Parallel Session I
Tuesday, January 16

Event Generators
Chairperson: Glenn Young

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:30	Z. Lin	Multi-phase transport model for heavy ion collisions at RHIC	PDF | PS
2:55	D. Molnar	Elliptic flow and freeze-out from the parton cascade MPC	PDF | PS
3:20	L. Bravina	Chemical freeze-out parameters at RHIC from the microscopic model calculations	PDF | PS
3:45	K. Werner	Models for RHIC and LHC: New Developments	PDF | PS

Lattice
Chairperson: Raju Venugopalan

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:30	A. Di Giacomo	Understanding Color Confinement	PDF | PS
2:55	O. Miyamura	Chemical potential responses in two flavor lattice QCD at finite temperature	PDF | PS
3:20	P. Petreczky	A lattice calculation of medium effects at short and long distances	PDF | PS
3:45	E. Iancu	The thermodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma: Self-consistent resummations vs. lattice data	PDF | PS

Instrumentation
Chairperson: Hans-Georg Ritter

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:30	F. Retiere	The STAR Time Projection Chamber	PDF | PS
2:55	H. Hamagaki	Particle identification capability of the PHENIX experiment	PDF | PS
3:20	R. Pak	The PHOBOS Detector at RHIC	PDF | PS
3:45	S. White	Calorimetry and Global Event Characterization in PHENIX	PDF | PS

4:10 - 4:40 pm: Coffee

Thermal Photons and Dileptons
Chairperson: Glann Young

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
4:40	B. Kampfer	A unique parameterization of all secondary dilepton and photon spectra observed at CERN-SPS energies	PDF | PS
5:05	R. A. Schneider	Thermal Dileptons from Quark and Hadron Phases of an Expanding Fireball	PDF | PS
5:30	D. Srivastava	Radiation of single photons from Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS and quark hadron phase transition	PDF | PS
5:55	F. Gelis	Photon and dilepton production by a quark-gluon plasma	PDF | PS

QCD Theory
Chairperson: Larry McLerran

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
4:40	M. Prakash	Probing Quark Matter in Neutron Stars	PDF | PS
5:05	K. Rajagopal	Color Superconductivity in Compact Stars	PDF | PS
5:30	R. D. Pisarski	Novel Effective Theories for High Temperature QCD	PDF | PS
5:55	Y. Schroder	The Free Energy of Hot QCD	PDF | PS

Instrumentation
Chairperson: Hans-Georg Ritter

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
4:40	B. Lasiuk	The STAR RICH Detector	PDF | PS
5:05	P. Yepes	Heavy Ion Physics with CMS	PDF | PS
5:30	A. Andronic	ALICE TRD: Results from Prototype Tests	PDF | PS
5:55	M. C. S. Williams	The Time-of-Flight Detector for the ALICE experiment	PDF | PS

Parallel Session II
Wednesday, January 16

Global Observables
Chairperson: Itzhak Tserruya

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:30	A. Dumitru	The Transverse Energy as a Barometer of a Saturated Plasma	PDF | PS
2:55	P. Huovinen	Is there flow without flow at RHIC?	PDF | PS
3:20	D. Teaney	Radial and Elliptic Flow and the Equation of State in a Hydrodynamic Model with a Cascade Afterburner	PDF | PS
3:45	G. Brown	Strangeness Equilibration at GSI Energies	PDF | PS

Strangeness
Chairperson: Yasuo Miake

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:30	V. Friese (NA49)	Production of Strange Resonances in CC, SiSi and Pb-Pb Collisions at 158 AGeV	PDF | PS
2:55	T. Susa (NA49)	Cascade Baryon Production in p+p, p+A and A+A Interactions at 158 AGeV ( Intro)	PDF | PS
3:20	C. Pinkenburg (E895)	Production and collective behavior of strange particles in Au+Au collisions at 2-8 AGeV	PDF | PS
3:45	R. Bellwied (E896)	The Measurement of Transverse Polarization of Lambda Hyperons in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions	PDF | PS

