Strong and ElectroWeak Matter
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26-29 August 2008
The focus of the conference is the theory of the Standard Model and beyond at finite temperature and density, including applications to cosmology, astrophysics and relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments.
Topics will include
- Particle creation and phase transitions in the early universe- Quantum Fields out of equilibrium
- Phase diagram and equation of state of QCD
- Properties of matter created in heavy-ion collisions
- Transport properties of dense matter
- Thermodynamics of strings and supersymmetric gauge theories
Invited speakers include*
G. Aarts (Swansea) "Two complex problems on the lattice: transport and finite chemical potential"P. Arnold (U Virginia) QCD splitting functions at finite temperature
J. Berges (Darmstadt) "What the inflaton might tell us about RHIC"
P. Chesler (Seattle) "Applications of gauge/gravity duality"
J. Jaeckel (Durham) "Why the universe chose the supersymmetry breaking vacuum"
M. Laine (Bielefeld) "How to compute the quarkonium spectral function from first principles?"
O. Philipsen (Münster) "Static potentials for quarkonium at finite temperatures"
P. Romatschke (Seattle) "Hydrodynamics and heavy-ion collisions"
Ch. Schmidt (Bielefeld) Lattice results for QCD thermodynamics
A. Schmitt (Vienna) "Color superconductivity in dense quark matter"
M. Shaposhnikov (Lausanne) "SEWDarkM"
R. Snellings (Amsterdam) Experimental results of heavy-ion collisions
A. Starinets (Southampton) "Holographic recipes for hot and dense strongly coupled matter"
K. Tuchin (ISU) "Particle production at high gluon density: from pA to AA"
C. Wagner (Argonne) "Cosmology and the LHC"
* preliminary titles of talks