Primer Congreso Virtual de Física Fundamental y Fenomenológica

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Dr. Ana Mizher earned her Ph.D. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at UNAM (Mexico), KU Leuven (Belgium), and IFT-UNESP (Brazil). She has served as an assistant professor and collaborator at both UNICID and IFT-UNESP, and currently holds a full-time research position at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Her research focuses on particle physics, with an emphasis on quantum chromodynamics and the phenomenology of heavy-ion collisions. Dr. Mizher is also the coordinator of the Latin American Network on Electromagnetic Effects in Strongly Interacting Matter.

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Hunting super magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions

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Heavy-ion collisions provide a way to investigate the deconfined matter that is believed to have existed during the first stage of the universe after the Big-Bang. The system that emerges after the collision behaves like an interacting fluid composed by quarks and gluons, at very high temperature and density. On top of that, an utterly intense magnetic field is expected to be generated in non-central heavy-ion collisions. Despite intense effort during the last few years, a clear signal of this field has not yet been found yet. In this talk I will review the physics of the so-called quark-gluon plasma and discuss possible effects brought out by the interplay between the strong and electromagnetic interaction. I will also discuss our recent proposal to define an observable for this field.

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Dr. Zhao-Qian Yao is a postdoctoral researcher in theoretical hadron physics, currently based at the University of Huelva and Pablo de Olavide University in Spain. He earned his PhD in Physics in 2022 from Nanjing University, China. His research centers on nonperturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), with particular emphasis on the structure and spectrum of hadrons based on the use of Dyson-Schwinger equations.

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Probing nucleon structure through form factors

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Nucleons are amongst the most essential particles in the universe, and their internal structure is governed by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). In this talk, I will present our recent results on nucleon form factors based on a nonperturbative continuum approach to QCD—specifically, the Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSEs). We analyze several fundamental aspects of nucleon structure, including electromagnetic form factors, gravitational form factors, and axial form factors, offering insights into the spatial and dynamical properties of the nucleon.

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José Ramón Villanueva Valencia (Tlaxcala, México) es físico por la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas) y cuenta con los grados de Maestría y Doctorado en Física por la Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus León (División de Ciencias e Ingenierías). Ha sido Guest Researcher en el Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) del National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) en Gaithersburg, Maryland, EUA. Actualmente realiza una estancia postdoctoral en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Lund, Suecia.

Su trabajo científico se centra en la investigación interdisciplinaria en el área de materia condensada blanda (soft matter), utilizando técnicas avanzadas de dispersión de rayos X y neutrones (SAXs y SANS). Estas herramientas permiten explorar fenómenos a escala molecular relacionados con la dinámica, estructura, el autoensamblaje y las transiciones de fase en sistemas moleculares y complejos.

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SAXS-osmómetro: método para estimar la presión interna del ADN viral dentro de una cápside.

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Dr. Hugo García-Tecocoatzi is currently a full-time faculty member at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics, as well as his master's and Ph.D. degrees, from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and also holds a Ph.D. from the University of Genoa, Italy.

Dr. García-Tecocoatzi has developed his expertise through international research experience at several leading nuclear physics institutions. His academic journey began in Italy at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), followed by appointments in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), and at the Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP) at Kyungpook National University in South Korea. He has also been invited to participate in international workshops in Germany at the Max Planck Institute, and in Italy at the Galileo Galilei Institute and the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento.

His primary research interests lie in nuclear and particle physics, with a focus on algebraic techniques based on symmetries, effective field theories, and the application of emerging AI tools.

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Spectroscopy and Radiative & Strong Decays of Singly Heavy Baryons

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Dr. Andres Ramirez-Morales am currently holds  a full time faculty and researcher position at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He is a member of SNII-I Level 1. Dr. Andres Ramirez-Morales earned his bachelor degree in physics by the Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, master degree at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and PhD earned at University of Lonond (United Kingdom).  He has developed  expertise through international experience at some of the world’s leading nuclear physics laboratories. His career began in the United States at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, continued in Switzerland at CERN, and later in Japan at KEK. Furthermore, he has undertaken research appointments in these countries as well as in South Korea at the Kim-KNU Laboratory; in Germany at the Max Planck Institute; in Italy at the Galileo Galilei Institute.

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Statisical methods for heavy hadron physics

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Dr. Saúl Hernández Ortiz earned his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. He has held postdoctoral positions at institutions such as UNAM’s Institute of Nuclear Sciences, the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington, and the Department of Physics at Iowa State University. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics and a Level I member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI). His research explores strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions.

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Estudio del Diagrama de Fase Efectivo de la QCD y la velocidad del sonido.

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Graduated from the Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Universidad Michoacana. He has held postdoctoral positions at CINVESTAV and UNAM (Mexico), Nankai University (China), and the Universities of Granada and Huelva (Spain). He has also conducted research stays at Jefferson Lab and Argonne National Laboratory (USA). His work focuses on quantum chromodynamics, hadronic structure, and applications in high-energy physics. He is a recipient of the prestigious "Few-Body Systems Award for Young Researchers" (2023) and other distinctions. He is also member of the Mexican Division of Particles and Fields.

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From QCD vacuum to hadrons

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Decades of development have established quantum chromodynamics (QCD) as the fundamental theory describing the nuclear strong interactions. These account for nearly 99% of the mass of the visible matter and give rise to the hadronic and nuclear matter. Nevertheless, understanding how and why this happens remains a major challenge in physics. In this talk, we will explore these phenomena from a perspective that combines continuum QCD-based theoretical methods with modern data analysis techniques. We Will also offer an overview of what is expected, theoretically and experimentally, in the upcoming decades.