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Steffen A. Bass

Steffen A. Bass CV

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics
Physics
bass@duke.edu
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
261B Physics, Durham, NC 27708
CV

Selected Presentations & Appearances

Heavy Flavor 2023 - 4th Heavy Flavor Meet 2023 · November 2, 2023 Keynote/Named Lecture IIT Goa, Goa, India
A data-driven approach to quantifying the shear viscosity of nature’s most ideal liquid - Physics Colloquium · October 31, 2023 Lecture Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
A data-driven approach to quantifying the shear viscosity of nature’s most ideal liquid - Nuclear Theory Seminar · April 27, 2023 Lecture University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Data-driven q-hat in a hard-soft factorized parton energy loss approach - 11th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High- Energy Nuclear Collisions · March 24, 2023 Invited Talk Aschaffenburg, Germany
Data-driven analysis of the temperature dependence of the heavy flavor transport coefficient - HF2022: Heavy Flavours from small to large systems · October 13, 2022 Invited Talk Institute Pascal, University Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
Determination of QGP Parameters from a Global Bayesian Analysis - Bayesian Inference in High-Energy Physics Workshop · May 25, 2022 Invited Talk Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham, UK
Heavy Flavor Energy-Loss and Correlations: the Impact of ALICE 3 - ALICE 3 Planning Workshop · October 10, 2021 Invited Talk CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Bulk Evolution Models for Heavy Flavor - Workshop on Heavy-Flavor Transport in QCD Matter · April 26, 2021 Invited Talk ECT*, Trento, Italy
Jetscape/X-scape Collaboration Goals - Joint BAND/Jetscape Collaboration Workshop · March 16, 2021 Invited Talk Michigan State University,
A data-driven approach to quantifying the shear viscosity of nature’s most ideal liquid - Workshop on RHIC BES Physics – theory and experiment · November 3, 2020 Invited Talk Beijing University, Beijing, China
A data-driven approach to quantifying the shear viscosity of nature’s most ideal liquid - Theoretical Physics Colloquium · September 30, 2020 Invited Talk Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
A data-driven approach to quantifying the shear viscosity of nature’s most ideal liquid - Physics Colloquium · August 24, 2020 Invited Talk UNC Chapel Hill & Duke University,
Determination of QGP Properties from a global Bayesian Analysis - Nuclear Physics Seminar · February 10, 2020 Invited Talk Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA
Determination of QGP Properties from a global Bayesian Analysis - Fall meeting of Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society · October 15, 2019 Invited Talk Washington, DC
Determination of QGP Properties from a global Bayesian Analysis - Workshop on Theoretical Quantum Field Theory and its Applications · September 4, 2019 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Yukawa Institute, Kyoto, Japan
Determination of QGP Properties from a global Bayesian Analysis - ALICE seminar · August 6, 2019 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Hydrodynamic simulations of relativistic nuclear collisions with nucleon substructure - Initial Stages 2019 · June 26, 2019 International Meeting or Conference Columbia University, New York, USA
Determination of QGP Properties from a global Bayesian Analysis - Colloqium · April 29, 2019 Invited Talk RMT Atlantique, Nantes, France
Determination of QGP Properties from a global Bayesian Analysis - Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics 2018 Programme on Probing the Quark- Gluon-Plasma with Collective Phenomena and Heavy Quarks · September 3, 2018 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Data-driven analysis of the temperature dependence of the heavy quark transport coefficient - Nuclear Theory Seminar · July 19, 2018 Lecture Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata, India
Determination of QGP Properties from a global Bayesian Analysis - Colloquium · July 18, 2018 Invited Talk Saha Institute for Nuclear Research, Kolkata, India
Heavy Quark Dynamics in the QGP · December 6, 2013 Lecture Yukawa Institute, Kyoto, Japan
What do we know about the Viscosity of QCD Matter? · November 14, 2013 Lecture J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Der Urknall im Labor: Schwerionenkollisionen als Sonden der Fruehgeschichte des Universums · November 14, 2013 Lecture FIAS Frankfurt, Germany
Recreating the Big Bang in the Laboratory: Computational Challenges in High Energy Nuclear Physics · August 27, 2013 Lecture Duke University
A brief History of Hybrid Hydro+Micro Transport Models · July 18, 2013 Lecture Schmitten, Germany
UrQMD: History and little known Facts · July 16, 2013 Lecture Schmitten, Germany
Do you speak Klingon? The challenges of creating a successful collaboration between Physicists and Statisticians · May 20, 2013 Lecture Statistical and Applied Mathematics Institute (SAMSI), RTP, NC
Heavy Quark Dynamics in the QGP · March 12, 2013 Lecture Guadaloupe, France
A Decade of QGP Physics: What have we learned and what does the future hold? · January 19, 2013 Lecture Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
Phenomenology of Jet Energy-Loss · January 18, 2013 Lecture Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
What do we know about the viscosity of QCD matter · January 17, 2013 Lecture Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
Computational Modeling of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions · January 16, 2013 Lecture Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
Probing the Quark-Gluon-Plasma: Visualization in Theoretical High Energy Nuclear Physics · December 10, 2012 Lecture Seattle, WA
The Quest for the Quark-Gluon-Plasma · November 30, 2012 Lecture Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Heavy-Quark Dynamics in the QGP · November 15, 2012 Lecture Uetrecht, The Netherlands.
Hot and Dense QCD Matter -- Unraveling the Mysteries of the Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma · October 25, 2012 Lecture Newport Beach, CA, USA.
What do we know about the viscosity of QCD matter? · September 25, 2012 Lecture Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya, Japan.
A Decade of Quark-Gluon-Plasma Physics: what have we learned and what does the future hold? · September 24, 2012 Lecture Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya, Japan
Recreating the Big Bang in the Laboratory: The Scientific, Computational and Data Challenges of High Energy Nuclear Physics · September 11, 2012 Lecture Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Durham, NC, USA.
QGP Meet 2012: Summary and Outlook · July 6, 2012 Lecture Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
What do we know about the viscosity of QCD matter? · June 13, 2012 Lecture Mc. Gill University, Montreal, Canada.
What do we know about the viscosity of QCD matter? · November 8, 2011 Lecture Wuhan, China
High Energy-Density QCD Matter · September 29, 2011 Lecture Miyajima Island, Japan
Resonances in Hadronic Transport · February 23, 2011 Lecture Jefferson Lab
What do we know about the viscosity of QCD matter? · December 8, 2010 Lecture Goa, India
The Viscosity of QCD Matter · October 12, 2010 Lecture Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
The Quest for the Quark-Gluon-Plasma - from Discovery to Quantitative Exploration · October 9, 2010 Lecture Daegu, South Korea
The Viscosity of QCD Matter · October 8, 2010 Lecture Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
Recreating the Big Bang in the Laboratory: the Discovery of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma · October 7, 2010 Lecture Andong National University, Andong, South Korea
The Big Bang in the Laboratory - a Decade of Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC · June 28, 2010 Lecture Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Hadron Gas Transport Coefficients from Microscopic Transport · June 7, 2010 Lecture Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Large Scale Computation and Data Storage using Cloud Resources · May 13, 2010 Lecture Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM
Hybrid Hydro+Micro Models: Status & Outlook · December 14, 2009 Lecture Joint CATHIE/TECHQM workshop at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
The Quest for the Quark-Gluon-Plasma · November 12, 2009 Lecture Physics Colloquium at Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX
What do we know about the viscosity of QCD matter? · October 29, 2009 Lecture Nuclear Theory Seminar at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Extracting the Transport Coefficients of QCD Matter with Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions · September 16, 2009 Lecture 10th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2009), Beijing, China
What do we know about the viscosity of QCD matter? · January 30, 2009 Lecture Nuclear Theory Seminar at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Hot and Dense QCD · January 28, 2009 Lecture Workshop on Forefront Questions in Nuclear Science and the Role of High Performance Computing, Washington DC
The Nature of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma · October 30, 2008 Lecture Invited talk at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS, Raleigh, NC, USA
Modeling of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Col lisions with 3+1D Hydrodynamic and Hybrid Models · September 11, 2008 Lecture Invited talk at the IV Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, September 11-14 2008, Krakow, Poland
Comparison of Jet Energy-Loss Schemes in a 3D Hydrodynamic Medium · June 10, 2008 Lecture Invited talk at the 3rd International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2008), Illa da Toxa (Galicia, Spain)

