The 2nd International Conference on the Initial Stages in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

from Wednesday, 3 December 2014 (00:14) to Sunday, 7 December 2014 (22:20)
Embassy Suites Napa Valley, California

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Dec 2014
4 Dec 2014
5 Dec 2014
6 Dec 2014
7 Dec 2014
AM
08:55 Welcome - Mateusz Ploskon   ()
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09:00
Wednesday AM-1 - Peter Martin Jacobs (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 10:40) ()
09:00 PHENIX Highlights - Dr shengli huang (PHENIX Collaboration)   ()
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09:25 STAR Highlights - Helen Caines (Yale University (US))   ()
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09:50 Proton-ion physics with LHCb - results and prospects - Christian Urs Elsasser (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   ()
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10:15 CMS Highlights - Julia Velkovska (Vanderbilt University (US))   ()
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10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:10
Wednesday AM-2 - Urs Wiedemann (CERN) (until 13:15) ()
11:10 ATLAS Highlights - Aaron Angerami (Columbia University (US))   ()
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11:35 ALICE Highlights - Constantinos Loizides (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   ()
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12:00 Overview/outlook CGC - Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   ()
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12:25 Factorization in Saturation Physics - Bowen Xiao (Central China Normal University)   ()
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12:50 Particle correlations from CGC - Adrian Dumitru (Baruch College (City University of New York))   ()
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09:00
Thursday AM-1 - Carsten Greiner (University of Frankfurt) (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Heavy-flavor in pp, pA and AA -overview - Andrea Dainese (INFN - Padova (IT))   ()
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09:25 Theoretical aspects of quarkonia production in pA collisions - Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)   ()
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09:50 Quarkonia at RHIC - Grazyna Odyniec (LBNL)   ()
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10:15 Quarkonia at the LHC - Roberta Arnaldi (Universita e INFN (IT))   ()
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10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:05
Thursday AM-2 - Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook University) (until 13:10) ()
11:05 Impact of fluctuations of IS for system evolution - Dr Jean-Yves Ollitrault (CNRS)   ()
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11:30 Azimuthal Anisotropy Distributions - Art Poskanzer (LBNL)   ()
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11:55 Continuous description of fluctuating eccentricities - Blaizot Jean-Paul (CNRS)   ()
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12:20 Correlations between harmonics - Dr Jiangyong Jia (State University of New York (US))   ()
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12:45 Hydro-fluctuations in heavy ion collisions and connections to their treatment in cosmology - Urs Wiedemann (CERN)   ()
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09:00
Ultra-peripheral collisions - Federico Antinori (Universita e INFN (IT)) (until 10:15) ()
09:00 Theoretical overview of UP Collisions - Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyvaskyla)   ()
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09:20 UPC experimental overview - RHIC - Spencer Klein (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
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09:40 UPC experimental - LHC - Eugenio Scapparone (INFN-Bologna(IT))   ()
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10:15 --- Coffee ---
10:40
Cabernet-1 - Xin Dong (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) (until 13:00) ()
10:40 Charmonium production in p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Mr Michael Andreas Winn (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))   ()
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11:00 Bottomonium production at forward rapidity with ALICE at the LHC - Massimiliano Marchisone (Turin University and INFN)   ()
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11:20 Charmonium photoproduction in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Daniele De Gruttola (Universita e INFN (IT))   ()
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11:40 Results from ultra-peripheral collisions from CMS - Pat Kenny (University of Kansas (US))   ()
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12:00 Weak boson results from CMS - Manuel Calderon De La Barca Sanchez (University of California Davis (US))   ()
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12:20 Recent results on elector-weak probes in lead-lead and proton-lead collisions from the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Alexander Milov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))   ()
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12:40 Direct virtual photon production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV at STAR - CHI YANG (USTC)   ()
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10:40
Sauvignon-1 - Matthew Luzum (until 13:00) ()
10:40 Initial state angular asymmetries in high energy p+A collisions: spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry by a color electric field and C-odd fluctuations - André Giannini   ()
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11:00 Initial state fluctuations and anisotropic flows within an event by event transport approach. - Salvatore Plumari (University of Catania (Italy))   ()
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11:20 Charge-dependent correlations from event-by-event anomalous hydrodynamics - Yuji Hirono (Stony Brook University)   ()
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11:40 Eigenmode Analysis of Anisotropic Flow - Rajeev Bhalerao (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research)   ()
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12:00 Collective flow in small systems from parton scatterings - Guo-Liang Ma (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) Chinese Academy of Sciences)   ()
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12:20 Azimuthal quadrupole correlation from gluon interference in 200 GeV and 7 TeV p+p collisions - Ray Lanny (University of Texas at Austin)   ()
