Joint CATHIE/TECHQM Workshop

Registration* Deadline: December 1, 2009

*Additional Guest Registration (Deadline: December 1, 2009)
Due to a required review process, all Non-U.S. Citizens must be registered and approved in the BNL Guest Information System (GIS) if they plan to stay on-site. Please complete this as soon as possible to ensure sufficient time for complete approval. The link to GIS will be provided to you after you have registered for this event.

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 banquet dinner. Please note, anyone who would like to participate must pay their own way.

• Restaurant (TBD)
• Date (TBD)

Organizing Committee

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

Last Modified: October 21, 2009