| 5th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of
Quark Gluon Plasma
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre/Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics February 8 - 12, 2005, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India |
| SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME (Posted 22/12/2004) |
| 8th February 2005(Tuesday) |
| Inaugural Session | 10:00 AM -- 10:30 AM |
| Tea Break | 10:30 AM -- 11:00 AM |
| SESSION -- I (11:00 - 13:15) | Opening Session | Chair: P. K. Kaw |
| J. P. Blaizot | Theoretical Overview of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ppt | 11:00 -- 11:45 |
| T. Hallman | The Search for Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions : Experimental Overview ppt | 11:45 -- 12:30 |
| J. Ellis | From Little Bangs to the Big Bang ppt | 12:30 -- 13:15 |
| Lunch Break | 13:15 -- 14:30 |
| SESSION -- II (14:30 - 16:15) | Experimental Highlights - I | Chair: J. Schukraft |
| B. Jacak | Probing Dense Partonic Matter at RHIC: News from PHENIX ppt | 14:30 -- 15:15 |
| D. Hofman | PHOBOS Overview pdf | 15:15 -- 15:45 |
| R. Debbe | BRAHMS Overview ppt | 15:45 -- 16:15 |
| Tea Break | 16:15 -- 16:45 |
| SESSION -- III (16:45 - 18:00) | Experimental Highlights - II | Chair: L. Riccati |
| B. Cole | Review of p+p, p+A and A+A Results ppt | 16:45 -- 17:30 |
| Y. P. Viyogi | Physics at Forward Rapidities ppt | 17:30 -- 18:00 |
| 9th February 2005(Wednesday) |
| SESSION -- IV (09:00 - 11:00) | QCD and QGP | Chair: J. Maharana |
| E. Shuryak | Signatures of Strongly Coupled Quark Gluon Plasma ppt | 09:00 -- 09:30 |
| R. Venugopalan | The Color Glass Condensate ppt/pdf | 09:30 -- 10:00 |
| Y. Kovchegov | QCD Phenomenology and Heavy Ion Physics ppt | 10:00 -- 10:30 |
| R. Gavai | Results from Lattice QCD pdf | 10:30 -- 11:00 |
| Tea Break | 11:00 -- 11:30 |
| SESSION -- V (11:30 - 13:00) | Fluctuations and Correlations | Chair: S. Steadman |
| V. Koch | Fluctuations and Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions pdf | 11:30 -- 12:00 |
| G. Roland | Particle Multiplicities, Correlations and Fluctuations in High Energy Collisions pdf | 12:00 -- 12:30 |
| S. Voloshin | Heavy Ion Collisions: Correlations in Particle Production ppt | 12:30 -- 13:00 |
| Lunch Break | 13:00 -- 14:30 |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| P-SESSION -- I (14:30 - 16:10) | Experiment - I : RHIC | Chair: R. S. Bhalerao |
| Z. Xu | Identified Particle Spectra with TPC and TOF at STAR ppt | 14:30 -- 14:50 |
| Supriya Das | Event By Event Fluctuation in K/π Ratio at RHIC pdf | 14:50 -- 15:10 |
| C. Mironov | Studying Nuclear Matter created in p+p, p+A and A+A Collisions using Charged Kaons ppt | 15:10 -- 15:30 |
| D. Mukhopadhyay | Identified Particle Yields and Flow in Au+Au Collisions at Sqrt{sNN} = 200 GeV | 15:30 -- 15:50 |
| D. K. Mishra | Measurement of Delta++ Resonance Production in d+Au Collisions at Sqrt{sNN} = 200 GeV ppt | 15:50 -- 16:10 |
| P-SESSION -- II (14:30 - 16:10) | Theory - I | Chair: S. C. Phatak |
| J. Randrup | Statistical Production of Pentaquarks in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions pdf | 14:30 -- 14:50 |
| J. Cleymans | The Horn and the Thermal Model ppt | 14:50 -- 15:10 |
| M. Bleicher | Strangeness Dynamics and Transverse Pressure in Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions | 15:10 -- 15:30 |
