Talks and Presentations
This page contains links to various recent public presentations
I have made. This list is not complete but I'll try to update it as time
permits.
- e+A Experiments at an
Electron Ion Collider. RIKEN/RBRC Workshop on Future
Directions in High Energy QC, Wako, Japan, October 26, 2011.
- Probing the Gluonic
Structure of Matter at a Future Electron Ion Collider. Talk
given at the Quark Matter 2011 conference in Annecy, France
on May 26, 2011.
- EIC Science: e-A Collisions. Short
introduction to e+A physics at an EIC at the first EIC Generic Detector
R&D Advisory Committee Meeting at BNL on May 9, 2011.
- Experimental Overview of Low-x
e+A Physics at an EIC. Talk given at XIX International Workshop
on Deep-Inelastic Scattering, Newport News, VA, on April 14, 2011.
- The Glue That Binds Us All (Probing
Gluonic Matter With the World's First Electron-Ion Collider). Colloquium
given at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on April 5, 2011.
- Experimental Evidence for the
CGC and Status of a future EIC. Talk given at the3rd Excited
QCD Workshop in Les Houches, France on February 21-25, 2011.
- Recent Results from RHIC. Talk
given at the XLIX International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio
(Italy), 24-28 January 2011. Since this was a very broad audience ranging
from nuclear structure physicists to high energy folks I selected three
topics that are of potential interest for each community: Beam energy
scan 2010, anti-hypertriton production, and saturation physics in dAu.
- Heavy Quarkonia Measurements
with STAR. Talk given at the International Workshop on Heavy
Quark Production in Heavy-ion Collisions at Purdue University, IN,
January 4-6, 2011.
- EIC Physics and Heavy Ion Collisions. Talk
given at the INT workshop on
"Gluons and the Quark Sea at High Energies" (September 13 to
November 19, 2010). The talk was given during the workshop on the "Science
Case for an EIC" November 18, 2010, INT, Seattle.
- A Meta-Talk on Low-x eA Physics
at an EIC. Meta talk given at the INT workshop on
"Gluons and the Quark Sea at High Energies" (September 13 to
November 19, 2010). The talk was given during the 3rd week of the workshop
that focused on "small x, saturation, diffraction, nuclear effects;
connections to p+A and A+A physics; fragmentation/hadronization in vacuum
and in medium"
September 27, 2010, INT, Seattle. Note that this is a "Meta" talk, a
talk about a talk, an idea I got from Bill Zajc.
- Hard Probes at HERA, RHIC, (and
LHC) - The Experimental Basics. Two lectures given at the
school held at the first day of the Symposium of the long-term workshop "High
Energy Strong Interactions 2010" (HESI2010) at Yukawa Institute
for Theoretical Physics, in Kyoto, Japan. The workshop lasted from
July 26 - August 27, 2010, the symposium took place on August 9-13,
2010. The PDF file is created from the original keynote presentation
that contains both lectures. I tried to preserve the animations as
good as possible but, as usual, this only works for few simple cases.
The price to pay is that the PDF has 347 pages while the original
has only around 100 slides. However, the PDF file is only ~46
MB, the original is 4 x bigger. Email me for the keynote file.
- Summary of the Working Group
Session on Open Heavy Flavor. Summary of the working group
session on Open Heavy Flavor at the QUARKONIUM 2010 Meeting (Three
days of Quarkonium Production in pp and pA collisions) at the École
Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, July 29-31, 2010 .
- The Physics of a Future Electron-Ion
Collider. Talk given at the Workshop on High-Energy and Nuclear
Physics in the Future at the RHIC & AGS User Meeting on June
8, 2010.
- The EIC, Saturation, and the
CGC. Talk given at the RIKEN BNL Research Center Workshop
on Saturation, the Color Glass Condensate and Glasma (aka Glasma
Workshop) at BNL on May 12, 2010.
- The Glue That Binds Us All:
Probing Gluonic Matter With the World's First Electron-Ion Collider. Colloquium
given at Texas A&M University, College Station TX, on April 22,
2010.
- Electron-Ion Collisions: Studying
the Physics of Strong Color Fields. Seminar given at the Nuclear
Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Prague 2009, Czech
Republic, December 10, 2009.
- From Discovery to Exploration:
Determining the Properties of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma. Colloquium
given at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic,
December 9, 2009.
