There will be three half day workshops held in advance of the regular meeting.
A.) Nuclear Physics Underground
B.) Quarks to Cosmos with Petaflops
C.) Quantifying the Character of the sQGP
The workshops will be run in parallel on Thursday morning, 23 October 2008. The workshops will start at 8:30 AM and end at 12:30 PM. Please note that the regular DNP meeting will start at 1:30 PM on the same day.
Registration for the workshops is required and will cost $40.00 for DNP members. The registration fee includes a complimentary coffee break. You may register for the workshops on the main registration page as part of the registration process for the main DNP meeting or you may also register on-site for a slightly higher fee [$60.00 late, $80.00 at the door]. The organizing committee strongly prefers that you register in advance for planning purposes.
Nuclear Physics Underground
With DUSEL on the horizon and both R&D and early implementation experiments beginning at the Sanford Lab in the coming months, this workshop is designed to give the non-expert an overview of the physics opportunities presented by working at underground laboratories. The speakers will discuss experiments underway at underground laboratories around the world, as well as the next generation experiments envisioned for the DUSEL and SNOLAB laboratories.
From Quarks to the Cosmos with Petaflops: Large-Scale Computing in Nuclear Physics
The workshop will provide an introduction to large-scale computing and illustrate how recent developments in computational capabilities and techniques are advancing our knowledge in nuclear physics across the spectrum of interest, from quarks to cosmological scales. The program will cover topics such as "Supercomputers for Pedestrians", lattice QCD, nuclear structure and reactions, and applications to areas intersecting with nuclear physics. The future of large-scale computing in nuclear physics will be discussed.
Quantifying the Character of the sQGP
Matter being made in central heavy ion collisions is representative of a new regime in the bulk matter of QCD. It has some remarkable properties ... including the capability of suppressing high momentum particles (akin to stopping a bullet in a tissue paper), and collective motion indicating strong interactions between the constituents.
The goal of this workshop is to challenge the speakers to quantify the characteristics of the strongly interacting matter that has been created in HI collisions. Powerful new techniques have been developed which are able to make quantitative predictions based on experimental data. The workshop seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical ideas and experimental measurements in an effort to yield a deeper understanding of the sQGP.