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Electron Ion Collider Workshop May 19-23
- a message from Rolf Ent
The 4th Electron Ion Collider Workshop
"A New Experimental Quest to Study QCD, Hadron Structure, and Nuclear Matter"
Dates: May 19-23, 2008
Location: Hampton University
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) has been well established as the theory of strong interactions, quantitatively validated, with a remarkable precision, by a host of experiments at high energies. In the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in our understanding of hadron structure in the framework of QCD at high energy and its extrapolations of properties of matter at extreme temperatures and densities, greatly aided by increasingly sophisticated ab-initio QCD calculations. The emerging science of the further exploration of QCD and the ultimate understanding of the structure of nuclear matter drives the development of a next-generation high luminosity electron-ion collider (EIC).
This is the fourth workshop in a series of workshops dedicated to broaden and refine the scientific exploration of the emerging QCD frontier that can be addressed with an EIC, and to continue work on design points for both the accelerator and the detectors. The first two days of this workshop will be dedicated to developments in accelerator technology, followed by the next three days with a focus on the physics and detector-related issues. Significant time will be set aside for discussions.
For a general idea of the structure of previous workshops, please see the main EIC collaboration webpage - http://web.mit.edu/eicc/ - or some of the earlier meeting webpages:
http://www.jlab.org/intralab/calendar/archive04/eic/
http://www.bnl.gov/qdcfp/
On behalf of the Fourth Electron Ion Collider Worskshop Organizing Committee, it is our pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to participate in this Workshop at Hampton University, from July 19 to 23, 2008.
Organizing Committee
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Alberto Accardi | accardi@jlab.org | Hampton/JLab |
| Andrei Afanasev | afanas@jlab.org | Hampton/JLab |
| Eric Christy | christy@jlab.org | Hampton |
| Abhay Deshpande | abhay@bnl.gov | Stony Brook/RBRC |
| Rolf Ent | ent@jlab.org | JLab/Hampton |
| Cynthia Keppel | keppel@jlab.org | Hampton/JLab |
| Lia Merminga | merminga@jlab.org | JLab |
| Richard Milner | milner@mit.edu | MIT |
| Thomas Roser | roser@bnl.gov | BNL |
Workshop Structure
| Monday, May 19 | |
| 09:00 - 12:15 | Accelerator Physics - Plenary Session I |
| 13:30 - 15:15 | Accelerator Physics - Parallel Sessions I |
| 15:45 - 17:30 | Accelerator Physics - Parallel Sessions II |
| Tuesday, May 20 | |
| 09:00 - 12:15 | Accelerator Physics - Plenary Session II |
| 13:30 - 15:15 | Accelerator Physics - Parallel Sessions III |
| 15:45 - 17:30 | Accelerator Physics - Plenary Session III |
| 18:30 - 20:30 | Workshop Reception - Hampton Museum |
| Wednesday, May 21 | |
| 09:00 - 12:15 | Plenary Session IV |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Parallel Sessions IV - Organized by Working Groups (*) |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Parallel Sessions V - Organized by Working Groups |
| 19:00 | EIC Collaboration Meeting |
| Thursday, May 22 | |
| 09:00 - 12:15 | Plenary Session V |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Parallel Sessions VI - Organized by Working Groups |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Parallel Sessions VII - Organized by Working Groups |
| 19:00 | Workshop Dinner |
| Friday, May 23 | |
| 09:00 - 12:15 | Plenary Session VI |
| 13:30 - 16:30 | Summary of (ep,eA,detector) Parallel Sessions and Closeout |
| (*) For the ep, eA, and Detector working groups/conveners please see http://web.mit.edu/eicc/Organisation.html#working | |