RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting & RHIC Science Symposium
May 11 – 15, 2026 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
■ Users' Meeting ■ RHIC Symposium ■ Keynote Speaker
| Monday May 11 |
Tuesday May 12 |
Wednesday May 13 |
Thursday May 14 |
Friday May 15 |
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Users' Meeting
Workshops
All Day
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Users' Meeting
Workshops
Users' Meeting
Poster Session
Afternoon + Evening
Users' Meeting
Plenary Session Begins
Afternoon
C-AD & STAR + sPHENIX run reports.
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Users' Meeting
Plenary Session
Morning
Experiment status & highlights. DOE report
Users' Meeting
Plenary Session
Afternoon
Workshop summaries, EIC/ePIC updates and award ceremonies.
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RHIC Symposium
Morning Session
Commemorating 25+ years of RHIC discovery science.
★ Keynote
11:55 AM
Prof. David Gross
“Reflections on RHIC”
Chancellor’s Chair Prof. of Theoretical Physics, UCSB
RHIC Symposium
Afternoon Session
Celebrating RHIC science and its lasting impact.
★ BSA Distinguished Lecture + Dinner
5:00 PM
Prof. Barbara Jacak
“Little Bangs at RHIC and the Big Bang at the Beginning”
Distinguished Prof., Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley
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RHIC Symposium
Morning Session
Completing the RHIC scientific mission
RHIC Symposium
Afternoon Session
Looking forward to decades of discovery at the EIC.
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2026 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting (Monday - Wednesday)
The Annual RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting will be held May 11–13, 2026 followed immediately on May 14 & 15th by a special RHIC Symposium commemorating the end of RHIC and celebrating 25 years of discovery. The meeting will highlight the latest results from the PHENIX, STAR and sPHENIX experiments and provide an outlook with the future programs at RHIC and the EIC. Workshops that will be held on Monday, May 11, and Tuesday, May 12, will enable more in-depth discussions of the following topics:
- Jets & Hard Probes
- Ultraperipheral & Electromagnetic Processes
- Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory
- Fixed-target@EIC
- AI/ML
- Baryon Junction & Stopping
There will be an in-person poster session on Tuesday, May 12, Plenary sessions will be held on Tuesday, May 12 (afternoon), and Wednesday, May 13. Reports on operation status from the sPHENIX and STAR experiments and highlights from PHENIX, sPHENIX and STAR experiments, EIC detectors, a report from the Department of Energy and award ceremonies will be held during the plenary sessions.
RHIC Science Symposium (Thursday - Friday)
The RHIC Symposium will be on Thursday, May 14 and Friday, May 15 with special speakers and programming to commemorate the end of RHIC operations, to celebrate the 25+ years of discovery science accomplished, and to kick-off the transition to the Electron Ion Collider Era as we look forward to decades more discovery science.
Keynote Speakers
Thursday, May 14th, 11:55 am
Prof. David Gross, Chancellor’s Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics UCSB - Presenting: "Reflections on RHIC"
Thursday, May 14th, 5pm
Prof. Barbara Jacak, Distinguished professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Presenting the 2026 Brookhaven Science Associates Distinguished Lecture: "Little Bangs at RHIC and the Big Bang at the Beginning"
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Event ID: E000007621
Note: This meeting falls under Exemption E. Meetings such as Advisory Committee and Federal Advisory Committee meetings. Solicitation/Funding Opportunity Announcement Review Board meetings, peer review/objective review panel meetings, evaluation panel/board meetings, and program kick-off and review meetings (including those for grants and contracts) are open to the public.
