20^th International Conference on Nucleus Nucleus Collisions

February 4-10, 2008: Jaipur India

Inaugural Session

C. Rubia : The great Energy transformation - Abstract

Plenary Sessions

L. McLerran : SPS to RHIC and Onwards to LHC - Abstract

T. Hallman : Recent Highlights from STAR - Abstract

A. Franz : Highlights from PHENIX - I : Looking into the center of the dense colored matter - Abstract

Plenary - II : Topical Overview Talks

C. Rubbia : Underground Searches for Dark Matter - Abstract

M. Stephanov : The Phase Diagram of QCD - Abstract

R. Venugopalan : From Glasma to Plasma in Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

Plenary - III : Experimental Talks

R. Debbe : Recent Results from BRAHMS - Abstract

B. Wosiek : Latest Results from PHOBOS - Abstract

B. Mohanty : STAR results on medium properties and response of medium to highly energetic partons - Abstract

T. Awes : Highlights from PHENIX - II - Abstract

P. Seyboth : Recent Results from the Study of the Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the CERN SPS

Plenary - IV : Jets and High pT

Z. Xu : High pT Identified Particle Spectra : Jet Fragmentation and Color Charge Dependence of Energy Loss - Abstract

P.K. Netrakanti : Identifying the Underlying Physics of the Ridge via 3-Particle Delta_eta-Delta_eta Correlations in STAR - Abstract

K. Rajagopal : Insights into Strongly Coupled Plasma from AdS/CFT

I Vitev : Theoretical Developments in Heavy and Light Flavour energy loss - Abstract

Plenary - V : Astrophysics and Strangeness

J. Ellis : Phase Transitions in Early Universe

H. Warringa : Implications of CP Violating Transitions in Hot Quark Matter for Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

S. K. Ghosh : Astrophysics of Strange Matter - Abstract

F. Becattini : Strangeness Productions from SPS to LHC - Abstract

Plenary - VI : Collectivity and Medium Effects

S. Voloshin : Anisotropic flow : achievements, difficulties, expectations - Abstract

A.K. Chaudhuri : Dissipative Hydrodynamics and Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

C. Greiner : QCD Plasma Equilibration Driven by Instabilities - Abstract

R. C. Hwa : Physics Revealed at Intermediate pT - Abstract

Plenary - VII : Lattice QCD, Critical Point & Chiral Symmetry

S. Gupta : Phases and properties of quark matter - Abstract

M. P. Lombardo : QCD at Non-Zero Density: Lattice Results - Abstract

K. Fukushima : Chiral Symmetry and Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

G. Baym : Critical Point Induced by Axial Anomaly in Dense QCD - Abstract

Plenary - VIII : Heavy Flavour and EM Probes

Y. Zhang : Overview of Charm Production at RHIC - Abstract

R. Granier de Cassagnac : Quarkonia Production in Cold and Hot Matters - Abstract

S. H. Lee : Properties of Quarkonia at T_c - Abstract

T. Sakaguchi : Direct Photons - Basis for Characterizing Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

D.K. Srivastava : Direct Photons from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

Plenary - IX : Future Facilities

H. Stoecker : FAIR - New Dimensions and Phases in Future Quark Matter Research - Abstract

S. Chattopadhyay : Exploring the high density matter at FAIR - Abstract

John M. Jowett : The LHC as a Nucleus-Nucleus Collider - Abstract

Steven Vigdor : Status and Evolution of the RHIC Facility - Abstract

S. Sawada : Status and plan of J-PARC - Abstract

Plenary - X : Correlations and Medium effects

V. Koch : Fluctuations and Correlations - Status and Future Prospects - Abstract

G. Westfall : Experimental Results on Fluctuations and Correlations as Signature of QCD Phase Transitions in Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

J. Ulery : Conical Emission in Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

J. Jia : Understanding Jet Quenching and Medium Response via Di-Hadron Correlations - Abstract

Plenary - XI : EM Probes : Dileptons

Hendrik van Hees : Theoretical Review of Dileptons from Heavy Ion Collisions - Abstract

