Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
34th Course
Probing the Extremes of Matter with Heavy Ions
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2012

Blackett Institute (San Domenico)


Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday  Sunday


Monday, September 17

Chair: J. Wambach
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome
09:05 - 09:20 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen)
A brief history of the town of Erice
09:20 - 09:50 Peter Braun-Munzinger (Darmstadt)
ALICE Results I
10:00 - 10:30 Johanna Stachel (Heidelberg)
Alice results II
10:40 - 11:10 Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook, New York)
New Results from RHIC
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee
Chair: A. Faessler
11:50 - 12:20 Peter Senger (Darmstadt)
Compressed Baryonic Matter at FAIR
12:30 - 13:00 Alexander Sorin (Dubna, Moscow region)
Heavy Ion Program at JINR NICA/MPD Facility in Dubna
13:10 Lunch

Chair: Nu Xu
16:00 - 16:25 Dominik Steineder (Wien)
Shear viscosities in anisotropic strongly coupled plasmas
16:35 - 17:00 Kanako Yamazaki (Meguro-ku, Tokyo)
Equation of state of a meson gas from the PNJL model for interacting quarks
17:10 - 17:25 Xumeu Planells Noguera (Barcelona)
Anomalous dilepton production from hot and dense nuclear matter
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: B. Kaempfer
18:00 - 18:20 Jan Luecker (Giessen)
The phase diagram of QCD from a Dyson-Schwinger perspective
18:25 - 18:45 Edouard Kistenev (Upton)
Physics and technology of the PHENIX at RHIC next decadal upgrade
18:50 - 19:10 Alice Ohlson (New Haven, CT)
Measurements of Jet v2 in STAR at RHIC
19:15 - 19:35 Kai Schweda (Heidelberg)
Open charm production with ALICE
19:40 - 20:00 Simone Schuchmann (Frankfurt/Main)
Nuclear modification of transverse momentum spectra of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN)= 2.76 TeV with ALICE

Tuesday, September 18

Chair: A. Schaefer
09:00 - 09:30 Aleksi Vuorinen (Bielefeld)
The QCD equation of state at weak coupling
09:40 - 10:10 Nu Xu (Berkeley)
"High-Energy Nuclear Collision and the QCD Phase Structure"
10:20 - 10:50 Carsten Greiner (Frankfurt)
RHIC and LHC phenomena with an unified parton transport
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: W. Cassing
11:30 - 12:00 Tetsufumi Hirano (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Hydrodynamic Event Generator at LHC and RHIC
12:10 - 12:35 Krzysztof Redlich (Wroclaw)
Probing the QCD phase diagram in heavy ion collisions
12:40 - 13:05 Bernd-Jochen Schaefer (Graz)
On the influence of baryons on the QCD phase diagram
13:10 Lunch

Chair: C. Broggini
16:00 - 16:30 Yoshimasa Hidaka (Wako)
A No-Go Theorem for Critical Phenomena in QCD at finite temperature and density
16:35 - 16:55 Jacqueline Bonnet (Giessen)
Effects of external magnetic fields on QCD from a Dyson-Schwinger perspective
17:00 - 17:25 Kirill Lapidus (Garching)
Strange things happened in cold nuclear matter
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: C. Greiner
18:00 - 18:20 Defu Hou (Wuhan)
Some Field Theoretic Issues Regarding the Chiral Magnetic Effect

Wednesday, September 19

09:00 - 20:00 Excursion:
Selinunte and Segesta

Thursday, September 20

Chair: F. Karsch
09:00 - 09:30 Kazunori Itakura (Tsukuba)
Strong Field Dynamics in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
09:40 - 10:10 Ralf Rapp (College Station)
Thermal Electromagnetic Radiation in Heavy-Ion Collisions
10:20 - 10:50 Javier L Albacete (Gif-Sur-Yvette)
Color Glass Condensate and the implications for the LHC
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: P. Salabura
11:30 - 12:00 Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld)
Fluctuations of conserved charges and freeze-out conditions in heavy ion collisions
12:05 - 12:30 Tetyana Galatyuk (Darmstadt)
Rare probes of matter at highest densities
12:35 - 13:00 Hans J. Specht (Heidelberg)
Concluding Remarks on the NA60 Results
13:05 Lunch

