2014 Long-range plan Joint Town Meetings on QCD at Temple University

US/Eastern
Howard Gittis Student Center

Howard Gittis Student Center

1743 N. 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122
    • 07:30 08:30
      Breakfast 1h Underground

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    • 08:30 09:00
      Phases of QCD Matter / Opening: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen 217CD

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      • 08:30
        Opening remarks / Local organizing committee 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Bernd Surrow (Temple University)
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      • 08:45
        Opening remarks / Program committee 15m
        Speakers: Dr Paul Sorensen (BNL), Prof. Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State University)
    • 08:30 09:00
      QCD and Hadron Physics / Opening: Chair: Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts 217AB

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        Opening remarks / Local organizing committee 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Nikos Sparveris (Temple University)
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      • 08:45
        Opening remarks / Program committee 15m
        Speakers: Dr Craig Roberts (ANL), Prof. Haiyan Gao (Duke University)
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    • 09:00 10:30
      Phases of QCD Matter / Theory Overview: Chair: Steve Vigdor 217CD

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      • 09:00
        Open questions in theory, why they are interesting, what tools we have to address them 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Krishna Rajagopal (MIT)
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      • 09:30
        Discussion 15m
      • 09:45
        Lattice QCD for RHIC and LHC: From now to the next decade 30m
        Speaker: Dr Swagato Mukherjee (BNL)
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      • 10:15
        Discussion 15m
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      QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Structure at Short Distance I: Chair: Sebastian Kuhn 217AB

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        Theoretical Overview: Nucleon spin structure and orbital angular momentum 30m
        Speaker: Dr Jianwei Qiu (BNL)
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      • 09:30
        Experimental overview: Nucleon spin structure 30m
        Speaker: Dr Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)
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      • 10:00
        Parton distribution functions 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Jen-Chieh Peng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m Underground

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    • 11:00 12:30
      Phases of QCD Matter / QGP evolution, EOS and transport properties: Chair: Volker Koch 217CD

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      • 11:00
        The standard model for QGP evolution: Theoretical status and future 30m
        Speaker: Dr Bjoern Schenke (BNL)
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      • 11:30
        Discussion 15m
      • 11:45
        The standard model for QGP evolution: Experimental status and future 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Raimond Snellings (Utrecht University)
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      • 12:15
        Discussion 15m
    • 11:00 12:15
      QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Structure at Short Distance II (Incl. Short presentations): Chair: Feng Yuan 217AB

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      • 11:00
        Nucleon tomography 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Andreas Metz (Temple University)
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      • 11:30
        Pre-Town Meeting summary 6m
        Speakers: Dr Alexei Prokudin (JLab), Prof. Leonard Gamberg (PSU)
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      • 11:36
        SoLID 6m
        Speaker: Dr Jian-Ping Chen (JLab)
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      • 11:42
        Polarized Drell-Yan at FNAL 6m
        Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Lorenzen (University Of Michigan)
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      • 11:48
        The importance of a new transverse spin program at RHIC and its impact on future e+p physics 3m
        Speaker: Dr Ming Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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      • 11:51
        Correlations between target and current fragmentation in SIDIS 3m
        Speaker: Dr Harut Avakian (JLab)
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      • 11:54
        Tensor Spin Observables 3m
        Speaker: Dr Elena Long (University Of New Hampshire)
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      • 11:57
        SoLID-PVDIS (d/u) 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Paul Souder (Syracuse University)
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      • 12:00
        Studies of chiral-odd GPDs in exclusive production of pseudoscalar mesons 3m
        Speaker: Dr Andrey Kim (University Of Connecticut)
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      • 12:03
        JLab GPD program results and projections at 12 GeV 3m
        Speaker: Dr Francois-Xavier Girod (JLab)
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      • 12:06
        Future prospects of di-jet production constraining delta g(x) at low x at STAR at RHIC 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Bernd Surrow (Temple University)
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    • 12:15 13:15
      Lunch Break / QCD and Hadron Physics 1h Underground

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      Lunch Break / Phases of QCD Matter 1h Underground

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    • 13:15 15:30
      QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Structure at Long Distance (Incl. Short presentations): Chair: John Arrington 217AB

