NEARLY PERFECT LIQUIDS From Quark-Gluon Plasma to Ultra-Cold Atoms April 6 - 8, 2009 Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA

Program

Monday, April 6th
09:00 - 10:00 D.T. Son (INT Seattle): AdS/CFT & Viscosity Bound (talk)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15 D. Teaney (Stony Brook): Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics (talk)
11:15 - 12:00 G. Bruun (NBI Copenhagen): Unitary Atomic Liquids (talk)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:00 K. O'Hara (Penn State): Cold Atom Experiments (talk)
14:00 - 14:30 C. Chin (U. of Chicago): Cold Atom Experiments (talk)
14:30 - 15:00 Discussion of cold atom experiments

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:30 Short Contributions I
16:30 - 18:00 Discussion led by W. Goldberger (Yale)

Tuesday, April 7th

09:00 - 10:00 M. Murillo (Los Alamos): Strongly Coupled Plasmas (talk)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15 C. Herzog (Princeton): AdS/CFT Transport (talk)
11:15 - 12:00 L. Yaffe (U. Washington): QCD Transport Theory (talk)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:00 STAR Status of elliptic flow
14:00 - 14:30 PHENIX Status of elliptic flow
14:30 - 15:00 Discussion of heavy ion experiments

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:30 Short Contributions II

17:00 - 18:30 Transfer to Duke University & campus visit
18:30 - 21:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, April 8th

09:00 - 10:00 J. McGreevy (MIT): Unitary Atomic Liquids (talk)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15 Open
11:15 - 12:00 G. Baym (Illinois): Summary & Discussion (talk)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
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Short Contributions:
• Iannis Bouras (talk)
• Tamas Csorgo (talk #1, talk #2, movie))
• Andrei El (talk)
• Zi-Wei Lin (talk)
• Jajati Nayak (talk)
• Raymond Snellings (talk)