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2012

• How quantum fields start to flow in heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the GDR meeting, December 2012, Orsay, France.

• Initial thermalization
  Talk at the workshop "High pT physics at LHC", October 2012, Wuhan, China.

• Glasma and early dynamics
  Talk at the workshop "QCD structure I", October 2012, Wuhan, China.

• Factorization in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Talk at the ISMD Conference, September 2012, Kielce, Poland.

• The early stages of heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the university of Bielefeld, September 2012, Germany.

• Quark gluon plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions
  Talk at the revue de programme "lois fondamentales de l'univers", CEA, Saclay, September 2012, France.

• High energy scattering in quantum chromodynamics
  Lectures at the University of Jyvaskyla, August 2012, Finland.
  • Lecture I: Introduction to QCD, Deep Inelastic Scattering, Parton model
  • Lecture II: Eikonal scattering, BFKL equation, BK equation, DIS at small x
  • Lecture III: Gluon saturation, Color Glass Condensate
  • Lecture IV: QFT with strong sources, Inclusive observables at LO and NLO, logarithms, factorization
  • Lecture V: Weibel instabilities, Resummation, Isotropization, Thermalization

• The early stages of heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the SEWM Conference, July 2012, Swansea, UK.

• Initial state and Thermalization
  Talk at Hard Probes 2012, May 2012, Cagliari, Italy.

• QCD in heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the "Rencontres de Physique des Particules", May 2012, Montpellier, France.

• The initial stages of high energy heavy ion collisions
  Seminar at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, May 2012, Heidelberg, Germany.

• The quark-gluon plasma in the LHC era
  Talk at the "Journées de prospective IN2P3/IRFU", April 2012, Giens, France.

• Quark gluon plasma and Heavy ion collisions
  Lectures given in March 2012, Master 2ème annéee - spécialité NPAC, Orsay, France.
  • Lecture I: Introduction to Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Lecture II: QCD at finite temperature
  • Lecture III: Hydrodynamical behavior
  • Lecture IV: Kinetic theory

• Les différents états de la matière nucléaire
  Talk INSTN, March 2012, Saclay, France.

• Towards thermalization in heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the workshop "Exploring QCD frontiers", January 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

2011

• The initial stages of high energy Heavy Ion Collisions
  Habilitation defense, December 2011, IPhT, Saclay, France.

• Quantum chromodynamics and strong interactions at the IPhT
  IPhT external review, November 2011, IPhT, Saclay, France.

• Factorization in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Talk at the program "Frontiers in QCD", October 2011, INT, Seattle, USA.

• The initial stages of a high energy heavy ion collision
  Talk at the Rutherford Centennial Conference, August 2011, Manchester, UK.

• Heavy ion collisions and QCD: the big picture
  Lecture at Quark Matter 2011, May 2011, Annecy, France.

• Effects of quantum fluctuations in a system of strong fields
  Seminar at BNL, March 2011, Upton, USA.

• Les différents états de la matière nucléaire
  Talk INSTN, March 2011, Saclay, France.

• Quark gluon plasma and Heavy ion collisions
  Lectures given in March 2011, Master 2ème annéee - spécialité NPAC, Orsay, France.
  • Lecture I: Introduction to Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Lecture II: QCD at finite temperature
  • Lecture III: Hydrodynamical behavior
  • Lecture IV: Kinetic theory

2010

• The initial stages of high energy hadronic or nuclear collisions
  Seminar at LAPTH, November 2010, Annecy, France.
  Seminar at IPNO, November 2010, Orsay, France.

• Ridge correlations and high energy QCD evolution
  Talk at the "HIC Journal Club", October 2010, SPhN, Saclay, France.

• Constraining the CGC in eA in order to predict AA
  Talk at the program "Gluons and the quark sea at high energies", September 2010, INT, Seattle, USA.

• Universality at small x: from DIS to heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the workshop "Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD at Collider Energies", September 2010, INT, Seattle, USA.
  Talk at the "GdR Nucleon", November 2010, SPhN, Saclay, France.

• How to get an Equation of State from quantum fluctuations in a system of strong fields
  Talk at the workshop HIC2010, August 2010, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Onset of hydrodynamical flow from quantum fluctuations in a system of strong fields
  Talk at the workshop HESI10, August 2010, YITP, Kyoto, Japan.

• The Color Glass Condensate in heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the workshop "QCD at high density and high energy", June 2010, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.

• Initial stages of heavy-ion collisions from the CGC
  Talk at the workshop "Quantifying the properties of the QGP", May 2010, INT, Seattle, USA.

• CGC and Glasma
  Talk at the workshop "Gluon saturation, CGC and glasma", May 2010, BNL, USA.

• Gluon saturation in high energy hadrons
  Seminar at CEA/SPhN, April 2010, Saclay, France.