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      • 13:15
        Electro-magnetic Form Factors of nucleons 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Ron Gilman (Rutgers University)
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      • 13:40
        Parity-violating electron scattering and Hadron Structure 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Krishna Kumar (Stony Brook University)
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      • 14:05
        Charged pion form factors 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Tanja Horn (Catholic University of America)
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      • 14:25
        Expressions of chiral dynamics in hadrons and nuclei 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Daniel Phillips (Ohio University)
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      • 14:45
        Probing Hadron Structure with Photons 20m
        Speaker: Dr Calvin Howell (Duke University And TUNL)
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      • 15:05
        The axial form factor of the proton 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Steve Pate (New Mexico State University)
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      • 15:08
        Q-Qbar Creation Studies 3m
        Speaker: Dr Mac Mestayer (JLab)
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      • 15:11
        J/Psi near threshold from SoLID 3m
        Speaker: Dr Zhiwen Zhao (ODU / Jefferson Lab)
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      • 15:14
        Problems with the Two-Nucleon System 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Blaine Norum (University of Virginia)
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      • 15:17
        Chiral dynamics: 2 photons and a few nucleons 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Harold Griesshammer (George Washington University)
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      • 15:20
        Nucleon EM polarizabilities from Compton Scattering below pion threshold 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Mohammad Ahmed (North Carolina Central University / TUNL)
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      • 15:23
        Elastic Nucleon Form Factor Program with Super Bigbite 3m
        Speaker: Dr Seamus Riordan (University Of Massachusetts Amherst)
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    • 13:30 15:00
      Phases of QCD Matter / BES and QCD Phase Diagram: Chair: Rosi Reed 217CD

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        BES I Results, Motivation for BES II, Future Facilities 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Daniel Cebra (UC Davis)
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      • 14:00
        Discussion 10m
      • 14:10
        Studying the QCD Phase Diagram via BES 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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      • 14:30
        Dynamical modeling at low collision energy and high mu_b 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Hannah Petersen (Frankfurt Institute For Advanced Studies)
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      • 14:50
        Discussion 10m
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      Phases of QCD Matter / Community Input: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen 217CD

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      • 15:00
        Studying the QCD phase structure at high baryon density 7m
        Speaker: Dr Nu Xu (LBNL)
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      • 15:07
        Quantifying the properties of QCD matter with relativistic heavy-ion collisions 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)
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      • 15:14
        Forward-central pion-quarkonia correlations at RHIC 7m
        Speaker: Dr Michal Sumbera (Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR)
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      • 15:21
        Coherent pion photoproduction 7m
        Speaker: Prof. William Briscoe (The George Washington University)
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    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break 30m Underground

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    • 16:00 18:35
      Joint Session: Chair: Jim Napolitano 217ABCD

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      • 16:00
        Introduction - Temple University President 5m
        Speaker: Prof. Zein-Eddine Meziani (Temple University)
      • 16:05
        Welcome Address by Temple University President 10m
        Speaker: Dr Neil Theobald (Temple University)
      • 16:15
        Nuclear Theory since 2007 and for the next decade: An overview 30m
        Speaker: Prof. David Kaplan (Institute For Nuclear Theory)
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      • 16:45
        Discussion 10m
      • 16:55
        Highlights from QCD and Hadron Physics since 2007 20m
        Speaker: Dr Rolf Ent (JLab)
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      • 17:15
        Vision for QCD and Hadron Physics 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Naomi Makins (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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      • 17:35
        Discussion 10m
      • 17:45
        RHIC and LHC Overview: Where are we? Where are we going? 40m
        Speaker: Prof. Bill Zajc (Columbia University)
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      • 18:25
        Discussion 10m
    • 18:35 18:45
      Short Break 10m Seating Area Outside 217

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    • 18:45 20:00
      Joint Session: Chair: Richard Milner 217ABCD

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      • 18:45
        Why we need an EIC: a view from 30,000 feet 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Berndt Mueller (BNL / Duke University)
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      • 19:05
        Why we need an EIC: a view from 10,000 meters 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Bob McKeown (JLab)
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      • 19:25
        Discussion 35m
    • 07:30 08:30
      Breakfast 1h Underground

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    • 08:30 11:00
      Joint Session: Chair: Jianwei Qiu 217ABCD

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        Theoretical issues in Nucleon Structure 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Xiangdong Ji (University of Maryland)
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      • 09:00
        Probing Nucleon Structure at an EIC 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Zein-Eddine Meziani (Temple University)
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      • 09:30
        Probing the properties of QCD with atomic nuclei: theoretical aspects 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Yuri Kovchegov (Ohio State University)
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      • 10:00
        Probing the properties of QCD with atomic nuclei: experimental aspects 30m
        Speaker: Dr Thomas Ullrich (BNL)
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      • 10:30
        Discussion 30m
    • 11:00 11:20
      Coffee Break 20m Underground

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    • 11:20 12:40
      Joint Session / Community Input: Chair: Craig Roberts 217ABCD

