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Berndt Mueller

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
261-D Physics Bldg, Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0305

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Colored Quantum Chaos - Transport Seminar · September 22, 2023 Lecture Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Colored Quantum Chaos: Eigenstate Thermalization in SU(2) Gauge Theory - QCD on and off the Lattice · September 19, 2023 Invited Talk Universität Regensburg, Regensburg (Germany)
What Can Energy-Energy Correlators Tell Us? - NPA Seminar · June 1, 2023 Invited Talk Yale University, New Haven, CT
The Thermal Physics of "Empty" Space - Physics Colloquium · March 3, 2023 Invited Talk East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Thermalization, Hadronization & Entanglement - Physics Colloquium · January 18, 2023 Invited Talk Arizona State University, Remote lecture
Anomalous Chral Phenomena - Workshop on Chirality, Vorticity, and Magnetic Fields · December 2, 2022 - December 4, 2022 Invited Talk UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
A Brief History of Jet Quenching Theory - Xin-Nian Wang Symposium · August 18, 2022 Invited Talk Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Summary Lecture SQM2022 - 2022 Strangeness in Quark Matter · June 17, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Pusan (Korea)
RHIC: A Facility for the New Millennium - Sandweiss Memorial Lecture · May 13, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Yale University,
The Thermal Physics of "Empty" Space - Yale Physics Club · April 25, 2022 Visiting Professorship Lecture Yale University, New Haven, CT
Diagnosing the Quark-Gluon Plasma - Student Lecture · April 4, 2022 International Meeting or Conference Quark Matter 2022, Krakow (Poland)
Are We Ready to Say "Good-Bye" to Energy from Hydrocarbons? - NIAS Webinar on Climate Change and Energy Options · September 2, 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India
Amor Caloris: Why does Nature Love Heat so much? - Axel Colloquium · April 21, 2021 Keynote/Named Lecture UIUC,
Diagnosing the Quark-Gluon Plasma - Feshbach Prize Lecture · April 19, 2021 Keynote/Named Lecture APS,
Tracing the Boundary of Ordinary Matter - RHIC-BES Seminar · April 13, 2021 Invited Talk
The Unbearable Burden of Being Light: Emergence of ordinary matter from quarks and gluons · October 24, 2019 Lecture Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
The Hot Science of RHIC - Summer Sunday · August 4, 2019 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, BNL, Upton, NY
Topics in QCD Evolution: From RHIC to EIC · May 17, 2019 Lecture Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
The Unbearable Burden of Being Light: Emergence of ordinary matter from quarks and gluons · March 12, 2019 Lecture Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
The investigation of QCD matter: From RHIC to e-RHICInvited seminar · December 10, 2013 Lecture RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan
Equilibrating the quark-gluon plasma: Flow, fluctuations, thermalizationInvited Seminar · December 9, 2013 Lecture IPMU, Tokyo, Japan
The physics of QCD matter: Challenges and opportunitiesWorkshop on New Frontiers in QCD 2013 · December 2, 2013 Lecture YITP, Kyoto, Japan
Closing remarksEMMI Workshop · November 22, 2013 Lecture LBNL, Berkeley, CA
Mission Impossible: Exploring the properties of hot QCD matter with relativistic heavy ionsPhysics Colloquium · November 20, 2013 Lecture Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Supercritical fields in quantum chromodynamicsSymposium on Supercritical Fields · October 4, 2013 Lecture FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany
What pA may tell us about AAIntern. Conf. on the Initial Stages of High Energy Nuclear Collisions · September 11, 2013 Lecture La Toja, Spain
High energy nuclear collisions: The futureFuture Trends in High Energy Nuclear Collisions · August 22, 2013 Lecture Beijing, China
The exploration of hot and cold nuclear matterNuclear Physics Summer School · August 16, 2013 Lecture Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
Being Wit-ty: How to catch a "fat" protonp(d)+A Workshop · May 18, 2013 Lecture MIT, Cambridge, MA
Investigation of hot QCD matter with relativistic heavy ionsNobel Symposium on LHC Results · May 13, 2013 Lecture Uppsala, Sweden
Where QED meets QCD: Strong magnetic fields in QCD · December 10, 2012 Lecture Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Quark-Gluon Plasma: From RHIC to LHCStrong Coupling Gauge Theories in the LHC Perspective (SCGT 12) · December 7, 2012 Lecture Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya, Japan
To ``B'' or not to ``B'': When QED meets QCDWorkshop on QCD in Strong Magnetic Fields · November 12, 2012 Lecture ECT* Trento, Italy
The exploration of hot QCD matter: Insights and open questionsSymposium on Hot Topics in Hot Matter · October 17, 2012 Lecture Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
The Exploration of Hot QCD Matter: Challenges and PerspectivesConfinement X · October 12, 2012 Lecture TU München, Munich, germany
The exploration of hot QCD matter: Challenges and perspectives · October 8, 2012 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Fluctuat nec mergitur: Event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions34th International School on Nuclear Physics · September 22, 2012 Lecture Centro Ettore Majorana, Erice, Italy
Exploring hot QCD matter at RHIC and LHCPhysics Colloquium · September 17, 2012 Lecture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
The exploration of hot QCD matter: Flow, fluctuations, and thermalization · September 11, 2012 Lecture Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Exploring the sQGP with relativistic heavy ions at LHC and RHICXXXV Reuniao de Trabalho sobre Fisica Nuclear · September 3, 2012 Lecture Maresias, SP, Brazil
Jets as QCD Matter Probes (Summary Lecture)Workshop on Jet Modification in the RHIC and LHC Era · August 23, 2012 Lecture Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Two Lectures on Quark-Gluon PlasmaNational Nuclear Physics Summer School 2012 · July 15, 2012 Lecture St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM
Transverse correlation function of energy density fluctuationsWorkshop on Initial State Fluctuations and Final State Correlations in Heavy-Ion Collisions · July 2, 2012 Lecture ECT*, Trento, Italy
Strong interaction effects of strong magnetic fieldsWorkshop on P-and CP-odd Effects in Hot and Dense Matter · June 27, 2012 Lecture RBRC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
If you can't beat 'em join 'em: Hydrodynamic fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisionsSymposium on Contemporary Subatomic Physics · June 12, 2012 Lecture McGill University, Montreal, Canada
No pain, no gain: Hard probes of quark-gluon plasma coming of ageHard Probes 2012 Conference · May 28, 2012 Lecture Cagliari, Italy
