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

09:00 → 10:30 “Quark Matter and Nuclear Collisions: A Tale of Two Topics”

Speaker: Helmut Satz (Bielefeld University)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 “Lattice QCD I”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 “Charmonium Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Pengfei Zhuang (Tsinghua University)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 "Charmonium Production at ALICE”

Speaker: Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI)

17:30 → 17:45 “Charmonium properties in hot quenched lattice QCD”

Speaker: Heng-Tong Ding (BNL)

18:00 → 20:00 BBQ Reception

Tuesday, 15 May

09:00 → 10:30 “Charmonium Production and Related Topics I”

Speaker: Dimitri Kharzeev (BNL and Stony Brook)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

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

Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL and RIKEN BNL)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 “Charm Production from STAR Experiment”

Speaker: Wei Xie (Purdue University)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 “Probing the Chiral Crossover Transition with Fluctuations of Conserved Charges”

Speaker: Krzysztof Redlich (University of Wroclaw)

17:30 → 17:45 “J/psi polarization in p+p collisions at 200 GeV in STAR”

Speaker: Barbara Trzeciak (Warsaw University of Technology)

17:45 → 18:00 “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

09:00 → 10:30 “Lattice QCD in Nuclear Physics”

Speaker: Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN and Tokyo University)

10:30 → 11:30 “Lattice QCD II”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

11:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 “Charmonium Production from the PHENIX Experiment”

Speaker: Anthony Frawley (Florida State University)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:30 “Multi Hadron Interactions from Lattice QCD”

Speaker: Andre Walker-Loud (LBNL)

16:30 → 17:00 “Structure of the Nucleon from Lattice QCD”

Speaker: Sergey Syritsyn (LBNL)

17:00 → 17:15 “Higher moments of net-charge multiplicity distribution for RHIC BES in the STAR experiment”

Speaker: Nihar Sahoo (VECC)

17:15 → 17:30 “Quarkonia production in 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions in CMS”

Speaker: Guillermo Rangel Breto (CMS and UC Davis)

Thursday, 17 May

09:00 → 10:30 “Lattice QCD III”

Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University and BNL)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

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

Speaker: Rajiv Gavai (TIFR)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 “Charm Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”

Speaker: Ralf Rapp (Texas A&M University)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 “Fluctuations and Hadron Production”

Speaker: Francesco Becattini (University of Florence)

17:30 → 17:45 “Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions from RHIC Beam Energy Scan”

Speaker: Xiaofeng Luo (CCNU)

17:45 → 18:00 “Jet Tomography of Harmonic Fluctuations in the Initial Condition of Heavy Ion Collisions”

Speaker: Xilin Zhang (Indiana University)

Friday, 18 May

09:00 → 10:30 “Charmonia Production”

Speaker: Ramona Vogt (LBNL and LLNL)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 “Jet Quenching”

Speaker: Xin-Nian Wang (LBNL)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 “Charmonium Production and Related Topics II”

Speaker: Dimitri Kharzeev (BNL and Stony Brook)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:00 School Adjourned