Joint CATHIE/TECHQM Workshop

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Motivation & Plans

The CATHIE and TECHQM collaborations will hold a joint workshop at Brookhaven National Laboratory on December 14-18, 2009. The workshop will include plenary and parallel sessions, as well as unscheduled discussion time. The workshop will have three areas of focus:

1.  Assessment of the theoretical status of
   1. viscous hydrodynamics,
   2. gluon saturation and initial conditions for transport models of heavy ion collisions,
   3. long range rapidity correlations,
   4. local P and CP violation,
   5. thermal photons and dileptons, and
   6. heavy flavor hadrons as probes of the QGP;
2. Formation of a new, broad-based Physics Working Group of experimentalists and theorists, aimed at quantitative comparison of calculations based on viscous hydrodynamics with measurements of global observables in relativistic heavy ion collisions;
3. Detailed discussion of partonic energy loss theory and data, including analysis and write-up of the "QCD Brick Problem" and discussion of next steps to quantify the transport parameters governing energy loss.

Special Events

All registered attendees are invited to attend the optional PHENIX-STAR-CATHIE TECHQM Workshop cocktail party on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Please note, anyone who would like to participate must pay their own way.

• Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 6:30 pm
• Location: Large Seminar Room Lounge, Physics Department - directions
• Cost: $15 (Cash only - see workshop secretary as soon as possible)
• Cocktail Party Flyer (pdf)

Organizing Committee

Kevin Dusling
Ulrich Heinz
Peter Jacobs
Dima Kharzeev
Berndt Mueller
Jamie Nagle
Peter Petreczky
Raju Venugopalan
Urs Wiedemann

Last Modified: December 10, 2009