• CGC and the early stages of heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the STAR collaboration meeting, March 2010, BNL, USA.
  Seminar at the University of Illinois, September 2010, Urbana, USA.

• Introduction to perturbative QCD
  Lectures given in March 2010 at the school "Aspects of perturbative QCD", Orsay, France.
  • Lecture I: Introduction to pQCD, Feynman rules, asymptotic freedom
  • Lecture II: Parton model, Bjorken scaling, scaling violations

• Quark gluon plasma and Heavy ion collisions
  Lectures given in March 2010, Master 2ème annéee - spécialité NPAC, Orsay, France.
  • Lecture I: Introduction to Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Lecture II: QCD at finite temperature
  • Lecture III: Hydrodynamical behavior
  • Lecture IV: Initial stages

• Gluon saturation and nuclear parton distributions
  Talk at the workshop "Nuclear parton distribution functions", February 2010, LAPTH, Annecy, France.

• Factorization in the non-linear small-x regime of QCD
  Talk at the "Winter Workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory", January 2010, INLN, Nice, France.

• The initial stages of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Seminar given at LPNHE, January 2010, Paris, France.

2009

• The initial stages of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Talk at the workshop on "Perturbative and Non-perturbative Aspects in QCD", November 2009, YITP, Kyoto, Japan.

• Factorization in the non-linear small-x regime of QCD
  Talk at the workshop on "From particles and partons to nuclei and fields", October 2009, Columbia University, New York, USA.

• Factorization and universality in the non-linear small-x regime
  Talk at the INT workshop on "Physics at a High Energy Electron-Ion collider", October 2009, Seattle, USA.

• Electron-Nucleus collisions at small-x
  Talk at the EINN2009 conference, October 2009, Milos, Greece.

• The CGC approach to hydro initial conditions
  Talk at the ECT* workshop on "Flow and dissipation", September 2009, Trento, Italy.

• QCD at small-x in nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Talk at the Low-x meeting, September 2009, Ischia, Italy.

• Color Glass Condensate and Glasma
  Talk at the Gordon conference on nuclear physics, July 2009, Rhode Island, USA.

• The initial stages of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Seminar at UCONN, July 2009, Storrs, USA.

• Ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions
  Seminar at SPP, June 2009, Saclay, France.

• QCD factorization at high energy (why AA collisions are simpler...)
  Talk at the workshop "Quantum field theory in extreme environments", April 2009, Paris, France.

• The initial stages of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Seminar at IPhT, March 2009, Saclay, France.

• Introduction au plasma de quarks et de gluons
  Lectures given in March 2009, Master 2ème annéee - spécialité NPAC, Orsay, France.
  • Lecture I: Collisions d'ions lourds, QCD à température finie
  • Lecture II: Phénomènes collectifs, Hydrodynamique, Signatures expérimentales

2008

• Physics of high energy electron-ion colliders
  Talk at the ''Journées Noyaux du GDR Nucléon'', November 2008, Grenoble, France.

• The early stages of high energy heavy ion collisions
  Seminar at IIT, September 2008, Mumbai, India.

• Saturation effects on quark production in pA and AA collisions
  Talk at the workshop "Initial conditions in heavy ion collisions collisions", September 2008, Goa, India.

• Initial conditions in AA collisions
  Lectures given at the school "Initial conditions in heavy ion collisions collisions", September 2008, Goa, India.
  • Lecture I: Gluon production from external sources
  • Lecture II: Final state evolution, Thermalization

• Color Glass Condensate and initial stages of Heavy-Ion collisions
  Lectures given at the school "Nuclear astrophysics and heavy ion collisions", July 2008, Dubna, Russia.
  • Lecture I: Gluon saturation, Color Glass Condensate
  • Lecture II: Initial particle production, Factorization

• Gluon saturation and the determination of PDFs
  Talk at the "HERA and LHC" workshop, CERN, May 2008, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Overview of initial conditions and early non-equilibrium dynamics
  Talk at the TECHQM workshop, BNL, May 2008, Upton, USA.

• The early stages of a high-energy nuclear collision
  Seminar at the CERN TH division, April 2008, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Gluon saturation from DIS to AA collisions
  Lectures given at the school "Hadronic collisions at the LHC and QCD at high density", April 2008, Les Houches, France.
  • Lecture I: Gluon saturation in DIS
  • Lecture II: Proton-Nucleus collisions
  • Lecture III: AA collisions: gluon production
  • Lecture IV: AA collisions: glasma instabilities

• Quark-Gluon Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions
  Seminar at LUTH, March 2008, Meudon, France.

