Abstract: I will present new insight into the phases and facets of hot and dense QCD matter, which is created experimentally at heavy-ion collision experiments and is of the kind that once filled the early universe. In particular, I will present recent theoretical advances that address questions including: “how do the properties of the QCD matter vary when it is “doped” with a larger and larger excess of quarks over antiquarks?”, and “how do microscopic quantum effects manifest themselves in macroscopic QCD matter?” Extending my previous developments, I will discuss promising progress towards the goal of maximizing the discovery potential of upcoming heavy-ion collisions experiments which would potentially locate the QCD critical point and reveal the microscopy of the hot QCD matter.

 

Bio: Yi Yin is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT. He received his Ph.D at U. Illinois at Chicago in 2014 and worked at Brookhaven National Lab (2014-2016) as a Postdoctoral Associate. His primary research focus is on understanding the properties of hot and dense QCD matter.