XQCD 2016 The 14th International workshop on QCD in eXtreme conditions

Monday 1st August 2016 – Wednesday 3rd August 2016

Portland Square Building, Plymouth University, UK

http://xqcd2016.math-sciences.org/

Conference Venue and Registration

Portland Square Building, Plymouth University

Registration open from 08.00 am, Monday 1st August 2016

Please report to the registration desk on arrival in Portland Square Building, Plymouth University, where you will be

given a name bade which you will need to wear please on all days of the conference, and any additional conference

information.

The registration desk will be open from 08.00 am on all days of the conference. Please note all keynote and oral

presentations will take place at the conference venue in Devonport Lecture Theatre.

A campus map showing the location of Portland Square Building can be downloaded here from the Plymouth University

website, and at the back of the pre-conference information.

Keynote and Oral Presentations

Devonport Lecture Theatre, Portland Square Building, Plymouth University

All Plymouth University Lecture Theatres are equipped with a lectern, HD data projector, roving and lapel microphones

and a computer with Microsoft Office 2016 installed and Endnote. There is also the facility to connect your own laptop

or Mac. If you do wish to use a Mac, we would be grateful if you could bring your own VGA connector.

Please report to the registration desk with your talk on a USB Memory stick on the day of your presentation, as

allocated in the programme on the XQCD 2016 website, where there will be a technician on hand to assist you loading

it onto the Plymouth University systems. There will be time to rehearse your presentation during any tea/coffee breaks

or lunch.

Link to XQCD2016 Conference Timetable

Conference Venue Portland Square Building, Plymouth University

1st – 3rd August 2016

Poster Presentations

Portland Square Building, Plymouth University

All poster sessions, lunch and refreshments will be located in Portland Square Building, Plymouth University.

All poster boards can mount A0 portrait or A1 landscape posters. All poster fixings will be provided by Plymouth

University. Please report to the registration desk on your arrival at the conference with your poster, where there will

be a Plymouth University staff member to assist.

Plymouth University Campus Accommodation

Radnor Halls of Residence, Gibbon Street, Plymouth

The Gibbon Street Student Village Reception will be open from 12.00 noon and you will be able to check in after

this time. Radnor Halls is in close proximity to the conference venue. If you arrive late in the day, or in the early

hours, please call the mobile phone number displayed on the door.

Broadband is available in all rooms via an Ethernet cable which can be collected from the reception.

A campus map showing the location of Student Village Reception and Radnor Halls can be found at the back of

this document.

For delegates who have opted to stay in Plymouth University ensuite

accommodation, you will be staying in Radnor Halls of Residence. Please

report to Student Village Reception, 10 Gilwell Street, Plymouth, PL4 8BX

to pick your keys and to be shown to the room where you will be staying.

Please note all bedding, linen and towels will be included and there are

shared kitchen facilities including cooking implements in close proximity

to the room where you will be staying.

Breakfast on the Plymouth University Campus

Breakfast is available on the Plymouth University Campus at Drake’s Kitchen and Reservoir Café as shown on the

campus map.

Reservoir café (grid G3 of the campus map attached)

Perched on the edge of campus overlooking the recently restored Drake's Reservoir and Gardens, our Reservoir Cafe

offers a haven of tranquillity, in an often sun-drenched position.

Discover our unique bruschetta bar which serves divine healthy salads and fillings freshly prepared by our expert chefs.

We use bio-degradable platters and compostable pots for you to take away and enjoy in your favourite spot in the

gardens where you can enjoy a game of Ping! table tennis.

the reservoir).

Serving freshly prepared and sustainably sourced hot snacks, salad, delicious topped bruschetta, wraps, homemade

cakes, hot and cold drinks (including the finest barista coffee).

Café information

Open 08:30-16:00 Monday to Friday.

First floor, Nancy Astor building (overlooking the

reservoir).

Serving freshly prepared and sustainably sourced hot

snacks, salad, delicious topped bruschetta, wraps,

homemade cakes, hot and cold drinks (including the

finest barista coffee).

Drake’s Kitchen (grid D3 of campus map attached)

Come on in and visit our Taste of the West gold award-winning café, Drakes Kitchen, for sustainable, local and fresh

food prepared for you by our excellent chefs on campus.

Open all day offering quality cooked breakfasts, street food themed lunches, delicious sandwiches, hearty salads,

snacks and our own home-made cakes.

We’ll be serving hot and cold drinks throughout the day and don’t forget to pick up your loyalty card to get your 9th hot

drink FREE!