C. Djalali : Medium Modifications of Light Vector Mesons in Photo production Reactions at JLab - Abstract

S. Damjanovic : Thermal Dileptons at SPS energies - Abstract

A. Toia : e+e- pairs: a clock and a thermometer of relativistic heavy ion collisions - Abstract

Plenary - XII : Physics prospects in future experiments

C. Fabjan : ALICE: Getting Ready for Physics - Abstract

D. d'Enterria : High Density QCD with CMS at the LHC - Abstract

N. Grau : ATLAS Physics Prospects - Abstract

T. Ullrich : The Emerging QCD Frontier: The Electron Ion Collider - Abstract

Plenary - XIII : LHC Session

N. Armesto : Predictions for the LHC: an Overview - Abstract

Plenary - XIV : Closing/Summary session

Nu Xu : Search for Partonic EoS in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions - An Experimental Summary of Global and Collective Dynamics

B. Cole : Hard probes: past, present, and future

R. Seto : Photons, Leptons, and Heavy Flavor in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

E.V. Shuryak : QGP - New Frontiers

Parallel Sessions

Title : Characteristics of parton energy loss studied with high pT particle spectra from PHENIX - K. Reygers - Abstract

Title : Jets and their rarer, harder collisions: Towards a quantitative understanding of jet quenching in the QGP - S. Wicks - Abstract

Title : First results on pi0 production over an extended pT range from 200 GeV Au+Au collisions - G. Lin - Abstract

Title : Quenching of light hadrons at RHIC in collisional energy loss scenario - P. Roy - Abstract

Title : Measurements of high pT identified hadron spectra and Rcp from Run 7 Au+Au 200 sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV by the PHENIX experiment - H. Valle - Abstract

Session II - Low-x parton dynamics & Initial conditions

Title : Why does high pT suppression persists at forward rapidity ? - I. G. Bearden - Abstract

Title : Azimuthal correlations of forward dijets in dAu collisions - C. Marquet - Abstract

Title : Two-particle distribution in AA collisions in the CGC framework - F. Gelis - Abstract

Title : Gluon recombination in high parton density - Y. Li - Abstract

Title : The glasma initial state at LHC - T. Lappi - Abstract

Session III - Strangeness Production

Title : Energy and system size dependence of phi meson production in STAR - J. H. Chen - Abstract

Title : phi production in In-In collisions and the phi puzzle - M. Floris - Abstract

Title : System size dependence of strange hadron elliptic flow from Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions - Y. Lu - Abstract

Title : Strangeness production in AuAu collisions at sqrt_sNN = 62.4 GeV - I.C. Arsene - Abstract

Title : K* production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 62.4 and 200 GeV in STAR - S. Dash - Abstract

Session IV - Ads/CFT

Title : Magnetic quasiparticles in sQGP explain low viscosity and static potentials - J. Liao - Abstract

Title : Partonic picture for a strongly-coupled plasma - E. Iancu - Abstract

Title : Ads/CFT Gravity dual for high energy collisions - S. Lin - Abstract

Title : Test of fluidity of AdS/CFT plasma wakes - J. Noronha - Abstract

Title : The fast life of holographic mesons - A. Sinha - Abstract

Session V - High pT physics

Title : rho0 production at high-pT in central Au+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV in STAR - P. Fachini - Abstract

Title : Systematic comparison of jet energy-loss schemes in a 3D hydrodynamic medium - S. A. Bass - Abstract

Title : Energy dependence of jet transport parameter and parton saturation in quark-gluon plasma - J. Casalderrey-Solana - Abstract

Title : Jet-energy loss in heavy ion collisions where does the energy loss lose strength ? - G. G. Barnafoldi - Abstract

Title : Punch-through jets in A+A collisions at RHIC/LHC energy - H. Zhang - Abstract

Title : Characterizing Jets in Heavy Ion Collisions by Flow Method - P. K. Sahu - Abstract

