Curriculum Vitae

Berndt Mueller

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Contact information

Department of Physics
Box 90305
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0305		 (919) 660-2570

Education

Dr. phil. nat.J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany1973
Dipl. phys.J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany1972

Areas of Research

Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Dean of the Natural Sciences, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, 1999 - 2004
J.B. Duke Professor, Department of Physics, 1996-present
Professor, Department of Physics, 1990-96
J.W. Goethe Universität
Professor (C3), Institute for Theoretical Physics, 1975-89
Research Assistant, Institute for Theoretical Physics, 1972-74
Argonne National Laboratory
Research Associate, Physics Division, September-November 1975
University of Washington
Research Associate, Department of Physics, 1974-75
Visiting Positions
  • Visiting Professor, YITP Kyoto University, May - July, 2006
  • Professor, University of Tokyo, August - November, 1985
  • Scientist, California Institute of Technology, May-June 1980
  • Professor, Vanderbilt University, January-April 1980
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, January-April 1974

Conferences Organized

  • Co-Director, INT Program 10-2a Quantifying the Properties of Hot QCD Matter, May 24- Juy 16, 2010
  • Co-Organizer, CERN Theory Institute The first Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC, August 16 - September 10, 2010
  • Co-Director, Workshop on Non-perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, June, 2009
  • Member, Local Organizing Committee, Quark Matter 2009, March 29, 2009 - April 04, 2009
  • Co-Organizer, Workshop on Nearly Perfect Fluids, April, 2009
  • Co-chair, Phases of QCD Town Meeting, December 2007
  • Co-director, Workshop on Non-perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, June, 2007
  • Co-Director (with C.I. Tan and Y. Gabellini), 8th Workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, June 4, 2004 - June 10, 2004
  • Organizer (with S. Bass, G. Stephans, T. Ullrich), 7th Int. Conf. on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2003), March 2003

Professional Service

  • Member, Academic Council, 2011 - present
  • Vice-Chair, Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, 2011 - present
  • Member, Big Questions Committee, 2011 - present
  • Member, Academic Priorities Committee, 2010 - present
  • Member, APS Publication Oversight Committee, 2009 - present
  • Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2008 - 2010
  • Director, Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, 2008 - present
  • Chair, Authorship Dispute Resolution Board, 2008 - present
  • Chair (2012-13), APS Publication Oversight Committee, January 01, 2010 - December 31, 2013
  • Big Questions Committee, December 2010
  • Presenter, NRC Decadal Review Panel for Nuclear Physics, July 12, 2010
  • ORNL - Duke Liaison, 2007 - 2010
  • Departmental "Big Picture" Committee, 2009
  • External Review Committee, GWU Physics Department, October 05, 2009
  • Research Policy Committee, 2005-09
  • Departmental Mission Committee, 2007 - 2008
  • Chair, Promotion Committee (T. Mehen), 2007 - 2008
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2007 - 2008
  • Search Committee for the Dean of Engineering, 2007 - 2008
  • Distinguished Professor Selection Committee, 2007 - 2008
  • MIT Dean's LNS Advisory Committee, 2003 - 2008
  • External Review Committee, Physics Department, April 7, 2008
  • Academic Council, 2005-07
  • Long Range Plan Working Group, April, 2007
  • Graduate Qualifying Exam Committee, December 2006
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, December 2006
  • NSAC Subcommittee on Long Range Plan Implementation, November 2005
  • Pre-Search Committee for DFELL, November 2005
  • Faculty Promotion Committee, November 2005
  • CSEM Steering Committee, November 2005
  • Strategic Planning on Research, November 2005
  • Referee, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C & D, Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics B, Journal of Physics B & G, Central Eur. J. Phys., Eur. Phys. J. A, November 2005
  • BNL-HENP Program Advisory Committee, 1998-2005
  • Participant, MPS Theory Workshop, October, 2004
  • Panelist, CAREER05, September, 2004
  • Panelist, DOE Review of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, August, 2004
  • Provost's Postdoc Task Force, 2003 - 2004
  • RHIC Detector Advisory Committee, 2002-03
  • Chair, NSAC Subcommittee on Nuclear Theory, April-November 2003
  • Duke Women's Initiative Steering Committee, 2002-03
  • Chair (2002), DNP Nominating Committee, 2001-02
  • AGS/RHIC Thesis Award Committee, July-September 2002
  • DOE Review of a US heavy ion program at the LHC, April 2002
  • Editorial Board Physical Review C, 1999-2001
  • Physics Division Advisory Committee, January-December 1999
  • Chair, Department, 1997-99
  • Chair (1997-98), INT International Advisory Committee, 1995-98
  • National Nuclear Physics Summer School Steering Committee, 1993-98
  • Chair, DNP Publications Committee, 1997-98
  • DNP Executive Committee, 1996-98
  • DNP Nominations Committee, 1997-98
  • DNP Physics News Committee, 1996-97
  • DNP Fellowship Committee, 1996-97
  • Theory Group Review Committee, May 1996
  • Nuclear Science Division Search Committee, 1993-94
  • NSAC Subcommittee on NSF-Sponsored National User Facilities for Nuclear Physics, 1992-93

