QUANTUM FIELDS IN & OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM

October 26-30, 1998.

Schedule for "Quantum Fields In & Out of Equilibrium"

The Workshop `Quantum fields In & Out of Equilibrium' will be held at the RIKEN BNL Research Center, located at Brookhaven National Lab, from October 26 to 30, 1998.

The purpose of the workshop is to review the present state in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium quantum field theory, to consider future avenues of research, and to help understand how to translate methods from equilibrium theories to non-equilibrium, and vice versa.

The focus will be on studying equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena associated with the Quark-Gluon and Chiral Phase transitions; also, on potential experimental signatures, along with an assessment of effective models for the description of these phenomena.

The Workshop will consist of invited plenary talks, shorter talks by participants, and discussion sessions on key topics.

Information about travel, etc., is also available from the RIKEN BNL Research Center home page, under `Workshops',

http://thy.phy.bnl.gov/www/riken.html/workshops.html

Please feel free to share this circular with interested colleagues.

Daniel Boyanovsky (boyan@vms.cis.pitt.edu),

Hector J. de Vega (devega@lpthe.jussieu.fr),

and Robert D. Pisarski (pisarski@bnl.gov)

• Opening lecture: T. D. Lee (Columbia).
• Peter Arnold (Charlottesville): Effective theories for real-time correlations in hot plasmas
• Jean-Paul Blaizot (Saclay): The Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma.
• Daniel Boyanovsky (Pittsburgh): Dynamical Renormalization Group resummation of infrared divergences at finite temperature.
• Eric Braaten (Ohio): Thermal Field Theory and the Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms.
• Fred Cooper (Los Alamos): Lepton and Photon Production in Relativisitic Heavy Ion Collisions and Schwinger's CTP Formalism.
• Hector J. de Vega (Paris): Out of Equilibrium Dynamics in scalar and gauge theories. Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Phenomena.
• John Harris (Yale): Future Experiments at the RHIC
• Tetsuo Hatsuda (Kyoto): Optimized Perturbation Theory at Finite Temperature
• Ulrich Heinz (Regensburg): Real-time perturbation theory and resummation at finite temperature.
• Bei-Lok Hu (Maryland): Nonequilibrium Dynamics of a Thermal Plasma in a Gravitational Field.
• Joseph Kapusta (Minneapolis): Rho-Mesons and Dilepton Emission at Finite Temperature and Density.
• Randy Kobes (Winnipeg): Resummation schemes in hot gauge theories beyond the hard thermal loops.
• Michel Le Bellac (Nice): Off-equilibrium Problems in the Quark-gluon Plasma.
• Emil Mottola (Los Alamos): The Quantum Vlasov Equation and its Markov Limit.
• Akira Niegawa (Osaka): Perturbation theory in out of equilibrium quantum field theory.
• Jan Smit (Amsterdam): Nonequillibrium processes with fermion fields
• Arthur Weldon (West Virginia): Reduction Formula for Finite-Temperature Quasiparticles.
• Larry Yaffe (Seattle): Real-time response in hot gauge theories.
• Rob Pisarski (Brookhaven): Summary.

We expect to have open discussion sessions, the schedule and topics will be announced at the workshop.

• G. Aarts (Utrecht) Non-perturbativeh real time processes with fermions
• J. Andersen (Ohio)Application of Renormalization Group Techniques to a Homogeneous Bose Gas at Finite Temperature
• M. Asakawa (Nagoya) DCC formation via the anomaly in peripheral collisions.
• J. Baacke (Dortmund) Non-equilibrium dynamics of fermions
• R. Baier (Bielefeld) Dynamical screening away from equilibrium: hard photon production and collisional energy loss
• L. Bettencourt (Los Alamos) Time evolution of quantum field theories beyond leading 1/N.
• E. Calzetta (Buenos Aires) Counting Defects in an Instantaneous Quench quantum fields
• M. Carrington (Manitoba) Non-Equilibrium Hard Thermal Loop Resummations in the Real Time Formalism
• Y. Kluger(Los Alamos) Quantum Vlasov equation and particle production.
• F. Gelis (Annecy) Photon production in thermal QCD
• E. Iancu (Saclay CERN) Effective theory for real-time dynamics in hot gauge theories
• S. Jeon (Minnesota) Fluctuation and Dissipation in Classical Many-Particle Systems
• D. Kaiser (Harvard) Analytic studies of resonant decays: from reheating to RHIC.
• T. Kunihiro (Ryukoku) The Renormalization Group Method for Global Analysis
• D. Kusnezov (Yale) Transport in non-equilibrium field theory
• C. Manuel (Barcelona CERN) Pion physics at finite temperature
• H. Minakata(Metropolitan Univ. Tokyo): Non-Equilibrium aspects of DCC.
• S. Mrowczinsky (Warsaw) Transport theory of massless fields
• W. Poeschl (Duke) Gauge Lattice Simulation of the soft QGP Dynamics in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
• J. Salgado (Paris) Resummation of perturbative solutions of out of equilibrium QFT
• D. Schiff(Orsay) Radiative Energy Loss of High Energy Partons Traversing an Expanding QCD Plasma.
• M. Simionato (Paris) Photons out of equilibrium
• R. Venugopalan (BNL) Non--perturbative computation of gluon mini--jet production in nuclear collisions at very high energies

Further talks by participants will be announced later on.

• M. Asakawa (Nagoya)
• J. Baacke (Dortmund)
• R. Baier (Bielefeld)
• E. Calzetta (Buenos Aires)
• M. Carrington (Manitoba)
• C. Destri (Milan)
• M. Creutz (BNL)
• J. Jalilian-Marian (LBNL)
• S. Jeon (Minnesota)
• C. P. Korthals Altes (Marseille)
• T. Kunihiro (Ryukoku)
• D. Kusnezov (Yale)
• H. Minakata (Tokyo)
• S. Mrowczynski (Warsaw)
• A. Rebhan (Vienna)
• D. H. Rischke (BNL)
• D. Schiff (Orsay)
• R. Venugopalan (BNL)
• G. Aarts (Utrecht)
• J. O. Andersen (Ohio)
• L. Bettencourt (Los Alamos)
• L. Bot (Nantes)
• M. Dirks (Bielefeld)
• F. Gelis (Annecy)
• S. K. Ghosh (Calcutta)
• Y.B. He (Heidelberg)
• S. Jeon (LBLN)
• J. Ng (U. North Carolina)
• E. Iancu (Saclay and CERN)
• D. I. Kaiser (Harvard)
• Y. Kluger (Los Alamos)
• C. Manuel (Barcelona and CERN)
• W. Poeschl (Duke)
• S. Prem Kumar (Seattle)
• M. Simionato (Paris)
• A. Singh (Los Alamos)
• D. T. Son (MIT)
• S. E. Alamoudi (Pittsburgh)
• G. Flores (Rio de Janeiro)
• R. Horie (Kyoto)
• J. T. Lenaghan (Yale)
• J. Salgado (Paris)
• O. Scavenius (Niels Bohr)
• S.-Y. Wang (Pittsburgh)