Program

14th Workshop on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering
(EDS Blois Workshop)

December 15-21, 2011
Quy Nhon, Vietnam

Session-I: Diffraction and Elastic Scattering

A. Valkarova: ``Inclusive and Dijet Diffractive Production at Hera”

L. Favart: ``Exclusive Electroroduction of Vector Mesons”

C. Royon: ``D0 Results on Diffraction”

K. Goulianos: ``CDF Results on Diffraction and Exclusive Production"

U. Maor: ``Is the Pomeron Necessary and if so Why is it so Complicated"

A. Bruni: ``Atlas Results on Diffraction"

A. Knutsson: ``CMS Results on Diffraction"

R. Schicker: ``Central Diffraction in ALICE”

A. Szczurek: ``Production of Di-gluon and Quark‐antiquark Dijets in Central Exclusive Processes “

M. Poghosyan: ``Diffractive and Inelastic Cross‐Sections in Proton‐Proton Collisions at √ s = 0.9 TeV, 1.76 TeV and 7 TeV with ALICE at the LHC”

M. Deile: ``First Measurements of Proton‐Proton Elastic Scattering and Total Cross‐Section at the LHC by TOTEM”

L. Jenkovszky: ``Lessons from the First Results on Elastic pp Scattering at the LHC”`

M. Islam: ``Proton Structure from High Energy Proton‐Proton and Antiproton‐Proton Elastic Scattering”

J. Soffer: ``Significant Issues Related to Elastic Scattering at Very High Energies”

H. Grebas:  ``Study of the Anomalous Coupling Between Photon and the W/Z Boson and the ATLAS Forward Physics (AFP) Project"

M. Luszcak: ``Diffractive production of c"

L. Jenkovszky: ``Exclusive Diffractive Production of Real Photons and Mesons at HERA”

A. Godizov: ``Models of Elastic High‐Energy Scatterings to Falsify at the LHC”

I. Alekseev: for the EPECUR Collaboration ``High Precision Measurements of the Pion Proton Differential Cross Section”

I. Dremin: ``Parton Content of Hadronic Interactions,”

I. Dremin: “The Orear Regime in Elastic pp-Scattering at 7 TeV”

Session-II: Soft QCD, Total X-Section, etc.

M. Bindi: ``Inelastic Cross Section Measurements at LHC"

K. Igi: ``Universal Rise of Total Hadronic Cross Sections and Predictions at LHC” Bias Distributions at LHC”

M. Heinrich: ``Underlying Event Results for LHC”

J. G. Milhano: ``From Theory to Phenomenology in the CGC”

N. Brook: ``Particle Production and Minimum Bias Distributions at LHC”

L. Harland-Lang: ``Latest Results on Standard Candle Central Exclusive Production within the Durham Model"

A. Geiser: ``DIS and Dipion Electroproduction at HERA”

T. Watari: ``Studying Generalized Parton Distribution in Gravity Dual"

R. Snellings: ``Angular Correlations of Hadrons Measured at the Large Hadron Collider”

N. Bianchi: ``Hadron Multiplicities in DIS off Nucleons and Nuclei Measured at HERMES”

Session-III: Heavy Ions, Saturation, etc.

J-P. Blaizot: ``Extreme States of Matter and Ultra‐Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions”

S. Chattopadhyay: ``Results from the ALICE Experiment on Heavy‐ions and Low x QCD Physics"

M. Nguyen: ``CMS Results on Heavy Ion and Low‐x QCD Physics”

J. Nystrand: ``Photonuclear Interactions in Heavy‐ion Collisions at the LHC”

D. Tapia Takaki: ``Photo-Production of Vector Mesons in Ultra-Peripheral Pb+Pb Collisions at ALICE"

F. Arleo: ``Heavy-Ion Collisions in the LHC Era”

Session-III: Recent Theory Developments in QCD

D Son: ``Anomalous Hydrodynamics and Gravity”

A. Jevicki: ``The AdS Avatars of Large N QCD Dipoles”

S. Das: ``Quantum Quench Across Holographic Phase Transitions”

K. Hashimoto: ``Holographic Nucleus”

C-I Tan: ``Holographic Central Production of Higgs and the AdS Graviton/Pomeron”

Session-IV: Perturbative QCD, High P_t Jets, etc.

C. Mesropian: ``Hard QCD Results with Jets”

Y. Kurihara: ``QCD Event‐Generator GR@PPA2.8 and its Applications”

M. A. Voutilainen: ``Hard QCD Results on Jets (Including Heavy Flavors) and Photons at CMS

T. Hreus: ``MPI Results from the LHC”

J. Andersen: ``Jets at LHC”

H-N Li: ``QCD Resummation for Jet Substructures”

Session-V: Spin Physics

J. Soffer: ``Recent Positivity Constraints for Spin Observables and Parton Distributions”

B. Surrow: ``Recent results and future prospects of the polarized p+p program at RHIC”

D. Svirida: ``Transverse Spin Asymmetries at Small Momentum Transfere at STAR"

Y. Miyachi: ``Spin Structure of the Nucleon Studied at HERMES"

Session-VI: Cosmic Ray

H. Dembinski: ``Recent Measurements of Ultra‐high Energy Cosmic Rays and their Impact on Hadronic Interaction Modeling”

M. Shibata: ``Cosmic‐ray Energy Spectrum Around the Knee”

H. Takami: ``Propagation of Ultra‐High‐Energy Cosmic Rays”

G. Mitsuka: ``High Energy Hadronic Interactions and Cosmic Ray Physics”

K. Itakura: ``Forward Hadron Production at Collider Energies and its Possible Application to Cosmic Ray Physics”

V. Van Elewyck: ``High‐energy Neutrino Astronomy: Status and Prospects”

M. Honda: ``Study of the Interaction Model Using Atmospheric Muons for the Calculation of Atmospheric Neutrino Flux”

Session-VII: Closing Talk

D. D’Enterria: ``Frontiers of QCD: From Puzzles to Discoveries. Experimental Summary and Perspectives"

December 18, Sunday

Visiting Qui Nhon Science Center

8:00 Ground Breaking

8:30 Touring Site

Common Opening for both conferences

11:00 Joint Lecture-I

D. Son: `` Viscosity and Black Holes”

11:45 Joint Lecture-II

T. Pierog: ``Comparison of Hadronic Interaction Models with LHC Data”

12:30 Presentation and Exchange on Qui Nhon Center