Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
5-9 December, 2005
Mail: srhic [at] theory.tifr.res.in
Fax: +91-22-2280-4610 and +91-22-2280-4611
Secretary: Mohan Shinde

Speakers include

M. Creutz (BNL)
S. Datta (BNL)
F. Gelis (Saclay)
F. Karsch (BNL)
E. Laermann (Bielefeld)
M. Laine (Bielefeld)
M.-P. Lombardo (Frascati)
A. Nakamura (Hiroshima)
J.-Y. Ollitrault (Saclay)
K. Rajagopal (MIT)
G. Roland (MIT)
A. M. Srivastav (Bhubaneshwar)
D. K. Srivastava (Kolkata)

Supercomputing Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collision Physics

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

5-9 December, 2005


Academic Program

 Monday, December 5
09:00 to 09:30Opening remarks
09:30 to 10:45Karsch (BNL/Bielefeld): Lattice gauge theory and heavy-ion collisions
11:00 to 12:15Roland (MIT): Particle production, correlations and fluctuations in high energy collisions
 Lunch
13:00 to 14:15Gavai (TIFR): The QCD phase diagram
14:15 to 15:30Chattopadhyaya (VECC): Experimental overview (STAR)
 Tea
16:00 to 18:00Focus groups
 Tuesday, December 6
09:30 to 10:45Rajagopal (MIT): Probing the Phases of QCD Matter
11:00 to 12:15Creutz (BNL): Fun with Dirac eigenvalues
 Lunch
13:00 to 15:30Computing (I): Grid in India
Dhekne (BARC): Grid Initiatives in DAE
Chattopadhyaya (VECC): Alice India
Mondal (TIFR): D0 and CMS Grid Computing in India
 Tea
16:00 to 17:30Computing (II): Architecture and vendors
Saurabh Sonawala (Hinditron Cray): Bridging the gap between peak and sustained performance- Cray approach
Subramanian Kannan (IBM): Blue Gene
R. Bala Subramanian (HP): HP Unified Cluster Portfolio
 Wednesday, December 7
09:30 to 10:45Ollitrault (Saclay): Hints of incomplete thermalization at RHIC
11:00 to 12:15Laine (Bielefeld): Is hot QCD a weakly or strongly coupled medium?
 Lunch
13:00 to 14:15Nakamura (Hiroshima): Viscosities of strongly coupled gluons
14:15 to 15:30Gupta (Bielefeld/TIFR): The nature of the hot phase
 Thursday, December 8
09:30 to 10:45D. K. Srivastava (VECC): High Energy Photons from the Pre-equilibrium Phase at RHIC
11:00 to 12:15Lombardo (Frascati): Lattice QCD at finite temperature
 Lunch
13:00 to 14:15Datta (BNL): Heavy Quarkonia as probe of deconfinement
14:15 to 15:00Laermann (Bielefeld): On IR and UV effects in hadronic correlators at finite temperature
15:00 to 15:45Pal (TIFR): Quark recombination and elliptic flow
 Tea
16:00 to 18:00Focus groups
 Friday, December 9
09:30 to 10:45A. M. Srivastav (IOP): Baryon fluctuations from Z(3) walls and strings
11:00 to 12:15Gelis (Saclay): The early stages of heavy ion collisions in the color glass condensate framework
 Lunch
13:00 to 15:30Focus groups
 Tea
17:00 to 18:00Michael Creutz (BNL): Quarks, Gluons and Lattices (Public lecture)

Focus Groups

Use the links below to register or send mail to the group coordinators. Please avoid communicating with the coordinators through their email addresses directly.

GroupCoordinators
S. Chattopadhyaya (VECC), Ajit Srivastav (IOP)
Rajeev Bhalerao (TIFR), Basanta Nandi (IIT-B)
Saumen Datta (BNL), Hiranmaya Mishra (PRL)

Focus group program

HydroDec 4, 16:00AG 66 Elliptic flow at SPS and RHIC energies Raniwala (Jaipur)
HydroDec 4, 16:15AG 66 Dissipative relativistic fluid dynamics Bhalerao (TIFR)
QuarkoniumDec 4, 16:00AG 69 Discussion Open
FluctuationsDec 4, 16:00HBA Discussion Open
HydroDec 8, 16:00AG 66 A new approach to QCD thermodynamics on the lattice Mukherjee (TIFR)
HydroDec 8, 16:30AG 66 Simulation of dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics Pal (TIFR)
QuarkoniaDec 8, 16:00AG 69 Quarkonium production Sridhar (TIFR)
FluctuationsDec 8, 16:00HBA Discussion Open
JointDec 8, 17:00AG 66 Recent data from RHIC Roland (MIT)
HydroDec 9, 13:00AG 66 Discussion Open
QuarkoniaDec 9, 13:00AG 69 Discussion Open
FluctuationsDec 9, 13:00HBA Discussion Open
Created on Nov 9, 2005. Last modified on Jan 2, 2006.