Towards improved hadron femtography with hard exclusive reactions, edition V, University of Virginia, 2026

US/Eastern
338 (University of Virginia)

338

University of Virginia

382 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904
Alexandre Camsonne (Jefferson Laboratory), Charlotte Van Hulse (VUB), Marie BOER (Virginia Tech), Saraswati Pandey (University of Virginia), Zaki Panjsheeri (University of Virginia), simonetta liuti (university of virginia)
Description

Overview

The fifth edition of the “Towards Improved Hadron Femtography” workshop will be held at the University of Virginia on July 20–24, 2026.

Physics Department, UVA, 3rd floor, Room 338

The workshop continues its efforts to achieve tomography of hadrons – imaging the three-dimensional internal structure of protons, neutrons and atomic nuclei at the femtometer scale – through hard exclusive processes. This workshop brings together a diverse mix of theorists and experimentalists to foster collaboration, covering topics from GPD phenomenology and lattice QCD calculations to new experimental results aimed at advancing our understanding of the nucleon’s 3D structure. In a broader context, the workshops goals align with the vision of Jefferson Lab and the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Hadron femtography is a cornerstone of the EIC’s science program, and this edition emphasizes computational physics-AI methods synergy, as well as the role of light nuclei in planning for EIC-era analyses to fully leverage the collider’s unprecedented capabilities.

We wish to invite the nuclear and particle physics, and the computational physics communities to participate in our workshop to explore experiment ideas for EIC enabled science. 

The scientific program will consist of invited oral presentations as well as round table discussion sessions. The workshop will aim at improving interactions among various existing collaborations and to foster the creation of new ones.

For questions and updates, please join either the Slack or WhatsApp channel after registering:

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Zoom Link:

