Regular weekly meetings to stimulate discussions of high-energy collision physics
and to strengthen the interaction between theorists and experimentalists.

Tuesdays at 3:30pm in Perseverance Hall (usually)

For more information contact:
Volker Koch
VKoch@lbl.gov
510-486-5323 		Hans Georg Ritter
HGRitter@lbl.gov
510-486-4138 		Nu Xu
NXu@lbl.gov
510-495-2951 		Feng Yuan
FYuan@lbl.gov
510-486-5626

HIT Program 2007:

  • Friday, December 21, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 11:00 am
    • Looking for a Star that Leads Wise Men to Find Deconfinement
    • Carlos Lourenco (CERN)
      Host: Hans Georg Ritter
  • Thursday, December 20, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • The Baryon Junction Network at FAIR
    • Miklos Gyulassy (Columbia) Abstract
      Host: Nu Xu
  • Tuesday, December 18, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:00 pm
    • Production of Beauty and Charmonium at The Tevatron
    • Tom LeCompte (ANL) Abstract
      Host: Hans Georg Ritter

    • Special Holiday Gathering!

  • Tuesday, November 6, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Statistical Hadronization Phenomenology
    • Giorgio Torrieri (FIAS) Abstract
      Host: Nu Xu
  • Thursday, October 4, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Enhancement of the Di-electron Continuum in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV
    • Alberica Toia (SUNY Stony Brook) Abstract
      Host: Hans Georg Ritter
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • New High-Energy Dimuon Experiments at Fermilab and J-PARC
    • Ming X. Liu (LANL) Abstract
      Host: Ernst Sichtermann
  • Tuesday, September 18, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Measurement of the Double Helicity Asymmetry in Neutral Pion
      Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at PHENIX and its
      Impact on the Gluon Spin Contribution to the Proton Spin
    • Kieran Boyle (SUNY Stony Brook) Abstract
      Host: Ernst Sichtermann
  • Thursday, September 6, 2007 (54-130B) Pers Hall Annex
    • (I) Results from NA49, 11:00 am
    • Tim Schuster and Michael Mitrovski (Frankfurt) Abstract

    • (II) Low Energy Run at RHIC, 2:00 pm
    • Paul Sorensen (BNL) Abstract

      Host: Hans Georg Ritter

  • Tuesday, July 31, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30 pm
    • Long-Range Multiplicity Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC
      and the Search for Quark-Gluon Matter
    • Terence J.Tarnowsky (Purdue University) Abstract
      Host: Grazyna Odyniec
  • Tuesday, July 24, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30 pm
    • Three-Particle Azimuthal Correlations from STAR
    • Jason Glyndwr Ulery (Purdue University) Abstract
      Host: Grazyna Odyniec
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2007 (70-191 Conference Room) 3:30pm
    • The QCD Transition at Non-Vanishing Temperatures
    • Zoltan Fodor (University of Wuppertal and UC San Diego) Abstract
      Host: Volker Koch
  • Thursday, May 3, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:45pm
    • Direct Photons from STAR
    • Martijn Russcher (Utrecht University) Abstract
      Host: Ernst Sichtermann
  • Wednesday, May 2, 2007 (70-191 Conference Room) 3:30pm
    • Studying QCD Matter at RHIC with Strange Particles
    • Jana Bielcikova (Yale University) Abstract
      Host: Hans-Georg Ritter
  • Thursday, April 26, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Probing the QCD Matter with Heavy Flavors in STAR
    • Jaroslav Bielcik (Yale University) Abstract
      Host: Hans-George Ritter
  • Tuesday, March 27, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Centrality Dependence of Elliptic Flow of K0 and &Lambda in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions
    • Yan Lu (IOPP/LBNL) Abstract
      Host: Nu Xu
  • Tuesday, March 20, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Simulations of Elliptic Flow with Viscosity
    • Derek Teaney (Arkansas State) Abstract
      Host: Volker Koch
  • Tuesday, March 13, 2007 (54-130B) Pers Hall Annex 3:30pm
    • The Glue That Binds Us All: Probing the Nature of Partonic Matter with the
      World's First Electron-Ion Collider
    • Raju Venugopalan (BNL) Abstract
      Host: Nu Xu
      Special Time, Special location!

  • Monday, March 12, 2007 (70-228) Theory Lounge 3:30pm
    • Jet Tomographic Tests of the Hydro Initial State at RHIC and LHC
    • Azfar Adil (Columbia) Abstract
      Host: Xin-Nian Wang
  • Tuesday, March 6, 2007 (54-130B) Pers Hall Annex 3:30pm
    • Jet Quenching and Photon Productions in Thermal QCD
    • Sangyong Jeon (McGill) Abstract
      Host: Volker Koch
  • Thursday, February 22, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Photoproduction: Recent results from RHIC and prospects for the LHC"
    • Yuri Gorbunov (Creighton University) Abstract
      Host: Spencer Klein
  • Tuesday, February 6, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Charm Production in STAR
    • Yifei Zhang (LBNL/USTC) Abstract
      Host: Nu Xu
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Heavy Flavor Production at RHIC
    • Ramona Vogt (LBNL) Abstract
      Host: Hans Georg Ritter
  • Tuesday, January 23, 2007 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Precision Low Energy Electroweak Measurements as a Window on New Physics
    • Yury Kolomensky (UCB) Abstract
      Host: Ernst Sichtermann

HIT Program 2006:

  • Tuesday, December 19, 2006 (Perseverance Hall) 3:00pm
    • Special Holiday Gathering!

