Professors Ulrich Heinz and Yuri Kovchegov successfully renewed their basic research grant from the DOE Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, at the level of $1,360,000 for the next 36 months (an increase of almost 20% over the preceding funding period). The grant supports their research program on the “Theory of High Energy Collisions” which includes a relativistic heavy-ion collision component and a component addressing the gluonic internal structure of protons and nuclei that can be probed in high energy electron-ion collisions. Professor Heinz is also a member of two multi-institutional theory collaborations, the 5-year DOE funded Topical Collaboration on “Beam Energy Scan Theory” (BEST Collaboration) and the 4-year NSF funded JETSCAPE Collaboration (“Jet Energy-loss Tomography with a Statistically and Computationally Advanced Program Envelope”) which were approved for funding starting in spring and summer of 2016, respectively. Prof. Heinz receives a modest share of the total funding of about $6,000,000 for  these two collaborations.

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