• Introduction au plasma de quarks et de gluons
  Lectures given in March 2008, Master 2ème annéee - spécialité NPAC, Orsay, France.
  • Lecture I: Collisions d'ions lourds, QCD à température finie
  • Lecture II: Phénomènes collectifs, Hydrodynamique, Signatures expérimentales

• CGC applied to AA collisions : work in progress and open issues
  Seminar at YITP, February 2008, Kyoto, Japan.

• Initial conditions for high energy nuclear collisions
  Seminar at Tokyo University, February 2008, Komaba, Japan.

• High-energy factorization in nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Talk at the workshop "Hot and Dense Matter in the RHIC-LHC Era", TIFR, February 2008, Mumbai, India
  Talk at the symposium on "Fundamental Problems in Hot and/or Dense QCD", YITP, March 2008, Kyoto, Japan.

• Initial two-particle correlations in nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Talk at Quark Matter 08, February 2008, Jaipur, India.

2007

• Strongly coupled QGP or turbulent thermalization?
  Talk at the "2ème Rencontres QGP-France", September 2007, Etretat, France.

• Quantum Chromo-Dynamics at finite temperature
  Lectures given at the 2nd Rio-Saclay meeting, September 2007, CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Lecture I: Quantum field theory at finite T
  • Lecture II: Collective phenomena in the QGP
  • Lecture III: Out of equilibrium systems

• Semi-classical methods in high energy hadronic and nuclear scatterings
  Seminar at LAPTH, October 2007, Annecy, France.
  Seminar at TIFR, July 2007, Mumbai, India.

• Pre-equilibrium dynamics in heavy ion collisions
  Lectures given at the "Advanced School on QGP", July 2007, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
  • Lecture I: Parton evolution at small x, Saturation
  • Lecture II: Initial particle production
  • Lecture III: Instabilities and thermalization
  • Lecture IV: Kinetic theory, Near-Equilibrium dynamics

• Gluon saturation from DIS to Nucleus-Nucleus collisions
  Lectures given at the "School on QCD, low-x physics, saturation and diffraction", July 2007, Copanello, Italy.
  • Lecture I: Gluon saturation, Color Glass Condensate
  • Lecture II: DIS and proton-nucleus collisions
  • Lecture III: Saturation in nucleus-nucleus collisions

• Ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the conference "XXVII Physics in Collision", LAPP, June 2007, Annecy, France.

• Melting the CGC in pA and AA collisions at the LHC
  Talk at the workshop "Last call for LHC predictions", CERN, May 2007, Geneva, Switzerland.

• High-energy hadronic collisions: multiple scatterings, saturation and factorization
  Seminar at BNL, August 2007, Upton, USA.
  Seminar at the CERN TH-division, May 2007, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Some aspects of high-energy hadronic collisions in the CGC framework
  Seminar at the UFRGS, April 2007, Porto Alegre, Brazil,
  Seminar at the UFRJ, April 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• High energy scattering in QCD
  Lectures given at the Xth Hadron Physics workshop, March 2007, Florianopolis, Brazil.
  • Lecture I: Parton model, Bjorken scaling, Scaling violations
  • Lecture II: Parton evolution at small x, Saturation
  • Lecture III: Hadron-hadron collisions in the CGC framework

• Plasma de quarks et de gluons et collisions d'ions lourds
  Lectures given at the Master 2ème annéee - spécialité NPAC, March 2007, Orsay, France.
  • Lecture I: Physique du QGP, Théorie des champs à température finie
  • Lecture II: Théorie cinétique, Hydrodynamique, Phénoménologie

• The first fm/c of a nucleus-nucleus collision in the Color Glass Condensate framework
  Seminar at the LPT, March 2007, Orsay, France.

• Collisions d'ions lourds ultra-relativistes
  Talk at the "Rencontres de Physique des Particules", February 2006, LPSC, Grenoble, France.

• Initial particle production in nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Seminar at the Galileo Galilei Institute, February 2007, Florence, Italy.

• Particle production in nucleus-nucleus collisions, factorization, instabilities
  Talk at the workshop "High energy QCD: from RHIC to LHC", January 2007, Trento, Italy.

2006

• Plasma de Quarks et de Gluons et collisions d'ions lourds
  Talk at the IPN, December 2006, Orsay, France.

• QCD at small-x and nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Talk at Quark Matter 2006, November 2006, Shanghai, China.

• High density effects in quark production in pA and AA collisions
  Seminar at LBNL, October 2006, Berkeley, USA.

• Initial particle production in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
  Seminar at the INT, University of Washington, October 2006, Seattle, USA.

• The first fermi/c in a high energy nucleus-nucleus collision
  Talk at the "Colloque du SPhT", October 2006, La Rochelle, France.

• Hadron production in the Color Glass Condensate framework
  Talk at the Workshop on Future Prospects in QCD at High Energy, July 2006, BNL, Upton, USA.

