Exotic States of Hot and Dense Matter - 2007

RHIC Serves the Perfect Liquid? - Fact or Fiction? Success and Puzzles From 5 Years of RHIC Experiments

Ulrich Heinz - Ohio State University

Cosmological Black Hole Formation and the QCD Phase Transition

Joseph Kapusta - University of Minnesota

Heavy Quark Diffusion from AdS/CFT

Derek Teaney - Stony Brook University

The emerging theory of Strong Coupled quark-gluon Plasma

Weak Coupling Approach to Thermal QCD

Anton Rebhan - Technische Universität Wien

QCD vs. N=4 SYM: Shear Viscosity

Guy Moore - Technische Universität Darmstadt

Quantum Black Holes and High Energy

Dmitri Kharzeev - Brookhaven National Laboratory

Dynamics with Vector Condensates at Finite Density in QCD and Beyond

Volodya Miransky - Western University

Finite - Temperature AdS/CFT Correspondence

Dam Thanh Son - University of Chicago

The Jet Quenching Parameter in Strongly Coupled Quark Gluon Plasmas

Krishna Rajagopal - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics

Fictional Forces in a SYM Thermal Bath

Philip Argyres - University of Cincinnati

A Few Comparisons Between String Theory and Heavy Ion Physics

Steven Gubser