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.
- 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 colloqium 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.