Scientific Program
ATHIC 2008 Tsukuba --- Scientific Program --13/Oct/2008 (Mon)

14/Oct/2008 (Tue)15/Oct/2008 (Wed)[1A] 9:00-10:25[2A] 9:00-10:30[3A] 9:00-10:30

chair: J. H. Kangchair: Y. G. Ma

chair: M. Asakawa

Yasuo Miake (5)Su Houng Lee (50)

Xin-Nian Wang (50)

Welcome and opening remark

Theoretical overview

QGP and Jets

Yasuyuki Akiba (50)ShinIchi Esumi (40)

Nu Xu (40)

Overview of experimental results from RHIC

Collective expansion of QGP

Jets in STAR

Tetsufumi Hirano (30)
Hydrodynamic modeling of heavy ion collisions
coffee break (35min)coffee break (30min)

coffee break (30min)[1B] 11:00-12:40[2B1] 11:00-12:40[2B2] 11:00-12:40[3B] 11:00-12:30

chair: T. Sugitate

chair: Xin-Nian Wang

chair: K. S. Leechair: H. Hamagaki

Aihong Tang (30)

Masakiyo Kitazawa (40)Sangyong Jeon (40)Kang-Seog Lee (30)STAR Flow Review"sQM" - strongly couple Quark Matter -Jet quenching and photon production in QGP

Hadronization of a quark-gluon plasma via
recombination

Huichao Song (30)

Kenji Fukushima (30)Hanzhong Zhang (30)

Kensuke Homma (30)

Viscous hydrodynamics for relativistic heavy ion
collisions

QCD Critical Point

Surface vs volume emission in photon-hadroncorrelation

Fluctuation and HBT results

Youngil Kwon, Kenta Shigaki, Hideki Hamagaki, ShinIchi
Esumi (40)Sourendu Gupta (30)

Fu-Ming Liu (30)Enke Wang (30)

Towards LHC-ALICE collaboration (panel discussion)

The Critical point of QCD

Centrality-dependent pT spectrum of direct photon

Modification of heavy quark fragmentation function inQGP

Photograph of the conference (outside)lunch break (1hr20min)

lunch break (1hr20min)

lunch break (1hr30min)[1C] 14:00-15:30[2C1] 14:00-15:20[2C2] 14:00-15:20[3C] 14:00-15:40

chair: T. Hatsuda

chair: C. Nonaka

chair: T. Chujo

chair: In-Kwon Yoo

Yoshitaka Hatta (40)

Yasushi Nara (20)In-Kwon Yoo (20)High energy collisions in AdS

Initial conditions at RHIC

Star Asian computing center

J-parc Overview

Youngman Kim (20)

Jin-Hui Chen (20)

Hiroshi Masui (20)

Kyoichiro Ozawa (20)

Heavy quarks in AdS/QCD

Measurement of phi-meson production at RHIC

v2 & hydroDense Matter at J-parc

Sang-Jin Sin (30)

Yuanfang Wu (20)Shingo Sakai (20)

Byungsik Hong (20)

Hadrons and QGP in Dense medium, a holographicview

Anisotropic flow, impact parameter, and multiplicity inrelativistic heavy ion collisions

Charm/bottom measurements at RHIC

Compressed Baryonic Matter : Highlight & Prospects

Maya Shimomura (20)

Guo-Liang Ma (20)

Raimond Snellings (30)

Systematic study of elliptic flow at RHIC

Di- and Tri- hadron correlation in partonic transportmodel

Anisotropic flow: from RHIC to the LHC

coffee break (30min)

Shoji Nagamiya (30)coffee break (40min)

coffee break (20min)[1D] 16:00-18:00[2D1] 16:00-17:40[2D2] 16:00-17:40[3D] 16:00-17:15

chair: K. Shigaki

chair: C. H. Leechair: B. Hongchair: TBA

Taku Gunji (40)

Shijun Mao (20)

Yorito Yamaguchi (20)Kazuyuki Kanaya (30)

Heavy Quark and Quarkonia Production at RHIC

BCS-BEC crossover in asymmetric nuclear matter

Direct photon in PHENIX

Lattice studies of QCD at finite temperature and finite
density

Kenji Morita (30)

Naoto Tanji (20)

Beomsu Chang (20)

Jiunn-Wei Chen (20)Charmonium dissociation temperatures from QCD sumrules

Particle production by Schwinger mechanism

Combinatorial pair background in the e+e - mass
spectra in p+p collisions at sqrt(s) = 14 TeV

Phase Transitions and the Perfectness of Fluids

Hirotsugu Fujii (30)

Lianyi He (20)

Misaki Ouchida (20)

Chang-Hwan Lee (20)

Nuclear Effects on the charm production in the CGC
framework

Relativistic BCS-BEC crossover at quark level

Low mass vector meson measurements at RHIC

Cosmological Heavy Ion Collisions

Takashi Umeda (20)Yukinao Akamatsu (20)Kyung Eon Choi (20)Enke Wang (5)QCD Thermodynamics at fixed lattice scale

Heavy Quark Diffusion with Relativistic Langevin
Dynamics in the Quark-Gluon Fluid

Gamma-conversion tomography of STAR detector
system with silicon detector and future

Next ATHIC in 2010?

IAC/LOC meeting, Student meeting (Naoto Tanji,Maya Shimomura), (19:00-21:00)

Reception 12/Oct/2008 (Sun) 18:00-20:00

Alexander Rothkopf (20)

Chang Wook Son (20)

Heavy Quark Potential from a Spectral Decompositionof the Thermal Wilson Loop

A Simple Method and Test of Single Photoelectronand Uniformity Measurement for Multi-Anode PMTBanquet (19:00-21:00)

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