Colloquium speaker, Michael Lisa (OSU) today at 3:45pm

[Patterson, Robin L.]

Please join us for the Physics Colloquium today, at 3:45 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception at 3:30PM in the Atrium. Details concerning the talk are as follows:

Speaker:         Michael Lisa (OSU)
Date:             Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Time:             3:45PM
Place:            1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room
Title:              Subatomic Swirls: Nuclear Collisions & the Most Vortical Fluid



Abstract:   Ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei produce the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a unique state of matter that characterized the early universe for the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.  Among the most surprising results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was the discovery that the QGP acts like a fluid with remarkable properties.  A hydrodynamic treatment is now the standard paradigm in probing the bulk properties of the Strong Force in nuclear collisions.  I will discuss a recent discovery by the STAR Collaboration that probes for the first time the vorticity of the fluid produced in these collisions.  These unique results provide a clear validation of the hydrodynamic picture, while at the same time opening a new window in the study of Quantum Chromodynamics through nuclear collisions.  The story of this discovery involves several interesting connections to the OSU physics department.
The website for the colloquium is https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule


Also, there is the speaker student discussion starting just after the colloquium, at 4:45pm in the Smith Seminar Room.


Robin
[The Ohio State University]
Robin Patterson
Program Coordinator
Department of Physics
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patterson.716 at osu.edu<mailto:patterson.716 at osu.edu> osu.edu<http://osu.edu/>

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