| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:15 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Nuclear synthesis, and Nuclear Structure with RIB's |
| Discussion Leaders: Luciano Moretto, Victor Viola |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Vladimir Utyonkov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
"Synthesis of the heaviest elements" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | W. Loveland (Oregon State University)
"Synthesis of Transactinide Nuclei using Radioactive beams" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | D.J. Morrisey (Michigan State University)
"Thermalization of Projectile Fragments for Precision Mass Measurements" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Robert Charity (Washington University, St. Louis)
"The nuclear level density as a function of neutron-proton asymmetry" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Nuclear Structure & Isospin in Reactions |
| Discussion Leaders: Zxhuia Li, Lee Sobotka, Philippe Chomaz |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Bao-An Li (Arkansas State University)
"Isopin Dynamics in Nuclear Reactions induced by neutron-rich nuclei" |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | W. Trautmann (Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung)
"Isotopic effects in spectator fragmentation" |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | S. Yenello (Texas A&M University)
"Extracting information about the symmetry energy from heavy-ion reactions" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | General Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Isospin Dynamics & Nuclear Astrophysics |
| Discussion Leaders: Betty Tsang, Zxhuia Li, Lee Sobotka, Philippe Chomaz |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Michael Wiescher (Notre Dame University)
"The trigger of x-ray bursts" |
| 11:25 am - 11:50 am | Andrew Steiner (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Nuclei, Heavy-Ion Collisions, Neutron Stars, and the Nucleonic Equation of State" |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Bill Lynch (Michigan State University)
"Constraining the properties of dense matter via nuclear collision" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:45 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:15 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Phases of Nuclear Matter |
| Discussion Leaders: Adriana Raduta, Sylvie Hudan, Larry Phair, Dieter Gross |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Bernard Tamain (Ministère de la Recherche)
"Multifragmentation and possible experimental signatures of a liquid-gas phase transition of nuclear matter" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | J.B. Natowitz (Texas A&M University)
"Expansion, Clustering and Symmetry Energies in Low Density Nuclear Gases" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Romualdo T. de Souza (Indiana University)
"Proximity Decay and the Tidal Effect" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Philippe Chomaz (CAEN)
"Nuclear phase transitions and stellar dense matter" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Transport Phenomena & Phases of Nuclear matter |
| Discussion Leaders: Wolfgang Cassing, Herman Wolter, Pawel Danielewicz |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Massimo Di Toro (University of Catania)
"Isospin Transport in Heavy Ion Collisions" |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Elena Bratkovskaya (Goethe University)
"Signals of for the QGP phase transition - a view from microscopic transport models" |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Claudio Dorso (Università di Buenos Aires)
"Isoscaling, exact results and numerical simulations" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | General Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Marcus Bleicher (Goethe University)
"Critical analysis of deconfinement signals within a relativistic transport approach" |
| 11:25 am - 11:50 am | Che-Ming Ko (Texas A&M University)
"Quark coalescence in relativistic heavy ion collisions" |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Carsten Greiner (Goethe University)
"QCD parton dynamics and chemistry in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:45 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:15 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Reaction Dynamics |
| Discussion Leaders: Tamas Csorgo, Michael Lisa, Giuseppe Verde |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)
"Viscosity in Heavy Ion Collisions" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | Arkadij Taranenko (Stony Brook University)
"Scaling Properties of Elliptic Flow" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Pawel Danielewicz (Michigan State University)
"Shape Femtoscopy" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Jorgen Randrup (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"Reaction dynamics of the first-order hadronization phase transition" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Particle Production |
| Discussion Leader: George Wolshin, George Stephans, Jorgen Randrup |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | H. Oeschler (Darmstadt University of Technology)
"Strange Particle Production from SIS to SPS" |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Helen Canes (Yale University)
"Collisions at RHIC are very strange" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Poster competition winner Presentation I |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Poster competition winner Presentation II |
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | General Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Corrado Cicalò (INFN - Cagliari)
"Dimuon production in In-In collisions at the CERN SPS with the NA60 experiment" |
| 11:25 am - 11:50 am | Charles Gale (McGill University)
"The electromagnetic signature of jets" |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Luciano Moretto (University of California, Berkeley)
"There Is No Other Temperature But Hagedorn's" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:45 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:15 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Studies of QCD Matter |
| Discussion Leaders: Jean-Yeves, Sean Gavin, John Alexander, Mike Lisa |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Christian Schmidt (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"QCD Thermodynamics with an almost realistic quark mass spectrum" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | T. Csorgo
"The Scenario of Perfect Fluid Hydrodynamics in A+A Collisions at RHIC" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Yuri Kovchegov (Ohio State University)
"Color Glass and Particle Production at RHIC" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Flemming Videbaek (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Forward Physics at RHIC; implications for QCD and the Color Glass Condensate" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Studies of QCD matter |
| Discussion Leaders: Y.G. Ma, Barbara Erazmus, Wolf Holzmann, Scott Pratt |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Steven Manly (University of Rochester)
"The simple geometric scaling of flow - perhaps it's not so simple after all" |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Zhangbu Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Does QCD liquid make senses?" |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Henner Buesching (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Recent Results from the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | General Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | The Future & New Facilities |
| Discussion Leaders: Barbara Erazmus, B. Tsang, Roy Lacey |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Konrad Gelbke (Michigan State University)
"RIA" |
| 11:20 am - 11:40 am | Peter Senger (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH)
"The FAIR Project" |
| 11:40 am - 12:00 pm | George Stephans (MIT)
"Low energy RHIC physics program" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Yves Schutz (IN2P3-CNRS, CERN)
"LHC" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:45 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:15 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Special Session |
| Discussion Leader: Augusto O Macchiavelli |
| I. Shipsey (Purdue University)
"Bringing Hearing to the Deaf Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account" |
| General Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
