Program

Strong and Electroweak Matter 2008

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26-29 August 2008

Place of lectures: map

Tuesday: lecture hall P2.27 in building 'Euclides', Plantage Muidergracht 22-24

Wednesday--Friday: lecture hall A in building 'A', Roeterstraat 15

Tuesday 26 August

8:30-9:00 Registration
Chair: Laurence Yaffe
9:00-9:05Opening
9:05-9:50 Raimond Snellings Experimental results of heavy-ion collisions
9:50-10:35 Paul Romatschke Hydrodynamics and heavy-ion collisions
Break
11:00-11:45 Andrei Starinets Holographic recipes for hot and dense strongly coupled matter
11:45-12:30 Mikhail Shaposhnikov SEWDarkM
Lunch
Chair: Dietrich Bodeker
14:00-14:20 Guy Moore Bulk viscosity near the QCD phase transition
14:20-14:40 Yoshimasa Hidaka Suppression of the shear viscosity near the critical temperature in hot QCD
14:40-15:00 Margaret Carrington Transport Coefficients and nPI Methods
15:00-15:20 Jullien Serreau The 2PI effective action for gauge theories: symmetries
15:20-15:40 Mingmei Xu The mechanism of crossover and the structure of sQGP
Break
16:10-16:30 Stanislaw Mrowczynski Chromodynamic Fluctuations in Quark-Gluon Plasma
16:30-16:50 Harmen Warringa The chiral magnetic effect
16:50-17:10 Mohammed Mia Quark dynamics, thermal QCD and the gravity dual
17:10-17:30 Jean-Sebastien Gagnon First Principles calculation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe: generalities and application
17:30-17:50 Kimmo Kainulainen Kinetic transport theory with quantum coherence
18:00-19:30 Reception building 'A', Roeterstraat 15

Wednesday 27 August

Chair: Margaret Carrington
9:00-9:45 Jürgen Berges What the inflaton might tell us about RHIC
9:45-10:30 Paul Chesler (mov) (pdf) Applications of gauge/gravity duality to the dynamics of strongly coupled plasmas
Break
11:00-11:45 Kirill Tuchin Particle production at high gluon density: from pA to AA
11:45-12:30 Peter Arnold QCD splitting functions at finite temperature
Lunch
Chair: Stanislaw Mrowczynski
14:00-14:20 Tuomas Lappi The glasma initial stage of heavy ion collisions
14:20-14:40 Yacine Mehtar-Tani The classical field created in early stages of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
14:40-15:00 Anton Rebhan Nonabelian plasma instabilities in Bjorken expansion
15:00-15:20 Sebastian Scheffler Plasma instabilities in non-abelian gauge theories
15:20-15:40 Urko Reinosa 2PI effective action for gauge theories: renormalization
Break
16:10-17:50 Poster session Posters


Thursday 28 August

Chair: Kimmo Kainulainen
9:00-9:45 Carlos Wagner Cosmology and the LHC
9:45-10:30 Christian Schmidt Lattice results for QCD thermodynamics
Break
11:00-11:45 Gert Aarts Two complex problems on the lattice: transport coefficients and finite chemical potential
11:45-12:05 Frithjof Karsch Goldstone modes and the chiral condensate at finite temperature
12:05-12:25 Jonivar Skullerud Quarks and gluons in dense 2-colour QCD
Lunch
Chair: Kari Rummukainen
14:00-14:20 Michael Fromm Chiral restoration of strong coupling QCD at finite baryon density
14:20-14:40 Denes Sexty Real-time gauge theory simulations from stochastic quantization with optimized updating
14:40-15:00 Anders Tranberg Quantum thermalisation in expanding backgrounds
15:00-15:20 Szabolcs Borsanyi Classical field theory with fermions
15:20-15:40 Simon Caron-Huot Asymptotics of Spectral Functions
17:15-18:30 Boat trip Rederij Kooij
18:30 Conference dinner d'Vijff Vlieghen

Friday 29 August

Chair: Anton Rebhan
9:00-9:30 Mikko Laine How to compute the quarkonium spectral function from first principles?
9:30-10:00 Owe Philipsen Static potentials for finite temperature quarkonia
10:00-10:20 Lars Kyllingstad Four-loop screened perturbation theory
Break
11:00-11:45 Andreas Schmitt Color superconductivity in dense quark matter: properties and astrophysical applications
11:45-12:05 Jens Andersen Bose-Einstein condensation in dense quark matter
12:05-12:25 Eduardo Fraga Chiral transition in a strong magnetic background
Lunch
Chair: Andras Patkos
14:00-14:20 Aleksi Vuorinen Perturbation theory at three loops with finite quark masses
14:20-14:40 Aleksi Kurkela Center-symmetric dimensional reduction of hot Yang-Mills theory
14:40-15:00 York Schroder Chasing electric flux in hot QCD
15:00-15:20 Joyce Myers Exotic phases of finite temperature SU(N) gauge theories
15:20-15:40 Kari Rummukainen Minimal Technicolor on the lattice
Break
16:10-16:55Joerg Jaeckel Why the universe chose the supersymmetry breaking vacuum
16:55-17:00 Representative for SEWM10 Concluding remarks