Hot Quarks workshop lands in Texel
This month young scientists on the physics of ultrarelativstic nucleus-nucleus collisions will meet at Texel during the 8th edition of Hot Quarks international workshop. The event will take place from September 7 to 14 and is organised by an international committee, including the Institute for Subatomic Physics staff member Alessandro Grelli.
The scientific program, with interactive Question&Answer sessions in addition to the presentations, will give a great opportunity to exchange scientific information among the younger members of the Relativistic Heavy Ion community, from both experiments and theory. Following the tradition of this biennial workshop, every participant need to be within 12 years from his/her PhD and to receive a personal invitation in order to attend and give an oral presentation.
In this edition of the event, around 65 participants, equally distributed among theory and experiment, have been selected to attend the workshop out of 100 requests in representation of institutes from 16 countries and 3 continents.
What made Hot Quarks format very successful and allowed it to stand among the most removed workshops in the field is its structure. It lasts six full days with about eleven talks per day and ample time for discussion at the end of both morning and evening sessions. In addition between the two sessions it is scheduled an large break of 4 hours in order to encourage informal interactions among participants and team building activities.
The workshop program will include:
- QCD at high temperature/density and lattice QCD
- Initial state effects and the Color Glass Condensate
- Relativistic hydrodynamic 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 apparatus
This edition of the workshop received substantial funds from several national and international agencies that allowed a sizeable reduction (about 50%) of the participation fee. Among them the organizers want to thank the Dutch Science Fundation, US National Science Fundation, Helmholtz association of German Research Centres, Brookehaven National Laboratory, The ExtreMe Matter Institute (EMMI) and the Czech Academy of Science. In addition a special thank, for the logistic support, goes to the Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 Department of Physics and Faculty of Science.
Last but not least, the workshop will award the best talk of the KKG prize. The prize is dedicated to the memory of Klaus Kinder-Geiger, former organizer who perished in the Swiss Air flight 111 from New York to Geneva in 1998.