21–27 Sept 2014
Europe/Madrid timezone

1st Announcement

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                         Hot Quarks 2014 Workshop - HQ 2014
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Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that, 10 years after the first edition,
the next workshop in the Hot Quarks series will take place from 
September 21-28, 2014, in Las Negras -- Cabo de Gata Natural Park, 
Andalucia, Spain.

The aim of this workshop is to enhance the direct exchange of scientific
information among the younger members of the Relativistic Heavy Ion
community, both from the experiments and theory. Therefore we
especially want to encourage postdoctoral fellows, advanced graduate
students, and junior faculty and research staff to apply.

Topics include:
  • QCD at high temperature/density and lattice QCD
  • Initial state effects and Color Glass Condensate
  • Relativistic hydrodynamics and collective phenomena
  • Correlations and fluctuations
  • Jets in the vacuum and in the medium
  • Baryons and strangeness
  • Heavy flavor, dileptons and photons
  • Applications of String Theory and AdS/CFT
  • Experimental techniques and future programs
The format of the workshop is morning and afternoon/evening sessions
consisting of short (~20 min) presentations. Each session is followed by
a relatively long (~1hr) Question&Answer (Q&A) session.
The KKG Award is presented to the best presentation at the conference.
The prize is dedicated to the memory of Klaus Kinder Geiger, who
perished in the Swiss Air flight 111 from New York to Geneva in 1998.
Active participation by all is encouraged in the Q&A sessions.
All participants are expected to be present at the workshop premises
throughout the duration of the conference.
Ample free time between lunch and the afternoon session and after
dinner is planned in order to enhance such informal interactions.
The number of participants will be restricted to <80.
Every participant will give an oral presentation.
 
If you are interested in attending HQ2014 please register through
our workshop website at:       http://hq2014.bnl.gov
after February 1st. Due to the limited number of participants, and
the usually high interest in attending this workshop, speakers will be
selected from this list after the specified closing date and notified
via Email.

Further details about the program and the workshop venue will be
posted on this web page.

A lively, informative discussion is anticipated at the meeting, leading to
progress in advancing the state of the knowledge of relativistic heavy-
ion collisions.

Please distribute this email within your collaborations and local groups.

Sincerely,

  The Hot Quarks Organizers (Javier Albacete, Jana Bielcikova, Rainer Fries,
  Raphael Granier de Cassagnac, Boris Hippolyte, Jiangyong Jia,
 Andre Mischke, Agnes Mocsy, Hannah Petersen, Lijuan Ruan, Sevil Salur)