HQ2006 - Program
Abstracts are linked to the presenters name, talks are linked to the slide format descriptor after the title. Download the pdf version of the program here.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm

Monday, May 15th: High-pT Phenomena

Morning Session: Jets and the Medium

08:30 Welcome
08:45 James Dunlop (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
What’s left to learn? [ppt]
09:20 Andre Peschier (Giessen):
Rethinking the QCD collisional energy loss [pdf]
09:40 Thorsten Renk (Jyvaskyla):
Signatures of Mach shocks at RHIC [pdf]
10:00 coffee break
10:30 Camelia Mironov (Los Alamos National Laboratory):
Virtual Photon Tagged Jets [ppt]
10:50 Tatsuya Chujo (University of Tsukuba):
Search for the onset of the baryon anomaly at RHIC-PHENIX [ppt]
11:10 Masahiro Konno (University of Tsukuba):
Identified Charged Hadron Production at high-pT [ppt|pdf]
11:30 Matthew Lamont (Yale University):
Investigation of the high-pT strange baryon anomalies at RHIC [pdf|key]
11:50 discussion forum
13:00 lunch

 
Afternoon Session: Jet Correlations

17:00 Henner Buesching (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
Neutral Meson Production at high-pT with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC [ppt]
17:20 David Winter (Columbia University):
High-pT π0 production with respect to the reaction plane using PHENIX [ppt]
17:40 Leon Gaillard (University of Birmingham):
Identified two-hadron correlations in STAR [ppt]
18:00 coffee break
18:30 Joern Putschke (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory):
Near-side Δη correlations of high-pT hadrons from STAR [ppt]
18:50 Federica Benedosso (Utrecht University):
Jet-like correlations studied in STAR [ppt]
19:10 discussion forum
20:00 dinner

Tuesday, May 16th: Correlations, flow and strangeness

Morning Session: HBT and Collective Flow
08:30 Mike Lisa(Ohio State University):
Femtoscopy in Heavy-Ion Collisions [ppt]
09:05 Hanna Gos (Warsaw Institute of Technology):
Proton-proton correlations in Au+Au collisions measured by STAR at RHIC [pdf|sxi]
09:25 Zbigniew Chajecki (Ohio State University):
Femptoscopy in p+p vs. heavy-ions in STAR [ppt]
09:45 Francesco Noferini (Bologna):
Two particle corrleations: from RHIC to LHC [ppt]
10:05 coffee break
10:30 Raymond Snellings (NIKHEF):
Anisotropic flow at 5.5 TeV [ppt|pdf]
10:50 Hannah Petersen (Frankfurt):
Elliptic and directed flow in heavy-ion collisions at GSI-FAIR and CERN-SPS energies [ppt]
11:10 Chiho Nonaka (Nagoya University):
Space-time evolution of bulk QCD matter at RHIC [ppt]
11:30 discussion forum
12:45 lunch


Afternoon: Strangeness

17:00 Jeff Speltz (IReS -Strasbourg):
What can we learn from the energy dependence of strangeness production at RHIC? [ppt]
17:20 Ingrid Kraus (TU Darmstadt):
Do small systems equilibrate chemically? [ppt]
17:40 Boris Tomasik (Univerzita Mateja Bela):
The K/π horn and the lifeteime of the fireball [pdf]
18:00 coffee break
18:30 Boris Hippolyte (IReS -Strasbourg):
Strange prospects for LHC energies [ppt|pdf]
18:50 Christina Markert (Kent State University):
Strange resonance production in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC [ppt]
19:10 Mark Heinz (Yale University):
Next-to-leading order models for strange hadron production in p+p [ppt]
19:30 discussion forum
20:00 dinner

Wednesday, May 17th: The Yin and Yang of Heavy-Ion Physics

Morning Session: Future Experiments, Detectors and Measurements
08:30 Andrea Dainese (Padova & INFN):
ALICE perspectives for the study of charm and beauty energy loss [ppt]
08:50 Fabien Guerin(Clermont-Ferrand):
Measurement of Upsilon production with the ALICE muon spectrometer [ppt]
09:10 Zaida Conesa del Valle (SUBATECH):
Detection of W bosons in the ALICE muon spectrometer [pdf]
09:30 coffee break
10:00 David d’Enterria (CERN):
Small-x and QGP physics at CMS-LHC [pdf|sxi]
10:20 Marcello Lunardon (Padova):
ALICE performance for the measurement of beauty via the electron decay channel [ppt]
10:40 Alexandre Shabetai (IReS -Strasbourg):
The HFT: a stand-alone heavy flavor tracker at STAR [pdf]
11:00 Jason Kamin (SUNY-SB):
A hadron blind detector for the PHENIX experiment [ppt]
11:20 discussion forum
12:20 lunch


