# Past Theoretical Physics Seminars at BNL

• ## Wednesday, October 31, 2018

2:30pm, Small Seminar Room
Unveiling New Physics Through Angular Distributions at the LHC
Rodolfo Capdevilla (Notre Dame)
HET Seminar

• ## Thursday, November 1, 2018

12:00pm, Room 2-160, Bldg. 510
DIS on "Nuclei" using holography
RIKEN Lunch Seminar
4:00pm, CFNS Seminar Room 2-38
TBA
Al Mueller (Columbia University)
CFNS Seminar

• ## Friday, November 2, 2018

2:00pm, CNFS Seminar Room 2-38
Diffractive Electron-Nucleus Scattering and Ancestry in Branching Random Walks
Al Mueller (Columbia)
Nuclear Theory / RIKEN seminar

• ## Friday, November 9, 2018

2:00pm, CNFS Seminar Room 2-38
TBA
Ajit Srivastava (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)
Nuclear Theory/RIKEN seminar

• ## Wednesday, November 14, 2018

2:30pm, Small Seminar Room
TBA
Konstantinos Orginos (College of William and Mary)
HET Seminar

• ## Thursday, November 15, 2018

12:00pm, 2-160, Bldg. 510
Exclusive $\rho$ meson production in $eA$ collisions: collinear factorization and the CGC
Renaud Boussarie (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
We will focus on the theoretical description of exclusive ρ meson production in eA collisions, using a hybrid factorization scheme which involves Balitsky's shockwave description of the Color Glass Condensate in the t channel, and Distribution Amplitudes (DAs) in the s channel. We will first give a quick introduction to the shockwave framework and to collinear factorization up to twist 3 for DAs, then we will apply these framweworks to the production of a longitudinal meson at NLO accuracy, and to the production of a transverse meson at twist 3 accuracy. We will insist on the experimental applications, and on several theoretical questions raised by our results: the dilute BFKL limit at NLO for diffraction, and collinear factorization breaking at twist 3.

• ## Friday, November 16, 2018

2:00pm, CNFS Seminar Room 2-38
N/A
Dimitra Karabali (Lehman College CUNY)
Nuclear Theory/RIKEN

• ## Thursday, November 29, 2018

12:00pm, 2-160, Bldg. 510
TBA
Mario Mitter (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

• ## Friday, November 30, 2018

2:00pm, CNFS seminar room 2-38
TBA
Juan Rojo (VU University)
Nuclear Theory / RIKEN seminar

• ## Wednesday, December 5, 2018

2:30pm, YITP Stony Brook
TBA
Jiji Fan (Syracuse)
Joint YITP/HET Theory Seminar

• ## Thursday, December 6, 2018

12:00pm, Room 2-160, Bldg. 510
Proton decay
Jun-Sik Yoo (Stony Brook University)
RIKEN Lunch Seminar
12:00pm, 2-160, Bldg. 510
On QCD and its Phase Diagram from a Functional RG Perspective
Mario Mitter (BNL)

• ## Wednesday, December 12, 2018

2:30pm, YITP Stony Brook
TBA
TBA
Joint YITP/HET Theory Seminar

• ## Thursday, January 10, 2019

12:00pm, 2-160, Bldg. 510
A novel background subtraction method for jet studies in heavy ion collisions
Alba Soto Ontoso (BNL)

• ## Friday, January 18, 2019

2:00pm, CFNS seminar room 2-38
TBA
Nuclear Theory / RIKEN seminar

• ## Thursday, January 24, 2019

12:00pm, 1-224, Bldg. 510 (different from usual room)
In this talk, I will present a connection between two approaches of studying quarkonium dynamics inside quark-gluon plasma: the open quantum system formalism and the transport equation. I will discuss insights from the perspective of quantum information. I will show that under the weak coupling and Markovian approximations, the Lindblad equation turns to a Boltzmann transport equation after a Wigner transform is applied to the system density matrix. I will demonstrate how the separation of physical scales justifies the approximations, by using effective field theory of QCD. Finally, I will show some phenomenological results based on the derived transport equation.
Xiaojun Yao (Duke University)
In this talk, I will present a connection between two approaches of studying quarkonium dynamics inside quark-gluon plasma: the open quantum system formalism and the transport equation. I will discuss insights from the perspective of quantum information. I will show that under the weak coupling and Markovian approximations, the Lindblad equation turns to a Boltzmann transport equation after a Wigner transform is applied to the system density matrix. I will demonstrate how the separation of physical scales justifies the approximations, by using effective field theory of QCD. Finally, I will show some phenomenological results based on the derived transport equation.

• ## Friday, January 25, 2019

2:00pm, CNFS Seminar Room 2-38
TBA
Paolo Glorioso (Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)
Nuclear Theory/RIKEN seminar