Strong Interactions In The 21st Century
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
10-12 February, 2010
Talks
Day 1 (February 10, Wednesday)
Session 1 (9.15-10.30) :
- Maria Paola Lombardo : Strong Interactions and high baryon density: the lattice approach.
- David Richards : Excited hadrons from Lattice QCD.
Session 2 (11.00-12.30) :
- Noriyoshi Ishii : Lattice approach to nuclear forces.
- Hirokazu Tamura : Nuclear and hadron physics program at J-PARC.
- Matthew Shepherd : Searching for Interesting Bound States of QCD with the GlueX Experiment at Jefferson Lab.
Session 3 (2.00-3.30) :
- Bedangadas Mohanty : Study of the QCD phase diagramusing high energy nuclear collisions.
- Christian Schmidt : Generalized hadronic susceptibilities and critical behavior of QCD at zero and nonzero density.
- Sourendu Gupta : Phase diagram of QCD.
Session 4 (4.00-5.30) : NSF Colloquium
- David Kaplan : Nuclear Physics from QCD.
Day 2 (February 11, Thrusday)
Session 5 (9.00-10.30) :
- Rajamani Narayanan : Strong to weak coupling transition in large N gauge theories.
- Shailesh Chandrasekharan : Anomaly and the QCD critical point : a study in strongly correlated systems.
- Gert Aarts : Finite density with complex Langevin dynamics.
Session 6 (11.00-12.30) :
- Christian Hoelbling : Ab initio determination of light hadron masses.
- Nilmani Mathur : Exotics and hybrids from lattice.
- Kamal Seth : Hadrons and Exotics: A renaissance in strong interaction physics.
Session 7 (2.00-3.30) :
- N. D. Hari Dass : Super-universality in QCD strings.
- Pushan Majumdar : Excited string states using the multilevel algorithm .
- Asmita Mukherjee : Parton distributions in position Space.
Session 8 (4.00-5.00) :
- Michael Cheng : The QCD equation of state and transition at zero chemical potential.
- Tapan Nayak : ALICE@LHC: Start of a new era in physics.
Poster Session (5.00-6.30)
Day 3 (February 12, Friday)
Session 9 (9.00-10.30) :
- Wei Xie : Measurement of heavy quark production in STAR experiment at RHIC.
- Samirnath Mallik : Possibility of phase transition in nuclear matter.
- Mikko Laine : Heavy quarks at finite temperature.
Session 10 (11.00-12.30) :
- B. Ananthanarayan : Stringent constraints on the pi K-scalar form factor from chiral symmetry, analyticity and dispersion relations.
- Paola Gianotti : Antiproton physics with PANDA.
- Bidyut Roy : PANDA detector and recent development on DIRC Cherenkov & SIPM.
Session 11 (1.30-3.00) :
- Vladimir Kekelidze : Status of the NICA project at JINR.
- R. Parthasarathy : Chromomagnetic vacuum and confinement.
- Sayantan Sharma : Anomaly at finite density and chiral fermions on lattice.
Session 12 (3.30-5.00) :
- Dinesh Srivastava : Interference of thermal photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions.
- Thomas Schaefer : Nearly perfect fluidity : From cold atomic gases to hot quark gluon plasmas.
- David Kaplan : Conformality Lost.
Posters :
- Gauhar Abbas : Improved bounds on the radius and curvature of the K pi scalar form factor and implications to low-energy theorems.
- Debasish Banerjee : Finite size effects and mu : The O(2) non-linear sigma model.
- Paramita Deb : Mesonic excitations at high temperature and density from an effective model.
- Akbari Jahan : Self-similarity and gluon distribution at small Bjorken-x.
- Anirban Lahiri : QCD phase diagram from PNJL model.
- Santunu Mondal : Chiral Anomaly in Lattice QCD With Twisted Mass Wilson Fermion.
- V. Srikanth : Photon emission from out of equilibrium dissipative parton plasma.
- Vinod Joshi : A quasi-particle model for hot QCD and transport properties of quark-gluon plasma.
