June 27 – July 8, 2016

São Paulo, Brazil

ICTP-SAIFR / IFT-UNESP

Lectures and Professors:

First week

Evidence of DM from Cosmology and Astrophysics
Pasquale D. Serpico (LAPTh – Annecy-le-Vieux, France)

Formation of cosmic structures
Ravi Sheth (University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, USA)

Collider tests of Dark Matter Model
Tim Tait* (University of California – Irvine, USA)
*Lectures delivered by Eduardo Pontón (ICTP-SAIFR & IFT-UNESP)

Second week

Cosmic Rays
Manuela Vecchi (Instituto de Física de São Carlos – USP, Brazil)

Gravitational Lensing
Eduardo Serra Cypriano (USP-São Paulo, Brazil)

Direct detection of DM
Nassim Bozorgnia (GRAPPA – Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Indirect detection of DM
Francesca Calore (GRAPPA – Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Dark Matter in astrophysical structures
Miguel Pato* (OKC – Stockholm, Sweden)
*Lectures delivered by Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR & IFT-UNESP)

Organizers:

• Gianfranco Bertone (GRAPPA – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Graciela Gelmini (UCLA-Los Angeles, USA)
• Fabio Iocco (IFT-UNESP & ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil)
• Eduardo Pontón (IFT-UNESP &  ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil)

Description:

The school aims at making students familiar with all the aspects -astrophysical, cosmological, and particle physics- of the Dark Matter problem, both on the observational/experimental, and theoretical side. Students will be trained both on the theory part, and with practical sessions in order to be able to participate to active research projects in the field by the end of the school. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses. 

 Announcement

School Program: updated on July 7

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June 27 – July 1, 2016

July 4 – 8, 2016

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Student Presentations:

• Cesar Rojas Bravo
• Alex Alarcón Jara
• Andres Perez
• Maria Benito Castaño
• Hamish Silverwood
• Maria Jose Guzman
• Felipe Rojas Abatte
• Leesa Fleury

Bibliography:

Ravi Sheth (University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, USA): Formation of cosmic structures

• The statistics of peaks of Gaussian random fields;  Bardeen, Bond, Kaiser & Efstathiou, 1986, The Astrophysical Journal, 304, 15-61
• Halo Models of Large Scale Structure; Cooray & Sheth 2002, Physics Reports, 372, 1-129
• On the Robustness of the Acoustic Scale in the Low-Redshift Clustering of Matter;  Eisenstein, Seo & White 2007, The Astrophysical Journal, 664, 660-674
• Nonlinear evolution of baryon acoustic oscillations;  Crocce & Scoccimarro, 2008, Physical Review D, 77, 023533

Nassim Bozorgnia (GRAPPA – Amsterdam, The Netherlands): Direct detection of DM

• G. Bertone, Particle Dark Matter: Observations, Models and Searches, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• K. Freese, M. Lisanti and C. Savage, Annual Modulation of Dark Matter: A Review, Rev. Mod. Phys. 85 (2013) 1561, arXiv:1209.3339.
• A. Kurylov and M. Kamionkowski, Generalized Analysis of Weakly-Interacting Massive Particle Searches, Phys. Rev. D 69 (2004) 063503.
• J. D. Lewin and P. F. Smith, Review of mathematics, numerical factors, and corrections for dark matter experiments based on elastic nuclear recoil, Astrop. Phys. 6 (1996) 87.
• G. Jungman, M. Kamionkowski and K. Griest, Supersymmetric dark matter, Phys. Rep. 267 (1996) 195.
• P. Gondolo, Phenomenological Introduction to Direct Dark Matter Detection, arXiv:hep-ph/9605290.
• M. W. Goodman and E. Witten, Detectability of certain dark-matter candidates, Phys. Rev. D 31 (1985) 12.
• A. K. Drukier, K. Freese and D. N. Spergel, Detecting cold dark-matter candidates, Phys. Rev. D 33 (1986) 12.
• D. N. Spergel, Motion of the Earth and the detection of weakly interacting massive particles, Phys. Rev. D 37 (1988) 1353.