| A. Goyal | Effect of Curvature on Confinement-Deconfinement Phase Transition ppt | 15:30 -- 15:50 |
| A. Bhattacharyya | Consequences of Quark-Hadron Phase Transition in Dense Stars ppt | 15:50 -- 16:10 |
| Tea Break | 16:10 -- 16:40 |
| P-SESSION -- III (16:40 - 18:20) | Experiment - II : Future Facility | Chair: P. Bordalo |
| P. Senger | The Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment at the Future Facility for Ions and Antiprotons in Darmstadt pdf/ppt | 16:40 -- 17:00 |
| G. Martinez | The MUON Spectrometer of ALICE pdf | 17:00 -- 17:20 |
| W. F. J. Mueller | The CBM Experiment at FAIR - New Challenges for Front-End Electronics, Data Acquisition and Trigger Systems ppt/pdf | 17:20 -- 17:40 |
| P. Bhattacharya | Design, Construction and Front-End Electronics of the II Station of Forward Muon Spectrometer in ALICE at SINP | 17:40 -- 18:00 |
| Z. Z. Vilakazi | The ALICE Dimuon High Level Trigger ppt | 18:00 -- 18:20 |
| P-SESSION -- IV (16:40 - 18:20) | Theory - II | Chair: V. M. Bannur |
| E. Laermann | Lattice Results on the Phase Diagram and the Thermodynamics of QCD at High Temperature | 16:40 -- 17:00 |
| S. Mrowczynski | Whitening of the Quark-Gluon Plasma pdf | 17:00 -- 17:20 |
| S. Gupta | A Transport Coefficient: Electrical Conductivity pdf | 17:20 -- 17:40 |
| R. Ray | Operators Relations and Chiral Dynamics at Non-Zero Chemical Potential pdf | 17:40 -- 18:00 |
| B. Leyak | Strings with Hadronic Core in QGP pdf | 18:00 -- 18:20 |
| CONFERENCE BANQUET |
| 10th February 2005(Thursday) |
| SESSION -- VI (09:00 - 10:30) | Jets and Baryon Transport | Chair: D. K. Srivastava |
| I. Vitev | Jet Quenching in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions pdf | 09:00 -- 09:30 |
| A. Mischke | High-pT Measurements in STAR ppt/pdf | 09:30 -- 10:00 |
| F. Videbaek | Experimental Status on Baryon Transport in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ppt | 10:00 -- 10:30 |
| Tea Break | 10:30 -- 11:00 |
| SESSION -- VII (11:00 - 12:30) | EM Probes | Chair: G. Zinovjev |
| H. Hamagaki | Electromagnetic Probes in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions ppt | 11:00 -- 11:30 |
| P. Aurenche | Photons and Dileptons from Quark Gluon Plasma | 11:30 -- 12:00 |
| P. K. Roy | Photons from Hot and Dense Hadronic Matter pdf | 12:00 -- 12:30 |
| Lunch Break | 12:30 -- 14:00 |
| PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| P-SESSION -- V (14:00 - 15:40) | Experiment - III : RHIC | Chair: S. Raniwala |
| B. Mohanty | First Results from Photon Multiplicity Detector at RHIC ppt | 14:00 -- 14:20 |
| A. K. Purwar | Probing Initial States at RHIC through Particle Production at Forward and Backward Rapidities using PHENIX Muon Arms ppt | 14:20 -- 14:40 |
| S. Bathe | Direct Photons in PHENIX ppt | 14:40 -- 15:00 |
| T. Tabaru | Heavy Quark and J/Psi Production at RHIC/PHENIX ppt | 15:00 -- 15:20 |
| N. N. Ajitanand | Study of Jet Fragmentation via Azimuthal Correlations as a probe of sQGP at RHIC ppt | 15:20 -- 15:40 |
| P-SESSION -- VI (14:00 - 15:40) | Theory - III | Chair: L. K. Mangotra |
| H. Mishra | Color Superconducting Strange Quark Matter at Finite Temperature pdf | 14:00 -- 14:20 |
| M. G. Mustafa | Dynamical Screening in the Quark-Gluon Plasma pdf | 14:20 -- 14:40 |
| I. P. Lokhtin | Jet Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions with Compact Muon Solenoid Detector at the LHC pdf | 14:40 -- 15:00 |
