5th Heavy Flavor Meet

The 5th edition of the Heavy Flavor Meet, an international conference dedicated to recent developments in heavy flavor physics and their applications in probing hot and dense QCD matter (commonly referred to as the Quark–Gluon Plasma), will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from October 1–3, 2026.

This conference series aims to bring together leading experts, both experimentalists and theorists, from around the world to foster discussions on current experimental results, theoretical advances, and future research directions, with particular emphasis on engaging and supporting young researchers.

The inaugural Heavy Flavor Meet was held at IIT Bombay in 2013, followed by the second edition at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) in Kolkata in 2016. The third edition took place at IIT Indore in 2019, and the fourth edition was hosted by IIT Goa in 2023.

Topics to be covered

• Heavy quark production and in-medium propagation

• Quarkonia physics in hot and dense QCD matter

• Heavy hadron decay and phenomenology

• Heavy flavor physics from lattice QCD

• Heavy flavor studies at the EIC and in jet physics

• Spin hydrodynamics and heavy-quark–related observables

• AI/machine-learning–based approaches to heavy flavor physics in heavy-ion collisions and beyond

• Physics opportunities at upcoming and future experimental facilities

Local organizing committee

Vinod Chandra, Rusa Mandal, Pinaki Banerjee

Conference email: hfm2026@iitgn.ac.in