PAN AMERICAN ADVANCED STUDIES INSTITUTE

January 7-18, 2002

New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions

This Pan-American Advanced Institute course will be held at Hotel Leao da Montanha, Campos do Jordao, Sao Paulo, Brazil (between Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro) in picturesque mountains of the coastal area.

It will involve approximately 40 graduate students from the Americas funded by US-program in a two-week presentation of introductory material and current research results in this rapidly developing field. Other students are expected to attend, funded by local and/or their research programs.

Courses will span from the very elementary and introductory material through the latest theoretical and experimental research results.

The interaction among students and researchers should help in laying the groundwork for future collaborations: all students and lecturers will be housed in a unique conference venue and all activities of the school will be jointly undertaken. Lecturers are strongly encouraged to spend the entire period of the course on site.

We are expecting all participants on Monday morning, January 7, 2002 at the international airport in Sao Paulo, and will offer bus transportation to the location of the institute.

The meeting will close after lunch on Friday, January 18. In the afternoon we will provide bus transportation to the airports in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Watch for web updates of further arrangements.


C O U R S E S

E+T: Quarks and hadron structure T: Quantum Chromodynamics 

E: Accelerators, detectors, and experimental methods T: Vacuum structure 
E: RHIC: physics program overview T: Relativistic gases
E: Hadronic particles production T: QCD at finite temperature 
E: J/psi, photons, and dilepton production T: Transport theory and hydrodynamics 
E: CERN overview: new phase of matter T: Partons and heavy ions
E+T: HBT, correlations, and fluctuations T: Strangeness and hadronic observables of QGP 
E: RHIC: latest results of run II T: J/psi, onium, photons, and dilepton production
R: QGP in astrophysics and cosmology R: QCD based effective theories of nuclear interactions

There will be additional seminars on current research topics
T=Theory, E=Experiment, R=Review

International Board of Advisors and Lecturers

G. Altarelli (CERN), G.A. Baym (Illinois), J.D. Bjorken (SLAC), J.-P. Blaizot (Saclay),
S.J. Brodsky (SLAC), W. Busza (MIT), L.P. Csernai (Bergen), H.G. Dosch (Heidelberg),
H.-Th.Elze (Rio de Janeiro), E.Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro), A.DiGiacomo (Pisa),
H.H. Gutbrod (GSI), J.W. Harris (Yale), K. Kajantie (Helsinki), J.I. Kapusta (Minnesota),
F. Karsch (Bielefeld), D. Kharzeev (BNL), T. Kodama (Rio de Janeiro), L.Masperi (CLAF),
L.D. McLerran (BNL), B. Mueller (Duke), S. Nagamiya (KEK), G.Odyniec (LBL),
J. Rafelski (Arizona), E. Quercigh (CERN), H. Stoecker (Frankfurt), U. van Kolck (Arizona),
K. Werner (Nantes), R.L. Thews (Arizona), G.R.Young (ORNL), W.A.Zajc (Columbia)

Organizing Committee

J. de Sa Borges (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro), S. Duarte (CBPF, Rio de Janeiro),
A.G.Grunfeld (CLAF), Y.Hama (USP, Sao Paulo), G. Herrera (IPN, MexicoC.),
G. Krein (IFT, Sao Paulo), M. Malheiro (UFF, Niteroi), M. Nielsen (USP, Sao Paulo),
G. Odyniec(LBL), I. Schmidt (UTFSM, Valparaiso), N. Scoccola (CNEA, BuenosAires),
A. Szanto de Toledo (USP, Sao Paulo), U. van Kolck (Arizona),
C. Vasconcellos (UFRGS, Porto Alegre)


Board of Directors

Johann Rafelski and Robert L. Thews
Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson

and

H.-Thomas Elze, Erasmo Ferreira and Takeshi Kodama
Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Sponsors

U.S. National Science Foundation,
U.S. Department of Energy

and

CLAF, CNPq, ICTP, FAPERJ, FAPESP
pasi@if.ufrj.br
Fax:  ++55-21-562 7948

pasi@physics.arizona.edu
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http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~pasi/
PASI Conference Coordinator
Department of Physics
University of Arizona
TUCSON, AZ 85721, USA