20th International Conference on Nucleus Nucleus Collisions

February 4-10, 2008: Jaipur India

 

 

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February 3, 2008 (Registration)
Date
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
4th Feb
Welcome & Plenary
Plenary
-Free-
5th Feb
Plenary
Parallel
-Free-
6th Feb
Plenary
Plenary
Poster
-Cultural Function-
7th Feb
Plenary
Excursion
Excursion
Excursion
8th Feb
Plenary
Parallel
-Free-
9th Feb
Plenary
Parallel
Conference
Banquet
10th Feb
Plenary
NPA AWARDS
Departure
 

Please note that a school on QGP will be held at Jaipur, during February 1-3, 2008.
(See the conference website for details)

 

Program for QM2008

 

4th February 2008

Inaugural Session

09:00 - 10:00 - Welcome

10:00 - 10:30 C. Rubia : The great Energy transformation

10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee Break

Plenary - I : Overview Talks - Chair : R. Stock

11:00 - 11:45 L. McLerran : SPS to RHIC and Onwards to LHC

11:45 - 12:10 T. Hallman : Recent Highlights from STAR

12:10 - 12:35 A. Franz : Highlights from PHENIX - I : Looking into the center of the dense colored matter

12:35 - 14:00 LUNCH

Plenary - II : Topical Overview Talks - Chair : M. G. K. Menon

14:00 - 14:30 C. Rubbia : Underground Searches for Dark Matter

14:30 - 15:00 M. Stephanov : The Phase Diagram of QCD

15:00 - 15:30 R. Venugopalan : From Glasma to Plasma in Heavy Ion Collisions

15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee Break

Plenary - III : Experimental Talks - Chair : H. Ritter

16:00 - 16:25 R. Debbe : Recent Results from BRAHMS

16:25 - 16:50 B. Wosiek : Latest Results from PHOBOS

16:50 - 17:15 B. Mohanty : STAR results on medium properties and response of medium to highly energetic partons

17:15 - 17:40 T. Awes : Highlights from PHENIX - II

17:40 - 18:05 P. Seyboth : Recent Results from the Study of the Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the CERN SPS

5th February 2008

Plenary - IV : Jets and High pT - Chair : X. N. Wang

09:00 - 09:25 Z. Xu : High pT Identified Particle Spectra : Jet Fragmentation and Color Charge Dependence of Energy Loss

09:25 - 09:45 P.K. Netrakanti : Identifying the Underlying Physics of the Ridge via 3-Particle Delta_eta-Delta_eta Correlations in STAR

09:45 - 10:10 K. Rajagopal : Insights into Strongly Coupled Plasma from AdS/CFT

10:10 - 10:35 I Vitev : Theoretical Developments in Heavy and Light Flavour energy loss

10:35 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break

Plenary - V : Astrophysics and Strangeness - Chair : S. Raha

11:00 - 11:25 J. Ellis : Phase Transitions in Early Universe

11:25 - 11:50 H. Warringa : Implications of CP Violating Transitions in Hot Quark Matter for Heavy Ion Collisions

11:50 - 12:10 S. K. Ghosh : Astrophysics of Strange Matter

12:10 - 12:35 F. Becattini : Strangeness Productions from SPS to LHC

12:35 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 18:10 Parallel Sessions

14:00 - 15:40 Session I - High pT physics - Chair : P. Jacobs

14:00 - 14:20 Characteristics of parton energy loss studied with high pT particle spectra from PHENIX - K. Reygers

14:20 - 14:40 Jets and their rarer, harder collisions: Towards a quantitative understanding of jet quenching in the QGP - S. Wicks

14:40 15:00 First results on pi0 production over an extended pT range from 200 GeV Au+Au collisions - G. Lin

15:00 15:20 Quenching of light hadrons at RHIC in collisional energy loss scenario - P. Roy

15:20 15:40 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

14:00 - 15:40 Session II - Low-x parton dynamics & Initial conditions - Chair : S. Pal

14:00 - 14:20 Why does high pT suppression persists at forward rapidity ? - I. G. Bearden

14:20 - 14:40 Azimuthal correlations of forward dijets in dAu collisions - C. Marquet

