The 4th Berkeley School: 2012 Scientific Program

14 May 2012, 09:00 → 18 May 2012, 17:30 US/Pacific

Bldg 66 - Auditorium

Monday, 14 May

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

Speaker: Helmut Satz (Bielefeld University)

10:30 Coffee Break

2 “Lattice QCD I”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

12:30 Lunch

3 “Charmonium Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Pengfei Zhuang (Tsinghua University)

15:30 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)

18:00 BBQ Reception

Tuesday, 15 May

6 “Charmonium Production and Related Topics I”

Speaker: Dimitri Kharzeev (BNL and Stony Brook)

10:30 Coffee Break

7 “Initial Condition in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL and RIKEN BNL)

12:30 Lunch

8 “Charm Production from STAR Experiment”

Speaker: Wei Xie (Purdue University)

15:30 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, 16 May

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 Lunch

14 “Charmonium Production from the PHENIX Experiment”

Speaker: Anthony Frawley (Florida State University)

15:30 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, 17 May

19 “Lattice QCD III”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

10:30 Coffee Break

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

Speaker: Rajiv Gavai (TIFR)

12:30 Lunch

21 “Charm Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Ralf Rapp (Texas A&M University)

15:30 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, 18 May

25 “Charmonia Production”

Speaker: Ramona Vogt (LBNL and LLNL)

10:30 Coffee Break

26 “Jet Quenching”

Speaker: Xin-Nian Wang (LBNL)

12:30 Lunch

27 “Charmonium Production and Related Topics II”

Speaker: Dimitri Kharzeev (BNL and Stony Brook)

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 School Adjourned