Dean Betts Co-Chairs 2017 Quark Matter Conference
The 26th international Quark Matter Conference will be held in 电车无码 from Sunday, February 5 through Saturday, February 11. Russell Betts, dean of the College of Science, is co-chair of the local organizing committee, along with colleagues from University of Illinois at 电车无码, The Ohio State University, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The conference, which most recently has taken place in Kobe, Japan; Darmstadt, Germany; and Washington D.C., is one of the major conferences in the field. It aims to bring together theoretical and experimental physicists from around the world to discuss developments in high energy heavy ion physics. This year鈥檚 discussions will provide attendees with a fundamental understanding of ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collision experiments conducted at Brookhaven National Laboratory鈥檚 Relativistic Theory Ion Collider and CERN鈥檚 Large Hadron Collider. In addition to the scientific program, a public lecture entitled, 鈥淔rom Quarks to Cosmos鈥 will be presented by University of 电车无码 faculty member Rocky Kolb on Thursday, February 9. Approximately 800 attendees are expected at this year鈥檚 conference.