14:40 - 15:00 Two-particle distribution in AA collisions in the CGC framework - F. Gelis

15:00 - 15:20 Gluon recombination in high parton density - Y. Li

15:20 - 15:40 The glasma initial state at LHC - T. Lappi

14:00 - 15:40 Session III - Strangeness Production - Chair : Y.G. Ma

14:00 - 14:20 Energy and system size dependence of phi meson production in STAR - J. H. Chen

14:20 - 14:40 phi production in In-In collisions and the phi puzzle - M. Floris

14:40 - 15:00 System size dependence of strange hadron elliptic flow from Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions - Y. Lu

15:00 - 15:20 Strangeness production in AuAu collisions at sqrt_sNN = 62.4 GeV - I.C. Arsene

15:20 - 15:40 K* production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 62.4 and 200 GeV in STAR - S. Dash

14:00 - 15:40 Session IV - Ads/CFT - Chair : J. Maharana

14:00 - 14:20 Magnetic quasiparticles in sQGP explain low viscosity and static potentials - J. Liao

14:20 - 14:40 Partonic picture for a strongly-coupled plasma - E. Iancu

14:40 - 15:00 Ads/CFT Gravity dual for high energy collisions - S. Lin

15:00 - 15:20 Test of fluidity of AdS/CFT plasma wakes - J. Noronha

15:20 - 15:40 The fast life of holographic mesons - A. Sinha

15:40 - 16:10 TEA/COFFEE BREAK

16:10-18:10 Session V - High pT physics - Chair : R. Snellings

16:10 - 16:30 rho0 production at high-pT in central Au+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV in STAR - P. Fachini

16:30 - 16:50 Systematic comparison of jet energy-loss schemes in a 3D hydrodynamic medium - S. A. Bass

16:50 - 17:10 Energy dependence of jet transport parameter and parton saturation in quark-gluon plasma - J. Casalderrey-Solana

17:10 - 17:30 Jet-energy loss in heavy ion collisions where does the energy loss lose strength ? - G. G. Barnafoldi

17:30 - 17:50 Punch-through jets in A+A collisions at RHIC/LHC energy - H. Zhang

17:50 - 18:10 Characterizing Jets in Heavy Ion Collisions by Flow Method - P. K. Sahu

16:10 - 18:10 Session VI - Low-x parton dynamics, Initial conditions, thermalization - Chair : R. Basu

16:10 - 16:30 Measuring gluon shadowing with prompt photons at RHIC and LHC - F. Arleo

16:30 - 16:50 Cold nuclear matter effects on J/Psi as constrained by Deuteron-Gold measurements at sNN = 200 GeV in the PHENIX experiment - M. Wysocki

16:50 - 17:10 Effects of CGC on J/Psi production in nucleus-nucleus collisions - M. Nardi

17:10 - 17:30 Initial conditions and space-time scales in relativistic heavy ion collisions - Yu. M. Sinyukov

17:30 - 17:50 Thermalization beyond the bottom-up picture - A. El

17:50 - 18:10 Early evolution of transversely thermalized partons - M. Chojnacki

16:10 - 18:10 Session VII - Strangeness and Astrophysics - Chair : P. Bhattacharjee

16:10 - 16:30 Multi-strange particles production in Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV in the STAR experiment - X. Wang

16:30 - 16:50 Strange baryon resonance production from quark coalescence at RHIC - G. Hamar

16:50 - 17:10 Hyperon-quark mixed phase in compact stars - T. Maruyama

17:10 - 17:30 Color superconducting quark matter in compact stars - D. Blaschke

17:30 - 17:50 Bulk viscosity and r-modes of neutron stars - D. Bandyopadhyay

17:50 - 18:10 Is there quark matter in (low-mass) pulsars ? - J. Schaffner-Bielich

16:10 - 18:10 Session VIII - Medium-effects The Ridge - Chair : B. Wyslouch

16:10 - 16:30 High-pT triggered correlations in Au+Au collisions - E. Wenger

16:30 - 16:50 The shoulder and the Ridge in PHENIX: medium response to fast partons in heavy ion collisions via di-hadron correlations - M. P. McCumber

