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<b><font color="#000099">JEFFERSON LAB COLLOQUIUM
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<font color="#000099"><b>Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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11 a.m. - <u>Please Note Special Time
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<font color="#cc0000"><b>"The Hottest Stuff on Earth: How it's
Formed, What it's Made of, and How it Flows"
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Raju Venugopalan
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Head of the Nuclear Theory Group, Brookhaven National Lab,
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Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University
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ABSTRACT
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We will discuss aspects of the physics of very high energy heavy ion
collisions, which form the hottest and densest matter on earth. This
matter, called a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) previously only existed
micro-seconds after the Big Bang. We attempt to provide a deeper
look into how this matter is formed, what it is made up of, and its
transport properties. The lecture will draw directly or indirectly
on ideas in Quantum Chromodynamics, string holography, statistical
mechanics, plasma physics, quantum chaos, Bose-Einstein Condensates
and pre-heating in inflationary cosmology. In particular, we will
examine closely the spectacular success of hydrodynamics in
describing the properties of the QGP.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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11 a.m. - Please Note Special Time
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CEBAF Center auditorium
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Cookies & coffee in the CEBAF Center lobby, 10:45 a.m.
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