Manuela Vecchi (Instituto de Física de São Carlos – USP, Brazil): Cosmic Rays

Textbooks:
M. S. Longair, High energy astrophysics, Cambridge University Press
T. K. Gaisser, Cosmic ray and particle physics, Cambridge University Press
W. R. Leo Techniques for nuclear and particle physics, Springer-Velrag

Reviews:
L. Baldini arXiv: 1407.7631
P. Maestro, arXiv: 1510.07683
P. Blasi, Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews 21, 70 (2013), 1311.7346

History of cosmic rays:
V.  Trimble, AIP Conference Proceedings 1516 , 30 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4792536
V.  Cirkel-Bartelt, Living Rev. Relativity, 11, (2008), 2

Additional Information:

List of Confirmed Participants: Updated on June 24

Registration: ALL participants and speakers should register. The registration will be on June 27  at the institute, from 8:30 to 9:30.  You can find arrival instructions at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195

Accommodation: Participants and lecturers, whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant/lecturer, whose accommodation has been provided by the institute, has received the accommodation details individually by email.

BOARDING PASS: All participants/lecturers, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting poster MUST BRING THE POSTER PRINTED. The poster size should be at most 1,5m x 1m. Please do not bring hanging banner, only sticking poster.

Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).

Ground transportation instructions: 

Ground transportation from Guarulhos Airport to The Universe Flat

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Work based on ideas that emerged during the ICTP-SAIFR partnership with the Perimeter Institute provides a new way to look at how strings interact with one another

Between the months of November 2014 and February 2015, the ICTP-SAIFR made a partnership with the Perimeter Institute, of Canada, to study topics related to Field Theory. During this period, the collaboration promoted the exchange of researchers and students between the institutes. Three months after the end of the partnership, Benjamin Basso, Shota Komatsu and Pedro Vieira, published an article based on ideas that emerged throughout their time in ICTP-SAIFR.

“We had the ideas and started discussing them while we were in Brazil,” says Basso. “We immediately saw potential in these ideas, so we developed them and tested their veracity and predictions.”

Their work is in the field of String Theory – more specifically on its duality with strongly coupled Quantum Field Theories. According to the theory, strings are fundamental elements and their vibrations are related to the mass and energy of the particles that they form. The study of Basso and his colleagues provides a new way to look at how the strings interact, and to what happens when one of these strings is broken into two or when two strings join to form one.

“When trying to solve a complex problem in physics, we often try to break it into smaller and simpler problems”, explains Basso. “This is what we did in our work. Instead of studying a complex problem that involves an object in the form of a pair of pants, we cut this object in two hexagons. With these more elementary geometric shapes, we made the problem simpler both conceptually and technically; we could explicitly solve for these hexagons using the integrability of the theory”.

Click here to read the article.

The next step of the work will be to verify that the model remains valid after the hexagons are “glued” together again, recreating the original structure in the form of a pair of pants.

“We know that our description works well when the two halves are separated, but we don’t know if everything will continue to be fine after the union of the halves,” says Basso. “We are optimistic and will continue to polish the picture to verify this. If the model proves to be correct, we will have a better understanding of the elementary string interactions of this theory”.

Trabalho que se originou durante parceria do ICTP-SAIFR com o Perimeter Institute propõe nova forma de olhar para os fenômenos de interação entre cordas

Entre os meses de novembro de 2014 e fevereiro de 2015, o ICTP-SAIFR realizou uma parceria com o Perimeter Institute, do Canadá, para estudar temas relacionados a Teoria de Campos. Durante esse período, a colaboração promoveu o intercâmbio de pesquisadores e alunos entre os institutos. Três meses após o final da parceria, Benjamin Basso, Shota Komatsu e Pedro Vieira, publicaram um artigo baseado em ideias que surgiram ao longo de sua estada no ICTP-SAIFR.

“Tivemos as ideias e começamos a discuti-las enquanto estávamos no Brasil”, diz Basso. “Nós vimos, de imediato, potencial nessas ideias, então as desenvolvemos e testamos suas previsões”.

O trabalho dos pesquisadores está relacionado à Teoria das Cordas – mais especificamente em sua dualidade com acoplamentos fortes na Teoria Quântica de Campos. De acordo com a teoria, as cordas são elementos fundamentais e suas vibrações estão relacionadas com a energia e massa das partículas que formam. O estudo de Basso e seus colegas fornece uma nova maneira de olhar para o modo como as cordas interagem entre si, e para o que acontece quando uma dessas cordas se quebra em duas ou quando duas cordas se unem.