Session VI - Low-x parton dynamics, Initial conditions, thermalization

Title : Measuring gluon shadowing with prompt photons at RHIC and LHC - F. Arleo - Abstract

Title : Cold nuclear matter effects on J/Psi as constrained by Deuteron-Gold measurements at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV in the PHENIX experiment - M. Wysocki - Abstract

Title : Effects of CGC on J/Psi production in nucleus-nucleus collisions - M. Nardi - Abstract

Title : Initial conditions and space-time scales in relativistic heavy ion collisions - Yu. M. Sinyukov - Abstract

Title : Thermalization beyond the bottom-up picture - A. El - Abstract

Title : Early evolution of transversely thermalized partons - M. Chojnacki - Abstract

Session VII - Strangeness and Astrophysics

Title : Multi-strange particles production in Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV in the STAR experiment - X. Wang - Abstract

Title : Strange baryon resonance production from quark coalescence at RHIC - G. Hamar - Abstract

Title : Hyperon-quark mixed phase in compact stars - T. Maruyama - Abstract

Title : Color superconducting quark matter in compact stars - D. Blaschke - Abstract

Title : Bulk viscosity and r-modes of neutron stars - D. Bandyopadhyay - Abstract

Title : Is there quark matter in (low-mass) pulsars ? - J. Schaffner-Bielich - Abstract

Session VIII - Medium-effects The Ridge

Title : High-pT triggered correlations in Au+Au collisions - E. Wenger - Abstract

Title : The shoulder and the Ridge in PHENIX: medium response to fast partons in heavy ion collisions via di-hadron correlations - M. P. McCumber - Abstract

Title : Away-side modification and near-side ridge relative to reaction plane - A. Feng - Abstract

Title : Search for a Ridge structure origin with shower broadening and jet quenching - R. Mizukawa - Abstract

Title : Viscosity and the soft ridge at RHIC - S. Gavin - Abstract

Title : Exploring early parton momentum distribution with the ridge from near-side jet - C. Y. Wong - Abstract

Session IX - Medium response to jets

Title : Back-to-back di-jet triggered multi-hadron correlations as medium probes in STAR - O. Barannikova - Abstract

Title : Constraining the geometry to study jet energy loss with 2-particle correlations vs reaction plane and 2+1 correlations in PHENIX - H. Pei - Abstract

Title : System-size dependence of jet-like di-hadron correlations in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions in STAR - O. Catu - Abstract

Title : Investigating hadronization and medium-induced fragmentation modification in A+A collisions with high-pT jet correlations in PHENIX - A. Adare - Abstract

Title : Anomalous centrality variation of minijet angular correlations in Au-Au collisions at 62 and 200 GeV from STAR - M. Daugherity - Abstract

Session X - Correlations and Fluctuations

Title : Energy dependence of fluctuations in central Pb+Pb collisions from NA49 at the CERN SPS - M. Rybczynski - Abstract

Title : STARs measurement of energy and system size dependence of K/pi fluctuations at RHIC - Z. Ahammed - Abstract

Title : Baryon number,strangeness and electric charge fluctuations at zero and non-zero chemical potential - C. Schmidt - Abstract

Title : STAR measurement of correlation and fluctuations between photons and charged particles at forward rapidities at RHIC - S. M. Dogra - Abstract

Title : Density fluctuations as signature of a non-equilibrium first order phase transition - C. Sasaki - Abstract

Session XI - Hot and Dense QCD

Title : Equation of state and more from lattice regularized QCD - F. Karsch - Abstract

Title : Lattice QCD thermodynamics - Z. Fodor - Abstract

Title : Towards QCD thermodynamics using exact chiral symmetry on lattice - S. Sharma Abstract

Title : Towards a controlled study of the QCD critical point - P. de Forcrand - Abstract

Title : 3D hydro+UrQMD model with QCD Critical point - C. Nonaka - Abstract

Session XII - Flow Experimental results

Title : Measurement of non-flow correlations and elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC - B. Alver Abstract