| P. K. Sahu | Jet Characterization at RHIC Energy pdf | 15:00 -- 15:20 |
| C. Mukku | Pions Energing from an Arbitrarivly Disoriented Chiral Condensate ppt | 15:20 -- 15:40 |
| Tea Break | 15:40 -- 16:00 |
| P-SESSION -- VII (16:00 - 17:00) | Experiment - IV : SPS | Chair: D. P. Mahapatra |
| V. Friese | Recent Results from NA49 ppt | 16:00 -- 16:20 |
| J. Seixas | First Results of the NA60 Experiment at the CERN SPS ppt | 16:20 -- 16:40 |
| C. Quintans | Final Results on Charmonia Absorption in Pb-Pb Collisions at the CERN SPS pdf | 16:40 -- 17:00 |
| P-SESSION -- VIII (16:00 - 17:00) | Experiment - V : Future Facility | Chair: K. Kar |
| J. Stroth | Probing Dense Baryonic Matter with Di-electrons ppt | 16:00 -- 16:20 |
| P. Shukla | Di-electron Physics with ALICE Transition Radiation Detector ppt | 16:20 -- 16:40 |
| C. Finck | The Muon Spectrometer of ALICE pdf | 16:40 -- 17:00 |
| POSTER
(Poster may be kept on the display board for the period February 9 - 11, 2005) |
| CULTURAL PROGRAMME |
| 11th February 2005(Friday) |
| SESSION -- VIII (09:00 - 11:00) | Low x and Heavy Flavour | Chair: H. G. Ritter |
| L. McLerran | The Color Glass Condensate at RHIC and LHC ppt | 09:00 -- 09:30 |
| S. H. Lee | J/psi Hadron Interaction in Vacuum and in QGP ppt | 09:30 -- 10:00 |
| J. Rafelski | Strangeness and the Discovery of Quark - Gluon Plasma pdf | 10:00 -- 10:30 |
| M. Lamont | Recent Results on Strangeness and Heavy Flavour Production at RHIC ppt | 10:30 -- 11:00 |
| Tea Break | 11:00 -- 11:30 |
| SESSION -- IX (11:30 - 13:00) | High Density Matter/Astrophysics | Chair: S. Raha |
| W. Greiner | Clusters of Matter and Antimatter - A Mechanism for Cold Compression | 11:30 -- 12:00 |
| I. Bombaci | Quark Deconfinement in Neutron Stars and Gamma Ray Bursts | 12:00 -- 12:30 |
| D. Bandyopadhyay | Exotica in Rotating Compact Stars pdf | 12:30 -- 13:00 |
| Lunch Break | 13:00 -- 14:30 |
| EXCURSIONS |
| 12th February 2005(Saturday) |
| SESSION -- X (09:00 - 11:00) | EOS and Hydrodynamics | Chair: B. K. Jain |
| U. Heinz | Equation of State and Collective Dynamics ps | 09:00 -- 09:30 |
| P. B-Munzinger | Hadron Production in Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions and the QCD Phase Boundary pdf | 09:30 -- 10:00 |
| N. Xu | Equation of State and Collective Phenomena in Heavy Ion Collisions pdf | 10:00 -- 10:30 |
| A. K. Chaudhuri | Hydrodynamical Evolution of Dissipative QGP Fluid pdf | 10:30 -- 11:00 |
| Tea Break | 11:00 -- 11:30 |
| SESSION -- XI (11:30 - 13:00) | Hadronization and HBT | Chair: T. Kodama |
| T. Csorgo | Review of Hanbury Brown - Twiss (or Bose-Einstein) Correlations in High Energy Nuclear Physics pdf/ppt | 11:30 -- 12:00 |
| M. Kopytine | Correlations at RHIC: Interferometry and Event Structure pdf | 12:00 -- 12:30 |
| S. A. Bass | Hadronization at RHIC: Interplay of Recombination and Fragmentation ppt | 12:30 -- 13:00 |
| Lunch Break | 13:00 -- 14:30 |
| SESSION -- XII (14:30 - 16:30) | Future Facilities | Chair: R. K. Bhandari |
| Y. Schutz | Heavy Ion Physics at LHC ppt | 14:30 -- 15:00 |
| H. Gutbrod | Physics Opportunities at the International FAIR (Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research) at Darmstadt | 15:00 -- 15:30 |
| Summary Session | Chair: Bikash Sinha | |
| J. Stachel | Experimental Summary of ICPAQGP - 2005 pdf | 15:30 -- 16:15 |
| H. Stoecker | Theoretical Summary of ICPAQGP - 2005 ppt | 16:15 -- 17:00 |