Continuous Advances in QCD 2004
May 13-16, 2004

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On site audio-visual support: LCD Projector, Overhead Projector, Laser Pointers
On site computing support: Wireless Connectivity to the Internet

Preliminary program: plenary talks
30 minutes are allocated to every talk which includes 5 minutes for quesions/discussion
and a coffee break after the third talk of the session

Preliminary program: parallel talks
25 minutes are allocated to every talk which includes 5 minutes for questions/discussion
and a coffee break is scheduled after the third talk of the session

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May 13, Thursday morning, 8:30-12:00 pm (Cowles Auditorium)
Hubert Humphrey Center
301 19th Avenue South, West Bank Campus

8:15 Registration
8:50 Welcome: Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
9:00 Dam Thanh Son: Viscosity of Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories
9:30 Arkady Tseytlin: AdS/CFT Duality for States with Large Quantum Numbers
10:00 Mikhail Shifman:  Planar Equivalence: from Type 0 Strings to QCD
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Valentin Khoze: Amplitudes in Gauge Theory, Scalar Graphs and String Theory in Twistor Space
11:30 Gregory Gabadadze: Light-Heavyweight Color and Strong CP

May 13, Thursday afternoon, 2:00-6:00 pm (Cowles Auditorium)
Hubert H. Humphrey Center
301 19th Avenue South, West Bank Campus

2:00 Pierre van Baal: New Topological Structures in QCD
2:30 Dmitri Diakonov: Quantum Weights of Dyons and Instantons with Non-trivial Holonomy
3:00 Fidel Schaposnik: Noncommutative Solitons and Instantons
3:30 Coffee break
4:00 Ken Konishi: Nonabelian Monopoles: What's New
4:30 Adam Ritz: Supersizing Worldvolume Supersymmetry for Solitons in SQCD
5:00 Jac Verbaarschot: QCD Dirac Spectra and the Toda Lattice
5:30 John Hiller: Nonperturbative Solution of Yukawa Theory and Gauge Theories

May 14, Friday morning, 9:00-12:30 pm (Cowles Auditorium)
Hubert H. Humphrey Center
301 19th Avenue South, West Bank Campus

9:00 Elizabeth Jenkins: Baryon Exotics in the 1/N Expansion
9:30 Dmitri Diakonov: Quark Structure of Chiral Solitons
10:00 Robert Jaffe: Exotica
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Igor Klebanov: Pentaquarks: Chiral Soliton Models Confront Experiments
11:30 Giuseppe Nardulli: Inhomogeneous Color Superconductivity
12:00 Joe Kapusta:  Baryon and Anti-baryon Production at RHIC

May 14, Friday afternoon, 2:00-5:00 pm
Hubert H. Humphrey Center
301 19th Avenue South, West Bank Campus

Section I (Cowles Auditorium)

2:00 Andrei Belitsky: Integrability of (Super) Yang-Mills Theories
2:25 Enrique Moreno: Fermionic Theories in Noncommutative Space
2:50 Roberto Auzzi: Nonabelian Conformal Vacua in N=2 Supersymmetric Theories
3:15 Coffee break
3:45 Francesco Sannino: Effective Lagrangians for Orientifold Theories: From Super Yang Mills to QCD
4:10 Guilherme Milhano: A Variational Look on QCD
4:35 Andrei Losev: Fundamental theory: strings or fields?

Section II (Wilkins Room 215)

2:00 Fulvia De Fazio: Understanding DsJ(2317) and DsJ(2460)
2:25 Thomas Cohen: Large Nc QCD and the Modeling of Exotic Baryons
2:50 Richard Lebed: Baryons, INc
3:15 Coffee break
3:45 Vishesh Khemani: Breather Solutions in Field Theories
4:10 Matthias Burkardt: Quark Correlations and Single Spin Asymmetries
4:35 Antonello Scardicchio: Casimir Effect and Geometric Optics

May 15, Saturday morning, 9:00-12:30 pm (Cowles Auditorium)
Hubert H. Humphrey Center
301 19th Avenue South, West Bank Campus

9:00 Chris Korthals Altes: Forces, Fluxes and Quasi-particles in Hot QCD
9:30 Antti Niemi: Dual Superconductors and phases of Yang-Mills
10:00 Zvi Bern: The Structure of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Scattering Amplitudes
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Gerald Dunne: Self-duality, Helicity and Higher-loop Effective Actions
11:30 Andrei Smilga: Weak Supersymmetry
12:00 Stan Brodsky: Light Front Wave Functions in QCD and AdS/CFT Correspondence

May 15, Saturday afternoon, 2:00-5:00 pm
Hubert H. Humphrey Center
301 19th Avenue South, West Bank Campus

Section I (Cowles Auditorium)

2:00 Alex Kagan: Sensitivity to New Physics in B->VV Polarization
2:25 Alexey Petrov: Spectator Effects and Lifetimes of Heavy Hadrons
2:50 Einan Gardi: Sudakov Logs and Renormalons in Inclusive B-meson Decay Spectra and Heavy-quark Fragmentation
3:15 Coffee break
3:45 Andre Hoang: Summing Logs of v in NRQCD
4:10 Patricia Ball: New Results on B to pi,K,eta Decay Form Factors from Light-cone Sum Rules
4:35 Vladimir Miransky: Spontaneous Rotational Symmetry Breaking and Roton-like Excitations in Gauged Sigma-model at Finite Density
5:00 Kirill Melnikov: Rapidity Distributions for Electroweak Gauge Bosons at Hadron Colliders

Section II (Wilkins Room 215)

2:00 Dmitri Kharzeev: Nuclear Dependence of Hard Processes at Small x
2:25 Yuri Kovchegov: Saturation Physics Meets RHIC Data
2:50 Rainer Fries: QCD at the Boiling Point: What does Hadron Production at RHIC tell Us?
3:15 Coffee break
3:45 Agnes Mocsy: Connection Between Chiral Symmetry Restoration and Deconfinement
4:10 Ralf Hofmann: Analytical Approach to Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Applications
4:35 Elena Gubankova: Exotic Superfluids: Breached Pairing, Mixed Phases and Stability

 

May 16, Sunday morning, 9:00-12:00 pm (Room 3-180)
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building
200 Union Street S.E., East Bank Campus

9:00 Matthias Neubert: Formalism and Applications of Soft-collinear Effective Theory
9:30 Anatoly Radyushkin: Advances in Generalized Parton Distribution Study
10:00 Andrzej Czarnecki: Status of Perturbative Description of Semileptonic Quark Decays
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Nikolai Uraltsev: Heavy Quark Expansion in Beauty: Recent Successes and Problems
11:30 Maxim Pospelov: Search for Dark Matter in b -> s Transition with Missing Energy