QCD in Extreme Conditions 2007

August 6 - 8  2007   



Scientific Program

Auditorium Touschek

High Energy Building
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN



Monday, August 6

08:45-09:00 Registration

Session I Monday 9:15 11:00 Chair : Frithjof Karsch  

09:15-10:00 Effective potentials, thermodynamics and twisted mass
Michael Creutz (BNL)

10:00-10:30 The QCD transition temperature from simulations on BlueGene L Supercomputer at LLNL
Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos)

10:30-11:00 Universality and scaling at the chiral transition in Two Flavor QCD
Tereza Mendes (Sao Carlos)

11:00-11:30 First Order Scaling in Two Flavor QCD
Claudio Pica (BNL)

11:30-11:45 Break

Session II Monday 11:45 13:15 Chair: Poul H. Damgaard  

11:45-12:15 QCD at finite isospin density
Philippe de Forcrand (CERN/ETH)

12:15-12:45 Two Color Quark Matter from Lattice Simulations
Simon Hands (Swansea)

12:45-13:15 Phase Quenched Lattice QCD at Finite Density and Temperature
Donald Sinclair (ANL)

13:15-15:00 Lunch Break

Session III Monday 15:00  17:00  Chair: Donald Sinclair

15:00-15:30 Physics of non-Extreme QCD at finite Isospin Chemical Potential
Poul H. Damgaard (Niels Bohr Institute )

15:30-16:00 Quarkonium correlators at finite temperature
Peter Petreczky (BNL)

16:00-16:30 Charmonium in the quark-gluon plasma
Jonivar Skullerud (Dublin)

16:30-17:00 Study of constant mode in charmonium correlators in hot QCD
Takashi Umeda (Tsukuba)

17:00-17:30 Break

Session IV  Monday 17:30 19:00 pm Chair : Sinead Ryan

17:30-18:00 Life After Deconfinement: Polyakov Loop Story
Konstantin Petrov (Niels Bohr)

18:00-18:30 Spectrum and Wave Functions of Excited States in LGT from Monte Carlo Hamiltonian
Helmut Kroger (Laval)

18:30-19:00 Playing around with different vacua
Francesco Di Renzo (Parma)

Tuesday, August 7

Session I Tuesday 9:15 11:00 Chair : Benjamin Svetitsky  

09:15-10:00 Fluctuations and Correlations at Finite Density
Christian Schmidt (BNL)

10:00-10:30 Finite temperature large Nc QCD
Rajamani Narayanan (FIU)

10:30-11:00 Spontaneous P-parity breaking in QCD at large chemical potentials
Alexander Andrianov (Barcelona)

11:00-11:30 Break

Session II Tuesday 11:30 13:00  Chair : Rajan Gupta  
 

11:30-12:00 Studying the chiral phase transition of N_f=2 flavour QCD with valence overlap fermions
Ernst-Michael Ilgenfritz (Berlin)

12:00-12:30 Real time dynamics in Z(N) interface at high temperature
Yoshimasa Hidaka (New York)

12:30-13:00 Fisher's zero at finite temperature
Yannick Meurice (Iowa)

13:00-15:00 Lunch Break

Session III Tuesday 15:00 16:45  Chair : Philippe de Forcrand

15:00-15:45  Recent progress in finite density QCD via an imaginary chemical potential
Massimo D'Elia (Genova)

15:45-16:15 On the critical endpoint in QCD at nonzero temperature and density
Shinji Ejiri (Tokyo)

16:15-16:45 More about the phase diagram of QCD
Sourendu Gupta (Mumbai)

16:45-17:15 Break

Session IV Tuesday 17:15 18:45  Chair : Sourendu Gupta 

17:15-17:45 QCD Matter above Tc
Atsushi Nakamura (Hiroshima)

17:45-18:15 Thermodynamics of QCD in lattice simulation with improved Wilson quark action at finite temperature and density
Yu Maezawa (Tokyo)

18:15-18:45 Hadronization in QCD at finite temperature and baryon density
Fabrizio Palumbo (LNF)

Wednesday, August 8

Session I Wednesday 9:15 11:00 Chair: Simon Hands

09:15-10:00 SU(3) chiral phase of finite temperature and density in the strong coupling lattice QCD
Noboru Kawamoto (Hokkaido)

10:00-10:30 Thermodynamics of the O(N) sigma model in the 1/N epansion
Tomas Brauner (Rez)

10:30-11:00 Taylor expansion method for 3 state Potts model
Seyong Kim (Seoul)

11:0-11:30 Finite density simulations using a determinant estimator
Andrei Alexandru (Kentucky)

11:30-11:45 Break

Session II Wednesday 11:45 13:15  Chair: Atsushi Nakamura

11:45-12:15 Infrared properties of Landau propagators at finite temperature from very large lattices
Attilio Cucchieri (Sao Carlos)

12:15-12:45 The average phase factor from chiral perturbation theory
Kim Splittorff (Niels Bohr Institute)

12:45-13:15 Equivalence of \chi RMT and \epsilon\chi PPT at non zero chemical potential
Francesco Basile (Pisa)

13:15-15:00 Lunch Break

Session III Wednesday 15:00 16:45  Chair : Elisabetta Pallante

15:00-15:45 Chiral phase boundary of QCD with many flavors
Holger Gies (Heidelberg)

15:45-16:15 The SU(N) phase diagram
Dennis Dean Dietrich (Heidelberg)

16:15-16:45 On the Dynamics of Weakly and Strongly Coupled N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory
Aleksi Vuorinen (Wien)

16:45-17:15 Break

Session IV Wednesday 17:15 18:30  Chair: Rajan Gupta

17:15-17:45 Random matrices and the QCD sign problem
Misha Stephanov (UIC)

17:45-18:30 Hot QCD
Frithjof Karsch (BNL)

18:30  END OF THE MEETING