“Muitas vezes em Física, para tentar resolver um grande problema, tentamos quebrá-lo em problemas menores e mais simples”, explica Basso. “Foi isso que fizemos nesse trabalho. Em vez de estudar um problema complexo, que envolve um objeto no formato de um par de calças, cortamos esse objeto em dois hexágonos. Com essas formas geométricas mais elementares, tornamos o problema mais simples tanto conceitualmente como tecnicamente; nós conseguimos resolver, explicitamente, os problemas relacionados aos hexágonos usando a integrabilidade da teoria”.

Leia o artigo clicando aqui.

O próximo passo do trabalho será verificar se o modelo se mantém válido após os hexágonos serem “colados” novamente, recriando a estrutura original no formato do par de calças.

“Sabemos que nossa descrição funciona quando as duas metades estão separadas, mas ainda não podemos afirmar que ela continuará válida após a união das metades em uma só forma”, diz Basso. “Estamos otimistas e vamos continuar polindo essas figuras para fazer a verificação. Caso o modelo se mostre correto, conseguiremos entender melhor as interações entre os elementos fundamentais da Teoria das Cordas”.

Start time: March 27, 2016

Ends on: April 2, 2016

Speakers:

• Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute -Waterloo, Canada)
• Frans Pretorius (Princeton University, USA)

Title: A first course on Numerical Relativity

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Venue: IFT-UNESP

Description:

This course will cover the fundamentals of solving Einstein equations numerically in strongly gravitating/dynamical regimes. Emphasis will be on fundamentals to lay a solid foundation for venturing into Numerical Relativity.
Topics to be covered include: Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations, Formulations of Einstein equations, Hydrodynamics and basics of applications for Astrophysics, fundamental questions on General Relativity and Holography. While no formal training on coding will be assumed, it would be helpful if participants have a basic knoweldge of Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, Fortran, C or Python to carry out related exercises.
Financial support will be available for graduate students and researchers from South America that would like to attend the minicourse, and the online application form will be posted soon on this webpage.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced this month the observation, with high precision, of an extremely rare phenomenon: the decay of mesons B^­­0_s and B⁰ into two muons. These mesons can decay in several different ways, and the probabilities of these specific decays are of about 1 per each 250 million B^0­­_s mesons produced and of 1 per each 10 billion B⁰ mesons. Data analysis was made by researchers from CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) and LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty), and included the participation of the São Paulo Research Analysis Center (SPRACE), which is part of the CMS collaboration.

Read the article, published in Nature, by clicking here.

“This was the first time we observed these decays with a statistical significance higher than 6 Sigma, which means that there is only one chance in one billion of the result not being real”, explains Sérgio Novaes, SPRACE coordinator. “This observation is in agreement with Standard Model predictions and is important because it can help to rule out or restrict models beyond the Standard Model which predict different decay rates”.

The observations were made in 2011 and 2012, during the first phase of LHC experiments. This year the accelerator was turned on again for a second phase and should begin data collection in the next few months, this time with an energy of 13 TeV – an increase of 5 TeV with respect to the maximum energy of the first phase.

“With higher energies and luminosities, we will be able to make even more precise measurements,” says Novaes. “The LHC will search for new particles and will test until which point the Standard Model remains valid”.

Feynman diagrams related to the decay of the analyzed mesons; c) is forbidden in the Standard Model

Beyond the Standard Model

“The Standard Model cannot explain everything,” says Eduardo Pontón, ICTP-SAIFR researcher. “We don’t know, for instance, what dark matter consistes of or why there is an imbalance in the ratio between matter and anti-matter in the composition of our universe. Observations like this one made in the LHC help to establish new boundaries for the Standard Model and new limits for theories that go beyond it and try to explain these phenomena”.

One of Pontón’s research interests is in Composite Higgs Models. According to these theories, the Higgs boson is not an elementary particle – it is composed of other sub-particles. “The Higgs is the only potentially elementary particle observed in nature, to date, that has spin 0, which introduces a fine-tuning problem” he says. “Composite Higgs Models help to explain this issue, among others.”

