From Particles and Partons to Nuclei and Fields: an international workshop and symposium in celebration of Al Mueller's 70th birthday

23 Oct 2009, 09:00 → 25 Oct 2009, 15:00 Europe/Zurich

Friday 23 October ¶

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome remarks¶

Speaker: T. D. Lee (Columbia U.)

09:15 → 09:45 Neutrinos: The Era of Long Baselines, Large Detectors and Intense Beams¶

Speaker: Nicholas Samios (BNL)

Slides Al_Mueller_Nick.pdf Al_Mueller_Nick.ppt

09:45 → 10:15 Lattice Field Theory: Challenges and Opportunities¶

Speaker: Norman Christ (Columbia U.)

Slides AlFest_Christ.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Al's Early Years at Brookhaven¶

Speaker: Larry Trueman (BNL)

Slides trueman.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 11:45 A new look for good old QCD Parton Dynamics¶

Speaker: Yuri Dokshitzer (LPTHE, UPMS U. Paris 6)

Slides YuDokshitzer.pdf

11:45 → 12:15 Saturation: The Color Glass Condensate, Glasma and RHIC¶

Speaker: Larry Mc Lerran (BNL)

Slides muellerfest_mclerran.pdf muellerfest_mclerran.ppt

12:15 → 12:45 New Horizons in QCD¶

Speaker: Stan Brodsky (SLAC/Stanford U.)

Slides MuellerColumbia2009_s_no_anim1.pdf MuellerColumbia2009_s_no_anim2.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:30 Weak-to-strong coupling transition in AdS/CFT and QCD phenomenology¶

Speaker: Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook U.)

Slides shuryak_alfest.pdf shuryak_alfest.ppt

14:30 → 15:00 Pomeron loops with eikonal evolution¶

Speaker: Alex Kovner (U. of Connecticut)

Slides kovner_alfest.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 High energy scattering: from weak to strong coupling¶

Speaker: Edmond Iancu (Saclay)

Slides Iancu_AlFest09.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Small-x amplitudes in the next-to-leading order¶

Speaker: Ian Balitsky (Old Dominion U./JLab)

Slides balitsky.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Jets at weak and strong coupling¶

Speaker: Yoshitaka Hatta (U. of Tsukuba)

Slides AlfestHatta.pdf AlfestHatta.ppt

17:00 → 17:30 Gluon and dipole cascades on the light-front¶

Speaker: Anna Stasto (Pennsylvania State U.)

Slides stasto_alfest.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 QCD and statistical physics¶

Speaker: Stephane Munier (Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS)

Slides munier_web.pdf

18:00 → 19:30 Wine and cheese reception

Saturday 24 October ¶

09:00 → 09:30 Small-x physics at HERA¶

Speaker: Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute)

Slides AlFest_caldwell.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Inclusive jets, forward jets, Mueller Navelet jets and jet gap jet: tests of QCD evolution at colliders¶

Speaker: Christophe Royon (Saclay)

Slides royon.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 J/Psi way to Nuclear Structure¶

Speaker: Henri Kowalski (DESY)

Slides kowalski.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 R-currents correlators at weak and strong coupling¶

Speaker: Jochen Bartels (U. of Hamburg)

Slides alfestbartels.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Perturbative QCD in the late 1970s¶

Speaker: Anthony Duncan (Pittsburgh U.)

Slides tony.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Factorization in the non-linear small-x regime of QCD¶

Speaker: Francois Gelis (Saclay)

Slides Gelis-Alfest.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:30 Scattering amplitudes and BFKL Pomeron in QCD and in N=4 SUSY¶

Speaker: Lev Lipatov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

Slides Lipatov_AlMuel.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 From Dipoles to Waves and Strings¶

Speaker: Robi Peschanski (Saclay)

Slides Peschanski.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 A new mechanism for multiparticle production in N=4 SYM¶

Speaker: Eugene Levin (Tel Aviv U.)

Slides Levin.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Using Nuclei to Probe Ultra Dense Phases of Matter at RHIC and LHC¶

Speaker: Miklos Gyulassy (Columbia U.)

Slides Gyulassy_Al70fest.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Probing the sQGP in A-A collisions by measuring energetic low-mass dileptons¶

Speaker: Riudolf Baier (U. of Bielefeld)

Slides baier.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Jets, underlying event and HIC¶

Speaker: Gavin Salam (LPTHE, UPMS U. Paris 6)

Slides AlFest_salam.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 The axial anomaly in hydrodynamics¶

Speaker: Dam Son (INT)

Slides alfest-son.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Banquet, Columbia Faculty House

Sunday 25 October ¶

09:00 → 09:30 Saturation as seen by PHOBOS¶

Speaker: Wit Busza (MIT)

Slides busza_al_muller_.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Hot QCD Matter: An experimenter's dream and nightmare¶

Speaker: Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook U.)

Slides alfest_bj.pdf alfest_bj.ppt

10:00 → 10:30 Forward Physics from RHIC to LHC¶

Speaker: Michael Murray (U. of Kansas)

Slides MurrayAlfestOct09.pdf MurrayAlfestOct09.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 On Anomalous Quark Triangles¶

Speaker: Arkady Vainshtein (U. of Minnesota)

Slides alfest_vainshtein.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 The first fermi of a heavy ion collision: progress and open questions¶

Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (BNL)

Slides MuellerFest_raju.pdf MuellerFest_raju.ppt

12:00 → 12:30 Heavy quarks in a thermal bath¶

Speaker: Jean-Paul Blaizot (Saclay)

Slides JPB_Al-fest-09.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 From color transparency to opacity¶

Speaker: Mark Strikman (Pennsylvania State U.)

Slides alfest_strikman.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 UHECRs and QCD¶

Speaker: Glennys Farrar (New York U.)

Slides alfest_farrar.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Factorization and Closing Remarks¶

Speaker: George Sterman (Stony Brook U.)

Slides alfest_sterman.pdf