Café information

Open 07:30 – 19:00 (though closing earlier out of

term time)

Ground floor, Francis Drake building

Serving hot meals, salad bar, sandwiches and wraps,

cooked breakfasts, hot and cold drinks

Welcome Reception

6.30pm – 9.30pm, Sunday 31st July 2016, Reservoir Café, Plymouth University

Please join us for the Welcome Reception at Reservoir Café, Plymouth University. Perched on the edge of campus

overlooking the recently restored Drake's Reservoir and Gardens, our Reservoir Cafe offers a haven of tranquillity, in an

often sun-drenched position.

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Conference Dinner

7pm till late, Tuesday 2nd August 2016, National Marine Aquarium

Please join us for the official conference dinner taking place at the National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth, Britain’s most

up-to-date aquarium with spectacular underwater displays, 15 minutes walking distance from the University. Please

note this is included within your conference fee.

Please arrive at the Aquarium at 7.00 pm, for a guided tour and welcome drink followed by a 3 course sit down meal.

National Marine Aquarium

Rope Walk

Coxside

Plymouth

PL4 0LF

Tel: 0844 893 7938

Fax: 01752 600 593

http://www.national-aquarium.co.uk/

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Facilities including Wifi

Access to the building is through the automated doors at the front of Portland Square and is wheelchair accessible.

Useful Telephone Numbers

Plymouth University Events Team 01752 586005

First Aid (Security) 24hrs 01752 588400

Lost Property (Security) 24 hrs 01752 588400

Onsite Chemist (Boots) 07469 409314

Out of Hours Enquiries and Emergencies (Security) 01752 588400

Out of Hours Accommodation (Security) 01752 588400

Taxi 01752 781781

Entrance

Portland Square Building

WiFi

Visitors to the University can enjoy FREE

internet access across the campus. Simply

select withPlymouth on your WiFi

enabled laptop, tablet or phone.

Programme 09:00 Monday AM (until 10:25)

09:00 Opening - Kurt Langfeld (Plymouth University)

09:15 The smallest of the Little Bangs: thermalization and collective flow in pp and pA collisions (??!) - Ulrich Heinz (The Ohio State University)

10:00 Phenomenological signals of QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions - Akihiko Monnai (Institut de Physique Théorique, CNRS/CEA)

10:25 --- Coffee break ---

10:55 Monday AM (until 12:30)

10:55 Ultracold fermions: statics, dynamics, and quantum information. - Joaquin Drut (University of North Carolina)

11:40 Competing order in the fermionic Hubbard model on the hexagonal graphene lattice - Lorenz von Smekal (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

12:05 Scale-invariance of three-dimensional QED - Nikhil Karthik (Florida International University)

12:30 --- Lunch ---

14:00 Monday PM (until 15:40)

14:00 Lattice constraints on the thermal photon rate - Olaf Kaczmarek (University of Bielefeld)

14:25 Charm quark diffusion coefficient and relaxation time on the quenched lattice - Atsuro Ikeda (Osaka University)

14:50 Temperature dependence of shear viscosity in SU(3)-gluodynamics - Victor Braguta (ITEP)

15:15 QCD energy momentum tensor at finite temperature using gradient flow - Yusuke Taniguchi (University of Tsukuba)

15:40 --- Coffee break ---

16:10 Monday PM (until 17:25)

16:10 Collisions in Non-conformal Theories: Hydrodynamization without Equilibration - Jorge Casalderrey Solana (University of Oxford)

16:35 Lattice NRQCD study of thermal Sommerfeld factor - Seyong Kim (Sejong University)

17:00 Novel chiral structure realized by rotation - Kazuya Mameda (The University of Tokyo)

17:25 Poster session (until 19:30)

17:25 Electrical conductivity and light vector-meson dissociation across the deconfinement phase transition in two flavor lattice QCD - Anthony Francis (York University)

17:25 Baryons across the deconfinement transition - Gert Aarts (Swansea University)

17:25 A G(2)-QCD Neutron Star - Ouraman Hajizadeh (University of Graz)

17:25 Thermodynamics of two-color matter at non-zero baryon density - pietro giudice (University of Muenster)

17:25 Towards the phase diagram from analytical continuation - Szabolcs Borsanyi (University of Wuppertal)

17:25 The $U_A(1)$ breaking in the chiral limit of two-flavour QCD - Bastian Brandt (University of Frankfurt)

17:25 Chiral phase transition in (2 + 1)-flavor QCD - Sheng-Tai Li (Central China Normal University)

17:25 Mastering the effect of Fermionic Determinant Zeroes in Complex Langevin Simulations of Heavy-Dense QCD - Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu (I.T.P., University Heidelberg)

17:25 The lattice CP(N-1) phase diagram - Tobias Rindlisbacher (ETH Zürich)

