - Yi Yin
Non-hydrodynamics from hidden symmetry
- Yi Yin
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:30 PM Effective thermalization rates in kinetic theory - Robbe Brants (Ghent University)
Effective thermalization rates in kinetic theory
- Robbe Brants (Ghent University)
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
1:00 PM LUNCH BREAK AND UNSTRUCTURED TIME
LUNCH BREAK AND UNSTRUCTURED TIME
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:00 PM Two Conjectures on Hydrodynamization Hierarchies in Diffusive Systems - Navid Abbasi
Two Conjectures on Hydrodynamization Hierarchies in Diffusive Systems
- Navid Abbasi
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:30 PM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
4:00 PM Attractors near superfluid phase transition - Toshali Mitra (ITP, University of Heidelberg)
Attractors near superfluid phase transition
- Toshali Mitra (ITP, University of Heidelberg)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
4:30 PM Soft and hard probe with hydrodynamic attractor - Xin An (NCBJ)
Soft and hard probe with hydrodynamic attractor
- Xin An (NCBJ)
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
5:00 PM DISCUSSION: HYDRODYNAMIC ATTRACTORS AND EXPERIMENTS
DISCUSSION: HYDRODYNAMIC ATTRACTORS AND EXPERIMENTS
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Friday, September 26, 2025
10:00 AM A tale of two sounds - Jean-Paul Blaizot (IPhT CEA-CNRS Saclay)
A tale of two sounds
- Jean-Paul Blaizot (IPhT CEA-CNRS Saclay)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:00 AM Stages of relaxation of an isolated Bose gas - Martin Gazo (University of Cambridge)
Stages of relaxation of an isolated Bose gas
- Martin Gazo (University of Cambridge)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:30 AM Coarsening dynamics of the chiral phase transition in quench and Kibble-Zurek protocols - Derek Teaney (Stony Brook University)
Coarsening dynamics of the chiral phase transition in quench and Kibble-Zurek protocols
- Derek Teaney (Stony Brook University)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:00 PM CLOSING DISCUSSION: DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
CLOSING DISCUSSION: DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

1:00 PM LUNCH BREAK AND END OF THE CONFERENCE
LUNCH BREAK AND END OF THE CONFERENCE
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

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