- How EIC can address open questions
from the RHIC heavy-ion program. Talk given at INT Workshop
on Physics at a High Energy Electron Ion Collider at the Institute
for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, October 19-23, 2009.
- RHIC & eRHIC: The Symbiotic
Relationship Between Heavy-Ion Physics & DIS. Talk given
at the 2nd LHeC Workshop in Divonne, France, September 1-3, 2009.
- Electron-Ion Collisions: Studying
the Physics of Strong Color Fields . Talk given at the Gordon
Conference GRC2009 at Bryant University, RI, July 12-17, 2009.
- Quarkonia Measurements with
STAR / Quarkonia Measurements at RHIC-II . Two talks given
at the ECT* Workshop on Quarkonia Production in Heavy Ion Collisions
in Trento, Italy on May 28, 2009. The PDF shows most of the animations.
Both talks were given back-to-back and are both contained in the
PDF.
- Hard Probes: Jets and Photons/Leptons
Collisions. Lecture given at the student day at Quark Matter
2009, Knoxville, TN, March 29, 2009. This talk contains a lot of
animations that do show in the PDF version but not in their full
glory (compared to the original keynote file). Note that the keynote
file is rather large (25MB). To view the file you will need at least
Keynote '09.
- The Return of the Prodigal Son?
Quarkonium Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions. Plenary talk
given at the International Workshop on Heavy Quarkonia 2008 (QWG
2008), December 2-5, 2008 Nara, Japan.
- Quarkonia Measurements in STAR. Talk
given at the 3rd International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic
Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2008), June 8-14,
2008, Illa da Toxa (Galicia-Spain). This is in fact a talk Zhangbu Xu
was supposed to give but since he unfortunately couldn't make it I was
asked to give it on his behalf. The slides are his. I just list them
here for completeness and because it's nice talk with some new results
on upper limits on the feeddown from B decays.
- Hard Probes: An experimental
overview. Student lecture given at the 3rd International
Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear
Collisions (Hard Probes 2008), June 8-14, 2008, Illa da Toxa (Galicia-Spain).
- Physics Requirements for the
EIC. Talk given at the 4th Electron Ion Collide Workshop
in Hampton University, Hampton, VA, May 19-23, 2008.
- From the Age of Discovery to
the Age of Exploration: Determining the Properties of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma. Overview
talk given at the Spring APS Meeting in St. Louis, MO, April 12,
2008 (Session D3 DPF DNP: Quantum Chromodynamics).
- Heavy Ions Physics. Plenary
talk given at the DIS 2008 (XVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic
Scattering and Related Subjects) held at the University College London,
April 7-11, 2008.
- RHIC: From colliding ions to
physics results. Series of lectures given at the QCD Winter
School, Les Houches, France, March 25 - April 4, 2008. In the
first lecture I covered the RHIC accelerator complex with some brief
introduction into very basic accelerator physics. Lecture II focuses
on the RHIC detectors with a brief introduction into the underlying
physics of the various detector technologies deployed. Lecture III
is dedicated to RHIC results focusing on hard probes, energy loss,
and medium response. The original files (keynote format) are huge
since the contain movies and animations. Here I post only the PDFs
(which are still large). Ask me if you are interested in the full
version (> 200 MB).
- The Emerging QCD Frontier: The
Electron Ion Collider. Plenary talk given at the Quark Matter
2008 conference in Jaipur, India, February 4-10, 2008.
- The Emerging QCD Frontier: The
Electron Ion Collider (Physics Opportunities with e+A Collisions
at the EIC). Seminar at MIT given on November 27, 2007.
Slightly different than the one below.
- The Emerging QCD Frontier: The
Electron Ion Collider (Physics Opportunities with e+A Collisions
at the EIC). Seminar at Stony Brook given on November 21,
2007 (that's right one day before Thanksgiving) .
- Heavy Flavor Physics in the
RHIC-II Era: Physics at the Femtobarn Scale. Hopefully my
last talk on RHIC-II given at the Heavy Quark Workshop at LBL, November
1-3, 2007, Berkeley, CA. Note: I switched from PowerPoint
to Keynote. This has nothing to do with personal preferences but
PowerPoint on the Intel Macs is very slow, too slow for my taste.
Keynote files are actually directories and hence cannot be distributed
as easily, i.e., the need to zip'ed or tar'ed. That's less convinient,
hence I will, from now on, only post the PDF files. If you need a
slide in PPT or Keynote, send me an email.