Selected Recent Invited Talks

  • Entropy growth and equilibration in strongly coupled gauge theories
    EMMI Workshop on Thermalization in a Nonabelian Plasma, Heidelberg, Germany, December 13, 2011 [access]
  • Future challenges of heavy ion physics
    Workshop on Future Directions of High energy QCD, RIKEN Nishina Research Center, Wako-shi, Japan, October 20, 2011 [materialDisplay.py]
  • Got Entropy? From coarse graining to holographic thermalization
    Physics Colloquium, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, October 17, 2011
  • Entropy production and holographic thermalization
    Winter Workshop on Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory, Sophia-Antipolis, France, October 06, 2011
  • Physics with two time-like dimensions
    Winter Workshop on Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory, Sophia-Antipolis, France, October 06, 2011
  • Strangeness in the quark-gluon plasma: Thirty years of discovery
    Strangeness in Quark Matter 2011, Krakow, Poland, September 22, 2011 [contributionDisplay.py]
  • Jets in the QGP: What do we want to know? What should be measured?
    PHENIX Decadal Planning Workshop, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 9 September 2011
  • Heavy Ion Collisions, Thermalization, and Entropy Production
    Conference on Cold Matter, Hot Nuclei, and Black Holes, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August 19, 2011 [lecture_notes]
  • Compelling open and quantitatively addressable questions requiring a next generation of RHIC
    BNL Users Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, June 21, 2011 [pdf]
  • Thermalization QCD and AdS/CFT
    11th Workshop on Nonperturbative QCD, Paris, France, June 09, 2011 [pdf]
  • Some Like It Hot: Boiling the QCD Vacuum at RHIC and LHC
    Judah Eisenberg Memorial Lecture, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 29, 2011 [pdf]
  • Holographic Thermalization
    Quark Matter 2011 Conference, Annecy, France, May 24, 2011 [pdf]
  • Physics with Two Time Dimensions
    Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, February 04, 2011
  • Physics with Two Time Dimensions
    Seminar, Univ. Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Germany), December 16, 2010
  • Parton Energy Loss in Strongly Coupled AdS/CFT
    Hard Probes 2010, Eilat (Israel), October 12, 2010 [materialDisplay.py]
  • The Chiral Magnetic Effect: A Status Report
    Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, September 21, 2010 [pdf]
  • Exploration of Hot QCD Matter: The Next Decade
    CERN Theory Institute: The first heavy ion collisions at the LHC (HIC10), CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), September 1, 2010 [access]
  • Exploring the Wonderland of the QCD Phase Diagram
    School of Collective Dynamics in High Energy Collisions, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, June 11, 2010 [pdf]
  • Anomalous Transport Processes in the Turbulent Non-Abelian Plasmas
    Workshop on Saturation, the Color Glass Condensate and Glasma, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, May 10, 2010 [pdf]
  • Hadronic and Partonic Mechanisms of Charge Asymmetry Fluctuations
    Workshop on P- and CP-odd Effects in Hot and Dense Matter, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, April 27, 2010 [pdf]
  • Physics with Two Time-Like Dimensions
    Physics Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 12, 2010 [pdf]
  • Status and Prospects of Jet Quenching: Lessons from the QGP Brick Problem
    Joint CATHIE-TECHQM Workshop, BNL, Upton, NY, December 18, 2009 [pdf]
  • Probing QCD Matter with Relativistic Heavy Ions
    KEK Cosmophysics Workshop (KEK-CPWS-HEAP2009), KEK (Japan), November 11, 2009 [pdf]
  • Stranger Than Fiction: Adventures in the QCD Wonderland