16:50 - 17:10 Away-side modification and near-side ridge relative to reaction plane - A. Feng

17:10 - 17:30 Search for a Ridge structure origin with shower broadening and jet quenching - R. Mizukawa

17:30 - 17:50 Viscosity and the soft ridge at RHIC - S. Gavin

17:50 -18:10 Exploring early parton momentum distribution with the ridge from near-side jet - C. Y. Wong

6th February 2008

Plenary - VI : Collectivity and Medium Effects - Chair : A. Poskanzer

09:00 - 09:25 S. Voloshin : Anisotropic flow : achievements, difficulties, expectations

09:25 - 09:50 A.K. Chaudhuri : Dissipative Hydrodynamics and Heavy Ion Collisions

09:50 - 10:15 C. Greiner : QCD Plasma Equilibration Driven by Instabilities

10:15 - 10:40 R. C. Hwa : Physics Revealed at Intermediate pT

10:40 - 11:10 Tea/Coffee Break

Plenary - VII : Lattice QCD, Critical Point & Chiral Symmetry - Chair : F. Karsch

11:10 - 11:30 S. Gupta : Phases and properties of quark matter

11:30 - 11:50 M. P. Lombardo : QCD at Non-Zero Density: Lattice Results

11:50 - 12:15 K. Fukushima : Chiral Symmetry and Heavy Ion Collisions

12:15 - 12:40 G. Baym : Critical Point Induced by Axial Anomaly in Dense QCD

12:40 - 14:00 LUNCH

Plenary - VIII : Heavy Flavour and EM Probes - Chair : P. Braun-Munzinger

14:00 - 14:25 Y. Zhang : Overview of Charm Production at RHIC

14:25 - 14:50 R. Granier de Cassagnac : Quarkonia Production in Cold and Hot Matters

14:50 - 15:15 S. H. Lee : Properties of Quarkonia at T_c

15:15 - 15:40 T. Sakaguchi : Direct Photons - Basis for Characterizing Heavy Ion Collisions

15:40 - 16:05 D.K. Srivastava : Direct Photons from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

16:05 - 18:15 Poster Sessions

Cultural Function

7th February 2008

Plenary - IX : Future Facilities - Chair : R.K. Bhandari

09:00 - 09:20 H. Stoecker : FAIR - New Dimensions and Phases in Future Quark Matter Research

09:20 - 09:40 S. Chattopadhyay : Exploring the high density matter at FAIR

09:40 - 10:00 John M. Jowett : The LHC as a Nucleus-Nucleus Collider

10:00 - 10:20 Steven Vigdor : Status and Evolution of the RHIC Facility

10:20 - 10:40 S. Sawada : Status and plan of J-PARC

Excursion : Jaipur City Tour

8th February 2008

Plenary - X : Correlations and Medium effects - Chair : L. Riccati

09:00 - 09:25 V. Koch : Fluctuations and Correlations - Status and Future Prospects

09:25 - 09:50 G. Westfall : Experimental Results on Fluctuations and Correlations as Signature of QCD Phase Transitions in Heavy Ion Collisions

09:50 - 10:15 J. Ulery : Conical Emission in Heavy Ion Collisions

10:15 - 10:40 J. Jia : Understanding Jet Quenching and Medium Response via Di-Hadron Correlations

10:40 - 11:10 Tea/Coffee Break

Plenary - XI : EM Probes : Dileptons - Chair : H. Gutbrod

11:10 - 11:35 Hendrik van Hees : Theoretical Review of Dileptons from Heavy Ion Collisions

11:35 - 12:00 C. Djalali : Medium Modifications of Light Vector Mesons in Photo production Reactions at JLab

12:00 - 12:20 S. Damjanovic : Thermal Dileptons at SPS energies

12:20 - 12:40 A. Toia : e+e- pairs: a clock and a thermometer of relativistic heavy ion collisions

12:40 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 18:10 Parallel Sessions

14:00 - 15:40 Session IX - Medium response to jets - Chair : H. Hamagaki

14:00 - 14:20 Back-to-back di-jet triggered multi-hadron correlations as medium probes in STAR - O. Barannikova