  • Tuesday, December 12, 2006 (70-191) 3:30pm
    • QM2006 Summary
    • Bedanga Mohanty (LBNL) Abstract  

  • Tuesday, December 5, 2006 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Overview of High-pt and Jet Physics Results from Quark Matter 2006
    • Marco VanLeewen (LBNL) Abstract  

  • Thursday, November 30, 2006 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Measurement of the fluorescence yield for the ultra-high energy cosmic ray study
    • Gwenaelle Lefeuvre (APC) Abstract  

  • Tuesday, October 31, 2006 (70-191) 3:30pm
    • Mach Cones in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collision
    • Jorge Casalderrey-Solana (LBNL) Abstract  

  • Tuesday, October 24, 2006 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • Do quarks and gluons have different energy loss at RHIC ?
    • Lijuan Ruan (LBNL) Abstract  

  • Tuesday, October 17, 2006 (54-130) Pers Hall 3:30pm
    • High density effects in quark production in pA and AA collisions
    • Francois Gelis (Saclay) Abstract  

  • Tuesday, October 3, 2006 (70-191) 3:30pm
    • Supernova Explosions Modeling by Using Kinetic Theory
    • Wolfgang Bauer (MSU) Abstract  

  • Tuesday, September 19, 2006 (Perserverance Hall Annex) 3:30pm
    • Light nuclei production in heavy ion collisions
    • Haidong Liu (LBNL, USTC) Abstract  

  • Tuesday, August 29, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • J/psi and Charm Collective Flow from a Transport Model
    • Bin Zhang (Arkansas State University) Abstract  

  • Thursday, August 3, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Quark and Gluon Polarization in the Nucleon: Status and Prospects
    • Joanna Kiryluk (MIT) Abstract  

** Double header day! **

  • Tuesday June 20, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 11:00am
    • Mach cones and dijets - from semi-hard to hard angular correlations at RHIC
    • Thorsten Renk (University of Jyvaskyla) Abstract  

  • Tuesday June 20, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • From Color Fields to Quark Gluon Plasma
    • Ranier Fries (University of Minnesota) Abstract  

  • Tuesday May 30, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Saturation, Traveling Waves and Fluctuations in QCD
    • Rikard Enberg (LBNL) Abstract  

  • Tuesday May 23, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Effects & signals of a first-order confinement phase transition
    • Jorgen Randrup (LBNL) Abstract  

  • Tuesday May 16, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • QCD Critical Point and Fluctuations
    • Misha Stephanov Abstract  

  • Thursday May 11, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm

  • Tuesday May 9, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Measurements of J/$\psi$ yields at forward and mid-rapidity in d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV by PHENIX at RHIC
    • Vi Nham Tram Abstract  

  • Tuesday May 2, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Can We Discover the QCD Critical Point at RHIC?
    • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) Abstract  

  • Thursday April 27, 2006 (Perserverance Hall Annex) 3:30pm
    • Imaging the Voices of the Past: Using High Energy Physics Techniques to Restore Early Sound Recordings
    • Carl Haber Abstract  

  • Tuesday April 18, 2006 (Perserverance Hall Annex) 3:30pm
    • Strange Nucleon Form Factors from ep and p Elastic Scattering
    • Stephen Pate (New Mexico State Univ.) Abstract  

  • Tuesday April 11, 2006 (Perserverance Hall Annex) 3:30pm
    • Photon and photon tagged-jet events identification in ALICE
    • Gustavo Connesa Balbastre (IFIC) Abstract  

  • Thursday April 6, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Investigation of Hadronic Resonances with STAR
    • Sevil Selur (Yale) Abstract  

  • Tuesday March 21, 2006 (70-191) 3:30pm
    • Spin Physics with Jets at STAR
    • Katarzyna Kowalik (LBNL) Abstract  

  • Tuesday March 7, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Challenges in Medium and High-Energy Neutron Star Physics
    • Fridolin Weber (San Diego State) Abstract  

  • Tuesday January 31, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Inside Neutron Stars: Theoretical Speculations and Observational Constraints
    • Sanjay Reddy (Los Alamos) Abstract  

  • Tuesday January 10, 2006 (Perserverance Hall) 3:30pm
    • Comparison of Chemical Freeze-Out Criteria in Heavy-Ion Collisions
    • Jean Cleymens (Univer. of Cape Town) Abstract  

  • Thursday January 5, 2006 (Perserverance Hall Annex) 3:30pm
    • Heavy Quark Tomography
    • Miklos Gyulassy (Columbia) Abstract  

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