    Joint Meeting of the DNP/JPS, Big Island, Hawai'i, October 14, 2009 [pdf]
  • From 0 to 5000 in 2 x 10-24 s: Entropy Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
    Nuclear Physics Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, September 23, 2009 [pdf]
  • Can You Hear and See a Quark-Gluon Plasma?
    The John Cramer Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 11, 2009 [pdf]
  • Exploring the "Perfect Fluid"
    PHENIX Collaboration Meeting, BNL, August 05, 2009
  • What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like ?
    Tenth Workshop on Nonperturbative QCD, Paris (France), June 12, 2009
  • From 0 to 5000 in 2 x 10-24 s: Entropy Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
    Quark Matter 2009, Knoxville, TN, April 02, 2009
  • Summary and Future of Heavy Ion Physics
    Tamura Memorial Symposium, University of Texas, Austin, TX, November 22, 2008 [pdf]
  • What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like?
    Physics Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, TX, November 19, 2008
  • The Flavors of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
    Int. Conf. on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2008), Beijing (China), October 06, 2008 [pdf]
  • The Perfect Liquid Extinguishes Jets (nearly) Perfectly
    30th Int. Ettore Majorana School on Nuclear Physics, Erice, Sicily (Italy), September 23, 2008 [pdf]
  • What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like?
    Physics Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, August 28, 2008
  • The Wigner Functional Method in Quantum Field Theory, Workshop on Entropy Production, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, August 13, 2008 [pdf]
  • Life at the Edge of Chaos: Vacuum Instability and Color Turbulence in QCD
    Maier-Leibnitz Kolloquium, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich, Germany, June 19, 2008 [pdf]
  • Quark-Gluon Plasma: From Concepts to "Precision" Science
    RHIC Users Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, May 28, 2008 [pdf]
  • The Future of RHIC
    STAR Collaboration Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, May 05, 2008
  • What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like?
    Physics Colloquium, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, March 28, 2008
  • Theoretical Challenges posed by the Data from RHIC
    Symposium on Fundamental Problems in Hot and/or Dense QCD, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, March 4, 2008 [ppt]
  • The Sound of Fast Partons in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
    Workshop on New Frontiers in QCD 2008, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, February 26, 2008 [ppt]
  • Panel Discussion
    Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, February 9, 2008 [ppt]
  • Mach Cones in a Perturbative Quark-Gluon PlasmaQuark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, February 8, 2008 [ppt]
  • From Quarks and Gluons to the "Perfect Fluid"
    Physics Colloquium, Virginia State University, Blacksburg, VA, January 25, 2008
  • Anomalous viscosities of Yang-Mills plasmas
    Conference on Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), July 19, 2007 [ppt]
  • From the quark-gluon plasma to the "perfect" liquid
    T-Division Colloquium, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, June 28, 2007
  • From quark-gluon plasma to the "perfect" liquid
    Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Cracow (Poland), June 20, 2007
  • Why is the quark-gluon plasma a "perfect" liquid?
    Ninth Workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, Paris (France), June 06, 2007
  • Why is the quark-gluon plasma a "perfect" liquid?