In addition to further study the properties of the Higgs boson, searching for new particles and for observations that diverge from the Standard Model predictions are among the objectives of this second phase of LHC experiments. SPRACE will not only continue to participate in data analysis and storage, but will also try to increase its role in the CMS collaboration.

“We are starting an instrumentation project to improve detectors used by CMS,” says Novaes. “In the past, we couldn’t observe certain phenomena because we had no sufficiently powerful equipments. Now we have the LHC running at energies that allows us to study phenomena in increasingly greater scales. We face the great challenge of exploring the unknown”.

Cientistas do Large Hadron Collider (LHC) anunciaram nesse mês de maio a observação, com altíssima precisão, de um fenômeno extremamente raro: o decaimento de mésons B^­­0_s e B⁰ em dois múons. Esses mésons podem decair de várias maneiras diferentes, e as probabilidades desses decaimentos específicos são de cerca de 1 para cada 250 milhões de mésons B^­­0_s produzidos e de 1 para cada 10 bilhões de mésons B⁰. A análise dos dados foi feita por pesquisadores do CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) e LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty), e teve a participação do Centro de Pesquisa e Análise de São Paulo (SPRACE), que faz parte da colaboração CMS.

Leia o artigo, publicado na revista científica Nature, clicando aqui.

“Foi a primeira vez que conseguimos observar o decaimento de B^­­_s com uma significância estatística maior do que 6 sigmas, o que equivale a uma probabilidade de apenas uma parte em um bilhão do resultado não ser real”, explica Sérgio Novaes, coordenador do SPRACE. “A observação está de acordo com as previsões do Modelo Padrão e é importante porque pode ajudar a descartar ou restringir modelos de Física além do Modelo Padrão que preveem taxas de decaimento diferentes”.

As observações foram feitas entre 2011 e 2012, durante a primeira fase de experimentos do LHC. Esse ano o acelerador foi ligado novamente para uma segunda etapa e começará a coleta de dados nos próximos meses, dessa vez com uma energia de 13 TeV – um aumento de 5 TeV em relação à energia máxima da primeira fase.

“Com energias e luminosidades maiores, poderemos fazer medidas ainda mais precisas”, diz Novaes. “O LHC irá procurar por novas partículas e poderá testar até onde o Modelo Padrão se mantém válido”.

Diagramas relacionados ao decaimento dos mésons analisados; o item c) não é permitido pelo Modelo Padrão

Além do Modelo Padrão

“O Modelo Padrão não consegue explicar tudo”, diz Eduardo Pontón, pesquisador do ICTP-SAIFR. “Não sabemos, por exemplo, do que a matéria escura é feita e por que há um grande desequilíbrio na proporção entre matéria e anti-matéria na constituição do nosso universo. Observações do LHC, como essa, ajudam a estabelecer novas fronteiras para o Modelo Padrão e novos limites para teorias que vão além dele e tentam explicar esses fenômenos”.

Um dos alvos de pesquisa de Pontón são os modelos de Higgs Composto. De acordo com essas teorias, o Bóson de Higgs não é uma partícula elementar, ou seja, é composto por outras subpartículas. “Até hoje essa é a única partícula elementar observada na natureza que possui spin 0, o que faz com que a teoria funcione apenas em parâmetros muito específicos”, diz ele. “O Modelo do Higgs Composto ajuda a esclarecer essa questão, entre outras”.

Além do estudo aprofundado sobre as propriedades do Bóson de Higgs, também estão entre os objetivos desta segunda fase de experimentos do LHC a busca por novas partículas e por observações que fujam às previsões do Modelo Padrão. O SPRACE não apenas continuará a atuar na análise e armazenamento de dados como buscará aumentar seu papel na colaboração CMS.

“Estamos iniciando um projeto de instrumentação, para o aprimoramento de detectores utilizados pelo CMS”, diz Novaes. “No passado, não conseguíamos observar certos fenômenos porque não tínhamos equipamentos suficientemente potentes. Agora nós temos o LHC funcionando com energias que nos permite estudar fenômenos em escalas cada vez maiores. Temos pela frente o fantástico desafio de explorar o desconhecido”.

