QGP Meet'08

November 25-27, 2008

Ajay Divatia Lecture Hall

 Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata

PROGRAM

25 November 2008 Tuesday

14:30 – 14:45 Welcome

14:45 – 15:30 A review of the search for QCD critical point: Rajiv Gavai

15:30 – 16:15 Spectra and radial flow at RHIC: Zhangbu Xu

16:15 – 16:45 Tea/Coffee

16:45 – 17:30 Spin Physics: Bernd Surrow

17:30 – 18:15 Novel phases of Dense Matter in the Cosmos and the Laboratory: Debadesh Bandopadhyay

26 November 2008 Wednesday

09:30 – 10:00 Recent results from RHIC: Nu Xu

10:00 – 10:30 Resonance production: Bedangadas Mohanty

10:30 – 11:00 Electromagnetic probes: Jajati Nayak

11:00 – 11:30 Tea/Coffee

11:30 – 12:15 The FAIR Facility and CBM Experiment at GSI: Peter Senger

12:15 – 12:45 Detector development for CBM experiment: Anand K. Dubey

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:20 The Dimuon Spectrometer of ALICE: Indranil Das

14:20 – 14:40 The Photon Multiplicity Detector of ALICE: Sidharth Prasad

14:40 – 15:00 First results for Au+Au collisions at 9.2 A.GeV - Lokesh Kumar
15:00 – 15:20 Response functions of quark-gluon plasma: Akhilesh Ranjan

15:20 – 15:40 Hot QCD equations of state and transport properties of hot and dense matter at RHIC: Vinod Chandra Joshi

15:40 – 16:00 Kaons and antikaons optical potentials in isospin asymmetric hyperonic matter: Arvind kumar

16:00 – 16:20 Tea / Coffee

16:20 – 16: 40 Formation time of Quark Gluon Plasma from thermal photon elliptic flow: Rupa Chatterjee

16:40 – 17:00 Photons from anisotropic Quark-Gluon-Plasma: Lusaka Bhattacharya

17:00 – 17:20 Transverse energy balance for measurement of direct photons in pp collisions: Mriganka Mondal

17:20 – 17:40 Phase transition of quark matter within Fermi liquid theory approach: Kausik Pal

17:40 – 18:00 Aspects of AuAu collisions at RHIC at sqrt(S)=200 GeV and a version of the sequential chain model: Pradeepta Guptaroy

27 November 2008 Thursday

09:30 – 10:15 LHC Predictions: Sangyong Jeon

10:15 – 10:45 Preparedness of LHC experiments: Tapan Nayak

10:45 – 11:15

11:15 – 11:45 Hydrodynamics: Asis K. Chaudhuri

11:45 – 12:15 Partonic effects on jet quenching at RHIC: Subrata Pal

12:15 – 12:45 D-mesons in asymmetric nuclear matter: Amruta Mishra

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

QGP Meet'08

– Fest Colloquium

Ajay Divatia Lecture Hall

 Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata

November 27, 2008

14:00 – 18:00

14:00 – 16:00 Session – 1 Chair: Bikash Sinha

14:00 – 14:45 Journey from LBL to CERN and FAIR:

Hans Gutbrod

14:45 – 15:15 Y.P. Viyogi: A life sketch:

Sudhir Raniwala

15:15 – 15:45 VDG to VECC- Bond of Friendship and

Lasting Collaboration: S. Kailas

16:00 – 16:30 High Tea

16:30 – 18:00 Short presentations:

Dinesh Srivastava

Santanu Pal

Subhasis Chattopadhyay

R.K. Bhandari

Durga Mahapatra

Lalit Mangotra

M.M. Aggarwal

Raghava Verma

Tapan Nayak

Y.P. Viyogi