报告摘要：The MPD detector is being developed for the study of nuclear collisions at NICA. The NICA facility is under realization at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna). It will accelerate light and heavy ions (up to Au) allowing the study of nuclear collisions at centre-of-mass energies up to 11 GeV per nucleon pair. The MPD detector is in the design stage. The main goal is the study of hot and dense strongly interacting matter created in heavy ion collisions under conditions of maximum baryon density with special iinterest in the search for the conjectured critical point. In this talk, I shall describe the present status of NICA and the MPD detector with emphasis on its physics program and opportunities.

报告人简介：
Education
1973: Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics at the Technion, Haifa, Israel
1969: M.Sc. in Nuclear Physics at Technion, Haifa
1966: B.Sc. in Physics at the Technion, Haifa

Academic Positions
1984 – present: Professor, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot
1980 – 1984: Associate Professor, Nuclear Physics Department, WIS
1975 – 1980: Senior Scientist, Nuclear Physics Department, WIS
1973 – 1975: Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

Professional Activities and Awards (recent)
2015 Member of the review panel of the Heavy Ion Research Program of the US Department of Energy National Laboratories.
2013 – present Chairman of the Program Advisory Committee for Particle Physics of JINR, Dubna.
2013 Co-Chair of the Heavy Ion panel of the US Department of Energy Comparative Research Review on Nuclear Physics.

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王义  62771960  yiwang@tsinghua.edu.cn