The 2026 XQCD PhD school is an accompanying event to the 22nd International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD 2026).
The school will take place from July 12 to July 13, 2026, at the CEO Hall Miraegwan, Pukyong National University (PKNU), Busan, Republic of Korea.
The school will feature four block lectures 2 x 90 min, given by internationally recognized theoretical physicists, covering cutting-edge research topics centred on recent advances in the theory and phenomenology of QCD under extreme conditions, providing an in-depth review of these fields for PhD students before the XQCD conference.
This year's edition will cover the following topics (tentative):
- Prof. Gert Aarts (Swansea University)
Machine Learning, Langevin Dynamics, and Stochastic Quantization - Prof. Kenji Fukushima (University of Tokyo)
Neutron Stars and Gravitational Waves - Prof. Alexander Rothkopf (Korea University)
Non-equilibrium and Open Quantum Systems - Prof. Sungwoo Park (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Sejong University)
Fundamentals of Lattice QCD Simulations and Nucleon Structure
