Speaker: Professor Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook University)
Location: Lecture Hall9409
Time: 10:30AM, Monday, Sept.22,2025

Abstract:
High-energy nuclear collisions have recently emerged as a promising “imaging-bysmashing" approach that reveals the intrinsic shapes of atomic nuclei. Here, I outline a conceptual framework for this technique, explaining how nuclear shapes are encoded during quark-gluon plasma formation and evolution, and how they can be decoded from final-state particle distributions. I discuss the method's potential to improve oulunderstanding of nuclear structure and quark-gluon plasma physics.

Speaker Profile:

Jiangyong Jia is a professor in Stony Brook University (SBU) and physicist in Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). He is member of RHC-STAR and LHC-ATLAS, and previously the RHIC-PHENIX experiments, with broad interests in high energy nuclear physics and particle physics. His main expertise is in the area of collective flow, hydrodynamics and particle correlations from small to large collision systems. He received his B.S. degree from USTC in 1997, Ph.D. from SBU in 2003, worked as a postdoc in Columbia University, before joining the faculty at SBU and BNL in 2006.