Last Friday the Institute inaugurated a Chair dedicated to the researcher who created the first science kits in Brazil and turned the Butantan Institute into the country’s largest vaccine producer

Isaias Raw is not a physicist. However, he was honored with the name of a Chair in ICTP-SAIFR last Friday. The event reflected one of the most striking aspects of Raw’s brilliant career: in his own words, “I like to meddle in everything that doesn’t concern me”.

The new Chair is the result of a private donation by Gilberto Mautner, nephew of Isaias Raw, who decided to honor his uncle. The donation will partially finance a new professor at ICTP-SAIFR, that will hold the Isaias Raw Chair.

The main similarity between Raw and ICTP-SAIFR is perhaps the initiative to set up research centers in Brazil with world-class standards. Raw’s many initiatives include the creation of the first science kits in Brazil, when he directed the Brazilian Foundation for Science Education Development (Funbec). Raw also founded the publishing houses of the University of São Paulo (USP) and the University of Brasilia (UnB), created the Carlos Chagas Foundation and the Experimental Course of Medicine of USP and, along with Professor Walter Leser, unified the entrance examinations of São Paulo state universities.

In addition, he was director of the Butantan Institute and a major contributor in turning it into the first vaccines production center in the country. His career was recognized with the award of Comendador da Ordem Nacional do Mérito, in 1995, with the Grã-Cruz da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico, in 2001, and the Conrado Wessel Award for Science and Culture in 2005.

Watch Prof. Isaias Raw’s lecture

All this despite being arrested and having his rights revoked during the military regime in Brazil. “They thought I was a communist spy,” he joked. “At that time, it was very easy to eliminate someone who was competing with you. It was enough to accuse him of being a communist. That’s what happened to me”.

With humor and honesty, Raw spoke during the event about his life and career, and discussed the current situation of brazilian universities…

“There is a disconnection between university and society. One of the reasons why Brazil does not evolve is because universities often mistake innovation with article publication”.

education…

“If an experiment can’t go wrong, there is no reason to do it. Only when it goes wrong the student tries to figure out what went wrong and learns something new. The important thing is not the experiment itself, the important thing is that students draw their own conclusions and learn”.

and about political and economical aspects of Brazil…

“We are in a big country that attracts international interest. However, we are selling everything. We are lacking administrative competence”.

For these and other reflections the lecture of Isaias Raw deserves to be seen by students and professors, scientists and non-scientists. Raw may not be a theoretical physicist, but ICTP-SAIFR’s tribute could not be more deserved.

Instituto inaugurou uma cadeira dedicada ao cientista que criou os primeiros kits de ciência do Brasil e transformou o Instituto Butantan no maior produtor de vacinas do país

Isaias Raw não é físico. Entretanto, foi homenageado com o nome de uma Cadeira no ICTP-SAIFR na última sexta-feira. O evento refletiu um dos aspectos mais marcantes da brilhante carreira de Raw: em suas próprias palavras, “eu gosto de me meter em tudo que não me diz respeito”.

A nova Cadeira é fruto de uma doação privada de Gilberto Mautner, sobrinho de Isaias Raw, que quis homenagear o tio. A doação financiará parcialmente um novo professor para o ICTP-SAIFR, que ocupará a Cadeira Isaias Raw.

A principal semelhança entre Raw e o ICTP-SAIFR talvez seja a iniciativa de criar no Brasil centros de pesquisa com padrão de excelência mundial. Entre as muitas iniciativas de Raw destacam-se a criação dos primeiros kits de ciência do Brasil, quando dirigiu a Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento do Ensino de Ciências (Funbec). Raw também fundou a Editora da Universidade de São Paulo e a da Universidade de Brasília, criou a Fundação Carlos Chagas e o Curso Experimental de Medicina da FMUSP e, junto com o professor Walter Leser, unificou os exames vestibulares de São Paulo.

Além disso, foi diretor do Instituto Butantan e um dos principais responsáveis por torná-lo no primeiro centro produtor de vacinas no país. Sua carreira foi reconhecida com o prêmio de Comendador da Ordem Nacional do Mérito, em1995, com a Grã-Cruz da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico, em 2001, e com o prêmio Conrado Wessel de Ciência e Cultura em 2005.

