Program of 7th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter

Preliminary Program

Wednesday, March 12th

Opening session:

09:00 - 09:45: Johann Rafelski (University of Arizona)
Strangeness: what has been learned so far, where do we go? - A historical perspective.
09:45 - 10:30: Rene Bellwied (Wayne State University)
Introductory overview of experimental status: what's special about strangeness in A+A
10:30 - 11:00: coffee break
11:00 - 11:45: Volker Koch (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Lessons from the AGS/SIS: What do we know about strangeness, what are the open problems, and how can they be solved at future facilities?
11:45 - 12:30: Jack Sandweiss (Yale University)
Overview of strangelet searches and AMS: When will we stop looking?

Afternoon session: new results from RHIC

14:30 - 15:15: Helen Caines (STAR):
Strangeness results
15:15 - 16:00: Charlie Maguire (PHENIX):
Strangeness results
16:00 - 16:30: coffee break
16:30 - 17:00: J.H. Lee (BRAHMS):
Strange hadron production as a function of rapidity
17:00 - 17:30: G.I. Veres (PHOBOS):
Strange hadron production at low transverse momenta

Evening school for graduate students and postdocs

19:30 - 20:15: Juergen Schaffner-Bielich (Univ. of Frankfurt, Germany)
General theory introduction: what's so special about strangeness?
20:15 - 21:00: Spiros Margetis (Kent State University)
Experimental techniques for measuring strangeness

Thursday, March 13th

Morning Session

08:30 - 09:00: Valeria Muccifora (HERMES):
Hadronization in Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERMES
09:00 - 09:30: Hans Gutbrod (GSI):
The GSI future project
09:30 - 10:00: Marcus Bleicher (Frankfurt/Nantes):
Strange baryon and meson resonance dynamics from SPS to RHIC
10:00 - 10:30: coffee break
10:30 - 11:00: Volker Friese (NA49):
strangeness from 20 AGeV to 200 AGeV
11:00 - 11:30: Ladislav Sandor (WA97/NA57):
Hyperon production at the CERN SPS: results from the NA57 experiment
11:30 - 12:00: Sven Soff (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Review Microscopic models and transport theory at SPS/RHIC - do we have credible models and how do they help understanding the experimental data?
12:00 - 12:30: Julia Velkovska (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
How strange is high-pt physics at RHIC?

Afternoon session: parallel sessions

parallel session #1: Particle spectra, yields and ratios

14:30 - 14:50: Marek Gazdzicki (Frankfurt):
Energy Scan Program at CERN SPS
14:50 - 15:10: Ben Norman (STAR):
Charged Strange and Non-Strange Particle Ratios as a Function of pT and centrality in STAR at RHIC
15:10 - 15:30: Christine Meurer (NA49):
Xi and Antixi production in Pb+Pb collisions at 40AGeV at CERN SPS
15:30 - 15:50: Javier Castillo (STAR):
Multi-strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s)= 130 GeV - probing freeze-out properties via multi-strange baryons
15:50 - 16:10: Momchil Velkovsky (PHENIX):
Kaon Production in $\sqrt{s}_{NN} =200$ GeV AuAu Collision from the Phenix Experiment at RHIC
16:10 - 16:30: coffee break
16:30 - 16:50: Hui Long (STAR):
Suppression of identified high PT strange particles in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{NN} =200$ GeV at RHIC
16:50 - 17:10: Paul Norman (WA97):
Recent Results from experiments WA97 and NA57
17:10 - 17:30: Richard Witt (STAR):
Strange Particle spectra from $\sqrt{s}_{NN} =200$ GeV p+p Collisions in STAR at RHIC
17:30 - 17:50: Klaus Werner (Nantes):
Strange Particles from Parton-Based Gribov-Regge Theory

