Workshop Program

Wednesday, November 4

Day 1: Finite baryon density and temperature

9.00 am - 9.05 am TBA Welcome address
9.05 am - 9.45 am F. Wilczek TBA
9.45 am - 10.30 am F. Karsch Results on Deconfinement and Chiral Symmetry Restoration from Lattice QCD
10.30 am - 11.00 am - break
11.00 am - 11.45 am M. Stephanov TBA
11.45 am - 12.30 pm T. Schaefer Extreme QCD in the instanton model

Afternoon

2.00 pm - 2.30 pm M. Lombardo Phase diagram of two color QCD
2.30 pm - 3.00 pm G. Carter Symmetry breaking by instantons at finite density
3.00 pm - 3.30 pm R. Rapp Chiral restoration at finite density: Instanton vs. Cooper pairs
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm - break
4.00 pm - 5.30 pm TBA discussion, additional short contributions

Thursday, November 5

Day 2: Instantons and Lattice QCD

9.00 am - 9.45 am J. Negele Recent Insight from the Lattice into Instantons at Zero and Nonzero Temperature
9.45 am - 10.30 am P. DeForcrand Topological and chiral properties of QCD from lattice studies
10.30 am - 11.00 am - break
11.00 am - 11.45 am T. DeGrand Distribution of Instantons in Lattice QCD
11.45 am - 12.30 pm A. Hasenfratz Fermion-instanton interaction in QCD: lattice studies

Afternoon

2.00 pm - 2.30 pm R. Mawhinney Domain wall fermion thermodynamics
2.30 pm - 3.00 pm C. DeTar Critical behavior at the high temperature QCD phase transition
3.00 pm - 3.30 pm I. Zahed Chiral Disorder in QCD and Phase Transitions
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm - break
4.00 pm - 4.30 pm M. Wingate SU(4) Yang-Mills theory: Phase transition and string tension
4.30 pm - 5.30 pm TBA discussion, additional short contributions

Friday, November 6

Day 3: SUSY, Large N_f

9.00 am - 9.45 am M. Strassler More on phases in supersymmetric theories
9.45 am - 10.30 am M. Mattis Instantons in SUSY theories
10.30 am - 11.00 am - break
11.00 am - 11.45 am T. Applequist The QCD conformal phase transition
11.45 am - 12.05 pm F. Sannino From super-QCD to QCD
12.10 am - 12.30 pm M. Velkovsky Vacuum energy in large Nf QCD and instanton molecules

Afternoon

2.00 pm - 2.30 pm J. Verbaarschot QCD phase transitions and the spectrum of the Dirac operator
2.30 pm - 3.00 pm E. Gardi The conformal window in QCD and SQCD
3.00 pm - 3.30 pm V. Elias Pade summation representation of the MS beta function
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm - break
4.00 pm - 5.30 pm TBA discussion, additional short contributions

Saturday, November 7

Day 4: Theta Vacua and other topological phenomena  

9.00 am - 9.45 am A. Zhitnitsky Topological Defects, Baryogenesis and CP-odd Bubbles in QCD
9.45 am - 10.15 am M. Sadzikowski Production of baryons as topological defects in chiral symmetry restoring phase transition
10.15 am - 10.45 am - break
10.45 am - 11.15 am D. Kharzeev Bubbles of parity odd vacua?
11.15 am - 12.00 am TBA lunch and discussion
12.00 am - 12.30 am E. Shuryak Closing Remarks

Afternoon: Excursion

Evening: Dinner

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