<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p style="text-align: center; border: medium none; padding: 0in; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; padding: 0in; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 48.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 48.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Physics Seminar</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Zhenyu Ye</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">University of Illinois-Chicago</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><em><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Open Heavy flavor measurements with the STAR experiment at RHIC</span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><em><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Abstract:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><br> <em>Heavy favor particles have been suggested as an excellent probe to study properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a new state of matter discovered in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this talk, we will present recent results on open heavy flavor production, obtained with a new Silicon vertex detector at the STAR experiment at RHIC. These results are compared to those from the LHC experiments and to theoretical calculations, and their physics implications are discussed.</em></span><em><br> <br> <br> </em></p><p style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Friday, October 13, 2017</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">11:00am</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">CEBAF Auditorium</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"> </p></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__">-- <br></div><div>Stephanie Tysor<br>Hall A Administrative Assistant<br>Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility<br>(office)757-269-6005 (fax)757-269-5235</div></div></body></html>