parallel session #2: correlations and fluctuations

14:30 - 14:50: Paul Sorensen (STAR):
Azimuthal anisotropy of Ks and Lambda production at mid-rapidity from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{NN} =200$ GeV
14:50 - 15:10: Rainer Fries (Duke):
hadronization in heavy-ion collisions: recombination or fragmentation?
15:10 - 15:30: Selemon Bekele (STAR):
Neutral and Charged Kaon correlations in Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{NN} =200$ GeV
15:30 - 15:50: Denes Molnar (Ohio State):
Meson and baryon elliptic flow at high-pt from quark coalescence
15:50 - 16:10: Chiho Nonaka (Duke):
Charge fluctuation observables at RHIC
16:10 - 16:30: coffee break
16:30 - 16:50: Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State):
Hydrodynamic emission of strange and nonstrange particles at RHIC and LHC
16:50 - 17:10: Sangyong Jeon (McGill):
Fluctuations and Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions
17:10 - 17:30: Ziwei Lin (TAMU and Ohio State):
Kaon interferometry at RHIC
17:30 - 17:50: Sean Gavin (Wayne State):
Strange Fluctuations at RHIC
17:50 - 18:10: D. Jouan (NA50):
Phi and omega,rho production in proton, deuteron, sulfur and lead induced reactions at SPS energies in the NA50 experiment

Reception at North Carolina Aquarium

- buses will leave 18:30

Friday, March 14th

Charm and Correlations

08:30 - 09:00: Yasoyuki Akiba (KEK):
Review of charm measurements at RHIC and SPS
09:00 - 09:30: Thomas Mehen (Duke University):
Charm production asymmetries and heavy quark recombination
09:30 - 10:00: Ralf Rapp (NORDITA):
Theory review of J/Psi and open charm production in A+A
10:00 - 10:30: Hermine Woehri (CERN):
Heavy flavour hadro-production from fixed target to collider energies; data review and comparison with pQCD calculations
10:30 - 11:00: coffee break
11:00 - 11:30: Roy Lacey (SUNY Stony-Brook):
Correlations and HBT of particles with strangeness
11:30 - 12:00: Zhangbu Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
Strange resonances
12:00 - 12:30: Fabrice Retiere (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory):
Space-time analysis of reactions at RHIC

Afternoon session: plenary contributions

14:30 - 14:50: Gary Westfall (STAR):
Width of the balance function for charge kaon pairs from Au+Au and pp collisionss
14:50 - 15:10: Joe Kapusta (Minnesota):
Thermal Rates for Baryon and Anti-baryon Production
15:10 - 15:30: M. Mitrovski (NA49):
Omega and Antiomega production in central Pb+Pb collisions and p+p interactions at SPS energies
15:30 - 15:50: Anja Billmeier (STAR):
Strange and Multi-strange Particle Ratios in p+p reactions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV at RHIC
15:50 - 16:10: coffee break
16:10 - 16:30: Bob Thews (Arizona):
An Assessment of $J/\Psi$ Formation in the Light of Initial RHIC Results
16:30 - 16:50: Kevin Haglin (St. Cloud):
J/psi propagation in hadronic matter

Poster Session with wine & cheese reception

Evening session:

Evening school for graduate students and postdocs

19:30 - 20:15: Jean Cleymans (Univ. of Capetown, South Africa):
Introduction to statistical models
20:15 - 21:00: Owe Philipsen (MIT)
Introduction to Lattice Gauge Theory and techniques

Informal discussion

20:00 - 21:30: future directions of the SQM conference series

Saturday, March 15th

Lessons from Strangeness and excitation functions

08:30 - 09:00: Barbara Jacak (SUNY Stony-Brook):
Lessons from RHIC
09:00 - 09:30: Johanna Stachel (Univ. Heidelberg):
Thermal models - conventional view
09:30 - 10:00: Detlev Zschiesche (Univ. Frankfurt):
Thermal models - alternative views
10:00 - 10:30: coffee break
10:30 - 11:00: Andreas Foerster (KaoS):
Mass and energy dependence of strangeness production near threshold
11:00 - 11:30: Paul Chung (E895):
Hyperon and Cascade production at the AGS
11:30 - 12:00: Huan Huang (UCLA):
Strange Baryon Production in A+A Collisions from AGS, SPS to RHIC
12:00 - 12:30: Andrzej Rybicki (CERN):
Review of p+p and p+A results at SPS and AGS