- Physics Opportunities with e+A
Collisions at an Electron Ion Collider. Talk at the Hall C
Workshop at JLAB, Aug 9-10, 2007, Newport News, VA.
- Physics Opportunities with an
Electron Ion Collider. Talk at the International Symposium
on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2007), Aug 4-9, 2007, Berkeley, California.
- Status of the NSAC Long Range
Plan. Talk at the Gordon Research Conference (Nuclear Physics),
July 19, 2007, Newport, RI.
- RHIC Experimental Overview -
What we have (not) learned. Talk at the Colliders to Cosmic
Rays 2007 (C2CR07), 25 Feb - 1 Mar 2007, Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe,
California.
- The Charm and Beauty of an (almost)
Perfect Liquid - Open Heavy Flavor Production at RHIC. Seminar
given at the NSCL at MSU on February 7, 2007.
- Physics Opportunities at an
Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Talk on EIC physics at the "Phases
of QCD" Session at the Joint Town Meeting in Quantum Chromodynamics
in preparation for the NSAC Long Range Plan. Held on the Rutgers
Campus, NJ, January 12-14, 2007.
- Heavy Ions at RHIC: RHIC-II
and beyond. Short talk on issues related to the future of
the RHIC program at the Session on QCD at High Temperatures at
the Workshop on Future Opportunities in QCD, held December
15-16, 2006 in Washington DC (SURA Offices).
- Heavy Flavor Production and
Interactions in the Medium. Overview talk on heavy flavor
results at RHIC, given at the DNP Workshop on 'Signatures and Properties
of the sQGP' at the DNP fall meeting in Nashville, TN, October 25,
2006.
- Status and Future of Heavy Flavor
Physics at RHIC. Overview talk on the mid- and long term heavy
flavor program and related upgrades at RHIC. Given at the International
Workshop on Heavy Flavor Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC,
ECT in Trento, Italy, September 6-10, 2006.
- Zooming in on the QGP? Heavy
Ion Collisions: an Overview. Introduction/Overview talk given
at the 2nd International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes
of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2006), Asilomar Conference
Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, June 9-16, 2006.
- Where are we in the search for
the QGP? Experimental evaluation of the first 4 years at RHIC given
at the XXV Physics in Collision Conference (PiC'05) in Prague, Czech
Republic, July 6-9, 2005.
- STAR overview talk on Charm
and Electrons in STAR given at the ECT workshop on Electromagnetic
Probes of Hot and Dense Matter, Trento, Italy, June 3-10, 2005.
- Talk on future EM measurements in STAR: EM
Probes in STAR: A look into the future. Given at the ECT workshop
on Electromagnetic Probes of Hot and Dense Matter, Trento, Italy,
June 3-10, 2005.
- RHIC Physics Summary talk
given at the RHIC Retreat in Port Jefferson, NY, June 7, 2004. The PPT
file contains much more slides than I actually showed. It includes several
plots from the AGS/RHIC User Meeting on the 62 GeV data.
- This is the talk I gave at the NSAC review at BNL
on June 3, 2004: A Comprehensive New Detector for
RHIC II Physics. Since only the PDF version is posted on
the NSAC committee web page I put here the original PPT file. (I still
haven't found out how to make a compact but readable PDF from a PPT file).
- Talk on Quarkonium Physics at
RHIC II at the Workshop on RHIC II Physics and Perspectives
for a New Comprehensive Detector, April 16 & 17, 2004 at Yale.
- Lecture/Seminar on recent STAR
results at the joint IX Hadron Physics and VII Relativistic
Aspects of Nuclear Physics (HADRON-RANP 2004) Workshop in Angra dos
Reis, Brazil on March 28 - April 3, 2004. The PowerPoint file contains
animations that require Office XP or any higher version, and it's
big (24 MB).
- Seminar on STAR's latest results on open charm production
given at Ohio State University on Feb 27, 2004. The full title is: The
Charm and Beauty of Heavy Quarks in Heavy Ion Collisions (at RHIC).
The PowerPoint file contains animations that require Office XP or any
higher version.
- Talk/Lecture given at the Student Lecture Session
at the Quark Matter 2004 Conference in Oakland, CA on January 11, 2004.