Title : Elliptic flow fluctuations and non-flow correlations measured by STAR - P. Sorenson - Abstract

Title : System size and beam energy dependence of azimuthal anisotropy from PHENIX - M. Issah - Abstract

Title : Elliptic flow of inclusive photons in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at 200 GeV from STAR experiment - R. Raniwala - Abstract

Title : Measurements of high pT identified hadrons v2 and v4 in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV by the PHENIX experiment - S. Huang - Abstract

Session XIII - Medium response to jets & Mach cone

Title : Jet propogation and Mach cones in (3+1)d ideal hydrodynamics - B. Betz - Abstract

Title : Study of conical emission of particles from heavy quark energy loss via azimuthal angle correlations triggered by non-photonic electrons at STAR - G. Wang - Abstract

Title : Mach cones in a petrubative quark-gluon plasma - B. Mueller - Abstract

Title : QGP collective effects and jet transport - B. Schenke - Abstract

Title : System size dependence of di-hadron correlations with identified strange particles in STAR at RHIC - C. Nattrass - Abstract

Title : Proton-to-pion ratio for the near-side jet in pp and AA collisions at RHIC energies - P. Levai - Abstract

Session XIV - Heavy Flavour

Title : A measurement of the open charm cross-section in sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV Cu+Cu collisions at STAR experiment at RHIC - A. Shabetai - Abstract

Title : Measurements of heavy quark production via single leptons at PHENIX - D. Hornback - Abstract

Title : Zero mode contribution to quarkonium correlators and heavy quark kinetics - P. Petreczky - Abstract

Title : Limits on the viscosity to entropy density ratio from PHENIX data on single electron production - R. Averbeck - Abstract

Title : Measurement of charm and bottom production in pp collisions at sqrt_s = 200 GeV at RHIC-PHENIX - Y. Morino - Abstract

Title : Heavy-flavor particle correlations in STAR via electron azimuthal correlations with open charm mesons - A. Mischke - Abstract

Session XV - Electromagnetic probes photons

Title : Measurements of thermal photons in heavy ion collisions with PHENIX - T. Dahms - Abstract

Title : Electromagnetic radiation from nuclear collisions at RHIC energies - C. Gale - Abstract

Title : Probing the medium with -jet correlation measurements in STAR - A. M. Hamed - Abstract

Title : High pT direct photon-hadron correlations using the PHENIX detector - M. Nguyen - Abstract

Title : High pT direct photon spectra and azimuthal anisotropy measurements in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC-PHENIX - K. Miki - Abstract

Title : Search for direct photons in p+Pb collisions at sqrt_sNN = 17.4 GeV - C. Baumann - Abstract

Session XVI - Collectivity - Theory

Title : Hadronic dissipative effects on transverse dynamics at RHIC - T. Hirano - Abstract

Title : Elliptic flow and viscous hydrodynamics and transport - D. Molnar - Abstract

Title : Aspects of Causal viscous hydrodynamics - R. Bhalerao - Abstract

Title : Causal relativistic hydrodynamics for viscous fluids - H. Song - Abstract

Title : Non-equilibrium entropy density and dissipative processes in relativistic nuclear collisions - A. Muronga - Abstract

Title : Various aspects of exact accelerating hydrodynamic solutions - T. Csorgo - Abstract

Session XVII - Global and Collective dynamics

Rapidity distributions of pi(+/-), K(+/-), p (anti-proton) in p+p and d+Au collisions at 200 GeV - H. Yang - Abstract

Landau Model for RHIC rapidity distribution role of viscosity - T. Kodama - Abstract

Energy and centrality dependence of particle production at very Low pT - T. Gburek - Abstract

Charged hadron results from Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 19.6 GeV - D. Cebra - Abstract

Systematic studies of global observables by PHENIX - K. Homma - Abstract

Session XVIII - J/Psi production

J/Psi suppression in p-A and In-In collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon - R. Arnaldi - Abstract

J/Psi production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at RHIC-PHENIX - S.X. Oda - Abstract