Hydrodynamic fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisionsINT-Workshop INT-12-51W: The "Ridge" correlation in high-energy collisions at RHIC and LHC · May 9, 2012 Lecture Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA
Event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisionsCosmos, Cancer, Criticality and Chromplasmology · May 6, 2012 Lecture Seattle, WA
Relativistic theory of hydrodynamic fluctuationsNuclear Theory Seminar · March 2, 2012 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Summary LectureRBRC Workshop on Hyperon-Hyperon Interactions and Exotic Di-Hyperons · March 2, 2012 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Entropy growth and equilibration in strongly coupled gauge theoriesEMMI Workshop on Thermalization in a Nonabelian Plasma · December 13, 2011 Lecture Heidelberg, Germany
Future challenges of heavy ion physicsWorkshop on Future Directions of High energy QCD · October 20, 2011 Lecture RIKEN Nishina Research Center, Wako-shi, Japan
Got Entropy? From coarse graining to holographic thermalizationPhysics Colloquium · October 17, 2011 Lecture NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Physics with two time-like dimensionsWinter Workshop on Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory · October 6, 2011 Lecture Sophia-Antipolis, France
Entropy production and holographic thermalizationWinter Workshop on Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory · October 6, 2011 Lecture Sophia-Antipolis, France
Strangeness in the quark-gluon plasma: Thirty years of discoveryStrangeness in Quark Matter 2011 · September 22, 2011 Lecture Krakow, Poland
Jets in the QGP: What do we want to know? What should be measured? PHENIX Decadal Planning Workshop · September 9, 2011 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Heavy Ion Collisions, Thermalization, and Entropy ProductionConference on Cold Matter, Hot Nuclei, and Black Holes · August 19, 2011 Lecture ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Compelling open and quantitatively addressable questions requiring a next generation of RHICBNL Users Meeting · June 21, 2011 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Thermalization QCD and AdS/CFT11th Workshop on Nonperturbative QCD · June 9, 2011 Lecture Paris, France
Some Like It Hot: Boiling the QCD Vacuum at RHIC and LHCJudah Eisenberg Memorial Lecture · May 29, 2011 Lecture Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Holographic ThermalizationQuark Matter 2011 Conference · May 24, 2011 Lecture Annecy, France
Physics with Two Time DimensionsColloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ · February 4, 2011 Lecture
Physics with Two Time DimensionsSeminar, Univ. Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Germany) · December 16, 2010 Lecture
Parton Energy Loss in Strongly Coupled AdS/CFTHard Probes 2010, Eilat (Israel) · October 12, 2010 Lecture
The Chiral Magnetic Effect: A Status ReportDepartment of Energy · September 21, 2010 Lecture Germantown, MD
Exploration of Hot QCD Matter: The Next DecadeCERN Theory Institute: The first heavy ion collisions at the LHC (HIC10) · September 1, 2010 Lecture CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
Exploring the Wonderland of the QCD Phase DiagramSchool of Collective Dynamics in High Energy Collisions · June 11, 2010 Lecture Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Anomalous Transport Processes in the Turbulent Non-Abelian PlasmasWorkshop on Saturation, the Color Glass Condensate and Glasma · May 10, 2010 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Hadronic and Partonic Mechanisms of Charge Asymmetry FluctuationsWorkshop on P- and CP-odd Effects in Hot and Dense Matter · April 27, 2010 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Physics with Two Time-Like DimensionsPhysics Colloquium · April 12, 2010 Lecture Columbia University, New York, NY
Status and Prospects of Jet Quenching: Lessons from the QGP Brick ProblemJoint CATHIE-TECHQM Workshop · December 18, 2009 Lecture BNL, Upton, NY
Probing QCD Matter with Relativistic Heavy IonsKEK Cosmophysics Workshop (KEK-CPWS-HEAP2009) · November 11, 2009 Lecture KEK (Japan)
Stranger Than Fiction: Adventures in the QCD WonderlandJoint Meeting of the DNP/JPS · October 14, 2009 Lecture Big Island, Hawai'i
From 0 to 5000 in 2 x 10-24 s: Entropy Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion CollisionsNuclear Physics Seminar · September 23, 2009 Lecture University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Can You Hear and See a Quark-Gluon Plasma?The John Cramer Symposium · September 11, 2009 Lecture University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Exploring the "Perfect Fluid"PHENIX Collaboration Meeting · August 5, 2009 Lecture BNL
What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like ?Tenth Workshop on Nonperturbative QCD · June 12, 2009 Lecture Paris (France)
From 0 to 5000 in 2 x 10-24 s: Entropy Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions Quark Matter 2009 · April 2, 2009 Lecture Knoxville, TN
Summary and Future of Heavy Ion PhysicsTamura Memorial Symposium · November 22, 2008 Lecture University of Texas, Austin, TX
What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like? Physics Colloquium · November 19, 2008 Lecture University of Texas, Austin, TX
The Flavors of the Quark-Gluon PlasmaInt. Conf. on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2008) · October 6, 2008 Lecture Beijing (China)
The Perfect Liquid Extinguishes Jets (nearly) Perfectly30th Int. Ettore Majorana School on Nuclear Physics · September 23, 2008 Lecture Erice, Sicily (Italy)
What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like? Physics Colloquium · August 28, 2008 Lecture Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
The Wigner Functional Method in Quantum Field Theory · August 13, 2008 Lecture Workshop on Entropy Production, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan
Life at the Edge of Chaos: Vacuum Instability and Color Turbulence in QCDMaier-Leibnitz Kolloquium · June 19, 2008 Lecture Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich, Germany
Quark-Gluon Plasma: From Concepts to "Precision" ScienceRHIC Users Meeting · May 28, 2008 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
The Future of RHICSTAR Collaboration Meeting · May 5, 2008 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like? Physics Colloquium · March 28, 2008 Lecture University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Theoretical Challenges posed by the Data from RHIC Symposium on Fundamental Problems in Hot and/or Dense QCD · March 4, 2008 Lecture Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan
The Sound of Fast Partons in the Quark-Gluon Plasma Workshop on New Frontiers in QCD 2008 · February 26, 2008 Lecture Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan
Panel Discussion Quark Matter 2008 · February 9, 2008 Lecture Jaipur, India
Mach Cones in a Perturbative Quark-Gluon PlasmaQuark Matter 2008 · February 8, 2008 Lecture Jaipur, India
From Quarks and Gluons to the "Perfect Fluid"Physics Colloquium · January 25, 2008 Lecture Virginia State University, Blacksburg, VA

