BEST Collaboration: Annual Meeting

5 Aug 2017, 08:00 → 6 Aug 2017, 18:00 US/Eastern

The Hilton Garden Inn (Stony Brook University)

Swagato Mukherjee (BNL)

The purpose of this annual meeting is to review progress and future goals of the Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Collaboration.

BEST Collaboration Project Web Page: https://www.bnl.gov/physics/best/ 

Saturday 5 August

Session I

Convener: Prof. Mikhail Stephanov (UIC)

1 Lattice QCD EoS and Fluctuations

Speaker: Mr Frithjof Karsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides BEST_LGT2017.pdf

2 Critical EoS

Speaker: Paolo Parotto (University of Houston)

Slides BEST_August_17_Parotto.pdf

3 Spinodal Region

Speaker: Xin An (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Slides BEST2017_XinAN.pdf

10:30 Break

Session II

Convener: Prof. Mikhail Stephanov (UIC)

4 Hydro+

Speaker: Yi Yin (MIT)

Slides hydro+_BEST.pdf

5 Discussions: eos & fluctuation working group

Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Stephanov (UIC)

12:30 Break

Lunch (personal pay)

Session III

Convener: Prof. Charles Gale (McGill University)

6 Hydrodynamic Approximation Schemes and Gubser Solution; Comparative Studies

Speaker: Mr Mike McNelis (Graduate student at The Ohio State University)

Slides BEST_vahydro.pdf

7 Finite-range Corrections to Hydrodynamics

Speaker: Mr Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)

Paper landau_paper.pdf

Slides landau.pdf

8 Hydro Simulations for the RHIC-BES, Progress and Challenges

Speaker: Dr Chun Shen (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides hybrid_approach_RHIC_BES_ChunSHEN.pdf

15:15 Break

Session IV

Convener: Prof. Charles Gale (McGill University)

9 Freeze-out Prescription

Speaker: Volker Koch (LBNL)

Slides koch_talk.pdf

10 Progress on Incorporating Hydro Fluctuation in Realistic Fluid-Dynamical Calculations

Speaker: Mayank Singh (McGill University)

11 Discussions: Hydro & Initial State Working Groups

Speakers: Dr Bjoern Schenke (BNL), Prof. Charles Gale (McGill University)

Sunday 6 August

Session I

Convener: Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University and BNL)

12 Pre-equilibrium CME

Speaker: Mark Mace (Stony Brook University)

Slides MACE_BEST_2017.pdf

13 Chiral Vortical Effect for Bosons

Speaker: Dr Andrey Sadofyev (MIT)

Slides best.pdf

14 Anomalous-viscous Fluid Dynamics

Speaker: Mr Shuzhe Shi (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Slides Quantitative_CME_from_AVFD_Shi.pdf

11:00 Break

Session II

Convener: Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University and BNL)

15 Chiral Magnetchydrodynamics

Speaker: Yuji Hirono (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides hirono.pdf

16 Discussions:CME Working Group

Speakers: Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University and BNL), Prof. JINFENG LIAO (INDIANA UNIVERSITY)

13:00 Break

Session III

Convener: Volker Volker Koch (MS70A-3307)

17 Discussions: Coordination Among Working Groups & Other Collaboration Businesses

Speaker: Volker Volker Koch (MS70A-3307)

15:30 Break

Session IV: Working Group Breakout