Thermalization in a Nonabelian Plasma

Name: Thermalization in a Nonabelian Plasma
Start: 2011-12-12T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-12-14T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Heidelberg University

12.12.2011, 09:00 → 14.12.2011, 14:00 Europe/Berlin

Fakultätsaal (Heidelberg University)

Fakultätsaal

Heidelberg University

Albert-Ueberle-Str. 3-5 (top floor)

Jürgen Berges (Heidelberg University)

Montag, 12 Dezember at 09:00
- Introductory talks
  - 1
    
    EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force on Thermalization
    
    Sprecher: J.-P. Blaizot
    
    Slides
  - 2
    
    Introduction to the Physics of Plasma Instabilities
    
    Sprecher: G. Moore
    
    Slides
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- Introductory talks
  
  slides
  - 3
    
    Color Glass and Bose-Einstein Condensates
    
    Sprecher: L. McLerran
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    The over-populated Quark-Gluon Plasma on the Lattice
    
    Sprecher: J. Berges
    
    Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- Session 1: Initial conditions, saturation
  
  Sitzungsleiter: R. Venugopalan
  - 5
    
    Status of factorization theorems for HI collisions
    
    Sprecher: F. Gelis
    
    Slides
  - 6
    
    Glasma simulations
    
    Sprecher: K. Fukushima
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    Saturation - 'bottom-up' - hadron multiplicities at LHC
    
    Sprecher: R. Baier
    
    Slides
- 15:30
  
  Coffee
- Session 2: Instabilities, isotropization
  
  Sitzungsleiter: P. Arnold
  - 8
    
    The initial spectrum of fluctuations in the little bang
    
    Sprecher: R. Venugopalan
    
    Slides
  - 9
    
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    Sprecher: M. Strickland
    
    Slides
  - 10
    
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    Sprecher: G. Moore
Dienstag, 13 Dezember at 09:00
- Overview talks: Facets of thermalization
  - 11
    
    Entropy Growth and Equilibration in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories
    
    Sprecher: B. Müller
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    Thermalization of Boost-Invariant Plasma at Strong Coupling from AdS/CFT
    
    Sprecher: R. Janik
    
    Slides
  - 13
    
    Thermalization in a parton kinetic description including Bremsstrahlung
    
    Sprecher: C. Greiner
    
    Slides
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- Session 3: Facets of thermalization
  
  Sitzungsleiter: R. Baier
  - 14
    
    Entropy production and the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypotheses (ETH)
    
    Sprecher: A. Schäfer
  - 15
    
    Quasilinear transport approach to equilibration of quark-gluon plasmas
    
    Sprecher: S. Mrowczynski
    
    Slides
  - 16
    
    Towards thermalization in heavy-ion collisions: CGC meets the 2PI formalism
    
    Sprecher: Y. Hatta
    
    Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- Session 4: Scaling at intermediate momenta
  
  Sitzungsleiter: M. Strickland
  - 17
    
    Thermalization in Weakly Coupled Nonabelian Plasmas
    
    Sprecher: G. Moore
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    Evolving Glasma and Kolmogorov Spectrum
    
    Sprecher: K. Fukushima
  - 19
    
    The Turbulent Cascade in Different Non-Abelian Gauges
    
    Sprecher: M. Strickland
    
    Slides
- 15:30
  
  Coffee
- Session 5: Bose condensation, infrared cascade
  
  Sitzungsleiter: F. Gelis
  - 20
    
    Boltzmann equation in the small angle approximation
    
    Sprecher: J.-P. Blaizot
  - 21
    
    Bose-Einstein condensation in the QGP
    
    Sprecher: R. Venugopalan
  - 22
    
    Condensation in scalar field theory
    
    Sprecher: T. Epelbaum
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    Bose condensation and turbulence
    
    Sprecher: D. Sexty
    
    Slides
- 20:00
  
  Dinner in Heidelberg's Old Town (Altstadt)
  
  Vinothek-Restaurant Oskar
  Haspelgasse5, Heidelberg
  http://oskar-hd.de
Mittwoch, 14 Dezember at 09:00
- Overview talks: Relations with other fields
  - 24
    
    Preheating and Thermalization in the Early Universe
    
    Sprecher: I. Tkachev
    
    Slides
  - 25
    
    Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Cold Atoms
    
    Sprecher: T. Gasenzer
    
    Slides
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- Conclusions and future directions
  
  Round-table discussion
  
  Sitzungsleiter: L. McLerran
- 12:30
  
  Lunch/Meeting ends