14:20 - 14:40 Constraining the geometry to study jet energy loss with 2-particle correlations vs reaction plane and 2+1 correlations in PHENIX - H. Pei

14:40 - 15:00 System-size dependence of jet-like di-hadron correlations in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions in STAR - O. Catu

15:00 - 15:20 Investigating hadronization and medium-induced fragmentation modification in A+A collisions with high-pT jet correlations in PHENIX - A. Adare

15:20 - 15:40 Anomalous centrality variation of minijet angular correlations in Au-Au collisions at 62 and 200 GeV from STAR - M. Daugherity

14:00 - 15:40 Session X - Correlations and Fluctuations - Chair : M.M. Aggarwal

14:00 - 14:20 Energy dependence of fluctuations in central Pb+Pb collisions from NA49 at the CERN SPS - M. Rybczynski

14:20 - 14:40 STARs measurement of energy and system size dependence of K/pi fluctuations at RHIC - Z. Ahammed

14:40 - 15:00 Baryon number,strangeness and electric charge fluctuations at zero and non-zero chemical potential - C. Schmidt

15:00 - 15:20 STAR measurement of correlation and fluctuations between photons and charged particles at forward rapidities at RHIC - S. M. Dogra

15:20 - 15:40 Density fluctuations as signature of a non-equilibrium first order phase transition - C. Sasaki

14:00 - 15:40 Session XI - Hot and Dense QCD - Chair : R. Gavai

14:00 - 14:20 Equation of state and more from lattice regularized QCD - F. Karsch

14:20 - 14:40 Lattice QCD thermodynamics - Z. Fodor

14:40 - 15:00 Towards QCD thermodynamics using exact chiral symmetry on lattice - S. Sharma

15:00 - 15:20 Towards a controlled study of the QCD critical point - P. de Forcrand

15:20 - 15:40 3D hydro+UrQMD model with QCD Critical point - C. Nonaka

14:00 - 15:40 Session XII - Flow Experimental results - Chair : D. P. Mahapatra

14:00 - 14:20 Measurement of non-flow correlations and elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC - B. Alver

14:20 - 14:40 Elliptic flow fluctuations and non-flow correlations measured by STAR - P. Sorenson

14:40 - 15:00 System size and beam energy dependence of azimuthal anisotropy from PHENIX - M. Issah

15:00 - 15:20 Elliptic flow of inclusive photons in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at 200 GeV from STAR experiment - R. Raniwala

15:20 - 15:40 Measurements of high pT identified hadrons v2 and v4 in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV by the PHENIX experiment - S. Huang

15:40 - 16:10 TEA/COFFEE BREAK

16:10 - 17:50 Session XIII - Medium response to jets & Mach cone - Chair : B. Jacak

16:10 - 16:30 Jet propogation and Mach cones in (3+1)d ideal hydrodynamics - B. Betz

16:30 - 16:50 Study of conical emission of particles from heavy quark energy loss via azimuthal angle correlations triggered by non-photonic electrons at STAR - G. Wang

16:50 - 17:10 Mach cones in a petrubative quark-gluon plasma - B. Mueller

17:10 - 17:30 QGP collective effects and jet transport - B. Schenke

17:30 - 17:50 System size dependence of di-hadron correlations with identified strange particles in STAR at RHIC - C. Nattrass

17:50 - 18:10 Proton-to-pion ratio for the near-side jet in pp and AA collisions at RHIC energies - P. Levai

16:10 - 17:50 Session XIV - Heavy Flavour - Chair : H. Huang

16:10 - 16:30 A measurement of the open charm cross-section in sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV Cu+Cu collisions at STAR experiment at RHIC - A. Shabetai

16:30 - 16:50 Measurements of heavy quark production via single leptons at PHENIX - D. Hornback

16:50 - 17:10 Zero mode contribution to quarkonium correlators and heavy quark kinetics - P. Petreczky

17:10 - 17:30 Limits on the viscosity to entropy density ratio from PHENIX data on single electron production - R. Averbeck

17:30 - 17:50 Measurement of charm and bottom production in pp collisions at sqrt_s = 200 GeV at RHIC-PHENIX - Y. Morino