• Gluon Saturation and Color Glass Condensate
  Talk at the Workshop on Future Prospects in QCD at High Energy, July 2006, BNL, Upton, USA.

• Color Glass Condensate and forward physics at the LHC
  Seminar at the Heavy Ion Forum, June 2006, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

• AGK cancellations in the Color Glass Condensate
  Talk at the 5th International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics, May 2006, ICTP, Trieste, Italy.

• Particle production in field theories coupled to a strong source
  Talk at the SEWM 2006 conference, May 2006, BNL, Upton, USA.

• Color Glass Condensate and parton saturation at the LHC
  Talk at the XLIst Rencontres de Moriond, March 2006, La Thuile, Italy.

• Production de particules dans une théorie des champs couplée à un fort courant externe
  Talk at the "Rencontres de Physique des Particules", March 2006, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.

• Particle production in field theories coupled to a strong external source
  Seminar at McGill University, February 2006, Montreal, Canada.
  Seminar at the ECT*, March 2006, Trento, Italy.
  Seminar at the Niels Bohr Institute, April 2006, Copenhaguen, Denmark.

• High energy hadronic interactions in QCD and applications to heavy ion collisions
  Lectures at SPhT, January 2006, Saclay, France.
  • Lecture I: Introduction and phenomenology
  • Lecture II: Lessons from Deep Inelastic Scattering
  • Lecture III: QCD on the light-cone
  • Lecture IV: Saturation and the Color Glass Condensate
  • Lecture V: Calculating observables in the CGC

2005

• The early stages of heavy ion collisions in the color glass condensate framework
  Talk at the workshop "Super-Computing Relativistic Heavy Ion physics", December 2005, Mumbai, India.

• High density effects in quark production in pA and AA collisions
  Seminar at the University of Connecticut, October 2005, Storrs, USA.
  Seminar at the INT, University of Washington, October 2005, Seattle, USA.
  Seminar at BNL, October 2005, Upton, USA.

• CGC et saturation à RHIC ?
  Talk at the "Journées RHIC France", June 2005, Etretat, France.

• Electromagnetic emission from the CGC at early stages of heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the workshop "Electromagnetic probes of hot and dense matter", June 2005, Trento, Italy.

• Physique du plasma de quarks et de gluons: situation théorique
  Talk at the meeting of the "GdR QCD sur réseaux", June 2005, Autrans, France.

• Rescattering effects on quark-antiquark production in proton-nucleus collisions
  Talk at the workshop "Proton-Nucleus collisions at the LHC", May 2005, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Introduction to the theory of the QGP and the CGC
  Lecture at DAPNIA/SPhN, April 2005, Saclay, France.
  Lecture at the UFRJ, May 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• Quark production in pA collisions: rescatterings and kt-factorization breaking
  Talk at the workshop "Classical and quantum aspects of the Color Glass Condensate", March 2005, BNL, Upton, USA.

• Introduction to the Color Glass Condensate, from RHIC to statistical physics
  Seminar at the IPN, February 2005, Orsay, France.
  Seminar at the UFRJ, May 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2004

• Overview of heavy quark production in heavy ion collisions at the LHC
  Talk at the Dimuon-Net workshop, December 2004, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

• Proton-nucleus collisions in the color glass condensate framework
  Talk at Hard Probes 2004, November 2004, Ericeira, Portugal.

• High energy hadronic collisions and saturation
  Seminar at the Technical University of Wien, October 2004, Vienna, Austria.

• Proton-nucleus collisions in the color glass condensate framework
  Talk at the SEWM 2004 Conference, June 2004, Helsinki, Finland.

• Phase transitions of hadronic matter and high-energy heavy ion collisions
  Talk at the workshop "Lattice QCD, present and future", April 2004, LAL, Orsay, France.

• Collisions hadroniques à haute énergie et saturation
  Talk at the "Rencontres des particules", IPN, March 2004, Lyon, France.

• High energy proton-nucleus collisions in the color glass condensate framework
  Seminar at the LPT, March 2004, Orsay, France.
  Seminar at the CPhT, Ecole Polytechnique, February 2004, Palaiseau, France.

2003

• Quark-antiquark pair production in high energy hadronic interactions
  Talk at the workshop "high pt physics at RHIC", December 2003, BNL, Upton, USA.

• Photon and dilepton emission in a quark-gluon plasma
  Seminar at the SPhT, October 2003, CEA, Saclay, France.

• Hard processes at RHIC
  Talk at the APS meeting, April 2003, Philadelphia, USA.

• Thermal photon and dilepton production in heavy ion collisions
  Seminar at DAPNIA/SPhN, January 2003, Saclay, France.

2002

• QCD calculations of thermal photon and dilepton production
  Talk at Quark Matter 2002, July 2002, Nantes, France.