Link: Hadron Femtography

Meeting ID:
939 6074 9368
Passcode:
492602
Contact: UVA Group
Registration
Registration
Participants
    • 9:00 AM 9:15 AM
      Welcome
    • 9:15 AM 12:45 PM
      Session 1: Recent Progress on GPDs
      • 9:15 AM
        GPDs, their interpretations, and how to find them 30m
        Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (Jefferson Lab)
      • 9:45 AM
        Complementarity between JLab and EIC regarding exclusive measurements 30m
        Speaker: Rolf Ent (JLab)
      • 10:15 AM
        Likelihood Bayesian Analysis 30m
        Speaker: Saraswati Pandey (University of Virginia)
      • 10:45 AM
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:15 AM
        Experimental overview on access to GPDs 30m
        Speaker: Charlotte Van Hulse (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
      • 11:45 AM
        GPDs from Symbolic Regression 30m
        Speaker: Zaki Panjsheeri (University of Virginia)
      • 12:15 PM
        Hadron Mass and Trace-Anomaly Decompositions from Gradient-Flow-Based Renormalization of the QCD EMT 30m
        Speaker: Mr Xiang Gao (BNL&Tsinghua University)
    • 12:45 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 1h 15m
    • 2:00 PM 5:00 PM
      Session 2: Accessing gluons through charmonium
      • 2:00 PM
        New updates on Threshold Quarkonium production 30m
        Speaker: Sylvester Joosten (Argonne National Laboratory)
      • 2:30 PM
        Threshold charmonium production with GlueX 30m
        Speaker: Lubomir Pentchev (Jefferson Lab)
      • 3:00 PM
        Spin-density matrix elements in J/ψ photoproduction at GlueX 30m
        Speaker: Joshua Jackson (Florida State University)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 4:00 PM
        Measurements of exclusive phi production in Hall C 20m
        Speaker: Eric Fuchey (College of William and Mary)
      • 4:20 PM
        Electroproduction of phi on p and n 20m
        Speaker: Mathieu Ronayette (CEA Saclay)
      • 4:40 PM
        Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering off the neutron with the Neutral Particle Spectrometer in Hall C 20m
        Speaker: Wassim Hamdi (Faculty of Sciences of Monastir)
    • 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Discussion Session: Roundtable Discussions
    • 6:00 PM 7:00 PM
      Break time 1h
    • 7:00 PM 9:00 PM
      Welcome Reception 2h
    • 9:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Session 1: Nuclei
      • 9:00 AM
        Probing Dense Nuclear Matter 30m
        Speaker: Fred Olness (SMU)
      • 9:30 AM
        Coherent DVCS on a polarized spin-1 target 30m
        Speaker: Wim Cosyn (Florida International University)
      • 10:00 AM
        Incoherent deuteron DVCS 30m
        Speaker: Alan Sosa (Florida International University)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        Hard Exclusive Electron Scattering Processes with ALERT 30m
        Speaker: Whitney Armstrong (Argonne National Laboratory)
      • 11:30 AM
        Spinor representations for fields with any spin: Lorentz tensor basis for operators and covariant multipole decomposition 30m
        Speaker: Frank Vera (Jefferson Lab)
      • 12:00 PM
        Global Extraction of Generalized Parton Distributions 30m
        Speaker: Yuxun Guo (RIKEN/BNL)
    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break 1h 30m
    • 2:00 PM 5:00 PM
      Session 2: Beyond DVCS: TCS, DDVCS et al.
      • 2:00 PM
        QED Corrections to Hard Exclusive Processes 30m
        Speaker: Andrei Afanasev (GWU)
      • 2:30 PM
        TCS and DDVCS Experiments in Hall B 30m
        Speaker: Dr Rafayel Paremuzyan (Jefferson Lab)
      • 3:00 PM
        Completing the Picture: Final-State Polarization in Hadron Femtography 30m
        Speaker: Maxime DEFURNE (CEA Saclay)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee 30m
      • 4:00 PM
        Global CFFs and D-term fitting from DVCS data 20m
        Speaker: Melany Higuera Angulo (Jefferson Lab)
      • 4:20 PM
        Update on DVCS Compton Form Factor fitting with PARTONS package 20m
        Speaker: Dr Mariana Khachatryan (Old Dominion University)
      • 4:40 PM
        TCS measurements in Hall D 20m
        Speaker: Gyang Chung (Virginia Tech)
    • 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Discussion Session: Roundtable Discussions
    • 9:00 AM 11:00 AM
      Session 1: Chiral Odd/tensor Charge
      • 9:00 AM
        Measurements of exclusive pion production 30m
        Speaker: Garth Huber (University of Regina)
      • 9:30 AM
        Fundamental Tensor Charge from Experiments 30m
        Speaker: Stefan Baessler (University of Virginia)
      • 10:00 AM
        Machine Learning approach for extraction of Fundamental Tensor Charge 30m
        Speaker: Dinko Pocanic (University of Virginia)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Session 2: Theoretical Aspects
      • 11:00 AM
        Quark orbital angular momentum from QCD instantons 30m
        Speaker: Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)
      • 11:30 AM
        Gluon GTMDs in heavy-meson production at the EIC 30m
        Speaker: Shohini Bhattacharya (University of Connecticut)
    • 12:00 PM 7:00 PM
      Lunch Breaks + Excursion + Free time 7h
    • 7:00 PM 9:30 PM
      Conference Dinner 2h 30m
    • 9:00 AM 1:00 PM
      Session 1: Statistics, AI, and Uncertainty Quantification
      • 9:00 AM
        Parametrization uncertainty in PDF analyses 30m
        Speaker: Aurore Courtoy (CINVESTAV)
      • 9:30 AM
        Recent results from JAM 30m
        Speaker: Wally Melnitchouk (Jefferson Lab)
      • 10:00 AM
        Artificial Intelligence in Global fits 30m
        Speaker: Brandon Kriesten (Argonne National Lab)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        LQCD & ML 30m
        Speaker: Raza Sufian (New Mexico State University / Brookhaven National Lab)
      • 11:30 AM
        AI-Driven Framework for Direct Extraction of Theoretical Parameters from Detector Data 30m
        Speaker: Yaohang Li (Old Dominion University)
      • 12:00 PM
        Neural Network GPDs 30m
        Speaker: Gia-Wei CHERN (University of Virginia)
    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch Break
    • 2:00 PM 5:20 PM
      Session 2: EIC Physics
      • 2:00 PM
        Hadron femtography with exclusive processes from early data at ePIC 30m
        Speaker: Fazio Salvatore (University of Calabria & INFN Cosenza)
      • 2:30 PM
        Analysis and Reconstruction Strategies for Exclusive Diffractive eA Physics at ePIC 30m
        Speaker: Maci Kessler (Kent State University)
      • 3:00 PM
        The 2nd EIC detector and exclusive/forward measurements 30m
        Speaker: Pawel Nadel-Turonski (University of South Carolina)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 4:00 PM
        K L/T separation 30m
        Speaker: Chi Kin Tam (Catholic University of America)
      • 4:30 PM
        Skewness-dependent moments of the pion GPD from nonlocal quark-bilinear correlators 30m
        Speaker: Fei Yao (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 5:00 PM
        Beam-Normal Spin Asymmetry for Electron Scattering on Nuclei: A Possible Resolution of PREX Puzzle 20m
        Speaker: Volodymyr Tereschuk
    • 5:20 PM 6:20 PM
      Discussion Session: Roundtable Discussions
    • 9:00 AM 12:20 PM
      Session 1: Constraints from lattice QCD/FFs
      • 9:00 AM
        Nuclear PDFs experiment 30m
        Speaker: Narbe Kalantarians (Virginia Union University)
      • 9:30 AM
        Form Factors from Experiments 30m
        Speaker: Gordon Cates (UVA)
      • 10:00 AM
        Connnected disconnected Contributions to Nucleon Form Factors and Parton Distributions 30m
        Speaker: Saraswati Pandey (University of Virginia)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        Future exclusive measurements at Hall B 30m
        Speaker: Noémie Pilleux (Argonne National Laboratory)
      • 11:30 AM
        Symbolic Extraction of Non-Perturbative TMD Distributions from Drell–Yan Data 30m
        Speaker: Cristiano Fanelli (William & Mary)
      • 12:00 PM
        From EM FF to deep exclusive measurements 20m
        Speaker: Mahmoud Gomina (Virginia Tech)
    • 12:20 PM 12:40 PM
      Close out