    Physics Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 20, 2007 [pdf]
  • Is the quark-gluon plasma strongly coupled?
    Seminar, Universität Frankfurt, Germany, March 14, 2007
  • Is the quark-gluon plasma strongly coupled?
    Workshop on High-Density QCD, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy, March 06, 2007
  • The perfect black ink: The quark-gluon plasma as seen at RHIC
    Heavy Ion Forum, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, March 02, 2007
  • The R.H.I.C. Modeling Center
    Presentation, Physics Division, LLNL, February 21, 2007
  • A perfect black ink: The quark-gluon plasma as seen at RHIC
    Physics Colloquium, Florida State University, January 18, 2007
  • Why is the quark-gluon plasma a "perfect" liquid?
    Division Seminar, Nuclear Science Division, LBNL, December 18, 2006
  • Some like it hot: The quark-gluon plasma from RHIC to LHC
    H-QM Opening Symposium, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, October 09, 2006 [pdf]
  • Do we understand interactions of hard probes with dense matter?
    Workshop on Future Prospects of QCD at High Energy, BNL, July 20, 2006 [ppt]
  • The turbulent quark-gluon plasma
    RIKEN Workshop on Frontiers in the Physics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, Wako-shi, Japan, July 08, 2006 [ppt]
  • Hard probes at LHC - Theoretical Perspective
    Hard Probes 2006, Asilomar, CA, June 15, 2006
  • Why is the quark-gluon plasma a "perfect" liquid?
    Colloquium, Nagoya University, Japan, June 02, 2006
  • Why is the quark-gluon plasma a "perfect" liquid?
    Colloquium, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, May 17, 2006
  • Jet interactions with dense matter at RHIC
    APS Spring Meeting, Dallas, TX., April 22, 2006
  • The flavors of the quark-gluon plasma
    Int. Conf. on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2006), UCLA, March 31, 2006 [pdf]
  • Using lattice QCD to understand the data from RHIC
    Modeling the QCD Equation of State at RHIC, LLNL, February 09, 2006 [ppt]
  • Going with the flow: What RHIC has taught us so far
    Seminar, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, October 27, 2005
  • Going with the flow: What RHIC has taught us so far
    Physics Colloquium, Osaka University (Japan), October 17, 2005
  • Going with the flow: What the data from RHIC have taught us so far
    Physics Colloquium, Yale University, October 14, 2005 [pdf]
  • A nearly perfect ink: The "strongly coupled" quark-gluon plasma at RHIC
    DNP Fall Meeting, Maui, September 18, 2005 [pdf]
  • Summary Lecture
    Workshop on quark-gluon plasma thermalization, Vienna (Austria), August 12, 2005
  • Theoretical Summary
    Quark Matter 2005, Budapest (Hungary), August 9, 2005 [pdf]
  • A nearly perfect ink: Theoretical challenges from RHIC
    Lattice 2005, Dublin (Ireland), July 29, 2005
  • A nearly perfect ink.
    Physics Division Colloquium, Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 02, 2005 [pdf]
  • The re-combinatorics of thermal quarks
    The Berkeley School, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, May 20, 2005 [pdf]
  • A colorful wake for Gerhard Soff.
    Memorial Symposium, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt, Germany, April 25, 2005
  • What have we learned from RHIC so far?
    Korean Physical Society Meeting, Seoul, Korea, April 22, 2005
  • Quark-gluon plasma: An overview.
    Heavy Ion Meeting, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea, April 21, 2005
  • Who is afraid of a quark-gluon plasma?
    Physics Colloquium, Andong National University, Korea, April 19, 2005
  • Theoretical challenges from RHIC.
    Modern Challenges for Lattice Field Theory, KITP, Santa Barbara, March 30, 2005 [available here]
  • Hadronization in Au+Au at RHIC.
