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

1 Welcome remarks

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

2 Neutrinos: The Era of Long Baselines, Large Detectors and Intense Beams

Speaker: Nicholas Samios (BNL)

Slides Al_Mueller_Nick.pdf Al_Mueller_Nick.ppt

3 Lattice Field Theory: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Norman Christ (Columbia U.)

Slides AlFest_Christ.pdf

4 Al's Early Years at Brookhaven

Speaker: Larry Trueman (BNL)

Slides trueman.pdf

10:45 Coffee break

5 A new look for good old QCD Parton Dynamics

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

Slides YuDokshitzer.pdf

6 Saturation: The Color Glass Condensate, Glasma and RHIC

Speaker: Larry Mc Lerran (BNL)

Slides muellerfest_mclerran.pdf muellerfest_mclerran.ppt

7 New Horizons in QCD

Speaker: Stan Brodsky (SLAC/Stanford U.)

Slides MuellerColumbia2009_s_no_anim1.pdf MuellerColumbia2009_s_no_anim2.pdf

12:45 Lunch break

8 Weak-to-strong coupling transition in AdS/CFT and QCD phenomenology

Speaker: Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook U.)

Slides shuryak_alfest.pdf shuryak_alfest.ppt

9 Pomeron loops with eikonal evolution

Speaker: Alex Kovner (U. of Connecticut)

Slides kovner_alfest.pdf

10 High energy scattering: from weak to strong coupling

Speaker: Edmond Iancu (Saclay)

Slides Iancu_AlFest09.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

11 Small-x amplitudes in the next-to-leading order

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

Slides balitsky.pdf

12 Jets at weak and strong coupling

Speaker: Yoshitaka Hatta (U. of Tsukuba)

Slides AlfestHatta.pdf AlfestHatta.ppt

13 Gluon and dipole cascades on the light-front

Speaker: Anna Stasto (Pennsylvania State U.)

Slides stasto_alfest.pdf

14 QCD and statistical physics

Speaker: Stephane Munier (Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS)

Slides munier_web.pdf

18:00 Wine and cheese reception

Saturday 24 October

15 Small-x physics at HERA

Speaker: Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute)

Slides AlFest_caldwell.pdf

16 Inclusive jets, forward jets, Mueller Navelet jets and jet gap jet: tests of QCD evolution at colliders

Speaker: Christophe Royon (Saclay)

Slides royon.pdf

17 J/Psi way to Nuclear Structure

Speaker: Henri Kowalski (DESY)

Slides kowalski.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

18 R-currents correlators at weak and strong coupling

Speaker: Jochen Bartels (U. of Hamburg)

Slides alfestbartels.pdf

19 Perturbative QCD in the late 1970s

Speaker: Anthony Duncan (Pittsburgh U.)

Slides tony.pdf

20 Factorization in the non-linear small-x regime of QCD

Speaker: Francois Gelis (Saclay)

Slides Gelis-Alfest.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

21 Scattering amplitudes and BFKL Pomeron in QCD and in N=4 SUSY

Speaker: Lev Lipatov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

Slides Lipatov_AlMuel.pdf

22 From Dipoles to Waves and Strings

Speaker: Robi Peschanski (Saclay)

Slides Peschanski.pdf

23 A new mechanism for multiparticle production in N=4 SYM

Speaker: Eugene Levin (Tel Aviv U.)

Slides Levin.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

24 Using Nuclei to Probe Ultra Dense Phases of Matter at RHIC and LHC

Speaker: Miklos Gyulassy (Columbia U.)

Slides Gyulassy_Al70fest.pdf

25 Probing the sQGP in A-A collisions by measuring energetic low-mass dileptons

Speaker: Riudolf Baier (U. of Bielefeld)

Slides baier.pdf

26 Jets, underlying event and HIC

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

Slides AlFest_salam.pdf

27 The axial anomaly in hydrodynamics

Speaker: Dam Son (INT)

Slides alfest-son.pdf

18:00 Banquet, Columbia Faculty House

Sunday 25 October

28 Saturation as seen by PHOBOS

Speaker: Wit Busza (MIT)

Slides busza_al_muller_.pdf

29 Hot QCD Matter: An experimenter's dream and nightmare

Speaker: Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook U.)

Slides alfest_bj.pdf alfest_bj.ppt

30 Forward Physics from RHIC to LHC

Speaker: Michael Murray (U. of Kansas)

Slides MurrayAlfestOct09.pdf MurrayAlfestOct09.ppt

10:30 Coffee break

31 On Anomalous Quark Triangles

Speaker: Arkady Vainshtein (U. of Minnesota)

Slides alfest_vainshtein.pdf

32 The first fermi of a heavy ion collision: progress and open questions

Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (BNL)

Slides MuellerFest_raju.pdf MuellerFest_raju.ppt

33 Heavy quarks in a thermal bath

Speaker: Jean-Paul Blaizot (Saclay)

Slides JPB_Al-fest-09.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

34 From color transparency to opacity

Speaker: Mark Strikman (Pennsylvania State U.)

Slides alfest_strikman.pdf

35 UHECRs and QCD

Speaker: Glennys Farrar (New York U.)

Slides alfest_farrar.pdf

36 Factorization and Closing Remarks

Speaker: George Sterman (Stony Brook U.)

Slides alfest_sterman.pdf