STRANGENESS IN COLLISIONS WORKSHOP

February 16 - 17, 2006

Physics Department Large Seminar Room

AGENDA

Thursday Morning, February 16 (Chair: Matthew Lamont)

8:30 - 9:00 R E G I S T R A T I O N

9:00 - 9:10 WELCOME

9:10 - 9:50 Nu Xu.....................Strangeness Production and Partonic Equation of State at RHIC

9:50 - 10:20 Claudia Hoehne......System-size Dependence of Strangeness Production at the SPS

10:20 - 11:00 C O F F EE B R E AK

11:00 - 11:40 Rene Bellwied.......High pt Phenomena in Strangeness

11:40 - 12:20 Rudy Hwa.............Production of Strange Particles at Intermediate pT at RHIC

12:20 - 2:00 LUNCH (served at the Berkner Hall Cafeteria until 1:30)

Thursday Afternoon, February 16 (Chair: Krzysztof Redlich)

2:00 - 2:40 Volker Koch...........Baryon Strange Correlations

2:40 - 3:10 Jeff Speltz ..............Applicability of Hydrodynamic Models to Strange RHIC Spectra

3:10 - 3:50 Ulrich Heinz.....Hydrodynamics at RHIC– Successes, Limitations & Perspectives

3:50 - 4:20 C O F F E E B R E A K

4:20 - 4:50 Ana Marin ......The Leptonic and Charged Kaon Decay Modes of $\phi$ Meson Measured In Heavy-Ion Collisions at the CERN SPS

4:50 - 5:30 Johan Rafelski ....... Strangeness Signature of QGP

5:30 - 6:00 Anton Andronic ....... Energy Dependence on Hadron Production in Central Heavy Ion CollisionsWithin the Statistical Model

6:30 - 7:30 R E C E P T I O N A T B E R K N E R H A L L (Main Lobby)

7:30 - 9:00 B U F F E T D I N N E R B E R K N E R H A L L (Meeting Room A)

Friday Morning, February 17 (Chair: Richard Witt)

9:00 - 9:40 Karel Safarik......... Strangeness Production in p-p and p-A

9:40 . - 10:20 Mark Heinz ........... Strangeness in p+p: Data vs Models

10:10 - 10:40 Peter Skands ......... Power Showers, Underlying Events and Other News in PYTHIA

10:40 - 11:00 C O F F E E B R E A K

11:00 - 11:30 Marek Gazdzicki .. Energy Dependence of Strangeness Production and Onset of Deconfinement

11:30 - 12:30 Larry McLerran .. The glasma

12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH (served at the Berkner Hall Cafeteria until 1:30)

Friday Afternoon, February 17 (Chair: Helen Caines)

1:30 - 2:00 Boris Tomasik....... The K/pi Horn and the Lifetime of the Fireball

2:00 - 2:30 Helmut Oeschler ... Centrality Dependence of Strange Particle Yields from SIS up to RHIC

2:30 - 3:00 Boris Hippolyte ..... Strangeness Opportunities at the LHC

3:00 - 3:30 Edward Shuryak... The Role of Resonances in Understanding the Medium Produced in Collisions at RHIC and SPS

3:30 - 4:00 C O F F E E B R E A K

4:00 - 4:40 Giorgio Torrieri.... Phenomenology of Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collision

4:40 - 5:20 Vasile Topor-pop Strangeness and Multi-Strangeness in pp, dAu and AuAu

5:20 - 5:50 Klaus Werner........ The Effect of Parton Ladder Splitting on Strange Particle Production in dAu and pp at RHIC