YITP-RIKEN iTHEMS International Molecule-type Workshop 2024

Program

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First week (3/11-3/15)

3/11 (Mon.)

[JST] 9:20 - 9:30 (10 mins)
Greetings from Organizers
[JST] 9:30 - 10:30 (60 mins)
Lecture 1 by Gordon Baym (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/RIKEN iTHEMS)
"Matter under extreme conditions -- introduction to the physics of neutron stars"
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    (Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00)
[JST] 11:00 - 12:00 (60 mins)
Lecture 2 by Gordon Baym (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/RIKEN iTHEMS)
"Matter under extreme conditions -- from neutron stars to nucleons"
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   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 14:30 (30 mins)
Invited talk by Naoki Yamamoto (Keio University)
"Parity violation of the weak interaction and supernovae"
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[JST] 14:30 - 15:00 (30 mins)
Invited talk by Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo)
"Pulsar Kick -- Anisotropy, Scattering, and Their Interplay"
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[JST] 15:00 - 17:30
Free Discussion

3/12 (Tue.)

[JST] 9:30 - 10:30 (60 mins)
Lecture 1 by Mark G. Alford (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Nuclear matter in mergers: the quest for equilibrium"
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    (Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00)
[JST] 11:00 - 12:00 (60 mins)
Lecture 2 by Mark G. Alford (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Nuclear matter in mergers: the quest for equilibrium"
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   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 14:30 (30 mins)
Invited talk by Koutarou Kyutoku (Kyoto University)
"Gravitational waves from binary-neutron-star mergers and the equation of state"
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[JST] 14:45 - 15:15 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Masaru Hongo (Niigata University)
"Hydrodynamic theory with approximate symmetry" [Talk using the blackboard]
[JST] 14:30 - 17:30
Free Discussion

3/13 (Wed.)

[JST] 9:30 - 10:30 (60 mins)
Lecture 1 by Muneto Nitta (Keio University)
“Topological Aspects of Nuclear Matter in Magnetic Field”
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    (Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00)
[JST] 11:00 - 12:00 (60 mins)
Lecture 2 by Muneto Nitta (Keio University)
“On vortices penetrating through quark-hadron continuity”
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   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 14:30 (30 mins)
Lecture 2.5 by Muneto Nitta (Keio University)
“On vortices penetrating through quark-hadron continuity”
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[JST] 14:30 - 15:00 (30 mins)
Invited talk by Yui Hayashi (YITP, Kyoto University)
"Higgs-confinement continuity in light of particle-vortex statistics"
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[JST] 15:30 - 17:30
Discussion session on Vortices (Tanizaki, Hayashi, Hidaka, Fukushima, Fujimoto)

3/14 (Thur.)

[JST] 9:30 - 10:30 (60 mins)
Lecture 1 by Sanjay Reddy (University of Washington)
"Thermal and transport properties of dense matter and their implications for astrophysics"
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    (Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00)
[JST] 11:00 - 12:00 (60 mins)
Lecture 2 by Sanjay Reddy (University of Washington)
"Thermal and transport properties of dense matter and their implications for astrophysics"
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   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 14:30 (30 mins)
Invited talk by Kentaro Nishimura (Hiroshima University)
"Non-Abelian chiral soliton lattice in rotating QCD matter: Nambu-Goldstone and excited modes"
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[JST] 14:30 - 15:00 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Len Brandes (Technical University of Munich)
"Inference of the neutron star matter equation of state"
[JST] 15:00 - 17:30
Free Discussion
[JST] 18:30 -
Banquet

3/15 (Fri.)

[JST] 9:30 - 10:30 (60 mins)
Lecture 1 by Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois Chicago)
"QCD critical point and hydrodynamic fluctuations in relativistic fluids"
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    (Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00)
[JST] 11:00 - 12:00 (60 mins)
Lecture 2 by Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois Chicago)
"QCD critical point and hydrodynamic fluctuations in relativistic fluids"
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   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 14:30 (30 mins)
Invited talk by Masakiyo Kitazawa (YITP, Kyoto University)
"Lee-Yang zeros around critical point of heavy-quark QCD"
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[JST] 14:30 - 17:30
Free Discussion

Second week (3/18-3/22)

3/18 (Mon.)

[JST] 9:30 - 10:30 (60 mins)
Lecture 1 by Dam Thanh Son (The University of Chicago)
"Fermi liquids and coadjoint orbits"
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    (Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00)
[JST] 11:00 - 12:00 (60 mins)
Lecture 2 by Dam Thanh Son (The University of Chicago)
"Fermi liquids and coadjoint orbits"
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   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 14:30 (30 mins)
Invited talk by Toru Kojo (Tohoku University)
"Sound velocity peak and a dual model for cold, dense QCD"
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[JST] 14:30 - 15:00 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Yuki Fujimoto (University of Washington)
"Dense QCD EoS: Conformal limit and weak-coupling results"
[JST] 15:00 - 17:30
Free Discussion
[JST] 18:30 -
Conference dinner for organizers and lecturers

3/19 (Tue.)

[JST] 9:30 - 10:30 (60 mins)
Lecture 3 by Dam Thanh Son (The University of Chicago)
"Relativistic guiding-center motion: Action principle, kinetic theory, and hydrodynamics"
[JST] 11:00 - 12:00 (60 mins)
Lecture 3 by Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois Chicago)
"Relativistic guiding-center motion: Action principle, kinetic theory, and hydrodynamics"
   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 14:30 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Etsuko Itou (YITP, Kyoto U.)
"Lattice results for the speed of sound in dense QCD-like theories"
[JST] 14:30 - 15:00 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Teiji Kunihiro (YITP, Kyoto U.)
"Precursory soft modes of the QCD phase transitions and associated anomalous lepton-pair production"
[JST] 15:00 - 17:30
Free Discussion/Collaboration Meeting

3/20 (Wed.)

[JST] 9:30 - 10:00 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Yoshimasa Hidaka (KEK)
"Numerical simulation of dense QCD matter in (1+1) dimensions"
[JST] 10:00 - 10:30 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Yuya Tanizaki (YITP, Kyoto U.)
"Confinement as SPT states and eta’ periodicity" [Talk using the blackboard]
    (Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00)
[JST] 11:00 - 11:30 (30 mins)
Zebin Qiu (Keio University)
"Quasicrystal in QCD: Mixed Soliton of Pion and eta Meson"
   (Lunch: 11:30 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 17:30
Discussion session on Low-energy response in quark-nuclear matter (Reddy, Kunihiro, Kitazawa, Hongo, ...)

3/21 (Thur.)

[JST] 9:30 - 10:00 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN iTHEMS)
"Hyperon interactions from lattice QCD"
[JST] 10:00 - 10:30 (30 mins)
Topic contribution by Asanosuke Jinno (Kyoto University)
"Lambda-nucleon interaction in dense matter examined from heavy-ion collisions and hypernuclei"
    (Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00)
[JST] 11:00 - 11:30 (60 mins)
Discussion on "Color superconductivity and charge neutrality in Yukawa theory" by Mark Alford
   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 16:00
Discussion session on Magnetic field and Magneto-hydrodynamics (Hongo, Nonaka, Qiu, ...)

3/22 (Fri.)

[JST] 9:30 - 11:00
Discussion session on Non-rel EFT and few-body problems (Son, Hongo, Hatsuda, ...)
[slide by Hatsuda]
   (Lunch: 11:00 - 11:30)
[JST] 11:30 - 12:00
Closing remarks
   (Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00)
[JST] 14:00 - 17:30
Free Discussion/Collaboration Meeting