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Exotic States of Hot and Dense Matter and their Dual Description
Perimeter Institute Tuesday, May 22, 2007| Time | Speaker | Topic | Location | Session Chair: Keijo Kajantie, University of Helsinki
| 9:00 - 10:10 | Ulrich Heinz, Ohio State University | RHIC Serves the Perfect Liquid? – Fact or Fiction? Success and Puzzles From 5 Years of RHIC Experiments | Theatre | 10:10 - 10:20 | | Coffee | Black Hole Bistro | 10:20 - 11:00 | Joseph Kapusta, University of Minnesota | Cosmological Black Hole Formation and the QCD Phase Transition | Theatre | 11:00 - 11:40 | Derek Teaney, Arkansas State University | Heavy Quark Diffusion from AdS/CFT | Theatre | 11:40 - 12:20 | Edward Shuryak, State University of New York at Stony Brook | TBA | Theatre | | 12:30 - 14:00 | | Lunch | Black Hole Bistro | Session Chair: Gordon Semenoff, University of British Columbia | | 14:00 - 15:00 | Anton Rebhan, Technische Universitat Wien | Weak Coupling Approach to Thermal QCD | Theatre | | 15:00 - 15:40 | Guy Moore, McGill University | QCD vs. N=4 SYM: Shear Viscosity | Theatre | | 15:40 - 16:00 | | Coffee | Black Hole Bistro | | 16:00 - 16:40 | Dmitri Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Laboratory | Quantum Black Holes and High Energy | Theatre | | 16:40 - 17:20 | Volodymyr Miranskyy | Dynamics with Vector Condensates at Finite Density in QCD and Beyond | Theatre |
| Wednesday, May 23, 2007| Time | Speaker | Topic | Location | Session Chair: Joseph Kapusta, Univeristy of Minnesota
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Dam Thanh Son, INT, University of Washington, Seattle | Finite – Temperature AdS / CFT Correspondence | Theatre | 10:00 - 10:20 | | Coffee | Black Hole Bistro | 10:20 - 11:00 | Krishna Rajagopal, MIT | The Jet Quenching Parameter in Strongly Coupled Quark Gluon Plasmas | Theatre | 11:00 - 11:40 | Philip Argyres, University of Cincinnati | Frictional Forces in a SYM Thermal Bath | Theatre | 11:40 - 12:20 | Steven Gubser, Princeton University | A Few Comparisons Between String Theory and Heavy Ion Physics | Theatre | | 12:30 - 14:00 | | Lunch | Black Hole Bistro | Session Chair: Edward Shuryak, State University of New York at Stony Brook
| | 14:00 - 15:00 | Laurence Yaffe, University of Washington, Seattle | Non – Equilibrium Dynamics of Quark-Gluon Plasma | Theatre | | 15:00 - 15:40 | Romuald Janik, Jagellonian University, Krakow | Viscous Hydrodynamics and AdS/CFT | Theatre | | 15:40 - 16:00 | | Coffee | Black Hole Bistro | | 16:00 - 16:40 | Keijo Kajantie, University of Helsinki | Expanding Matter and Gravity Duals | Theatre | | 16:40 - 17:20 | Arkady Vainshtein, University of Minnesota | Highly Excited States, Linear Regge Trajectories and Chiral Symmetry in QCD and AdS/QCD | Theatre | | 17:20 - 18:00 | Hong Liu, MIT | Quarkonium Suppression in QGP via String Theory | Theatre |
| Thursday, May 24, 2007| Time | Speaker | Topic | Location | Session Chair: Arkady Vainshtein, University of Washington | 9:00 - 10:00 | Zolton Fodor, Eotvos Lorand University | Lattice Finite – Temperature QCD | Theatre | 10:00 - 10:20 | | Coffee | Black Hole Bistro | 10:20 - 11:00 | Michael Teper, Oxford University | Hot Physics at Large N: A Lattice Overview | Theatre | 11:00 - 11:40 | Gert Aarts, University of Swansea | Spectral Functions in High Temperature QCD | Theatre | 11:40 - 12:20 | Michael Creutz, Brookhaven National Laboratory | Effective Potentials, Thermodynamics and Twisted Mass Quarks | Theatre | | 12:30 - 14:00 | | Lunch | Black Hole Bistro | Session Chair: Misha Stephanov, University of Illinois
| | 14:00 - 14:40 | Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute | Holographic Theories with Fundamental Matter | Theatre | | 14:40 - 15:20 | David Mateos, University of California, Santa Barbara | Bright Branes for RHIC | Theatre | | 15:20 - 15:40 | | Coffee | Black Hole Bistro | | 15:40 - 16:20 | Nick Evans, University of Southampton | Holographic Mesons in a Thermal Bath | Theatre | | 16:20 - 17:00 | Johanna Erdmenger, Max Planck Institute, Munich | Isospin diffusion in thermal AdS/CFT with flavour | Theatre | | 17:00 - 17:40 | Leo Pando-Zayas, University of Michigan | Confinement/Deconfinement Transition in AdS / CFT | Theatre |
| Friday, May 25, 2007| Time | Speaker | Topic | Location | Session Chair: | 9:00 - 10:00 | Igor Shovkovy, University of Western Illinois | The Quest for the Ground State of Cold Dense Quark Matter | Theatre | 10:00 - 10:20 | | Coffee | Black Hole Bistro | 10:20 - 11:00 | Thomas Shaefer, North Carolina State University | Perturbative Theory of the Phase Structure of Very Dense QCD Matter | Theatre | 11:00 - 11:40 | Pavel Kovtun, University of California | Quantum critical transport, duality and M-theory | Theatre | 11:40 - 12:20 | Ariel Zhitnitsky, University of British Columbia | Topological Currents in Dense Matter. Applications: From RHIC Physics to Cosmology | Theatre | | 12:30 - 14:00 | | Lunch | Black Hole Bistro | Session Chair: | | 14:00 - 14:40 | Misha Stephanov, University of Illinois | Bottom - up Approach to AdS / QCD | Theatre | | 14:40 - 15:20 | Christopher Herzog, University of Washington, Seattle | TBA |
Theatre | | 15:20 - 15:40 | | Coffee | Black Hole Bistro | | 15:40 - 16:20 | Yuri Kovchegov, Ohio State University | Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions and AdS/CFT Correspondence | Theatre | | 16:20 - 17:00 | Teiji Kunihiro, Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics | Soft Modes Associated with QCD Phase Transitions From Meson Condensation to Colour Superconductivity | Theatre | | 17:00 - 17:40 | Efrain Ferrer, Western Illinois University | Gluon Vortex and Induced Magnetic Fields in Colour Superconductors | Theatre | | 17:40 - 18:00 | Laurence Yaffe, University of Washington, Seattle | Concluding Remarks | Theatre |
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