This WE-Heraeus School is jointly held with the 60th edition of the Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics. The event is organized by the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
As part of the commemorative celebrations of the 60th aniversery, a vibrant social program is scheduled at the University of Wroclaw on the afternoon of Thursday, May 16, 2023. The day promises plenary talks by esteemed former chairs of the school and honorary members of the university as well as a public lecture by Prof. Günther Hasinger, the founding Director of the German Center for Astrophysics (DZA) in Görlitz (Germany), on recent results of the JWST and their implications for Cosmology. This opening day of the School will be concluded with a banquet. The following day, still in Wroclaw, will see four full lectures for School participants and the Institute public. After that, participants will be chauffeured to the Artus Hotel in the picturesque city of Karpacz, about 1 ½ h from Wroclaw due south west, where a warm welcome reception awaits. Nestled at the base of Snow Mountain, with elevations reaching approximately 1,200 meters, Karpacz offers unparalleled outdoor adventures, including convenient lift access to breathtaking vistas. Scientific lectures will commence on Saturday, May 18, continuing through Friday, May 24, with Sunday, May 19 reserved for personal pursuits.
Topics
- Quantum Chromodynamics and heavy ion collisions
- Topilogical phases of matter
- Nuclear astrophysics and hot dense matter
- Quantum field theory
- Warm dense matter
- Phase transitions in multimessenger astrophysics and cosmology
Aims of the School and target audience
With this school a unique possibility shall be given to study the different aspects of phase transitions from the subnuclear and atomic scale to the cosmic dimensions simultaneously and first hand from experts in these fields.
The school provides an introduction to the general aspects that are common to all phase transitions as well as the applications of the concepts to their study in terrestrial laboratories, e.g., for heavy-ion collisions and inertial fusion experiments as well as to observations of phenomena in the Cosmos such as (exo-)planets, neutron stars and their mergers, supernovae and the distribution of galaxies and abundances of elements which are tracers of the cosmological evolution through phase transitions.
The lecturers will lead the participants from the introduction of the phenomena to the very challenges associated with them. Leading experts in the field will teach in their lectures the concepts and methods that are required for solving the actual problems.
Dedicated tutorials are developed by the lecturers which complete the school character of the event. The target audience are mainly PhD students in the field of matter under extreme conditions with special emphasis on phase transitions in warm dense matter and quantum chromodynamics (QCD), but also excellent Master students and young postdocs working on related problems. The participants should have passed the introductory courses to statistical physics, thermodynamics and quantum field theory.
The participants get the chance to introduce their research topic in short contributions of 15 minutes (10’ talk + 5’ discussion) each and by presenting posters that will be introduced in flash talks (one slide) before the poster session. Best poster (3 prizes) and best student talk (3 prizes) awards will be granted after selection by a jury consisting of organizers and lecturers.
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