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Topical Workshop on Beam Energy Scan (BEST 2016)

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Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter (Indiana University Bloomington)

Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter

Indiana University Bloomington

Bloomington IN USA
Ho-Ung Yee, Jinfeng Liao, Swagato Mukherjee, Volker Koch
Description

Welcome to the first edition of a series of “Topical Workshop on Beam Energy Scan” (BEST 2016). This is also an inaugural collaboration meeting for the Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Collaboration which has recently become a DOE-funded project. The meeting will take place from May 9 to May 11, 2016 at the Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter (CEEM) of Indiana University Bloomington (2401 N. Milo B. Sampson Lane, Bloomington IN 47408).  

The goal of this workshop is to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss physics opportunities for exploring phases of QCD matter at the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program and to lay out a plan of investigation in the next few years. The physics topics of interest include: phase transition and equation of state at finite temperature and density, modeling of bulk evolution, hydrodynamic fluctuations and correlations, anomalous transport effects, global data analysis, etc.

The Workshop Agenda has now been posted: please click here. The indico-style timetable with talk slides will be added later. 

Please read carefully the lodging information here and travel information here, as well as a simple map here indicating locations of meeting place and hotels. Please note the  deadline of April 8th  for hotel reservation with workshop rate and for workshop registration. 

The BEST 2016 Workshop acknowledges support from the U.S. Department of Energy through the BEST Collaboration. This event is co-sponsored by the Indiana University Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, the Indiana University Department of Physics, and the Indiana University Center for Spacetime Symmetries.  

BEST 2016 Workshop Organizing Committee:

V. Koch (LBNL), J. Liao (IU/RBRC), S. Mukherjee (BNL), H.-U. Yee (UIC/RBRC). 

BEST 2016 Workshop Coordinator: M. Wright (IU CEEM).

BEST_Lodging.pdf
BEST_Map.pdf
BEST_Travel.pdf
BEST_Workshop_Agenda.pdf
Direction_to_CEEM.pdf
Direction_to_Dinner.pdf
Restaurants_Downtown.pdf
Restaurants_Hampton.pdf
Workshop Coordinator : Moya Wright
Participants
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  • Monday 9 May
    • Session I
      Convener: Jinfeng Liao (Indiana University)
      • 1
        Welcome & Introduction on BEST Collaboration
        Speaker: Swagato Mukherjee (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
        swagato.pdf
      • 2
        Perspectives on Mapping the QCD Phase Diagram
        Speaker: Berndt Mueller (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
        1. BEST_160509_BM.pdf
      • 3
        Experimental Overview on bulk properties and the search for critical point at BES
        Speaker: Nu Xu (LBNL)
        2. nxu_best_May2016.pdf
      • 10:35
        Coffee Break
    • Session II
      Convener: Ho-Ung Yee (University of Illinois at Chicago / RBRC)
    • 13:00
      Lunch Break

      CEEM Lounge

    • Session III
      Convener: Thomas Schaefer (North Carolina State University)
      • 7
        Equation of State for Dense QCD Matter
        Speaker: Charles Horowitz (Indiana University, USA)
        horowitz_dense_matter.pdf
      • 8
        Critical Dynamics and Search for QCD Critical Point
        Speaker: Yi Yin (Brookhaven national laboratory)
        cumulants_scaling_YiYin.pdf
      • 9
        Search of P and CP Violations in Excited Nuclear Systems
        Speaker: William Snow (Indiana University)
        WMSTREXBEST.pdf
        WMSTREXBEST.pdf
      • 16:00
        Coffee Break & Free Discussions
  • Tuesday 10 May
    • Session IV
      Convener: Ulrich Heinz (The Ohio State University)
    • Session V
      Convener: Jiunn-Wei Chen
      • 13
        Conserved Charge Fluctuations from Lattice QCD
        Speaker: Patrick Steinbrecher
        psteinbr.pdf
      • 14
        Dissipative Properties of Chiral Media
        Speaker: Andrey Sadofyev (MIT)
        BEST_05:10:2016.pdf
      • 15
        Vorticity-­‐Driven Effects in Rotating Quark-­‐Gluon Plasma
        Speaker: Yin Jiang (Indiana University)
        BEST.pdf
    • 12:30
      Lunch Break

      CEEM Lounge

    • Session VI
      Convener: Paul Sorensen (BNL)
      • 16
        Sphalerons Far-­‐From-­‐Equilibrium and Associated Phenomena
        Speaker: Mark Mace
        MACE_BEST_2016.pdf
      • 17
        Anomalous Transport from Chiral-­‐Viscous-­‐Hydrodynamics
        Speaker: Shuzhe SHI (Tsinghua University)
        Anomalous Hydro Shi.pdf
      • 18
        Spin Polarization of Photons from Axially Charged Plasma
        Speaker: Kiminad Mamo (UIC)
        Spin Polarization of Photons-Mamo.pdf
      • 15:30
        Coffee Break & Free Discussions
    • 18:30
      Workshop Dinner

      Uptown Cafe

  • Wednesday 11 May
    • Session VII
      Convener: Misha Stephanov (UIC)
      • 19
        Hydro Working Group Plan
        Speaker: Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Lab)
        BEST-Hydro.pdf
      • 20
        Lattice Working Group Plan
        Speaker: Frithjof Karsch
      • 21
        Critical Point Working Group Plan
        Speaker: Krishna Rajagopal (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
      • 10:30
        Coffee Break
    • Session VIII
      Convener: Swagato Mukherjee (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 22
        CME Working Group Plan
        Speaker: Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University)
      • 23
        Hadronic Transport Working Group Plan
        Speaker: Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)
      • 24
        Workshop Summary
        Speaker: Volker Koch (LBNL)
    • 13:00
      Lunch Break

      CEEM Lounge

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