ExtreMe Matter Institute
Workshop



HOT MATTER

Quasiparticles or Quasinormal Modes

organized within the

ESI-Programme on AdS Holography and the Quark-Gluon Plasma

of the

International Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics

Vienna, Austria
August 24 - 28, 2010


Organizers:
Rudolf BAIER (Bielefeld)
Olaf KACZMAREK (Bielefeld)
Anton REBHAN (TU Wien)
Paul ROMATSCHKE (Frankfurt)
Contact:
hotmatter AT quark.itp.tuwien.ac.at

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Schedule

TUESDAY, AUGUST 24
 morning:
09:00-Registration
09:30-10:10R. Baier: Welcome - Motivation
10:10-10:30C. Ewerz: Introducing EMMI
10:30-10:50Coffee
10:50-11:50A. H. MUELLER: Comparing QCD and AdS views of hot matter
11:50-12:30S. P. Kumar: Green's functions at weak and strong coupling: cuts vs. poles
 afternoon:
14:30-15:30J.-P. BLAIZOT: The strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma: a few puzzles
15:30-16:00Coffee
16:00-17:00B. JACAK: Exploring the perfect liquid at RHIC
17:00-17:40K. Landsteiner: Superconducting quasinormal modes
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25
 morning:
09:30-10:30W. SÖLDNER: Properties of Hot Nuclear Matter: Recent Results from Lattice QCD
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-12:00D. TEANEY: Spectral functions and hydro at strong and weak coupling
 afternoon:
14:00-15:00J. ANDERSEN: Hard thermal loop perturbation theory and quasiparticle picture of a quark-gluon plasma
15:00-15:30Coffee
15:30-16:30P. KOVTUN: Linear transport and hydrodynamic fluctuations
16:30-17:30A. TALIOTIS: Heavy Ion Collisions in AdS5
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26
 morning:
09:30-10:30P. KUIJER: Physics at ALICE
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-12:00E. IANCU: Langevin dynamics and energy loss for a heavy quark in a strongly coupled plasma
 afternoon:
14:00-15:00V. CARDOSO: Colliding black holes
15:00-15:30Coffee
15:30-16:30P. CHESLER: Gravitational collapse and far-from-equilibrium dynamics in conformal field theories
16:30-17:10A. Vuorinen: Neutron Stars and the EoS of Cold Nuclear Matter
 evening:
19:00-HEURIGER Weingut am Reisenberg, Oberer Reisenbergweg 15, 1190 Wien.
Tram 38 to Grinzing (terminal stop), then by foot or by Bus 38A direction "Cobenzl" to "Oberer Reisenbergweg" (one stop)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27
 morning:
09:30-10:30M. STRICKLAND: The chromo-Weibel instability
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-11:40G. Moore: Second order hydro from Kubo relations
11:40-12:20J. Tarrio: Flavor effects in transport phenomena from holography
 afternoon:
14:30-15:30S. P. KUMAR: Strong and weak coupling phases of gauge theories on S3
15:30-16:00Coffee
16:00-16:40K. Schade: Universal properties of screening in strongly coupled plasmas
16:40-17:20A. Schmitt: The chiral magnetic effect in holographic QCD
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28
 morning:
09:30-10:30P. BENINCASA: Phase transitions in strongly coupled gauge theories with baryonic chemical potential
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-11:40A. Ipp: Yoctosecond gamma-ray creation with LHC, and zeptosecond gamma-ray detection with SHEEP
(Capitalized surnames: talks of 50+10 minutes; lower-case surnames: 30+10 minutes)
All talks will take place in the ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall (ESI, Boltzmanngasse 9 (opposite the American embassy))
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