1st International Workshop on Soft Physics in ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

from Wednesday 27 September 2006 (08:00) to Friday 29 September 2006 (19:00)
University of Catania, Physics Department

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Sept 2006
28 Sept 2006
29 Sept 2006
AM
08:00 --- Welcome and registration ---
10:00
Morning session (until 13:10)
10:00 TBA - Dmitri Kharzeev (Brookhaven National Laboratory - USA)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 Strange particle production from SIS up to LHC - Helmut Oeschler (Darmstadt University of Technology - Germany)  
11:50 Strangeness production at RHIC - Helen Caines (Yale University - USA)  
09:00 Thermalization and elliptic flow at RHIC - Jean Yves Ollitrault (Saclay - France)  
09:40 Elliptic flow: status ar RHIC and future in ALICE - Emanuele Simili (University of Utrecht - Netherlands)  
10:20 Production of multiple heavy flavoured baryons from QGP at LHC - Francesco Becattini (University and INFN Firenze - Italy)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Multiplicity and dN/deta of charged particles in ALICE - Tiziano Virgili (University and INFN Salerno - Italy)  
11:50 Information on Etna  
09:00 Counting valence quarks at RHIC and LHC - Antonio Polosa (INFN sezione Roma 1 - Italy)  
09:40 Kinetic approach to relativistic heavy ion collisions - Aldo Bonasera (Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud, Catania - Italy)  
10:20 Exotic hadronic search - S. Kabana (Laboratoire Subatech, Nantes - France)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Resonance production in heavy ion collisions - Christina Markert (University of Texas - USA)  
PM
12:30 K0's and hyperons in ALICE - Ludovic Gaudichet (INFN Torino - Italy)  
12:50 Statistical analysis of strangeness production in small systems - Ingrid Kraus (Darmstadt University of Technology - Germany)  
13:10 --- Lunch break ---
15:00 The relevance of pp results to the understanding of soft physics in AA collisions at RHIC and LHC - Rene Bellwied (Wayne State University - USA)  
15:40 Proton-proton physics with ALICE - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Institut fur Kemphysik of Munster - Germany)  
16:20 Phenomenology of yields and fluctuations in heavy ion collisions - Giorgio Torrieri (McGill University - Canada / W. Goethe University of Frankfurt - Germany)  
17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:20 Event-by-event physics in ALICE - Tapan Nayak (CERN - Switzerland)  
18:00 Hadron yields and spectra on event by event basis in ALICE - Chiara Zampolli (Centro Fermi and INFN Bologna - Italy)  
18:20 Study of charge correlations using the balance function - Panos Christakoglou (University of Athens - Greece)  
18:40 Event-by-event fluctuations in the NA49 experiment - Maria Vassiliou (University of Athens - Greece)  
19:00 Event by event fluctuation in flow - Sudhir Raniwala (University of Rajasthan - India)  
12:30 --- Etna tour ---
20:30 --- Social dinner ---
12:10 Study of K*(892) and Lambda(1520) in ALICE - Alberto Pulvirenti (University and INFN Catania - Italy)  
12:30 Phi meson detection via charged kaon identification at LHC with ALICE experiment - Annalisa De Caro (University and INFN Salerno - Italy)  
12:50 Study of dielectron decays in ALICE - Boris Batyunya (JINR, Dubna - Russia)  
13:10 --- Lunch break ---
15:00 The dynamics of low Q2 partons in nuclear collisions from minijet structure in two particle correlation - Thomas Trainor (University of Washington - USA)  
15:40 Femtoscopy at the highest energies: from p+p to A+A; from STAR/RHIC to ALICE/LHC - Michael Lisa (Ohio State University - USA)  
16:20 Possibilities and limitations of momentum correlation studies at ALICE - Jan Pluta (Warsaw University of Technology - Poland)  
16:50 Software tools for analysis of momentum correlations at ALICE - Marek Chojnacki (Warsaw University of Technology - Poland)  
17:10 --- Coffee break ---
17:30 Proton femtoscopy in STAR - Hanna Gos (Warsaw University of Technology - Poland)  
17:50 Expansion dynamics of Pb-Pb collisions at 40 AGeV/c beam momentum - Rosa Romita (University and INFN Bari - Italy)  
18:10 Source imaging from the identical pion correlation function - Michal Bystersky (Nuclear Physics Institute Academy of Sciences - Czech Rep.)  
18:30 Importance of residual correlations in determination of source parameters. - Konstantin Mikhaylov (ITEP - Russia)