Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
38th Course
Nuclear matter under extreme conditions - Relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2016

Blackett Institute (San Domenico)


Saturday  Sunday  Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday


Saturday, September 17

Chair: Jochen Wambach
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome
09:05 - 09:35 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen, Germany)
A brief history of the town of Erice
09:35 - 10:20 John Harris (New Haven, CT, USA)
Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Results
10:35 - 11:05 Coffee
Chair: Amand Faessler
11:05 - 11:35 Nu Xu (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Exploring the QCD Phase Stucture in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
11:45 - 12:20 Roberta Arnaldi (Torino, Italy)
Charmonium results in pA and AA collisions from RHIC and LHC
12:30 Lunch

Chair: Dirk Rischke
16:00 - 16:30 Horst Stoecker (Darmstadt, Germany)
From Yang Mills Matter to Hadronization
16:40 - 17:10 Reinhard Stock (Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
The Statistical Hadronization Model at FAIR Energies
17:20 - 17:50 Coffee
Chair: Horst Stoecker
17:50 - 18:20 Paolo Giuseppe Alba (Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
Influence of repulsion forces among hadrons within the HRG model in a comparison to lattice QCD simulations
18:25 - 18:55 Xin Dong (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Measurements of heavy flavor production and properties of sQGP at RHIC

Sunday, September 18

Chair: Michael Buballa
09:00 - 09:45 Tetyana Galatyuk (Darmstadt, Germany)
Exploring baryon rich matter with virtual photons
10:00 - 10:35 Ralf Rapp (College Station, TX, USA)
EM Probes of QCD Matter
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee
Chair: Christian Fischer
11:15 - 12:00 Frank Geurts (Houston, TX, USA)
Dilepton Measurements at RHIC
12:15 Lunch

chair: Joachim Stroth
16:00 - 16:35 Zhangbu Xu (Upton, NY, USA)
Recent Highlights and future plan of the STAR Experiment at RHIC
16:45 - 17:15 Daisuke Sato (Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
Exact QCD sum rules in vector channel and its application in lattice QCD
17:20 - 17:50 Coffee
Chair: Xin Dong
17:50 - 18:25 Joachim Stroth (Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
The Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment at FAIR
18:35 - 19:00 Thorsten Steinert (Giessen, Germany)
The quark susceptibility in a generalized dynamical quasiparticle model

Monday, September 19

Chair: Roberta Arnaldi
09:00 - 09:45 Kenji Fukushima (Tokyo, Japan)
Extreme matter in strong external electromagnetic fields
10:00 - 10:45 Falk Bruckmann (Regensburg, Germany)
QCD thermodynamics with strong magnetic fields and the lowest Landau level
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Ralf Rapp
11:30 - 12:00 Ralf-Arno Tripolt (Trento, Italy)
In-Medium Spectral Functions and Transport Coefficients of Hadrons
12:10 - 12:40 Christopher Jung (Giessen, Germany)
Spectral Functions from the Functional Renormalization Group
12:45 Lunch

Chair: Zhangbu Xu
16:00 - 16:25 Volodymyr Vovchenko (Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
Role of van der Waals interactions in hadron systems
16:30 - 16:55 Eduard Seifert (Giessen, Germany)
Quark Rearrangement Model Including Strangeness Sector
17:00 - 17:25 Noriyuki Sogabe (Kanagawa, Japan)
New dynamic critical phenomena in nuclear and quark superfluids
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Roy Lacey
18:00 - 18:30 Michael Buballa (Darmstadt, Germany)
Vacuum-fluctuation effects on inhomogeneous chiral condensates
18:35 - 19:00 Marco Schramm (Darmstadt, Germany)
Goldstone bosons in crystalline chiral phases
19:05 - 19:35 Shakeb Ahmad (Aligarh, India)
Applications of Covariant Density Functional Theory to Nuclear Structure Studies

Tuesday, September 20

09:00 - 20:00 Excursion:
Monreale and Palermo
Leaving at 9:00 h from Porta Trapani.

Wednesday, September 21

Chair: Barbara Jacak
09:00 - 09:45 Roy Lacey (Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Observation of the critical point in the phase diagram for hot and dense nuclear matter
10:00 - 10:45 Anthony Frawley (Tallahassee, FL, USA)
Outstanding Results from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Daria Sokhan
11:30 - 12:15 Bengt Friman (Darmstadt, Germany)
Chiral criticality
12:30 Lunch

Chair: Shaista Khan
16:00 - 16:30 David Mueller (Vienna, Austria)
Colored particle-in-cell simulations for heavy ion collisions
16:40 - 17:10 Christian Fischer (Giessen, Germany)
Locating QCD's critical end point
17:20 - 17:50 Coffee
Chair: Shakeb Ahmad
17:50 - 18:20 Wolfgang Cassing (Giessen, Germany)
Chiral symmetry restoration versus deconfinement in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
18:25 - 18:50 Alessia Palmese (Giessen, Germany)
Observables of chiral symmetry restoration in heavy-ion collisions
18:55 - 19:25 Daria Sokhan (Glasgow, UK)
The many views inside the nucleon: electron scattering at Jefferson Lab

Thursday, September 22

Chair: Sreekanth Villuvattath
09:00 - 9:45 Kari Eskola (, Finland)
EbyE fluctuations in a pQCD+saturation+hydrodynamics model: Determining QCD matter shear viscosity in ultrarelativistic A+A collisions
10:00 - 10:35 Dirk Rischke (Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
Anisotropic dissipative fluid dynamics - foundations & applications in astro- & heavy-ion physics
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee
Chair: Horst Lenske
11:15 - 11:45 Sreekanth Villuvattath (Bangalore, India)
Quark and gluon distribution functions in a viscous quark-gluon plasma medium Viscous Chemical Equilibration and Cavitation at LHC energies
11:50 - 12:25 Barbara Jacak (Berkeley, CA, USA)
What have we learned from high pT probes?
13:45 - 19:00 Excursion: San Vito lo Capo
Excursion with lunch packages and towels on the bus to the beach in San Vito lo Capo. Bus leaves at 13:45 h from Porta Trapani.

Friday, September 23

Chair: Wolfgang Cassing
09:00 - 09:30 Michael Winn (Orsay, France)
The heavy-ion programme of LHCb
09:40 - 10:10 Horst Lenske (Giessen, Germany)
Hypernuclear Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
10:20 - 10:50 Shaista Khan (Aligarh, India)
Forward-backward multiplicity correlations in pp collisions at LHC energies
10:55 - 11:25 Coffee
Chair: Reinhard Stock
11:25 - 11:55 Mirko Serino (Cracow, Poland)
Jet physics phenomenology in High Energy Factorisation
12:00 - 12:45 Gert Aarts (Swansea, United Kingdom )
Lattice QCD at nonzero baryon density
13:00 Lunch

Chair: Jochen Wambach
16:00 - 17:30 Nu Xu (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Summary
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee

20:15 - 24:00 Conference Dinner