[Cuga] Workshop on Excited Hadronic States and the Deconfinement Transition---a message from Christopher Thomas

[Rachel Harris]

*Workshop on Excited Hadronic States and the Deconfinement Transition*

February 23-25, 2011
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, USA

The equation of state of QCD close to the finite-temperature phase
transition may be described by a hadron resonance gas.  However, the
applicability of this description depends on the density of hadron
resonances at increasing energies.  Recent progress at computing the
excited state spectrum of QCD, together with the expectation of new
experimental determinations of the spectrum from Jefferson Lab@ 12 GeV,
afford the prospect of refining the hadron resonance gas picture of QCD
close to the phase transition, and of relating our description of QCD at
zero temperature to that at high temperatures and densities, explored at
RHIC and at the LHC.

This workshop aims to bring together practitioners on hadron transport
models, lattice QCD at non-zero temperature, and lattice and
QCD-inspired descriptions of the spectrum and properties of resonances,
together with members of the experimental communities, to explore these
connections.  The workshop will consist of a number of invited talks
that address key questions, together with extended opportunities for
discussion.

Confirmed speakers:
- Steffen Bass
- Alexei Bazavov
- Simon Capstick
- Jozef Dudek
- Pasi Huovinen
- Akira Ohnishi
- Christina Markert
- Curtis Meyer
- Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler
- Claudia Ratti
- Krzystof Redlich
- Gerrit Schierholz
- Stephen Wallace

Webpage with information about accommodation and registration:
    http://conferences.jlab.org/hadronic/
*Accommodation deadline is February 8th*

Local Organising Committee: Jozef Dudek, Robert Edwards, Abhijit
Majumder, Berndt Mueller, Peter Petreczky, David Richards, Christopher
Thomas

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-- Christopher Thomas Jefferson Laboratory 12000 Jefferson Avenue Suite 
#1 Newport News VA 23606 USA Tel: +1 (757) 269 7453 Email: thomasc at jlab.org

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