Sessions

Sessions

S1. Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics
S2. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
S3. Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Interdisciplinary Applications
S4. General Topics in Symmetry
Prof. Dr. Xiongfei Wang
Session chair
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Prof. Xiongfei Wang received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2017. He was a postdoc at the Institute of High Energy Physics (2017–2019), Young Research Fellows at Lanzhou University (2019–2023), and a Professor at Lanzhou University since 2023. His research focuses on high-energy physics experiments, he currently works mainly on baryon physics including Baryon spectroscopy and baryon-pair production and Matter-antimatter asymmetry in hyperon decay at BESIII experiment. He has published more than 50 research papers in Nature, RMP, PRL, JHEP and PRD.
Prof. Dr. Beijiang Liu
Keynote Speaker
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Beijiang Liu’s prolonged efforts in experimental hadron physics made ground-breaking contributions to the physics of exotic hadrons. He led the first observation of the isoscalar 1⁻⁺ state η₁(1855), revealing a new category of strongly interacting matter and opening a frontier in exotic quantum-number spectroscopy. He developed the world's first GPU-based partial-wave analysis software, overcoming computational bottlenecks in hadron spectroscopy. He served as BESIII Physics Coordinator and Light Hadron convener. He has led National Key R&D and NSFC/CAS programs, and is an NSFC Excellent Young Scholar. He delivered plenary reviews at ICHEP, HADRON, and other premier international conferences.
Prof. Dr. Shu Li
Keynote Speaker
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Prof. Shu LI is presently a tenured fellow at Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He obtained his bachelor and PhD degree from University of Science and Technology of China and pursued postdoctoral research at Duke University and CERN before joining TDLI/SJTU in 2017 as the first T.D. Lee Fellow. His research focuses on high-energy experimental particle physics, including Higgs&Electroweak physics and also new physics beyond the Standard Model utilizing the ATLAS high energy proton-proton collision data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and led several international research groups of LHC-ATLAS collaboration. He is also the Principal Investigator of future DarkSHINE experiment R&D, being the first accelerator-based fixed-target experiment initiative in China dedicated to dark photon search with high repetition rate electron beam from SHINE (Shanghai HIgh repetitioN rate XFEL and Extreme light facility). He has been awarded several national and Shanghai municipal talent programs and been the leading Principal Investigators of NSFC international key research project and original exploration program, MOST national key research and development program sub-taskforce, and Shanghai pilot program for basic research.
Prof. Dr. Tianjun Li
Keynote Speaker
School of Physics, Henan Normal University, China
Tianjun Li is a Professor at School of Physics, Henan Normal University. He obtained the Ph.D. degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Pennsylvania, a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research covers particle physics phenomenology, Grand Unified Theory, string phenomenology, and cosmology, etc.
Dr. Zhen Hu
Keynote speaker
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Prof. Dr. Yanxi Zhang
Invited Speaker
Department of Technical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Prof. Yanxi Zhang is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Physics, Peking University. He obtained his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2013 and pursued postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University, CNRS and CERN before joining Peking University in 2020. His research focuses on high-energy experimental particle physics on the LHCb experiment at CERN, including heavy-flavour CP violation, spectroscopy, and production mechanisms. He made key contributions to the first observation of the doubly charmed baryon and the discovery of CP violation in baryon decays. He previously served as convener of two LHCb physics working groups and currently serves on the LHCb Editorial Board.
Prof. Dr. Fusheng Yu
Invited Speaker
Prof. Dr. Fusheng Yu
School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Dr. Sen Jia
Invited speaker
Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Prof. Dr. Cai-dian Lu
Session chair
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
LU Cai-Dian received B.S. and Ph.D degree at Peking University in 1989 and 1994, respectively. He did Postdoctoral work at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijing, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Hamburg University and Hiroshima University; He is now a Professor of the Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS. He is also Associate Editor of “the European Physics Journal C”, Editorial Board Member for “Journal of Physics G”, “Symmetry”, and “Scientific Reports”, Associate Editor-in-Chief for “Chinese Physics C”. Research interest: Particle physics theory, especially Heavy flavor physics and CP violation; phenomenology of physics beyond standard model.
Prof. Dr. Luca Visinelli
Session chair
University of Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano, Italy
Prof. Dr. Ignatios Antoniadis
Keynote Speaker
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies (LPTHE), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, Center of Excellence in High Energy Physics, , Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Ignatios Antoniadis is Director of Research class 1 (Emeritus) at CNRS, France, and Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool. He holds visiting positions at Chulalongkorn University and IAS Princeton. His research covers quantum field theory, particle physics phenomenology, quantum gravity, cosmology and string theory, with over 350 scientific articles.