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12:40 Collective excitations in anisotropic quark-gluon-plasma - Katarzyna Deja (National Centre for Nuclear Research)   ()
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09:00
Saturday AM-1 - Larry McLerran (B) (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Forward production measurements with LHCb - Bo.Bo Liu (Universita e INFN (IT))   ()
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09:25 The proton and nuclei in 3D - elke-caroline Aschenauer (BNL)   ()
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09:55 The experimental future of e+A physics - Matthew Lamont (BNL)   ()
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10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:10
Saturday AM-2 - Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) (until 12:50) ()
11:10 Back-to-back jets in pp,pA and their complementarity in eA collisions - Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique) Feng Yuan (LBNL)   ()
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11:35 The impact of e+A collisions on nuclear PDFs. - Manoel R. Moldes   ()
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12:00 The EMC effect - JLAB experimental findings and plans - John Arrington (Argonne National Laboratory)   ()
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12:25 Future at the LHC: LHeC, FCC - Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))   ()
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09:00
Sunday AM-1 - Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)) (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Parton cascade description of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions - Carsten Greiner (University of Frankfurt)   ()
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09:25 From End to beginning - Constraining the Initial State from Final-State Beginnings - Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)   ()
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09:50 "Trento" new fast IS generator - Prof. Steffen A. Bass (Duke University)   ()
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10:15 Initial State Bremsstrahlung versus Final State Hydrodynamics in pA Collisions - Peter Levai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))   ()
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10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:10
Sunday AM-2 - Jim Thomas (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 13:00) ()
11:10 Strong coupling QGP thermalization with longitudinal dynamics - Wilke van der Schee (Utrecht University)   ()
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11:35 Outlook - collectivity aspects - Matthew Luzum   ()
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12:00 Outlook - experimental perspective - James Lawrence Nagle (University of Colorado at Boulder)   ()
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12:30 Closing remarks   ()
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PM
13:15 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Wednesday PM-1 - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 16:10) ()
14:30 pQCD and saturation (EKRT model) - Risto Paatelainen (Jyvaskyla University)   ()
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14:55 Thermal radiation - theory - Ralf Rapp (Texas A&M University)   ()
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15:20 Thermal radiation - experiment - Axel Drees (Stony Brook University)   ()
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15:45 Photons as a signature of early time non-equilibrium dynamics - Larry McLerran (BNL)   ()
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16:10 --- Coffee ---
16:40
Wednesday PM-2 - Dirk Rischke (University Frankfurt) (until 18:20) ()
16:40 Thermalization process in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions - Jürgen Berges (Heidelberg University)   ()
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17:05 Thermalization - Thomas Epelbaum (McGill University)   ()
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17:30 Anisotropic hydrodynamics - Wojciech Florkowski (Institute of nuclear Physics, Krakow)   ()
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17:55 Bottom-up thermalization and heavy-ion collisions - Eero Aleksi Kurkela (CERN)   ()
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18:20
End of the day discussion - Urs Wiedemann (CERN) Peter Martin Jacobs (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 19:15) ()
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19:15 --- Reception ---
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Thursday PM-1 - Axel Drees (Stony Brook University) (until 16:10) ()
14:30 Viscosity/entropy density ratio in pA vs AA - Paul Romatschke (University of Colorado, Boulder)   ()
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14:55 Flow results from BES at RHIC - Alexander Schmah (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)   ()
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15:20 High order cumulants of azimuthal anisotropy in pA collisions from initial state physics - Vladimir Skokov (Western Michigan University)   ()
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15:45 EPOS - Klaus Werner   ()
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16:10 --- Coffee ---
16:40
Thursday PM-2 - Ralf Averbeck (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) (until 18:20) ()
16:40 Recent results on flow and correlations from the ATLAS experiment - Soumya Mohapatra (Columbia University (US))   ()
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17:05 Review of flow results from ALICE - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US))   ()
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17:30 PHENIX Measurements of Anisotropic Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC energies - Arkadiy Taranenko (Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University)   ()
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17:55 Initial-state fluctuations from transverse momentum and pseudorapidity dependent event plane fluctuations with CMS - Mr Wei Li (Rice University (US))   ()
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18:20
Discussion: Collectivity - Alexander Schmah (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Dr Jean-Yves Ollitrault (CNRS) Raimond Snellings (NIKHEF (NL)) (until 19:30) ()
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:20
Cabernet-2 - Julia Velkovska (Vanderbilt University (US)) (until 16:40) ()
14:20 Light messengers from heavy quarks - Measurements of leptons from heavy-flavor decays with ALICE at the LHC - Ralf Averbeck (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))   ()
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14:40 Heavy-flavour production as a function of multiplicity in pp and p-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector at the LHC - Davide Caffarri (CERN)   ()