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Member - NSAC Subcommittee on Mo-99 Production · December 11, 2013 Other Other Service to the Community
Chair - Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society · April 1, 2013 Other Other Service to the Community
Member (ex officio) - Nuclear Science Advisory Committee · April 1, 2013 Other Other Service to the Community
Member - ORAU Board of Directors · April 15, 2012 Other Other Service to the Community ; http://www.orau.org/media-center/news-releases/2012/fy12-21-ORAU-board-welcomes-six-new-directors.aspx
Chair-Elect - Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society · April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013 Other Other Service to the Community
Vice-Chair - Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society · April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012 Other Other Service to the Community

Service to the Profession


Member, Physics Policy Committee · 2016 - 2018 Committee Service American Physical Society,
Member - President's Visiting Committee for Physics · 2016 - 2022 Committee Service Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Chair, Fellowship Committee - Division of Nuclear Physics · 2015 Committee Service American Physical Society,
Chair, Division of Nuclear Physics · 2013 Committee Service American Physical Society,
Chair, APS Publication Oversight Committee · January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012 Committee Service
Member, Board of Directors · 2012 - 2015 Committee Service Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU),
Co-Director, INT Program 10-2a Quantifying the Properties of Hot QCD Matter · December 2, 2010 Event/Organization Administration Seattle, WA
Member - Scientific Council · 2004 - 2007 Committee Service Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
Member - Dean's Advisory Committee · 2003 - 2008 Committee Service Laboratory for Nuclear Science, MIT,
Chair, National Advisory Committee · 1995 - 1998 Committee Service Institute for Nuclear Theory,
Member · 1992 - 1995 Committee Service Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC),

Service to Duke


Academic Council (University) · 2011 - 2013 Committee Service
Provost's Academic Programs Committee (University) · 2010 - 2013 Committee Service
Academic Council (University) · 2005 - 2007 Committee Service