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Chair - Hot and Dense QCD Matter White Paper Committee · July 1, 2012 - October 31, 2012 Other Other Service to the Community ; I served as chair of the writing committee for the Hot and Dense QCD Matter White Paper that was prepared in response to the request for comments and community input by the 2012 Nuclear Science Advisory Subcommittee on Long Range Plan Implementation chaired by Robert Tribble. The Tribble committee is charged by the funding agencies, via NSAC, to develop programmatic priorities in view of constrained budget situations. ; https://cyclotron.tamu.edu/nsac-subcommittee-2012/White%20Papers/index.html
member - Program Committee of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics · 2010 - 2011 Other Other Service to the Community ; The program committee is tasked with organizing the scientific program of the two annual meetings of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics

Service to the Profession

member, local organizing committee : Quark Matter 2012 · August 13, 2012 - August 18, 2012 Event/Organization Administration Washington, DC
Chair, Organizing Committee : From Strong Fields to Colorful Matter - an International Symposium on Modern Nuclear Physics · October 24, 2010 - October 27, 2010 Event/Organization Administration Asheville, NC
Member, APS/DNP Program Committee · 2010 - 2011 Committee Service Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society,
sub-panel lead : Workshop on Forefront Questions in Nuclear Science and the Role of High Performance Computing · January 1, 2009 - May 1, 2009 Event/Organization Administration Washington, DC
member, local organizing committee : Near Perfect Liquids 2009 · January 1, 2009 - May 1, 2009 Event/Organization Administration Durham, NC
co-organizer : Hot Quarks 2008 · August 18, 2008 - August 23, 2008 Event/Organization Administration
member, local organizing committee : Quark Matter 2009 · August 1, 2008 - October 1, 2009 Event/Organization Administration Knoxville, TN
chair : NSF Nuclear Theory Proposal Review Panel · January 2008 - December 1, 2008 Committee Service
Chair, NSF Nuclear Theory Proposal Review Panel · 2008 Committee Service National Science Foundation,
Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (IOP) · 2008 - 2016 Editorial Activities Institute of Physics (UK),
Member, NSF Nuclear Theory Proposal Review Panel · 2007 Committee Service National Science Foundation,

Service to Duke

Academic Programs Committee (University) · July 2023 - June 2024 Committee Service Duke University,
Academic Council (University) · July 2023 - June 2024 Committee Service Duke University,
Academic Council (University) · September 2020 - May 2021 Committee Service
University Priorities Committee (University) · 2017 - 2018 Committee Service
Academic Programs Committee (University) · August 2015 - July 2018 Committee Service
Information Technology Advisory Council (ITAC) (University) · 2013 - 2021 Committee Service
Executive Committee of Arts & Sciences Council (School) · 2012 - 2015 Committee Service
University Priorities Committee (University) · 2011 - 2013 Committee Service
Faculty Hearing Committee (University) · 2010 - 2015 Committee Service
Executive Committee of Academic Council (University) · 2010 - 2011 Committee Service