It is actually the first of a 2h lecture on Experimental
Probes of the QGP. The second part of the lecture is by Jamie
Nagel. His talk can be found at the official QM2004 web
site. The PowerPoint file of my lecture contains animations that require
Office XP or any higher version.
- Seminar at SUNY at Stony Brook on charm physics in
STAR. The title is: A First Look at Open Charm
Production in d+Au and p+p at 200 GeV with the STAR Detector. SUNY
at Stony Brook, NY, November 12, 2003. The PowerPoint file contains animations
that require Office XP.
- Hitchhikers Guide to Heavy Ion
Physics at RHIC. Colloquium given at Indiana State University,
October 8, 2003, Bloomington, IN. The PowerPoint file contains animations
that require Office XP and the movie (listed below) needs to stored
in the same directory as the PPT file.
- Survey of Experimental Results
from RHIC. Talk given at the 4th International
Conference on Perspectives in Hadron Physics in Trieste, Italy,
May 12-16, 2003. The PowerPoint version contains animations that
require Office XP.
- Talk on <pT> characteristics given
at the 19th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics:
Characteristics of mean transverse momentum of charged particles in heavy-ion
collisions. Breckenridge, Colorado, February 2003.
- RHIC Overview Talk: Results
from RHIC - Measurements of High Density Matter, IX International Symposium
on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS),
Mumbai, India, January 2003.
- This is a presentation on Quarkonia
Physics I gave at a workshop at
BNL on September 19, 2002 where the possibilities for
a future joint EIC/RHIC detector were discussed. The talk covers
some aspects of Quarkonia physics which are interesting and important
but might not be covered by the current RHIC program.
- Talk on Quarkonium rates
and acceptance issues in the RHIC II era I gave at the STAR
Workshop on Future Physics and Detectors in Bar Harbor,
Maine on June 17 2002. This is a very 'dry' talk with lots of
tables, extrapolation of cross-sections, and rate estimates.
- Topical summary talk given
at QM2002 in Nantes, France on July
24, 2002: "Global Observables, Yields, and Spectra".
- BNL Lecture given
on June 19, 2002: "Probing Hot and Dense Matter with Hard Probes".
This is a talk for a non-specialist audience on high-pt physics.
Below is the PPT file. Please note that the talk contains a lot of
animations which appear to work only when you have Office XP installed.
Otherwise some text and pictures get scrambled. In order to see the
full talk you also have to download 2 movies which are linked from
the PPT file.
- Talk on thermalization at the ITP-Conference on
QCD in the RHIC Era, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, April 2002
- RHIC summary talk given at the III International Symposium
on LHC Physics and Detectors, Chia, Italy, Oct 2001
- NATO Advanced Study Institute,
Summer School, Lectures on Heavy Ion Experiments at RHIC,
Cargese (Corsica), France, August 2001. This was a bunch of lectures
(6 altogether) I gave together with Jamie Nagle from Columbia.
Since the material from the lecture was a mix of slides extracted
from many PPT files, handwritten notes, and copies it is impossible
to post the original material. Below is the write-up of the lecture
in PDF format. The title is "Experimentalists are from Mars,
Theorists are from Venus".
- Talk at the Gordon Conference on "Thermalization:
what do we know about it and what have we learnt from it?", Newport,
RI, July 2001
- Talk given at QCD@Work, International
Workshop on QCD on "The First Year at RHIC", Martina Franca,
Italy, June 2001
- A physics colloquium I gave
at SUNY in Stony Brook: "Summary of
First Results from STAR", Stony Brook NY, April 2001.
- A physics seminar at University
of Rochester: "The STAR experiment at RHIC: what have
we learnt so far?", Rochester NY, April 2001
- This is a RHIC summary talk I
gave at the Spring Meeting of the German Physics
Society DPG (Division of Nuclear Physics): "First Results
from RHIC", Erlangen, Germany, March 2001. Only the first slide
is in German, the rest is in English.
- Seminar at the Enrico Fermi
Institute, Chicago University: "The STAR experiment at
RHIC: what have we learnt so far?", Chicago IL, February 2001
- STAR summary talk given
at the APS Meeting, Division of Nuclear
Physics (DNP): "First Results from the STAR Experiment",
Williamsburg VA, October 2000. The talk is stored on two different
PPT files (one landscape one portrait) which I can dig out on request.
The PDF file contains the complete 30 min talk.