    Nuclear Physics Winter School, Schleching, Germany, February 19, 2005
  • Probing color deconfinement at RHIC.
    LNS Colloquium, MIT, February 14, 2005 [pdf]
  • Who is afraid of a quark-gluon plasma?
    Physics Colloquium, UNC Wilmington, January 28, 2005
  • Hard probes of hot and dense matter.
    Hard Probes 2004, Ericeira, Portugal, November 4, 2004 [transparencies]
  • The road to the quark-gluon plasma is circular and 2.4 miles long.
    Fall Meeting of the Japanese Physical Society, Kochi, Japan, September 29, 2004 [pdf]
  • Heavy ions at the SPS - What is there left to do?
    CERN-SPSC Symposium, Villars, Switzerland, September 25, 2004 [transparencies]
  • From partons to hadrons at RHIC.
    CERN - Heavy Ion Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, September 21, 2004 [pdf]
  • Heavy ions - Prospects at LHC.
    Physics at the LHC, Vienna, Austria, June 15, 2004 [transparencies]
  • Evolution of physics goals and resource needs.
    NSAC Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 03, 2004
  • Hadronic signals of deconfinement at RHIC.
    Workshop on New Discoveries at RHIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, May 15, 2004 [0404015]
  • Experiencing life near the Big Bang: How hadrons are signaling the formation of deconfined quark-gluon matter at RHIC.
    Physics Colloquium, UCLA, April 07, 2004
  • Messages from a different world: Probing quark deconfinement with RHIC.
    Physics Colloquium, Texas A&M University, March 24, 2004
  • From partons to hadrons at RHIC.
    DNP Fall Meeting, Tucson, AZ, 29 October 2003
  • Three lecture course on Heavy Ion Physics at the LHC.
    57th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (SUSSP57), St. Andrews, Scotland, 18 August 2003 [pdf]
  • Hadron production at intermediate and high transverse momenta at RHIC.
    Conference on Intersections between Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP), New York City, 20 May 2003 [ppt]
  • Heavy Ions at the LHC: Theoretical issues.
    LHC2003 Workshop, Fermilab, May 2, 2003 [0307043]
  • Understanding the Universe: How RHIC is helping us.
    Physics Colloquium, George Washington University, 24 April 2003
  • How relativistic heavy ions help us understand the Universe.
    Howel Pugh Lecture, LBNL, 16 April 2003
  • Understanding the world we live in: How relativistic heavy ions can help.
    Physics Colloquium, McGill University, 8 November 2002
  • Chaotic Quantization: Maybe the Lord plays dice, after all?
    First Intern. Workshop on Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy (DICE2002), Piombino, Italy, 3 September 2002 [0301131]
  • Thus spoke the o-RHIC-le: What the first results from Brookhaven are telling us.
    Physics Colloquium, UC Riverside, 16 May 2002
  • Are we just so lucky to be around?
    Distinguished Faculty Lunch, Duke University, 16 February 2002 [pdf]
  • Four lectures on quark-gluon plasma: Properties, creation, signatures.
    PASI "New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions", Campos do Jordao, Brazil, 7 January 2002 [pasi]

Doctoral Theses Directed

  • Hung-Ming Tsai, Entropy Production and Equilibration in Yang-Mills Quantum Mechanics, (2011)
  • Bryon Neufeld, The Response of Hot QCD Matter to Hard Probes, (2009)
  • Chaoran Hu, Classical Lattice Gauge Fields with Hard Thermal Loops, (1998)
  • Michael T. Strickland, Dynamical Mass Generation and Confinement at Finite Temperature, (1997)
  • Chengqian Gong, Hamiltonian Dynamics and Chaotic Behavior of Yang-Mills Fields on a Lattice, (1994)
  • Jochen Rau, The Apparent Irreversibility of Particle Creation: A Study of Time Scales and of the Mechanisms Responsible for Entropy Production in Quantum Field Theory, (1993)

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