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

1 “Quark Matter and Nuclear Collisions: A Tale of Two Topics”

Speaker: Helmut Satz (Bielefeld University)

10:30 AM Coffee Break

2 “Lattice QCD I”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

12:30 PM Lunch

3 “Charmonium Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Pengfei Zhuang (Tsinghua University)

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4 "Charmonium Production at ALICE”

Speaker: Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI)

5 “Charmonium properties in hot quenched lattice QCD”

Speaker: Heng-Tong Ding (BNL)

6:00 PM BBQ Reception

Tuesday, May 15

6 “Charmonium Production and Related Topics I”

Speaker: Dimitri Kharzeev (BNL and Stony Brook)

10:30 AM Coffee Break

7 “Initial Condition in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL and RIKEN BNL)

12:30 PM Lunch

8 “Charm Production from STAR Experiment”

Speaker: Wei Xie (Purdue University)

3:30 PM Coffee Break

9 “Probing the Chiral Crossover Transition with Fluctuations of Conserved Charges”

Speaker: Krzysztof Redlich (University of Wroclaw)

10 “J/psi polarization in p+p collisions at 200 GeV in STAR”

Speaker: Barbara Trzeciak (Warsaw University of Technology)

11 “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

12 “Lattice QCD in Nuclear Physics”

Speaker: Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN and Tokyo University)

13 “Lattice QCD II”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

11:30 AM Lunch

14 “Charmonium Production from the PHENIX Experiment”

Speaker: Anthony Frawley (Florida State University)

3:30 PM Coffee Break

15 “Multi Hadron Interactions from Lattice QCD”

Speaker: Andre Walker-Loud (LBNL)

16 “Structure of the Nucleon from Lattice QCD”

Speaker: Sergey Syritsyn (LBNL)

17 “Higher moments of net-charge multiplicity distribution for RHIC BES in the STAR experiment”

Speaker: Nihar Sahoo (VECC)

18 “Quarkonia production in 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions in CMS”

Speaker: Guillermo Rangel Breto (CMS and UC Davis)

Thursday, May 17

19 “Lattice QCD III”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

10:30 AM Coffee Break

20 “Heavy Flavor Flow at PHENIX: A New Pasture for Lattice QCD”

Speaker: Rajiv Gavai (TIFR)

12:30 PM Lunch

21 “Charm Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Ralf Rapp (Texas A&M University)

3:30 PM Coffee Break

22 “Fluctuations and Hadron Production”

Speaker: Francesco Becattini (University of Florence)

23 “Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions from RHIC Beam Energy Scan”

Speaker: Xiaofeng Luo (CCNU)

24 “Jet Tomography of Harmonic Fluctuations in the Initial Condition of Heavy Ion Collisions”

Speaker: Xilin Zhang (Indiana University)

Friday, May 18

25 “Charmonia Production”

Speaker: Ramona Vogt (LBNL and LLNL)

10:30 AM Coffee Break

26 “Jet Quenching”

Speaker: Xin-Nian Wang (LBNL)

12:30 PM Lunch

27 “Charmonium Production and Related Topics II”

Speaker: Dimitri Kharzeev (BNL and Stony Brook)

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM School Adjourned