The 4th Berkeley School: 2012 Scientific Program

May 14, 2012, 9:00 AM → May 18, 2012, 5:30 PM US/Pacific

Bldg 66 - Auditorium

Monday, May 14

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM “Quark Matter and Nuclear Collisions: A Tale of Two Topics”

Speaker: Helmut Satz (Bielefeld University)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM “Lattice QCD I”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM “Charmonium Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Pengfei Zhuang (Tsinghua University)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM "Charmonium Production at ALICE”

Speaker: Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI)

5:30 PM → 5:45 PM “Charmonium properties in hot quenched lattice QCD”

Speaker: Heng-Tong Ding (BNL)

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM BBQ Reception

Tuesday, May 15

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM “Charmonium Production and Related Topics I”

Speaker: Dimitri Kharzeev (BNL and Stony Brook)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM “Initial Condition in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL and RIKEN BNL)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM “Charm Production from STAR Experiment”

Speaker: Wei Xie (Purdue University)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM “Probing the Chiral Crossover Transition with Fluctuations of Conserved Charges”

Speaker: Krzysztof Redlich (University of Wroclaw)

5:30 PM → 5:45 PM “J/psi polarization in p+p collisions at 200 GeV in STAR”

Speaker: Barbara Trzeciak (Warsaw University of Technology)

5:45 PM → 6:00 PM “Multiplicity, average transverse momentum and azimuthal anisotropy in U+U collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV using the AMPT model”

Speaker: Rihan Haque (VECC)

Wednesday, May 16

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM “Lattice QCD in Nuclear Physics”

Speaker: Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN and Tokyo University)

10:30 AM → 11:30 AM “Lattice QCD II”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

11:30 AM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM “Charmonium Production from the PHENIX Experiment”

Speaker: Anthony Frawley (Florida State University)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM “Multi Hadron Interactions from Lattice QCD”

Speaker: Andre Walker-Loud (LBNL)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM “Structure of the Nucleon from Lattice QCD”

Speaker: Sergey Syritsyn (LBNL)

5:00 PM → 5:15 PM “Higher moments of net-charge multiplicity distribution for RHIC BES in the STAR experiment”

Speaker: Nihar Sahoo (VECC)

5:15 PM → 5:30 PM “Quarkonia production in 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions in CMS”

Speaker: Guillermo Rangel Breto (CMS and UC Davis)

Thursday, May 17

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM “Lattice QCD III”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM “Heavy Flavor Flow at PHENIX: A New Pasture for Lattice QCD”

Speaker: Rajiv Gavai (TIFR)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM “Charm Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Ralf Rapp (Texas A&M University)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM “Fluctuations and Hadron Production”

Speaker: Francesco Becattini (University of Florence)

5:30 PM → 5:45 PM “Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions from RHIC Beam Energy Scan”

Speaker: Xiaofeng Luo (CCNU)

5:45 PM → 6:00 PM “Jet Tomography of Harmonic Fluctuations in the Initial Condition of Heavy Ion Collisions”

Speaker: Xilin Zhang (Indiana University)

Friday, May 18

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM “Charmonia Production”

Speaker: Ramona Vogt (LBNL and LLNL)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM “Jet Quenching”

Speaker: Xin-Nian Wang (LBNL)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM “Charmonium Production and Related Topics II”

Speaker: Dimitri Kharzeev (BNL and Stony Brook)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 4:00 PM School Adjourned