Chair: H. Specht and J. Wambach
15:00 - 16:45 Discussion about a future SPS program for heavy-ion physics
P. Braun-Munzinger
H. Specht
J. Stroth
J. Stachel
Chair: B.-J. Schaefer
17:00 - 17:25 Mehmet Cem Guclu (Istanbul)
Lepton pair production at RHIC and LHC energies
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
18:00 - 18:25 Alessandro Drago (Ferrara)
Chiral matter
18:30 - 18:55 Vincenzo Greco (Catania)
Shear Viscosity and chemical equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma
19:00 - 19:25 Nihal Buyukcizmeci (Campus Selcuklu)
What Nuclear Multifragmentation Reactions Imply for Equation of State of Stellar Matter

Friday, September 21

Chair: M. Buballa
09:00 - 09:25 Wolfgang Cassing (Giessen)
Parton dynamics in heavy-ion collisions from FAIR to LHC energies
09:30 - 09:55 Gary Westfall (East Lansing, Michigan)
Search for the QCD Critical Point
10:00 - 10:25 Michael Klasen (Muenster)
Factorization breaking in diffractive jet production
10:30 - 10:55 Jens Wiechula (Tuebingen)
ALICE TPC particle identification on the way to anti-nuclei and exotic states
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: R. Lacey
11:30 - 12:00 Burkhard Kaempfer (Dresden)
Viscosities and other properties of the QGP within a quasiparticle model
12:05 - 12:30 Marcus Bleicher (Frankfurt)
Hybrid models for relativistic heavy ion collisions
12:35 - 12:55 Konrad Schade (Heidelberg)
Applications of Holography to Strongly Coupled Plasmas
13:45 - 19:00 Excursion: San Vito lo Capo

Saturday, September 22

Chair: D. Rischke
09:00 - 09:30 Pengfei Zhuang (Beijing)
Quarkonium Production in Heavy Ion Collisions
09:40 - 10:10 Joachim Stroth (Frankfurt)
Dense Matter Research with HADES
10:20 - 10:50 Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook NY)
The Sounds of the Big and Little Bangs
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: S. Pratt
11:30 - 12:00 Berndt Mueller (Durham, NC)
Fluctuat nec mergitur: Event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions
12:05 - 12:30 Roy Lacey (Stony Brook)
Is the QGP produced in LHC collisions more opaque than that produced in RHIC collisions?
12:35 - 13:00 Dirk Rischke (Frankfurt am Main)
Dilepton production in NN collisions
13:05 Lunch

Chair: K. Redlich
16:00 - 16:25 Lorenz von Smekal (Darmstadt)
QCD-like theories at finite density
16:30 - 16:55 Scott Pratt (East Lansing, MI)
Connecting lattice results to observations in heavy ion collisions
17:00 - 17:25 Michael Winn (Heidelberg)
J/psi-Hadron Correlations in pp-Collisions with ALICE at the LHC
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: G. Westfall
18:00 - 18:25 Leonid Glozman (Graz)
Confinement, chiral symmetry in hadrons and in a dense matter
18:30 - 18:50 Sylvain Mogliacci (Bielefeld)
Quark number susceptibilities from resummed perturbative QCD
18:55 - 19:15 Jeronimo Peralta Ramos (Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires)
Fluid dynamics beyond the gradient expansion: Divergence-type theories
19:20 - 19:40 Tamal Kumar Mukherjee (Beijing)
Role of mixing between quarkonium and tetraquark on QCD phase diagram
19:45 - 20:05 Krzysztof Kutak (Krakow)
Saturation: from production of entropy to coherent emission of gluons

Sunday, September 23

Chair: B. Mueller
09:00 - 09:30 Raimond Snellings (Utrecht)
Collective flow at the LHC
09:40 - 10:05 Andreas Schaefer (Regensburg)
Entropy Production in high-energy Heavy Ion Collisions
10:10 - 10:35 Reinhard Stock (Frankfurt)
Hadronization and Hadronic Freeze-Out
10:40 - 11:00 Hermann Wolter (Garching)
The High Density Symmetry Energy in Heavy Ion Collisions
11:05 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: R. Stock
11:30 - 11:55 Michael Buballa (Darmstadt)
Inhomogeneous chiral symmetry breaking phases
12:00 - 12:25 Carlo Broggini (Padua)
LUNA at Gran Sasso: nuclear reactions at the energy of the stars
12:30 - 12:55 Danning Li (Shijingshan District, Beijing)
Chiral symmetry breaking and linear confinement in a dynamical holography QCD model
13:10 Lunch

20:15 - 24:00 Conference Dinner