The table below contains the schedule of topics and links to lecture material which were covered in the previous offering of this course. The schedule  this year will follow similar structure with current experimental updates.  This schedule is subject to change.

Books:
1) Halzen and Martin: "Quarks and Leptons", John Wiley &Sons
2) Griffiths: "Itroduction to elementary particles", John Wiley &Sons
3) Perkins: "Introduction to high energy physics", Cambridge University Press
4) Cheuk-Yin Wong: "Introduction to high energy heavy ion collisions"
5) Ramona Vogt: "Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions", Elsevier
6)Yagi, Hatsuda and Miake: "Quark-gluon plasma", Cambridge University Press

Date lecture # Reading Topic 31-Aug-07 1 .ppt .pdf A roadmap to QGP. 19-Oct-07 2 .ppt .pdf chapter 2 in Wong, chapter 1 in Vogt, appendix E in Yagi, Hatsuda, Miake Kinematic variables. Rapidity and pseudo-rapidity. Lorentz invariants. 24-Oct-07 3 .ppt .pdf chapter 4,5,6,7 in Halzen and Martin, chapter 2 in Perkins, chapter 6,7 in Griffiths Cross-section. Matrix elements. Feynman diagrams. 26-Oct-07 4 .ppt .pdf chapter 8 and 9 in Halzen and Martin, chapter 8 in Griffiths, chapter 5 in Perkins Deep inelastic scattering off nucleons and nuclei. 29-Oct-07 5 .ppt .pdf ch: 1,2 in Griffiths, ch: 1,2 in Hazel&Martin Conservation laws. Coupling strength and lifetimes 31-Oct-07 6 ch 6 in Perkins Particle production in pp collisions: Hard scattering model.  2-Nov-07 7 .ppt .pdf classical string model:Perkins ch 6 survey of phenomenological models: Wong ch 3,5,6,7 Long distance QCD interaction. Soft particle production phenomenology. 5-Nov-07 8 .ppt .pdf Nucleus-Nucleus collisions. Geometry. Measures of centrality. Multiple collisions and nuclear stopping. 7-Nov-07 9 .ppt .pdf From transvesrse energy to energy density: Bjorken estimate of energy density. 9-Nov-07 10   info on the invited Nuclear physics session  Talk on collective behavior in QGP at the SESAPS meeting. 12-Nov-07 11 Koch_lecture notes on Hagedorn T Thermodynamics.Hagedorn limiting temperature in hadron gas.The QGP phase transition. 14-Nov-07 12 chapter 5 in Yagi, Hatsuda, Miake chapter 10,11 in Wong Survey of Lattice QCD results. EoS and phase diagram. 16-Nov-07 13 see Koch lecture here is a review article Statistical thermal model of particle production.  26-Nov-07 14 .ppt .pdf Statistical thermal model ( continued) 28-Nov-07 15 .ppt .pdf here is review article chapter 13, 16  in Yagi, Hatsuda, Miake Hydrodynamics. Hadron spectra. Phenomenological description. Blast-wave model. 30-Nov-07 16 .ppt .pdf Elliptic flow. 3-Dec-07 17 .ppt .pdf Hard scattering: experimental probes.Jet quenching in heavy ion collisions. Jet correlations. 5-Dec-07 18 .ppt .pdf chapter 16  in Yagi, Hatsuda, Miake review article for recombination Hadronization.Baryon enhancement in heavy ion collisions. 7-Dec-07 19 Strangeness production. 10-Dec-07 20 Open charm and quarkonia states. 12-Dec-07 21 Summary