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"STAR Regional Meeting: Heavy Quark Production and Correlations"
Warsaw, 7-9 July, 2010


Warsaw University of Technology
Physics Building, room 111



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Wednesday, July 7
9:00 - 9:30 Registration

Morning session
Chair: Grażyna Odyniec, LBNL

  • 9:30 - 9:40 Tomasz Pawlak, WUT
    "Opening remarks"

  • 9:40 - 10:20 Nu Xu, LBNL
    "High-Energy Nuclear Collisions and QCD Phase Structure - Status and new opportunities"

  • 10:20 - 11:00 James Dunlop, BNL
    "Overview of charm production in RHIC experiments"


11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
  • 11:30 - 12:00 Daniel Kikola, LBNL
    "J/psi production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at STAR"

  • 12:00 - 12:30 Barbara Trzeciak, WUT
    "J/psi polarization in pp collisions at 200 GeV"


12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon session
Chair: James Dunlop, BNL

  • 14:00 - 14:20 Witold Borowski, SUBATECH
    "Charm and beauty searches using electron-D0 azimuthal correlations and microvertexing techniques"

  • 14:20 - 14:50 David Tlusty, NPI
    "D meson reconstruction"

  • 14:50 - 15:20 David Blashke, JINR
    "J/psi production mechanism in current models"


15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break
  • 15:50 - 16:20 Anton Andronic, GSI
    "Hadron production at chemical freeze-out and the QCD phase diagram"

  • 16:20 - 16:50 Peter Filip, JINR
    "Initial eccentricity simulations"


18:30 - 20:00 Conference dinner in "Studio Buffo" restaurant
Thursday, July 8

Morning session
Chair: Wiktor Peryt, WUT

  • 9:30 - 10:10 Richard Lednicky, JINR
    "Femtoscopic search for the phase transition"

  • 10:10 - 10:50 Wojciech Florkowski, IFJ
    "The early thermalization and HBT puzzles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions - hints for early anisotropic dynamics"


10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
  • 11:20 - 12:00 Grażyna Odyniec, LBNL
    "Beam Energy Scan Program at RHIC"

  • 12:00 - 12:30 Michael Lisa, OSU
    "Azimuthally-sensitive pion correlations in the Beam Energy Scan Program at RHIC"


12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon session
Chair: Jan Pluta, WUT

  • 14:00 - 14:20 Jan Pluta, WUT
    "Femtoscopy at WUT"

  • 14:20 - 14:50 Hanna Zbroszczyk, WUT
    "First results on baryon correlations from BES at RHIC"

  • 14:50 - 15:10 Piotr Ostrowski, WUT
    "Two pion correlations from BES"

  • 15:10 - 15:40 Marcin Zawisza, WUT
    "Latest results on pion-proton femtoscopy from STAR"

  • 15:40 - 16:10 Paul Chung, INP
    "3D pion source imaging from Run4 and Run7 200 AGeV Au+Au collisions"


16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
  • 16:40 - 17:10 Adam Kisiel, CERN
    "First results on pion femtoscopy in pp collisions at 900 GeV and 7 TeV from the ALICE experiment"

  • 17:10 - 17:40 Katarzyna Grebieszkow, WUT
    "What can we learn from energy scan at CERN SPS? (NA-61)"

  • 17:40 - 18:00 Richard Lednicky, JINR
    "Project NICA/MPD"

  • 18:00 - 18:20 Nu Xu, LBNL
    "BES at FAIR"

Friday, July 9

Morning session
Chair: Richard Lednicky, JINR

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Klaus Werner, SUBATECH
    "Correlation Results from an Event-by-Event Simulation of the Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Evolution in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions"

  • 10:00 - 10:30 Yuri Sinyukov, BITP
    "Kaon and pion femtoscopy at the top RHIC energy in Hydrokinetic model"

  • 10:30 - 11:00 Wlodek Guryn, BNL
    "The pp2pp program at STAR: recent results and future plans"


11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
14:00 Visit to Fryderyk Chopin Museum (new, modern and interactive)