Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2017
Volume 62, Number 1
Saturday–Tuesday, January 28–31, 2017; Washington, DC
Session Q1: Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session II: From Quarks to the CosmosInvited Plenary Undergraduate
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Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago Room: Ballroom Salon 2/3 |
Monday, January 30, 2017 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
Q1.00001: Quark Gluon Plasma: Surprises from strongly coupled QCD matter Invited Speaker: Barbara Jacak Quantum Chromodynamics has long predicted a transition from normal hadronic matter to a phase where the quarks and gluons are no longer bound together and can move freely. Quark gluon plasma is now produced regularly in collisions of heavy nuclei at very high energy at both the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the U.S. and at the LHC in Europe.\par Quark gluon plasma exhibits remarkable properties. Its vanishingly small shear viscosity to entropy density ratio means that it flows essentially without internal friction, making it one of the most “perfect” liquids known. It is also very opaque to transiting particles including heavy charm quarks, though the exact mechanism for this is not yet understood. Recent data suggest that even very small colliding systems may produce a droplet of plasma. The similarities to strongly coupled or correlated systems in ultra-cold atoms and condensed matter are striking, and have inspired novel theoretical descriptions growing out of string theory. It remains a mystery how this plasma emerges from cold, dense gluonic matter deep inside nuclei. I will discuss how a future electron-ion collider can help address this question. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, January 30, 2017 9:06AM - 9:42AM |
Q1.00002: New Frontiers in Cosmology Invited Speaker: Cora Dvorkin Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe carry immense promise for measurements of new physics beyond the Standard Models of cosmology and particle physics. In this talk, I will explain how we can use these observations to reconstruct the detailed physics of the Universe's earliest epoch, when it was only a tiny fraction of a second old. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, January 30, 2017 9:42AM - 10:18AM |
Q1.00003: The 1,358,954,496 Matrix Elements to Get From SUSY Diff EQ's to Pictures, Codes, Card Games, Music, Computers, and Back Again Invited Speaker: Sylvester Gates In this presentation a discussion is given of a recent derivation of a supersymmetrical QM representation spectrum that took some surprising twists and turns along the way. [Preview Abstract] |
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