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15:00 Heavy Flavor Results in Cold Nuclear Matter from PHENIX - Darren McGlinchey (University of Colorado)   ()
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15:20 Flow Measurements and selection of body-body and tip-tip enhanced samples in U+U collisions at STAR - Hui Wang (Brookhaven National Lab)   ()
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15:40 Correlation results from CMS - Zhenyu Chen (Rice University (US))   ()
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16:00 Femtoscopy in d-Au collisions - Piotr Bozek   ()
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16:20 Quantum coherence measurements using two-, three-, and four-pion Bose-Einstein correlations - Dhevan Raja Gangadharan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   ()
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14:20
Sauvignon-2 - Adrian Dumitru (Baruch College (City University of New York)) (until 16:40) ()
14:20 The Balitsky-JIMWLK evolution equation at next-to-leading order - Giovanni Antonio Chirilli (Ohio State University)   ()
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14:40 Particle production at NLO in pA collisions: the wave function approach - Tolga Altinoluk (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)   ()
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15:00 The shape of the proton at high energies - Soeren Schlichting (Brookhaven National Lab)   ()
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15:20 High-energy parton in unstable QGP - Stanislaw Mrowczynski (Jan Kochanowski University)   ()
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15:40 Chemical and mechanical equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma - Marco Ruggieri   ()
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16:00 Ghosts in Non-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma - Alina Czajka (Jan Kochanowski University)   ()
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16:20 The event structure in PP collisions at the LHC energies. - Guy Paic (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))   ()
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16:40 --- Coffee ---
17:10
Cabernet-3 - Grazyna Odyniec (Department of Physics) (until 19:10) ()
17:10 Measurement of low-mass dielectrons in p-Pb collisions with ALICE - Theo Alexander Broker (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))   ()
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17:30 Leading-order anisotropic hydrodynamics - Leonardo Tinti (Jan Kochanowski University)   ()
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17:50 Transport coefficients for bulk viscous evolution in the relaxation-time approximation - Dr Radoslaw Ryblewski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)   ()
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18:10 Anisotropic hydrodynamics for conformal Gubser flow - Mohammad Nopoush (Kent State University)   ()
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18:30 Bulk viscosity-driven suppression of shear viscosity effects on the flow harmonics at RHIC - Jacquelyn Noronha Hostler (Columbia University)   ()
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18:50 A Multiplicity Selection Effect on the Long-range Dihadron Correlation Measurement in d+Au Collisions at RHIC - Li Yi   ()
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17:10
Sauvignon-3 - Guilherme Teixeira De Almeida Milhano (Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT)) (until 19:10) ()
17:10 Centrality dependence of baryon-pair production in heavy-ion collisions at different energies - Carlos Merino (University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain))   ()
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17:30 Gluon spectral functions and transport coefficients in Yang–Mills theory - Fister Leonard (IPhT, CEA Saclay)   ()
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17:50 3+1D Structure of Nuclear Collisions From Classical Gluon Fields - Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University)   ()
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18:10 Holographic non-conformal hydrodynamization - maximilian attems (University of Barcelona)   ()
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18:30 Numerical solution of the next to leading order BK equation - Mr Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä)   ()
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18:50 Production of strange particles in jets and the underlying event in p--Pb and Pb--Pb collisions measured with ALICE at the LHC - Xiaoming Zhang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   ()
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12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Saturday PM-1 - Xin-Nian Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Jet measurements in p+Pb and Pb+Pb with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   ()
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14:55 Jet and charged hadron results from CMS - Dr Yaxian Mao (Vanderbilt University (US))   ()
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15:20 Quantifying Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on Jet Observables in p-Pb Collisions - Megan Elizabeth Connors (Yale University (US))   ()
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15:45 Jet vs. Jettiness - the event shape in p+A and e+A collisions - Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)   ()
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16:10 Aspects of centrality determination in asymmetric nuclear collisions - Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)   ()
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16:30 --- Coffee ---
17:00
Discussion: Measurements in pA collisions - open questions - Gunther Roland (MIT) Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN) (until 19:30) ()
17:00 Centrality in jet studies in pA collisions: the need to understand kinematical biases - Guilherme Teixeira De Almeida Milhano (Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT))   ()
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17:25 Hard scatterings and multiplicity biases - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   ()
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17:45 A centrality detector concept. - Alexander Milov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))   ()
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18:00 Remarks / discussion starter - Gunther Roland (MIT)   ()
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20:00 --- Banquet ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---