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Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Mauricio Martinez Guerrero

Title: Initial state fluctuations of QCD conserved charges in high energy nuclear collisions

Abstract: We initialize the Quan­tum Chromodynamic conserved charges of baryon number, strangeness, and electric charge arising from gluon splitting into quark-antiquark pairs for the initial conditions of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A new Monte Carlo procedure that can sample from a generic energy density profile is presented, called Initial Conserved Charges in Nuclear Geometry (ICCING), based on quark and gluon multiplicities derived within the color glass condensate (CGC) effective theory. We find that while baryon number and electric charge have nearly identical geometries to the energy density profile, the initial strangeness distribution is considerable more eccentric and is produced primarily at the hot spots corresponding to temperatures of T≳ 400T ≳ 400 MeV for PbPb collisions at √s N N = 5.02 TeV. 

Speaker: Dr. Mauricio Martinez Guerrero (North Carolina State Uni­ver­si­ty)
Thursday, August 20, 16:00 h, ITP, Online
Link: https://cern.zoom.us/j/99708870674

Conducting Re­search in the land of Future!

This is the title of the current brochure from “Baden-Württemberg international” (bw-i), which introduces excellent re­search landscapes in Baden-Württemberg.
The brochure mainly aims at scientists and people generally interested in science who are eager to receive more information about the Baden-Württemberg re­search landscape, and who would like to get a broad overview of what this beautiful federal state has to offer in terms of universities, re­search institutions, etc.
The cluster of excellence STRUC­TURES is presented, as well as further institutions from bioeconomy, lightweight construction and industry 4.0. A large variety of examples demonstrate outstandingly what we are working on in this region.

The brochures are available at bw-i as well as in their download center.

ELLIS LIFE HEIDELBERG RESEARCH UNIT

STRUC­TURES members Carsten Rother and Ullrich Köthe participate in the Eu­ro­pean Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems.

The great potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and ma­chine learning for the life sciences – from basic re­search in biology to medical applications – has to date largely been neglected.
To leverage that potential in future, researchers from Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty, the German Cancer Re­search Center, and the Eu­ro­pean Molecular Biology Laboratory have founded a new re­search unit. It aims to support AI re­search in the life sciences and forge international links with activities in Hei­del­berg. The unit is part of the Eu­ro­pean Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). ELLIS Life Hei­del­berg will initially be funded by the founding institutions for five years.
More info can be found at the Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty website.

STRUC­TURES Members Ullrich Köthe and Ulrich Schwarz both give insights on their re­search in the current issue of the Ruperto Carola magazine

Read Ullrich Köthes article here
Read Ulrich Schwarzs article here or have a look at the entire issue here.
Group website of Ullrich Köthe.
Group website of Ulrich Schwarz.

45. Hei­del­berg Physics Graduate Days in autumn 2020

The 45th Hei­del­berg Physics Graduate Days of the Hei­del­berg Graduate School for Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy take place from 5th - 9th October 2020. Participants from other universities are very welcome!
Courses are open for advanced students, in particular those working on their Master's and doctoral theses. It is the aim to offer courses that broaden the students' physics knowledge as well as to teach specialized techniques.

To take part in the 45th Graduate Days please register here.
Website of the Graduate Days here.

Last edition of the Science Pub Quiz on July 29th, 2020

Back and live with limited places!

6th SCIENCE PUB QUIZ IN HEIDELBERG Date: Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Time: 07:30pm (doors open at 7pm)
Venue: Cafe Leitstelle at Dezernat #16
Organizers: Dennis Schulz and Lisa Ringena (both PhD students at Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Hei­del­berg).
For the upcoming Science Pub Quiz in Hei­del­berg will be back in real life! The last edition before the summer break has a total of 40 spots in a well-aired Cafe Leitstelle available for you. As usual, we will ask you sciency questions, a vegetable or fruit might be thrown in water, and we have a wonderful guest: Linn Voss will join us from Berlin, where she does her PhD on toxicology at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.
Entrance is free, doors open at 7pm, and questions will be asked both in English and German - and while we welcome all nerds Hei­del­berg, it will absolutely not be necessary to have studied any science to answer our questions.

Due to the current situation, you have to pre-register via email to sciencepubquiz@posteo.de with your name and, if you'd like to participate in a team, the names of your team members.

Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/163768071730688.
All information on the quiz: www.pubquiz-hd.de
Instagram: @science.quiz.hd

STRUC­TURES JOUR FIXE: Hei­del­berg, Online Seminar.

Friday, July 24th, 2020.

13:30h Minkowski Functionals as Comprehensive Shape Descriptors in Physics
(Michael A. Klatt, Princeton Uni­ver­si­ty, USA).


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