[On_site_list] JLab Colloquium: 11 a.m. on April 3 - Note special time

[deborah magaldi]

*JEFFERSON LAB COLLOQUIUM*
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Wednesday, April 3
11 a.m. - Please Note Special Time*
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"The Hottest Stuff on Earth: How it's Formed, What it's Made of, and How 
it Flows"*

*Raju Venugopalan
Head of the Nuclear Theory Group, Brookhaven National Lab,
Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University*


*ABSTRACT*
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.


Wednesday, April 3, 2013
  11 a.m. - Please Note Special Time
CEBAF Center auditorium
Cookies & coffee in the CEBAF Center lobby, 10:45 a.m.

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Regards,
Deb Magaldi
Jefferson Lab
Public Affairs
x5102
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