Program
International School of Nuclear Physics
30th Course
Heavy-Ion Collisions from the Coulomb Barrier to the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2008
Wednesday, September 17
| Chair: | A. Faessler |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome |
| 09:20 - 10:05 | K. Gelbke (MSU, East Lansing)
NSCL - Ongoing Activities and Future Perspectives |
| 10:20 - 11:05 | M. Di Toro (Catania)
Isospin Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions: ... from the Coulomb Barrier to the Quark-Gluon-Plasma |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Coffee |
| Chair: | H. Wolter |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | P. Chomaz (GANIL, Caen)
Liquid-gas phase transition |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| Chair: | C. Samanta |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | K. Morita (RIKEN, Wako-shi)
Superheavy research in Japan |
| 17:00 - 17:25 | S. Hofmann (GSI, Darmstadt)
Study of SHE at the GSI - SHIP (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Coffee |
| Chair: | W. Lynch |
| 18:00 - 18:25 | W. Trautmann (GSI, Darmstadt)
Isotopic dependence of the nuclear caloric curve |
| 18:30 - 18:55 | C. Samanta (Richmond)
Alpha decay chains from superheavy nuclei |
| 19:00 - 19:25 | H. Machner (FZ Juelich)
Correleations of projectile-like fragments in heavy-ion reactions at fermi energy |
| 19:30 - 19:55 | T. Gaitanos (Giessen)
Production of fragments with finite strangeness in reactions wihtin a GiBUU+SMM combined approach |
Thursday, September 18
| Chair: | P. Senger |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | W. Bauer (MSU, East Lansing)
Double beta decay, heavy ion collisions, and probing the early universe |
| 09:30 - 09:55 | H. Oeschler (TU Darmstadt)
Strangeness production at 1-2 AGeV |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | I. Kraus (NIKHEF, Amsterdam)
Statistical model predictions for p+p and Pb+Pb collisions at LHC |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | L. Moretto (LBNL, Berkeley)
Thermostatic properties of the Hagedorn spectrum |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee |
| Chair: | D. Rischke |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | T. Hatsuda (Tokyo)
In-medium Hadrons in dense QCD |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Afternoon Workshop
(Organizers: P. Chomaz, M. Di Toro, K. Morita, U. Wiedemann) V. Soma (Krakow) Nuclear EoS and 3-body forces in the T-matrix approach W. Trautmann (GSI, Darmstadt) Differential neutron-proton sqeeze-out |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Coffee |
| Chair: | W. Bauer |
| 18:00 - 18:45 | U. Wiedemann (CERN, Geneva)
Description of relativistic heavy-ion collisions |
| 19:00 - 19:25 | H. Wolter (LMU Munich)
The high density symmetry energy in relativistic heavy ion collisions |
| 19:30 - 19:55 | W. Lynch (MSU, East Lansing)
Probing the Symmetry Energy with Heavy Ions |
Friday, September 19
| 09:00 | EXCURSION |
Saturday, September 20
| Chair: | B. Mueller |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | D. Teaney (Stony Brook)
Physics of Heavy Ion collisions |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | F. Karsch (BNL, Upton)
Lattice Results on QCD at High Temperature and Non-Zero Baryon Number Density |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee |
| Chair: | B. Jacak |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | P. Braun-Munzinger (GSI, Darmstadt)
Medium Effects on Open and Hidden Charm Hadrons: from FAIR to LHC energies |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Afternoon Workshop
(Organizers: P. Braun-Munzinger, J. Stachel, D. Teaney, N. Xu) E. Santini (Frankfurt) Dilepton production at intermediate energies with in-medium spectral functions of vector mesons J. Klein (Heidelberg) Commissioning of LHC and ALICE T. Schuster (Frankfurt) Exploring the Phase Diagram of Strongly interacting Matter B. Doenigus (GSI, Darmstadt) Heavy flavour capabilities with the ALICE TRD |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Coffee |
| Chair: | H. Machner |
| 18:00 - 18:45 | J. Stachel (Heidelberg)
Exploring the QuarkGluon Plasma with ALICE at the LHC |
| 19:00 - 19:25 | D. Rischke (Frankfurt)
From kinetic theory to dissipative fluid dynamics |
| 19:30 - 19:55 | J. Wessels (Muenster)
First Physics with ALICE |
Sunday, September 21
| Chair: | H. Specht |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | J. Stroth (Frankfurt)
Dielectron Spectroscopy at SIS-18 Energies |
| 09:30 - 09:55 | S. Damjanovic (CERN, Geneva)
NA60 results on thermal dimuons |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | A. Toia (Stony Brook)
Dileptons at RHIC |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | B. Kaempfer (FZ Dresden-Rossendorf)
Hot 1-2 Loop QCD |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee |
| Chair: | A. Drees |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | N. Xu (LBNL, Berkeley)
Explore the QCD Phase Diagram - Partonic Equation of State at RHIC |
| 13:00 | EXCURSION (lunch packages) |
Monday, September 22
Tuesday, September 23
| Chair: | C. Ogilvie |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | A Rebhan (TU Vienna)
Hard loop effective theory of the (anisotropic) quark gluon plasma |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | H. Stoecker (GSI, Darmstadt)
Cosmic matter in the Lab: FAiR = The International Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | B. Mueller (Duke University, Durham)
The perfect liquid extinguishes jets nearly perfectly |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee |
| Chair: | B. Kaempfer |
| 11:30 - 11:55 | M. Buballa (TU Darmstadt)
Aspects of the phase diagram in (P)NJL-like models |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | A. Drees (Stony Brook)
Recent results from PHENIX |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| Chair: | W. Cassing |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | B. Jacak (Stony Brook)
Measuring properties of the shortest lived plasma in the world |
| 16:30 - 16:55 | R. Averbeck (GSI, Darmstadt)
The charm and beauty of RHIC |
| 17:00 - 17:25 | C. Güclü (Istanbul)
Production of electron-positron pairs by nuclear dissociation in heavy ion collisons |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Coffee |
| Chair: | J. Wambach |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Panel discussion:
M. Di Toro, B. Jacak, K. Morita, B. Mueller, H. Stoecker The future prospects |
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