sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Gunther M Roland <rolandg AT mit.edu>]

FYI

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> *** Discussion title: Heavy Ions Discussions
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> Hot Quarks 2018 Workshop - HQ 2018
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> First Circular
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> We are very pleased to announce that the 8th workshop in the Hot Quarks 
> series will be held September 7-15, 2018, on Texel, The Netherlands.
> 
> The aim of this workshop is to enhance the direct exchange of scientific 
> information among the younger members of the Relativistic Heavy Ion 
> community, both from the experiments and theory. Therefore we especially 
> want to encourage postdoctoral fellows, advanced graduate students, and 
> junior faculty and research staff to apply.
> 
> Topics that will be addressed include:
> - QCD at high temperature/density and lattice QCD
> - Initial state effects and Color Glass Condensate
> - Relativistic hydrodynamic and collective phenomena
> - Correlations and fluctuations
> - Jets in the vacuum and in the medium
> - Baryons and strangeness
> - Heavy flavor, dileptons and photons
> - AdS/CFT correspondence and the Quark-Gluon Plasma
> - Experimental techniques and future programs
> 
> The workshop program is divided into morning and afternoon/evening sessions 
> each consisting of short (~20 min) presentations and typically one longer 
> overview talk. Each session is followed by a relatively long (~1hr) 
> Question&Answer session. Active participation is encouraged in the Q&A 
> sessions. Ample free time between lunch and the afternoon session and after 
> dinner is planned in order to enhance informal interactions. The number of 
> participants will be restricted to <70. Every participant will give an oral 
> presentation. All participants are expected to be present on the workshop 
> premises  throughout the duration of the conference.
> 
> The KKG Award is awarded for the best presentation at the conference. The 
> prize is dedicated to the memory of Klaus Kinder Geiger, who perished on 
> Swiss Air flight 111 from New York to Geneva in 1998.
> If you are interested in attending HQ2018 please pre-register and submit an 
> abstract through our workshop website at http://hq2018.bnl.gov 
> <http://hq2018.bnl.gov/&gt;. Pre-registration and abstract submission will 
> open on March 15 and close on June 1st. Due to the limited number of 
> participants, and the high interest in attending this workshop, speakers 
> will be selected from the list of submissions after registration closes on 
> June 1st, and notified via email.
> 
> Further details about the program and the workshop venue will be posted on 
> the website http://hq2018.bnl.gov <http://hq2018.bnl.gov/&gt;.
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> ***  SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT DATES ***
> 15th of March 2018       â?" Open registration and abstract submission
> 1st of June 2018           â?" Abstract submission deadline
> 25th of June 2018         â?" notify speaker of acceptance - Full 
> registration
> 7th of September 2018 â?" Start of HQ2018
> 
> Lively, informative discussions are anticipated at the meeting. Please 
> distribute this email within your collaborations and local groups.
> 
> Sincerely,
> The Hot Quarks 2018 organizing committee
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