Quark Matter 2001

Scientific Program


Description

The focus will be on the study of matter at ultra-high temperatures and densities, with new data from BNL and CERN, along with the latest theoretical views. This will be an auspicious time, occurring after the initial physics run of RHIC at BNL, with insights drawn from the heavy ion program at the SPS. The conference will provide a first opportunity to look at the events and early data from the four experiments at RHIC with heavy ion collisions at a new frontier of center-of-mass energies.


Access to Transparencies

Go to the QM2001 Transparency FTP site to download transparencies from the conference soon after the talk has concluded.


Burn-your-own CD

A CD image file is now available for download. This file, which weighs in at about 656 MBytes, will allow you to use your CD burner to create a CD containing the transparencies and many conference photos. Just download and use your CD burning software to copy the image onto a CD. This CD has been updated on 2/8/01 to include all available talks. Credits: Achim Franz created the CD and Martin Purshcke created the image file.


Conference Program
Click on the talk titles to view PDF files of the transparencies.

Date Time Session/Presentation Location

Sunday, January 14

2:00 pm

Student Pre-Symposium

Javits

2:00 pm

Javits

2:45 pm

Javits

4:00 pm

Javits

2:00 pm

Javits

6:00 pm

Registration and Reception

Javits

Monday, January 15

8:00 am

Registration

Javits

9:00 am

Opening Session.
Chairperson: Satoshi Ozaki

Staller

9:15 am

    Welcomes:
    Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny - President, Stony Brook University
    Dr. John H. Marburger - Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Dr. Robert L. McGrath - Provost, Stony Brook University

Staller

9:45 am

Staller

10:25 am

    Coffee

Staller

11:05 am

Staller

11:45 am

Staller

12:15 pm

    Lunch

Monday Afternoon

2:00 pm

First Results from RHIC
Chairperson: Nick Samios

Staller

2:00 pm

Staller

2:35 pm

Staller

3:10 pm

Staller

3:45 pm

Staller

4:20 pm

    Coffee

Staller

4:50 pm

Staller

5:35 pm

Staller

6:00 pm

    Dinner

Monday Evening

8:00 pm

Public Lecture by Lawrence Krauss

Staller

Tuesday, January 16

8:30 am

Strangeness, Photons, and Charm
Chairperson: Bikash Sinha

Please note early start.

Staller

8:30 am

Staller

9:05 am

Staller

9:35 am

Staller

10:00 am

Staller

10:30 am

Staller

11:00 am

    Coffee

Staller

11:35 am

Staller

12:05 pm

Staller

12:35 pm

    BNL Visit Announcement
    William Christie

Staller

12:40 pm

    Lunch and trip to BNL

Tuesday Afternoon

BNL Day with Parallel Session I and RHIC Facility Tours

BNL

6:00 pm

Reception

BNL

Wednesday, January 17

9:00 am

Phase Diagram and Freezeout Properties
Chairperson: Johanna Stachel

Staller

9:00 am

Staller

9:30 am

Staller

9:55 am

Staller

10:20 am

Staller

10:45 am

    Coffee

Staller

11:15 am

Staller

11:45 am

Staller

12:10 am

Staller

12:55 pm

    Lunch

Wednesday Afternoon

2:30 pm

Parallel Session II

Javits

Wednesday Evening

7:15 pm

Cocktails and Banquet

Wyndham Hotel

Thursday, January 18

9:00 am

Initial Conditions and Dense Medium
Chairperson: Keijo Kajantie

Staller

9:00 am

Staller

9:40 am

Staller

10:10 am

Staller

10:50 am

Staller

11:15 am

    Coffee

Staller

11:45 am

Staller

12:25 pm

Staller

12:55 pm

    End of Session

Thursday Afternoon

1:00 pm

Excursion to American Museum of Natural History and Rose Center for Earth and Space

New York City

Friday, January 19

9:00 am

New Observables
Chairperson: Henning Heiselberg

Staller

9:00 am

Staller

9:30 am

Staller

10:00 am

Staller

10:25 am

Staller

10:55 am

    Coffee

Staller

11:20 am

Staller

11:50 am

Staller

Friday Afternoon

2:15 pm

Parallel Session III

Javits

Saturday, January 20

9:00 am

What Have We Learned?
Chairperson: Hans Gutbrod

Staller

9:00 am

Staller

9:30 am

Staller

10:00 am

Staller

10:30 am

Staller

11:00 am

    Coffee

Staller

11:30 am

Staller

12:15 pm

Staller

1:00 pm

Conference Adjourns (lunch follows)

Staller

  • Staller = Staller Center for the Arts - Main Stage
  • Javits = Javits Lecture Center. Here is a map of the Center.


Poster Sessions

A list of the posters that will be displayed at Stony Brook can be found on the Poster Sessions Page. This page contains links to the poster abstracts.


Talks and Proceedings

Facilities will be available for the presentation of all plenary talks and many of the parallel talks using direct data projection of computer displays (PC and Mac compatible), as well as the more traditional overhead projectors. Transparencies of the plenary talks will be published electronically on the Conference web site to facilitate ease of access.

The proceedings of the conference, containing all talks presented in the plenary and the parallel sessions, will be published in Nuclear Physics A as has been done for the previous Quark Matter Conferences.

Attention Quark Matter Speakers: Please consult the Publication instructions for your QM2001 presentation.


BNL Day

A special afternoon is planned at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Tuesday. The afternoon will provide a unique opportunity to tour the RHIC accelerator facilities and the four RHIC experiments. Experimental poster sessions will be held at the large experimental halls, and theory parallel sessions will run concurrently. The afternoon will conclude with a reception and a ceremonial marking of the beginning of the RHIC era.


Other events

  • Collaborations that would like to hold meetings before or after the conference should contact the organizers as soon as possible.
  • A Town Meeting, part of the information-gathering process for the next Nuclear Physics long-range plan, is scheduled to be held at BNL directly after the conclusion of Quark Matter 2001 (January 21-23).

Program Committee

A subcommittee drawn from the Organizing Committee and local members of the International Advisory Committee will organize the scientific program. The subcommittee members are:

    Barbara Jacak, Chair Stony Brook
    Mark Baker BNL
    Miklos Gyulassy Columbia
    Tim Hallman BNL
    John Harris Yale
    Dima Kharzeev BNL
    Larry McLerran BNL
    Jeffery Mitchell BNL
    Thomas Schaefer Stony Brook/RIKEN
    Thomas Ullrich Yale
    Bill Zajc Columbia


Last modified on 5/17/01