Prof. Dr. Shin'ichi Nojiri
Keynote Speaker
Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
I received a Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1986. I was a professor at Nagoya University from 2006 to 2024 and am currently a professor emeritus there. I served as Director of the Center for Theoretical Studies at the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute (KMI) (2012-2019) and Chair of the Division of Theoretical Studies at KMI (2019-2024). My research covers quantum field theory, elementary particles, string theory, and modified gravity theories. I have been a Highly Cited Researcher every year from 2014 to 2018. I rank 912th in Research.com's Best Physics Scientists 2026.
Prof. Dr. Wen-xiu Ma
Keynote Speaker
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, United States
Dr. Wen-Xiu Ma is a Professor at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990. He was awarded the Shanghai Qi Ming Xing Fellowship in 1993 and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1994. Dr. Ma has held several distinguished international academic appointments, including University Distinguished Professor at Fudan University through the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, Overseas Chair Professor at South China University of Technology, and Extraordinary University Professor at both North-West University in South Africa and King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ma's current research interests include solitons, integrable models, nonlinear dynamics, Hamiltonian systems, symbolic computations, and neural network algorithms. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics and the Journal of Partial Differential Equations in Applied Mathematics (2020–2025). Dr. Ma has been recognized as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2015 through 2021 and has been included among the world's top 2% of scientists, according to the Stanford University-associated rankings, since 2019. In 2021, Research.com recognized him as a leading mathematics scientist. In 2018, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who in the United States. In recognition of his contributions to teaching and research, Dr. Ma has received the University of South Florida's Outstanding Faculty Award three times, in 2018, 2020, and 2022. He is also a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society in the United States.
Prof. Dr. Jiajun Wu
Invited Speaker
School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Dr. Jiajun Wu is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012, and conducted postdoctoral research in the USA, Australia, and Germany. Since 2018, he has been a faculty member at UCAS. His research focuses on theoretical high-energy particle physics, specifically hadron physics by combining experimental data with lattice spectra, as well as neutrino-nucleon scattering and weak decays of baryons and mesons. Dr. Wu has published over 100 academic papers in top-tier journals such as PRL, CPL, JHEP, PRD, PLB, and CPC, with a total citation count exceeding 5,000. He has been selected for the National High-Level Young Talents Program.
Prof. Dr. Jaume de Haro
Invited Speaker
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Jaume de Haro is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. His primary research interests focus on theoretical cosmology, general relativity, and modified theories of gravity. He has authored numerous high-impact research articles on cosmic inflation, bouncing cosmological models, dark energy, General Relativity, and quantum cosmology, with a particular emphasis on Loop Quantum Cosmology. Dr. de Haro’s work aims to address fundamental questions in early-universe physics, gravitational dynamics, foundations of General Relativity and the non-singular evolution of the universe, bridging mathematical formulations with cosmological phenomenology.
Dr. Taishi Katsuragawa
Invited Speaker
Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
Dr. Taishi Katsuragawa is an associate professor at the Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, in Wuhan, China. His research focuses on theoretical physics, particularly gravitation, particle cosmology, and astrophysics. Seeking to understand dark energy and dark matter, he investigates modified gravity as a framework for exploring physics beyond the standard cosmological model. His work covers early- and late-time cosmology, gravitational waves, compact objects, and particle phenomenology. He has organized the MOGRA (International Conference on Modified Gravity) series, which promotes advances in gravitational theory.
Prof. Dr. Antonino Marciano
Invited speaker
Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Prof. Dr. Chunbiao Li
Keynote Speaker
School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Chunbiao Li (Senior Member, IEEE; Professor, Doctoral Supervisor) received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in succession from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From 2010 to 2014, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, from 2012 to 2013. He is currently a Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. His research interests are in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, including chaos regulation and nonlinear systems, memristive computing, and corresponding applications. He was a recipient of several national and provincial awards for his teaching and research, including the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award and the second prize of the Provincial Science and Technology Award for Natural Sciences.
Dr. Xiaolin Huang
Keynote speaker
Dr. Xiaolin Huang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Prof. Dr. Jeng-Shyang Pan
Keynote speaker
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Prof. Dr. Carlo Cattani
Session chair
Azerbaijan University, Baku, Azerbaijan, Largo dell’Università, Viterbo, Italy
Prof. Carlo Cattani is a distinguished researcher in Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Tuscia, Italy. His main research interests include wavelets , fractal geometry, fractional calculus, nonlinear dynamical systems, computational mathematics, complexity theory, and artificial intelligence with significant contributions to mathematical modeling and computational methods. He has authored more than 400 of scientific publications and several books, receiving international recognition for his research. He is serving  as Editor-in-Chief of Fractal and Fractional Journal (MDPI) and editorial board member of several international scientific journals. For his research achievements has been included in the Stanford-associated World's Top 2% Scientists ranking.
Prof. Dr. Juntao Fei
Keynote speaker
Hohai University, Changzhou, China