J/Psi production at high pT in p+p and A+A collisions at STAR - Z. Tang - Abstract

First measurement of J/Psi elliptic flow parameter in Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV by the PHENIX experiment - C. Silvestre - Abstract

Onset of J/Psi Melting in quark-gluon-fluid at RHIC T. Gunji - Abstract

Session XIX -- Correlations

3-D source functions at RHIC from the AMPT model - Z.W. Lin - Abstract

PHENIX measurements of 3D emission source functions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV - R. Lacey - Abstract

STARs measurement of long-range forward backward multiplicity correlations as the signature of dense partonic matter in the heavy ion collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV - B.K. Srivastava - Abstract

Search for squeezed-pair correlations at RHIC - S. S. Padula - Abstract

System size dependence of two-particle correlations in p+p, d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au - W. Li - Abstract

Session XX - Future physics prospects/Detectors/ Facilities

Quarkonia studies in Pb+Pb collisions by the ATLAS experiment at LHC - A. Lebedev - Abstract

Heavy flavour physics in ALICE - M. Masera - Abstract

High-mass dimuon resonances in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.5 TeV/c2 - D. Dutta - Abstract

The ALICE Muon Spectrometer and related physics - B. Espagnon - Abstract

Measuring charm and bottom using the PHENIX silicon vertex detectors - H. van Hecke - Abstract

Session XXI - Global and Collective dynamics -

Saturation of ET/Nch and Freeze-out criteria in heavy-ion collisions - R. Sahoo - Abstract

Dissipation in the very early stage of hydrodynamical evolution in relativistic heavy ion collisions - P. Bozek - Abstract

Shear viscosity of a hadronic gas mixture - K. Itakura - Abstract

First physics with ALICE: From pp to Pb-Pb collisions - K. Safarik - Abstract

Soft physics capabilities of CMS in pp at 14 TeV and Pb-Pb at 5.5 TeV - F. Sikler - Abstract

Global features of Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC using the ATLAS Detector - P. Steinberg - Abstract

Session XXII - Heavy quark production

Title : Falsifying AdS/CFT drag or pQCD heavy quark energy loss with A+A at RHIC and LHC - W. A. Horowitz - Abstract

Upsilon production in p+p and Au+Au collisions in STAR - D. Das - Abstract

Quarkonia melting above deconfinement - A. Mocsy - Abstract

Statistical hadronization of charm: From FAIR to LHC - A. Andronic - Abstract

Charmonium dynamics in dA and AA at RHIC and LHC - K. Tywoniuk - Abstract

Charomonium dissociation temperatures in lattice QCD with a finite volume technique - T. Umeda - Abstract

Session XXIII - - Electromagnetic probes : dileptons

Systematic measurements of light vector mesons at RHIC-PHENIX - Y. Nakamiya - Abstract

First Results from the HADES Collaboration on Dielectron Production in C+C Collisions at 1 GeV and 2 GeV per Nucleon and the Solution to the DLS Puzzle - Y. C. Pachmayer - Abstract

Di-lepton spectroscopy in CBM - C. Hoehne - Abstract

Measuring the initial temperature through photon to dilepton ratio - J.K. Nayak - Abstract

Dilepton production as a measure of QGP thermalization time - M. Martinez - Abstract

phi and omega-rho production in d-C, d-U, S-U and Pb-Pb at SPS energies - D. Jouan - Abstract

Session XXIV - Future physics prospects/Detectors/ Facilities

STAR physics program and technical challenges with the RHIC energy scan with Au+Au collisions - G. Odyniec - Abstract

Data analysis in ALICE - F. Carminati - Abstract

Anisotropic flow measurements in ALICE - S. Raniwala - Abstract

Prospects of photon-tagged jet measurements in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.5 TeV with the CMS detector - C. Loizides - Abstract

Jets and -jet physics with ALICE - A. Morsch - Abstract

Particle multiplicites and nuclear modification factors at the LHC from non-linear QCD evolution - J. L. Albacete - Abstract

Poster Sessions