Hadron Spectra and Yields at RHIC
Chairperson: Shoji Nagamiya

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:30	M. Calderon (STAR)	Charged Particle Spectra in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV	PDF | PS
2:55	J. Velkovska	Pt spectra of identified hadrons measured with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC	PDF | PS
3:20	F. Messer	Spectra and angular correlation of high momentum charged particles in PHENIX.	PDF | PS
3:45	J. C. Dunlop	High pt Spectra from STAR ( Part 1 | Part 2 )	PDF | PS

4:10 - 4:40 pm: Coffee

Conserved Quantity Fluctuations
Chairperson: Thomas Schaefer

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
4:40	M. Asakawa	Fluctuation probes of quark deconfinement	PDF | PS
5:05	M. Stephanov	When can long-range charge fluctuations serve as a QGP signal?	PDF | PS
5:30	S. Gavin	The QCD Mixed Phase at RHIC: Shaken but not Stirred	PDF | PS
5:55	S. Pratt	Balance Functions: A signal of late-stage hadronization	PDF | PS

Vector Mesons
Chairperson: Edward Shuryak

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
4:40	K. Ozawa	Modification of Vector Mesons in Nuclear Matter measured in 12GeV p+A reactions at KEK--PS.	PDF | PS
5:05	L. Capelli (NA50)	Enhancement of Intermediate Mass Dimuons in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the CERN-SPS.	PDF | PS
5:30	E. Scomparin (NA50)	Charmonia Suppression in p-A Collisions at 450 GeV/c; new results from NA50.	PDF | PS
5:55	B. Z. Kopeliovich	Charmonium production off nuclei: from SPS to RHIC	PDF | PS

Global Observables and Flow at RHIC
Chairperson: Jeffery Mitchell

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
4:20	A. Denisov	Common Event Characterization in the RHIC Experiments	PDF | PS
4:40	J. Katzy (PHOBOS)	Centrality measurement and the centrality dependence of dN/d(eta) at mid-rapidity	PDF | PS
5:30	R. Lacey	Elliptic Flow Measurements with the PHENIX Detector System	PDF | PS
5:55	I. Park	Charged Particle Flow Measurement for |eta|<5.5 with the PHOBOS detector	PDF | PS

Parallel Session III
Friday, January 19

J/Psi
Chairperson: Dima Kharzeev

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:15	J. Qiu	J/psi Production and Suppression in Nuclear Collisions	PDF | PS
2:40	R. L. Thews	J/psi Production at RHIC in a QGP	PDF | PS
3:05	P. M. Dinh	Transverse energy fluctuations and the pattern of J/psi suppression in Pb-Pb collisions	PDF | PS
3:30	A. Capella	J/psi suppression at SPS and RHIC in the comovers approach	PDF | PS

Antibaryons
Chairperson: Peter Braun-Munzinger

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:15	R. Rapp	Resolving the Antiproton Production Puzzle in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions	PDF | PS
2:40	C. Greiner	Antihyperon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions	PDF | PS
3:05	S. Miodiuszewski (E910)	Antiproton Production and Reabsorption in pA Collisions at the AGS	PDF | PS
3:30	A. Tai (E941)	Leading Baryon and Anti-proton Measurements in pA Collisions at AGS energies	PDF | PS

Correlations and Fluctuations
Chairperson: Reinhard Stock

Time	Speaker	Title	Abstract
2:15	S. C. Johnson	First Results on Two-Particle Correlations Determined by the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC	PDF | PS
2:40	Z. Xu	Resonance studies at STAR	PDF | PS
3:05	J. G. Reid	STAR Event-by-Event Fluctuations	PDF | PS
3:30	J. Rak (CERES)	Observation of dijet-like azimuthal correlations between charged pions of high-transverse momentum produced in 158 GeV/c Pb-Au collisions	PDF | PS