Veja a palestra do prof. Isaias Raw

Tudo isso apesar de ter sido preso e ter seus direitos cassados na época do regime militar. “Achavam que eu era um espião comunista”, brincou ele. “Naquela época, era muito fácil eliminar alguém que competia com você. Bastava acusá-lo de ser comunista. Foi o que fizeram comigo”.

Com muito humor e honestidade, Raw falou ao longo do evento sobre sua vida e carreira, e discutiu sobre a atual situação de nossas universidades…

“Há uma desconexão entre a universidade e a sociedade. Um dos motivos pelos quais o Brasil não evolui é porque as universidades muitas vezes confundem inovação com publicação de artigos”.

sobre educação…

“Se um experimento não tem chances de dar errado, não há motivo para realizá-lo. Só quando ele dá errado é que o aluno tenta entender por que deu errado e aprende algo novo. O importante não é o experimento em si, o importante é que o aluno tire suas próprias conclusões e aprenda”.

e sobre aspectos político-econômicos do Brasil…

“Estamos em um país grande que atrai interesse internacional. Porém, estamos vendendo tudo o que vale a pena. Falta competência administrativa”.

Por essas e outras reflexões a palestra de Isaias Raw merece ser vista, por alunos e professores, cientistas e não cientistas. Raw pode não ser um físico teórico, mas a homenagem do ICTP-SAIFR não poderia ser mais merecida.

Under construction

Start time: May 9, 2016

Ends on:  May 13, 2016

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Venue: IFT-UNESP

Organizers:

• Alejandro Ayala (UNAM, Mexico)
• Gastão Krein (IFT-UNESP, Brazil
• Marcelo Loewe (PUC, Chile)
• Cristian Villavicencio (UBB, Chile)

Confirmed speakers:

• Gunnar Bali (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
• Cesareo Dominguez (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
• Gergerly Endrödi (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
• Efrain J. Ferrer (University of Texas El Paso, USA)
• Eduardo Fraga (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil)
• Kenji Fukushima (Tokyo University, Japan)
• Luis Hernández (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
• Vivian de la Incera (University of Texas El Paso, USA)
• Ana Mizher (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico – UNAM)
• Fernando Navarra (Universidade de São Paulo – USP, Brazil)
• Jorge Noronha (Universidade de São Paulo-USP, Brazil)
• Letícia Palhares (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, Brazil)
• Marcus Benghi Pinto (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC, Brazil)
• Alfredo Raya (Universidad de Michoacan, Mexico)
• Juan Cristobal Rojas (Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile)
• Angel Sánchez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico – UNAM)
• Norberto Scoccola (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica – CNEA, Argentina)
• Igor Shovkovy (Arizona State University, USA)
• Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans (Universidad de Sonora, Mexico)

Description:
Recently there has been growing interest in the role that magnetic fields play in hadron dynamics. Scenarios where such effects may be important include peripheral heavy ion collisions and compact astrophysical objects such as neutron stars where intense fields can be produced. One of the driving motivations of the growing international community working in this area is understanding the structure of the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Some examples of the questions this community would like to answer are: Is there a splitting in the critical line that separates the normal hadronic phase from the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) phase in the presence of a magnetic field? How is the critical endpoint affected by magnetic fields? Which are the relevant phenomenological signals where magnetic corrections can be observed?

This workshop will address these kinds of questions using different approaches to the subject, allowing a fluent exchange of opinions and perspectives.

Announcement

List of Confirmed Participants: Updated on April 26

Photos:

• click here 

List of abstracts:

• click here

Workshop Program: updated on May 5

Click on the title of the talks to watch the videos

Additional Information:

List of Confirmed Participants: Updated on April 26

Registration: ALL participants and speakers should register. The registration will be on May 9  at the institute, from 8:15 to 9:15.  You can find arrival instructions at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195

Accommodation: Participants and Speakers whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant/speaker, whose accommodation has been provided by the institute, has received the accommodation details individually by email.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING THE POSTER PRINTED. The poster size should be at most 1,5m x 1m. Please do not bring hanging banner, only sticking poster.

Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).

Ground transportation instructions: 

Ground transportation from Guarulhos Airport to The Universe Flat

Ground transportation from Congonhas Airport to the Universe Flat

Ground transportation from The Universe Flat to the institute