17:50 - 18:10 Heavy-flavor particle correlations in STAR via electron azimuthal correlations with open charm mesons - A. Mischke

16:10 17:50 Session XV - Electromagnetic probes photons - Chair : B. Kaempfer

16:10 - 16:30 Measurements of thermal photons in heavy ion collisions with PHENIX - T. Dahms

16:30 - 16:50 Electromagnetic radiation from nuclear collisions at RHIC energies - C. Gale

16:50 - 17:10 Probing the medium with -jet correlation measurements in STAR - A. M. Hamed

17:10 - 17:30 High pT direct photon-hadron correlations using the PHENIX detector - M. Nguyen

17:30 - 17:50 High pT direct photon spectra and azimuthal anisotropy measurements in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC-PHENIX - K. Miki

17:50 - 18:10 Search for direct photons in p+Pb collisions at sqrt_sNN = 17.4 GeV - C. Baumann

16:10 - 17:50 Session XVI - Collectivity - Theory - Chair : G. Zinovjev

16:10 - 16:30 Hadronic dissipative effects on transverse dynamics at RHIC - T. Hirano

16:30 - 16:50 Elliptic flow and viscous hydrodynamics and transport - D. Molnar

16:50 - 17:10 Aspects of Causal viscous hydrodynamics - R. Bhalerao

17:10 - 17:30 Causal relativistic hydrodynamics for viscous fluids - H. Song

17:30 - 17:50 Non-equilibrium entropy density and dissipative processes in relativistic nuclear collisions - A. Muronga

17:50 - 18:10 Various aspects of exact accelerating hydrodynamic solutions - T. Csorgo

9th February 2008

Plenary - XII : Physics prospects in future experiments - Chair : J. Stachel

09:00 - 09:25 C. Fabjan : ALICE: Getting Ready for Physics

09:25 - 09:45 D. d'Enterria : High Density QCD with CMS at the LHC

09:45 - 10:05 N. Grau : ATLAS Physics Prospects

10:05 - 10:25 T. Ullrich : The Emerging QCD Frontier: The Electron Ion Collider

10:25 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break

Plenary - XIII : LHC Session - Co-ordinator : B. Sinha

11:00 - 11:30 N. Armesto : Predictions for the LHC: an Overview

11:30 - 12:30 LHC Panel Discussion Session

Co-ordinator : B. Sinha

Panelist - J.P. Blaizot, D. Kharzeev, B. Muller and J. Schukraft

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 18:10 Parallel Sessions

14:00 - 15:40 Session XVII - Global and Collective dynamics - Chair : J. Cleymans

14:00 - 14:20 Rapidity distributions of , K, p (anti-proton) in p+p and d+Au collisions at 200 GeV - H. Yang

14:20 - 14:40 Landau Model for RHIC rapidity distribution role of viscosity - T. Kodama

14:40 - 15:00 Energy and centrality dependence of particle production at very Low pT - T. Gburek

15:00 - 15:20 Charged hadron results from Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 19.6 GeV - D. Cebra

15:20 - 15:40 Systematic studies of global observables by PHENIX - K. Homma

14:00 - 15:40 Session XVIII - J/Psi production - Chair : P. Senger

14:00 - 14:20 J/Psi suppression in p-A and In-In collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon - R. Arnaldi

14:20 - 14:40 J/Psi production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at RHIC-PHENIX - S.X. Oda

14:40 - 15:00 J/Psi production at high pT in p+p and A+A collisions at STAR - Z. Tang

15:00 - 15:20 First measurement of J/Psi elliptic flow parameter in Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV by the PHENIX experiment - C. Silvestre

15:20 - 15:40 Onset of J/Psi Melting in quark-gluon-fluid at RHIC T. Gunji

14:00 - 15:40 Session XIX -- Correlations - Chair : R. K. Choudhury

14:00 - 14:20 3-D source functions at RHIC from the AMPT model - Z.W. Lin

14:20 - 14:40 PHENIX measurements of 3D emission source functions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV - R. Lacey

14:40 - 15:00 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

15:00 - 15:20 Search for squeezed-pair correlations at RHIC - S. S. Padula

15:20 - 15:40 System size dependence of two-particle correlations in p+p, d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au - W. Li