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      • 11:20
        Next-generation nuclear DIS with spectator tagging at EIC 5m
        Speaker: Dr Christian Weiss (JLab)
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      • 11:25
        Neutron Spin Structure via Spectator Tagging at the EIC 5m
        Speaker: Prof. Charles Hyde (Old Dominion University)
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      • 11:30
        Transverse momentum dependence of sea quark distributions 5m
        Speaker: Dr Harut Avakian (JLab)
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      • 11:35
        Why QGP Physicists should want to study e+A 5m
        Speaker: Prof. Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook University)
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      • 11:40
        Joint Session / EIC White paper discussion - Part I 1h
    • 12:40 13:40
      Lunch Break 1h Underground

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    • 13:40 14:45
      Joint Session / EIC White paper discussion: Chair: Abhay Deshpande 217ABCD

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      • 13:40
        Joint Session / Discussion about EIC part of the white paper writing and assignments - Part II 1h 5m
    • 14:45 16:00
      Joint Session / Reports from other Town Meetings: Chair: Paul Sorenson 217ABCD

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      • 14:45
        Report from Computational Nuclear Physics Town Meeting 15m
        Speaker: Dr Peter Petreczky (BNL)
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      • 15:00
        Report from Computational Nuclear Physics Town Meeting 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Martin Savage (Institute for Nuclear Theory)
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      • 15:15
        Report from Education and Innovation Town Meeting 15m
        Speaker: Dr Thia Keppel (JLab)
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      • 15:30
        Discussion 30m
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m Underground

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    • 16:30 18:00
      Phases of QCD Matter / Low-x, pA, spin: Chair: Adrian Dumitru 217CD

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        Unique opportunities in p+A collisions at RHIC and LHC 20m 217AB

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        Speaker: Dr Zhong-Bo Kang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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      • 16:50
        Discussion 10m 217AB

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      • 17:00
        p+A experiments at RHIC and the LHC and related upgrades 20m 217AB

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        Speaker: Prof. John Lajoie (University of Iowa)
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      • 17:20
        Discussion 10m 217AB

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      • 17:30
        Opportunities for RHIC Spin in the Coming Decade 20m 217AB

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        Speaker: Dr Elke Aschenauer (BNL)
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      • 17:50
        Discussion 10m 217AB

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    • 16:30 18:30
      QCD and Hadron Physics / Theory (Incl. Short presentations): Chair: Craig Roberts 217AB

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      • 16:30
        Lattice-based studies of QCD 30m
        Speaker: Dr D.G. Richards (JLab)
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      • 17:00
        Continuum-based studies of QCD 30m
        Speaker: Dr Ian Cloet (ANL)
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      • 17:30
        pQCD at the collider (LHC/RHIC) 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Iain Stewart (MIT)
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      • 18:00
        Precision Jet Physics in Electron-Proton Collisions 3m
        Speaker: Dr Chris Lee (LANL)
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      • 18:03
        OAM and GTMDs 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Simonetta Liuti (University of Virginia)
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      • 18:06
        The prospects of two-photon physics with lattice QCD 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Brian Tiburzi (City College Of New York)
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      • 18:09
        Transverse force on quarks in DIS 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Matthias Burkardt (NMSU)
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    • 07:30 08:30
      Breakfast 1h Underground

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    • 08:30 10:00
      Phases of QCD Matter / Jet studies of QCD matter: Chair: Jiangyong Jia 200B

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      • 08:30
        Probing properties of QGP with jets at RHIC and LHC: a theoretical perspective 20m
        Speaker: Dr Xin-Nian Wang (LBNL)
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      • 08:50
        Discussion 10m
      • 09:00
        Jet studies at LHC & RHIC now and tomorrow 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Gunther Roland (MIT)
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      • 09:20
        Discussion 10m
      • 09:30
        What jets studies at RHIC can tell us about QGP properties 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Jamie Nagle (University of Colorado)
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      • 09:50
        Discussion 10m
    • 08:30 10:00
      QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Spectroscopy I: Chair: Volker Burkert 217AB

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      • 08:30
        Theory Overview: QCD and Meson spectrum 30m
        Speaker: Dr Michael Pennington (JLab)
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      • 09:00
        Experiment Overview on Meson Spectroscopy: Current and future 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Curtis Meyer (Carnegie Mellon University)
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      • 09:30
        Theory Overview on Baryon Spectroscopy 30m
        Speaker: Dr Michael Doering (George Washington University)
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    • 10:00 10:20
      Coffee Break 20m Underground

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    • 10:20 11:20
      Phases of QCD Matter / Heavy quarks and quarkonium as a probe of the QGP: Chair: Xin-Nian Wang 200B

