【T. D. Lee Colloquium No. 24】Recreating the early universe in heavy-ion collisions

by Prof. Xin-Nian Wang (The Central China Normal University)

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00 → 15:00 Asia/Shanghai

Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/N600 meeting room (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)

Abstract:

The existence of deconfined matter known as quark-gluon plasma (QGP) was almost immediately predicted after the discovery of QCD should existed in the early universe shortly after the Big Bang.  I will give a brief overview of the current status of studying properties of QGP created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and future perspectives of unsolved problems.

Bio:

Xin-Nian Wang,  currently a Boya Chair Professor and the director of the Institute of Particle Physics at the Central China Normal University, is a theoretical physicist in the area of high-energy particle and nuclear physics. He received his PhD from University of Oregon and became a Divisional Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in 1992 and a senior scientist at LBNL in 1997 until 2024. He was the former head of the Nuclear Theory Program at LBNL and the manager and co-spokesperson of the JET Collaboration funded by the US Department of Energy. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012 and received the Humboldt Research Award in 2024.

Tencent meeting link: https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/87u4Ah3LysiV (meeting ID: 231 117 954     no password)

Host: Prof. Xiaogang He (何小刚）