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Brijesh Srivastava
Purdue University
""Matter Under Extreme Conditions""
Thursday January 24, 2013
4:00pm PHYS203
Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 242
Scientists have found that everything in the Universe is made up from a small number of basic building blocks called elementary particles, governed by a few fundamental forces. Some of these particles are stable and form the normal matter, the others live for fractions of a second and then decay to the stable ones. These particles can be created only at very high temperatures and densities in the laboratory. Therefore, studying particle collisions is like "looking back in time", recreating the environment present at the origin of our Universe. The talk will focus on the Equation of State of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in the relativistic heavy ion collisions both at RHIC and LHC energies.