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      • 10:20
        Experimental summary of the next decade with heavy quarks and quarkonium 20m
        Speaker: Dr Lijuan Ruan (BNL)
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      • 10:40
        Discussion 10m
      • 10:50
        Theory: what we know about the QGP from HQ and what we can still learn 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Derek Teaney (Stony Brook University)
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      • 11:10
        Discussion 10m
    • 10:20 11:10
      QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Spectroscopy II (Incl. Short presentations): Chair: Patrizia Rossi 217AB

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      • 10:20
        Experimental overview on Baryon Spectroscopy: Current and future 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Ralf Gothe (University Of South Carolina)
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      • 10:45
        Baryon Spectroscopy with Photoproduction of Mesons at MAMI - Mainz 3m
        Speaker: Prof. William Briscoe (The George Washington University)
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      • 10:48
        Why we need meson beams 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Igor Strakovsky (The George Washington University)
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      • 10:51
        Hadron spectroscopy at FIU: New Opportunities 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Lei Guo (Florida International University)
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      • 10:54
        Contribution to LRP from the N* structure exploration in exclusive electroproduction 3m
        Speaker: Dr Victor Mokeev (Jefferson Lab)
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      • 10:57
        XYZ states in charmonium and bottomonium 3m
        Speaker: Dr Ryan Mitchell (Indiana University)
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      • 11:00
        Amplitude analysis: linking experiment and theory 3m
        Speaker: Prof. Adam Szczepaniak (Indiana University)
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    • 11:10 13:00
      QCD and Hadron Physics / QCD and Nuclei: Chair: Haiyan Gao 217AB

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      • 11:10
        Effect of short-range interactions on nuclei 30m
        Speaker: Dr Doug Higinbotham (JLab)
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      • 11:40
        Nuclei at short distance scales 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Patricia Solvignon (University Of New Hampshire)
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      • 12:05
        Parton distributions in nuclei 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Wally Melnitchouk (JLab)
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      • 12:35
        Short presentations and general discussion 3m
        Speaker: Dr Henry Weller (Duke University and TUNL)
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    • 11:20 13:00
      Phases of QCD Matter / Community Input: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen 200B

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      • 11:20
        Interplay of QCD and electromagnetism in relativistic heavy-ion collisions 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Ho-Ung Yee (University Of Illinois at Chicago and RBRC)
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      • 11:27
        Dileptons and chiral symmetry restoration 7m
        Speaker: Dr Paul Hohler (Texas A&M University)
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      • 11:34
        Future Dilepton Measurements at RHIC 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Frank Geurts (Rice University)
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      • 11:41
        Soft photon measurements: present and future 7m
        Speaker: Dr Takao Sakaguchi (BNL)
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      • 11:48
        Upsilon measurements with sPHENIX 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Tony Frawley (Florida State University)
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      • 11:55
        Future high statistics heavy flavor physics opportunities with the ALICE Run 3 upgrade 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Christine Nattrass (University Of Tennessee Knoxville)
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      • 12:02
        Summary of the 3rd Workshop on Jet Modification in the RHIC and LHC Era 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Rosi Reed (Wayne State University)
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      • 12:09
        Jet-hadron, gluon-hadron and hadron-hadron angular correlations at p_T=10-20 GeV/c 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Justin Frantz (Ohio University)
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      • 12:16
        Effective theory for precision jet physics in heavy ion collisions beyond the energy loss approach 7m
        Speaker: Dr Ivan Vitev (LANL)
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      • 12:23
        Calculating jet transport coefficients in lattice QCD 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Abhijit Majumder (Wayne State University)
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      • 12:30
        Future low-x opportunities at the LHC: ALICE FoCal 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Joern Putschke (Wayne State University)
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      • 12:37
        The importance of running p+A at RHIC during the JLab-12 GeV e+A era and its impact on the future EIC e+A physics 7m
        Speaker: Dr Ming Liu (LANL)
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      • 12:44
        Ultraperipheral heavy-ion physics with CMS 7m
        Speaker: Prof. Daniel Takaki (University of Kansas)
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      • 12:51
        A new frontier for RHIC: Collectivity and thermalisation in small systems 7m
        Speaker: Dr Juergen Schukraft (CERN)
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    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch Break 1h Underground

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    • 14:00 16:00
      Phases of QCD Matter /WP discussion and draft recommendations: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen 200B

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    • 14:00 16:00
      QCD and Hadron Physics / Discussion, WP writing and assignments, Recommendations: Chair: Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts 217AB

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      • 14:00
        Discussion, WP writing and assignments, Recommendations 20m
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m 217C

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    • 16:30 17:30
      Phases of QCD Matter / More WP discussion: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen 200B

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      • 16:30
        Vote on recommendations and structure of WP, Writing assignments 1h
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      Adjourn 30m