Speaker
Description
The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory is a versatile machine which is designed to address some of the most profound questions about the properties of nuclear matter. To unravel the rich structure of hadrons the EIC will provide the precise imaging of the dense QCD medium inside protons and nuclei. However, understanding of the hadron structure is not possible without unambiguous theoretical interpretation of the experimental results. This calls for appropriate developments in theory to be on par with experimental advances at the EIC. During the last years, there has been a lot of progress in this direction, especially in terms of better understanding of deep relations between different theoretical methods and frameworks. In my talk, I will give an overview of the recent developments in theoretical understanding of the fundamental questions to be addressed at the EIC such as spin and mass structure of the proton, three-dimensional tomography, and the gluon saturation at small x.