17:25 Confinement and Magnetic Fields - Francesco Sanfilippo (University of Southampton)

17:25 Observables for study of the deconfinement transition - Saumen Datta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

17:25 Charmonium spectral functions from large quenched lattice QCD - Haitao Shu (CCNU)

17:25 $\theta$-dependence of the massive Schwinger model - Eduardo Royo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

17:25 Renormalization constants of the lattice energy momentum tensor using the gradient flow - Francesco Capponi (Plymouth University)

17:25 A new method to determine the topological susceptibility at high-temperature - Julien Frison (KEK Theory Center)

17:25 Topological susceptibility in finite-temperature (2+1)-flavor QCD with gradient flow - Kazuyuki Kanaya (CiRfSE, Univ. Tsukuba)

17:25 Complex Langevin Dynamics for a Random Matrix Model of QCD at finite density - Savvas Zafeiropoulos (Goethe University Frankfurt)

17:25 Stochastic Quantization with Colored Noise - Felix Ziegler (Heidelberg University)

17:25 Confinement/deconfinement phase transition in the $SU(3)$ Yang-Mills theory: center symmetry and Meissner effect - Akihiro Shibata (Computing Research Center, KEK)

09:00 Tuesday AM (until 10:35)

09:00 A density of state approach to the sign problem - Biagio Lucini (Swansea University)

09:45 The density of states method applied to the Ising model with an imaginary magnetic field - Philippe de Forcrand (ETH Zurich & CERN)

10:10 Lattice QED with dual variables - Helvio Vairinhos (ETH Zurich)

10:35 --- Coffee break ---

11:05 Tuesday AM (until 12:40)

11:05 Recent progress of Lefschetz-thimble path integral and refine complex Langevin method - Yuya Tanizaki (RIKEN BNL Research Center)

11:50 Solving the sign problem by going with the flow - Paulo Bedaque (University of Maryland)

12:15 Progress in thimble regularization: a new algorithm, 0+1 QCD and beyond - Francesco Di Renzo (University of Parma and INFN)

12:40 --- Lunch ---

14:00 Tuesday PM (until 15:35)

14:00 Infinite dimensional/continuous compressed sensing in physics - Anders Hansen (DAMTP Cambridge)

14:45 Complex spectrum of QCD at finite density - Hiromichi Nishimura (RIKEN BNL Research Center)

15:10 Gauge cooling for the singular-drift problem in the complex Langevin method - Keitaro Nagata (KEK, Theory Center)

15:35 --- Coffee break ---

16:05 Tuesday PM (until 16:55)

16:05 Complex Langevin for Lattice QCD at $T=0$ and $\mu \ge 0$. - Donald SInclair (Argonne-Seville)

16:30 Results on the heavy-dense QCD phase diagram using complex Langevin - Felipe Attanasio (Swansea University)

16:55 Panel discussion (until 18:00)

09:00 Wednesday AM (until 10:35)

09:00 Bulk properties of strongly interacting matter: recent results from lattice QCD - Claudia Ratti (University of Houston)

09:45 The QCD equation of state and fluctuations of conserved charges at non-vanishing temperature and density - Christian Schmidt (Universitaet Bielefeld)

10:10 Theta dependence in the deconfined phase of QCD - Claudio Bonati (Università di Pisa)

10:35 --- Coffee break ---

11:05 Wednesday AM (until 12:40)

11:05 Finite temperature lattice QCD review - Daniel Nogradi (Eotvos University)

11:50 The phase diagram of QCD with isospin chemical potential - Bastian Brandt (University of Frankfurt)

12:15 Anderson localisation of Dirac eigenmodes in high temperature QCD - Guido Cossu (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)

12:40 --- Lunch ---

14:00 Wednesday PM (until 15:35)

14:00 Dark Matter from the lattice - George Fleming (Yale University)

14:45 Lattice results for SU(2) dark matter - Jarno Rantaharju (CP3-Origins)

15:10 Parity doubling in two-color and two-flavor gauge theory at high temperature - Jong-Wan Lee (Swansea University)

15:35 --- Coffee break ---

16:00 Wednesday PM (until 17:15)

16:00 Critical Phenomena in 8-Flavour QCD - Kohtaroh Miura (Centre de Physique Theorique, Aix-Marseille Universite)

16:25 Critical endline of the finite temperature phase transition for 2+1 flavor QCD around the SU(3)-flavor symmetric point - Yoshifumi Nakamura (RIKEN)

16:50 QCD Phase Diagram and Imaginary Chemical Potentials - Massimo D'Elia (University of Pisa and INFN)

17:15 Closing (until 17:30)

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