Relativistic Heavy Ions: the UK perspective Peter G. Jones University of Birmingham, UK NuPECC Meeting, University of Glasgow, 3-4 October 2008 STAR.
The Quest for the Quark-Gluon-Plasma: The High-Energy Frontier Why Heavy Ions at the LHC? Where we stand What lies ahead Paolo Giubellino INFN Torino Paris.
Roman Lietava, University of Birmingham UK HEP Forum 1 ALICE Experiment Physics motivation Detectors Observables and Physics Performance Summary Roman.
Highlights from STAR at RHIC Evan Finch Yale University.
ALICE 2010. Alice at LHC : Detector and Physics Overview The LHC as Ion collider SPS-RHIC-LHC Global properties in the LHC regime ALICE and its experimental.
2/15/20141 Update on Activities in South Africa (and on the African Continent) Zeblon Z. VILAKAZI iThemba LABS & Univ. Cape Town, RSA IUPAP WG.9 meeting,
Overview of Heavy-Ion Physics Program in CMS Byungsik Hong (Korea University) for the Collaboration Heavy-Ion Meeting, APCTP, Pohang, Korea September 25-26,
Elliptic flow of thermal photons in Au+Au collisions at 200GeV QNP2009 Beijing, Sep 21 - 26, 2009 F.M. Liu Central China Normal University, China T. Hirano.
EMCal in ALICE Norbert Novitzky 1. Outline How Electro-Magnetic Calorimeters works ? Physics motivation – What can we measure with Emcal ? – Advantages.
Pawan Kumar NetrakantiRHIC/AGS User Meeting 2006, BNL1 STAR identified particle measurements at high transverse momentum in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions.
My Interactions with Jozsef In what feels like another life – I actually worked on the subject of strangeness –My first direct interaction with Jozsef.
Jet Physics in ALICE Mercedes López Noriega - CERN for the ALICE Collaboration Hot Quarks 2006 Villasimius, Sardinia - Italy.