14:00 - 15:40 Session XX - Future physics prospects/Detectors/ Facilities - Chair : S. Schadmand

14:00 - 14:20 Quarkonia studies in Pb+Pb collisions by the ATLAS experiment at LHC - A. Lebedev

14:20 - 14:40 Heavy flavour physics in ALICE - M. Masera

14:40 - 15:00 High-mass dimuon resonances in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.5 TeV/c2 - D. Dutta

15:00 - 15:20 The ALICE Muon Spectrometer and related physics - B. Espagnon

15:20 - 15:40 Measuring charm and bottom using the PHENIX silicon vertex detectors - H. van Hecke

15:40 - 16:10 TEA/COFFEE BREAK

16:10 - 17:50 Session XXI - Global and Collective dynamics - Chair : G. Paic -

16:10 - 16:30 Saturation of ET/Nch and Freeze-out criteria in heavy-ion collisions - R. Sahoo

16:30 - 16:50 Dissipation in the very early stage of hydrodynamical evolution in relativistic heavy ion collisions - P. Bozek

16:50 - 17:10 Shear viscosity of a hadronic gas mixture - K. Itakura

17:10 - 17:30 First physics with ALICE: From pp to Pb-Pb collisions - K. Safarik

17:30 - 17:50 Soft physics capabilities of CMS in pp at 14 TeV and Pb-Pb at 5.5 TeV - F. Sikler

17:50 - 18:10 Global features of Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC using the ATLAS Detector - P. Steinberg

16:10 - 17:50 Session XXII - Heavy quark production - Chair : Y. Akiba

16:10 - 16:30 Falsifying AdS/CFT drag or pQCD heavy quark energy loss with A+A at RHIC and LHC - W. A. Horowitz

16:30 - 16:50 Upsilon production in p+p and Au+Au collisions in STAR - D. Das

16:50 - 17:10 Quarkonia melting above deconfinement - A. Mocsy

17:10 - 17:30 Statistical hadronization of charm: From FAIR to LHC - A. Andronic

17:30 - 17:50 Charmonium dynamics in dA and AA at RHIC and LHC - K. Tywoniuk

17:50 - 18:10 Charomonium dissociation temperatures in lattice QCD with a finite volume technique - T. Umeda

16:10 - 17:50 Session XXIII - - Electromagnetic probes dileptons - Chair : I. Tserruya

16:10 - 16:30 Systematic measurements of light vector mesons at RHIC-PHENIX - Y. Nakamiya

16:30 - 16:50 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

16:50 - 17:10 Di-lepton spectroscopy in CBM - C. Hoehne

17:10 - 17:30 Measuring the initial temperature through photon to dilepton ratio - J.K. Nayak

17:30 - 17:50 Dilepton production as a measure of QGP thermalization time - M. Martinez

17:50 - 18:10 phi production in d-C, d-U, S-U and Pb-Pb at SPS energies - D. Jouan

16:10 - 17:50 Session XXIV - Future physics prospects/Detectors/ Facilities - Chair :- Y. Schutz

16:10 - 16:30 STAR physics program and technical challenges with the RHIC energy scan with Au+Au collisions - G. Odyniec

16:30 - 16:50 Data analysis in ALICE - F. Carminati

16:50 - 17:10 Anisotropic flow measurements in ALICE - S. Raniwala

17:10 - 17:30 Prospects of photon-tagged jet measurements in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.5 TeV with the CMS detector - C. Loizides

17:30 - 17:50 Jets and -jet physics with ALICE - A. Morsch

17:50 - 18:10 Particle multiplicites and nuclear modification factors at the LHC from non-linear QCD evolution - J. L. Albacete

Banquet

10th February 2008

Plenary - XIV : Closing/Summary session - Chair : G. Young

09:00 - 09:25 Nu Xu : Search for Partonic EoS in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions - An Experimental Summary of Global and Collective Dynamics

09:25 - 09:50 B. Cole : Hard probes: past, present, and future

09:50 - 10:15 R. Seto : Photons, Leptons, and Heavy Flavor in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

10:15 - 11:00 E.V. Shuryak : QGP - New Frontiers