Program

A symposium on future RHIC and LHC Physics

- Looking Beyond 10¹⁰ Mini-Bangs, CGCs, Perfect Fluids, and Jet Tomo/Holo-graphy

East Lake International Convention Center, Wuhan

September 25-26, 2015

Friday September 25

7:00-8:00 Registration

Moring Session I: Chair: Xin-Nian Wang

8:20-8:30 Enke Wang: Welcome

8:30 – 9:00 Berndt Muller: Quark-Gluon Plasma: Eiger North Face or Mekka? (pdf)

9:00 – 9:30 Ulrich Heinz: The unreasonable effectiveness of hydrodynamics as the language for nucleus collisions (pdf)

9:30 – 10:00 Jorge Noronha: Analytic solution of the Boltzmann equation in the early universe (pdf)

10:00-10:30 Break with refreshment

Morning Session II: Chair: Daicui Zhou

10:30-11:00 Larry McLerran: Flow, the Initial State and Small Systems (pptx)

11:00 – 11:30 Jaki Noronha-Hostler: Applicability and energy scale of relativistic hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions (pdf)

11:30 – 12:00 Giorgio Torrieri: Miklos's issues with hydrodynamics: Minor puzzles or a paradigm shift? (pdf)

12:00 – 12:30 Ziwei Lin: Evolution of Flow and Effective Temperatures of the Parton Matter from the AMPT Model (pdf)

12:30 -2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session I: Chair: Daimei Zhou

2:00 -2:30 Dirk Rischke: How to wed hadron and heavy-ion physics: Hadrons in vacuum and in the medium in an effective chiral approach (pdf)

2:30 – 3:00 Yuki Asakawa: Conserved Charge Fluctuations: Two Myths and Facts (pdf)

3:00 – 3:30 Rajiv Gavai: Unravelling Medium Effects in Heavy Ion Collisions with Zeal (pdf)

3:30-4:00 break with refreshment

Afternoon Session II: Chair: Benwei Zhang

4:00-4:30 Barbara Jack: Parton-plasma interactions vs. initial state interactions (pdf)

4:30-5:00 Ivan Vitev: The evolution of jet quenching (pptx)

5:00-5:30 Barbara Betz: Jet tomography in heavy-ion collisions (pdf)

5:30-6:00 Yanxian Mao: Exploring QGP with jets at LHC (pdf)

7:00 Banquet

After dinner talk: Bill Zajc: Miklos - A Man in Full (pdf)

Saturday September 26

Morning Session I: Chair: Enke Wang

8:30 - 9:00 Peter Jacobs: Jet quenching at RHIC and LHC: what's the endgame? (pptx)

9:00 - 9:30 Peter Levai: To see the unseen: tomography at the femto-scale (pdf)

9:30 -10:00 Tamas Biro: Statistical Hadronization vs Dynamical Fragmentation (pdf)

10:00-10:25 Jinfeng Liao: Riding with the Jets, and Admiring the Magic of Gluon (pdf)

10:25-10:50 break with refreshment

Morning Session II: Qun Wang

10:50 - 11:15 Jiechen Xu: Robustness and consistency of jet quenching and perfect fluidity in semi-quark-gluon-monopole plasmas (pdf)

11:15-11:40 Will Horowitz: The Surprising Fluctuations in Tomo/Holo-graphy. (pptx)

11:40-12:05 Denes Molnar: Small systems and jet energy loss (pdf)

12:05-12:30 Guangyou Qin: Jets and open heavy flavors in heavy-ion collisions (pdf)

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-6:00 Excursion followed by dinner