Afternoon Session: Theory

17:00 Denes Molnar (Purdue University):
Heavy quarks at RHIC from parton transport theory [pdf]
17:20 Zhe Xu (Frankfurt):
The role of the gluonic gg-ggg interactions in early thermalization [ppt]
17:40 Konrad Tywoniuk (Oslo):
Gluon shadowing and the nuclear modification factor [pdf]
18:00 coffee break
18:30 Prashant Jaikumar (Argonne National Laboratory):
Hot Quark Stars: Features and Findings [pdf]
18:50 Marcus Bluhm (FZ Rossendorf):
QCD Equation of State in a Quasi-Particle Perspective [pdf]
19:10 Claudia Ratti (ECT* Trento):
Phases of QCD [pdf]
19:30 discussion forum
20:00 dinner

Thursday, May 18th: Electromagnetic Probes

Morning Session:
08:30 Joerg Ruppert (Duke University):
What does the ρ meson do? Lessons from NA60’s di-muon measurement [ppt]
09:05 Stefan Bathe (UC Riverside):
Direct photon production at RHIC [ppt]
09:25 Martijn Russcher (Utrecht University):
Direct photons with the STAR detector [ppt]
09:45 Sanja Damjanovic (Heidelberg):
First measurement of the ρ spectral function in high-energy nuclear collisions [ppt]
10:05 coffee break
10:30 Alberica Toia (SUNY-SB):
Measurement of the low mass di-electron continuum with the PHENIX experiment [ppt]
10:50 Torsten Dahms (SUNY-SB):
Measurement of photons via conversion pairs with PHENIX in Au+Au at RHIC [ppt]
11:10 Michele Floris (Cagliari):
Phi production in NA60 [ppt]
11:30 Thomas Eberl (TU Muenchen):
Probing the in-medium properties of hadrons with di-electrons [ppt]
11:50 Kevin Haglin (St. Cloud State):
Unturned Stones for Electromagnetic Probes of Hot and Dense Matter [ppt]
12:10 discussion forum
13:00 lunch


Afternoon: Excursion

Friday, May 19th: Soft Physics

Morning Session: Bulk Properties and Fluctuations

08:30 Jamie Nagle (Colorado):
The Letter “s” [ppt]
09:05 Rachid Nouicer (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
Similarity of Initial States in A+A and p+p collisions in the constituent quark framework [ppt]
09:25 Giorgio Torrieri (McGill University):
Constraining the freeze-out in heavy-ion collisions with yields and fluctuations [pdf]
09:45 Ewelina Kornas (Polish Academy of Sciences):
Energy dependence of proton and antiproton production from NA49 [ppt]
10:05 coffee break
10:30 Helen Caines (Yale):
Is Soft Physics Merely Entropy Driven? [ppt]
10:50 Marcus Bleicher (Frankfurt):
Signals of deconfinement at SPS energies [ppt]
11:10 Chiara Zampolli (Bologna & INFN):
Event by Event Fluctuation Studies for the ALICE experiment [ppt]
11:30 discussion forum
12:30 lunch


Afternoon: Jet Production

17:00 Mercedes Noriega (CERN):
Jet Physics in Alice [ppt]
17:20 Jana Bielcikova (Yale):
What can we learn from high-pT azimuthal correlations of neutral strange baryons and mesons at RHIC energy? [ppt]
17:40 Nicholas Borghini (CERN):
Multiplicity Distributions for Jet-Parton Showers in the Medium [ppt]
18:00 coffee break
18:30 Gergely Barnafoldi (MTA KFKI RMKI):
Jet Tomography in the Forward Direction at RHIC [pdf]
18:50 Constantin Loizides (MIT):
High-pT suppression and surface effects in nucleus-nucleus collisions [pdf]
19:10 Alberto Accardi (Iowa State):
Can we distinguish energy loss from hadron absorption? [pdf|odp]
19:30 discussion forum
20:00 dinner

Saturday, May 20th: Heavy-Quark Physics

Morning Session: Heavy-Quark I
09:30 Haibin Zhang (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
Open Charm Measurements [ppt]
10:05 DongJo Kim (Yonsei University):
Open heavy flavor production from single muons with the PHENIX experiment [ppt]
10:25 coffee break
11:00 Raphael Granier de Cassagnac (Ecole Polytechnique):
J/ψ production in PHENIX [ppt|pdf]
11:20 Frank Laue (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
v2 and RA of non-photonic single electrons: which restrictions do the current measurements pose on the production of charm, bottom and Drell-Yan? [pdf]
11:40 discussion forum
13:00 lunch


Afternoon: Charm Thermalization, Flow and Energy-Loss

17:00 Jaroslav Bielcik (Yale):
Suppression of high-pT non-photonic electrons in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV at RHIC [ppt]
17:20 Paul Sorensen (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
Suppression of non-photonic electrons from enhancement of charm baryons in heavy-ion collisions [ppt]
17:40 coffee break
18:10 Shingo Sakai (University of Tsukuba):
The azimuthal anisotropy of electrons from heavy flavor decays in √sNN = 200 GeV Au-Au collisions at PHENIX [ppt]
18:30 Chen Zhong (BNL/SINAP):
Muon spectra from charm semileptonic decay in Au+Au collisions at STAR [pdf]
18:50 discussion forum
20:00  dinner and Klaus Kinder-Geiger Award ceremony
Last Update:Wednesday, May 31, 2006