Conference Excursion

Sunday, March 16th

QCD predictions and astrophysics

08:30 - 09:00: Steven Gottlieb (Indiana University):
Lattice with 3 flavors: review state of the art, how much strangeness is in the QGP?
09:00 - 09:30: Peter Petreczky (Brookhaven National Laboratory):
Lattice results for meson masses and correlators
09:30 - 10:00: Mark Alford (Washington University):
Dense quark matter in compact stars
10:00 - 10:30: coffee break
10:30 - 11:00: Madappa Prakash (SUNY Stony-Brook):
strange matter in neutron stars
11:00 - 11:30: Fred Walter (SUNY Stony-Brook):
Is truth stranger than fiction? What observables tell us about the surfaces and radii of neutron stars and their relatives
11:30 - 12:00: Markus Thoma (MPI Garching):
Strange Quark Matter in Neutron Stars? - New Results from Chandra and XMM
12:00 - 12:30: James Lattimer (SUNY Stony-Brook):
The structure of strange quark matter and neutron stars

Afternoon session

parallel session #3: charm and nuclear matter

14:30 - 14:50: Andrew Hoover (PHENIX):
Charmonium production in pp, pA, and AA collisions
14:50 - 15:10: Lars Gerland (Tel-Aviv):
Charmonium Production in gamma-A, p-A and A-A collisions
15:10 - 15:30: David Brown (PHENIX):
High pT single muon measurement in PHENIX
15:30 - 15:50: C. Oppedisano (NA60):
NA60 : First results and future perspectives
15:50 - 16:20: coffee break
16:20 - 16:40: Ariel Zhintnitsky (UBC):
Dark Matter as Dense Color Superconductor
16:40 - 17:00: Jeffrey Bowers (MIT):
Strange Quarks in Color Superconductors
17:00 - 17:20: Sarmista Banik (Kolkata):
Exotic phases in compact stars
17:20 - 17:40: Christoph Hartnack (Nantes):
Investigation of subthreshold kaon and antikaon production - what remains from the KN potentials?
17:40 - 18:00: Laura Tolos (Barcelona):
K+/K- ratio at GSI in hot and dense matter

parallel session #4 resonance production and volume dependencies

14:30 - 14:50: Jinguo Ma (STAR):
Mid-rapidity f meson production at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV at RHIC
14:50 - 15:10: Ludovic Gaudichet (STAR):
Lambda(1520) and Sigma(1385) resonance production in Au+Au and p+p collisions at RHIC energies
15:10 - 15:30: George Torrieri (Tucson):
Resonances as Probes of Statistical Hadronization
15:30 - 15:50: Patricia Fachini (STAR):
rho(770)0 and f0(980) Production in AuAu and pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV
15:50 - 16:20: coffee break
16:20 - 16:40: Mohammed Muniruzzaman (PHENIX):
f meson production in Au-Au collision at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV
16:40 - 17:00: Haibin Zhang (STAR):
K*(892) Production in Au+Au and pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV at STAR
17:00 - 17:20: Ingrid Kraus (NA49):
System Size Dependence of Strangeness Production
17:20 - 17:40: Fuming Liu (Nantes):
Micro-canonical treatment of hadron production
17:40 - 18:00: Jean Cleymans (Capetown):
Strangeness Saturation: Energy- and System-Size Dependence

Conference Banquet

- Cocktails start at 18:30, dinner around 19:30

Monday, March 17th

Summary session

09:00 - 10:00: Tamas Biro (KFKI, Budapest)
Summary lecture - theory
10:00 - 11:00: John Harris (Yale University)
Summary lecture - experiment