2022 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting
The Annual RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting will be held on June 7–10, 2022. The meeting will highlight the latest physics results from the STAR and PHENIX experiments and provide an outlook with the future programs at RHIC and the EIC.
Workshops that will be held virtually on Tuesday and Wednesday June 7th and 8th will enable more in-depth discussions of the beam energy scan, studies of small systems, machine learning, cold QCD and spin, measurements of hard probes in heavy ion collisions, diversity, physics opportunities and detector developments at the EIC. There will be an online poster session on Thursday, June 9th.
Plenary sessions will be held virtually on Thursday, June 9th and Friday, June 10th. Reports on operation status, highlights from STAR and PHENIX experiments, an in-depth look at the upcoming sPHENIX experiment and EIC detectors, reports from representatives from the funding agencies, and award ceremonies will be held during the plenary sessions.
Event ID: E000004205
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.
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Beam Energy ScanConveners: Agnieszka Sorensen (University of Washington), Dr Subhash Singha (Institute of Modern Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yue Hang Leung (LBL)
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9:00 AM
Measurements on Collectivity from STAR BES 20mSpeaker: Xionghong He (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science)
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9:20 AM
Probing the QCD Phase Diagram via Higher Order Net-Particle Fluctuation Measurements from STAR BES 20mSpeaker: Ashish Pandav (National Institute of Science Education and Research)
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9:40 AM
Recent Hypernuclei Measurements from BES Program 20mSpeaker: Xiujun Li (University of Science and Technology of China)
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Coffee Break 15m
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Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Heavy-ion Collisions 20mSpeaker: Mayank Singh (University of Minnesota)
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Freezing Out Fluctuations 20mSpeaker: Maneesha Sushama Pradeep (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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Impact of Hadronic Interactions and Conservation Laws on Cumulants of Conserved Charges in a Dynamical Model 20mSpeaker: Jan Hammelmann (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)
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Summary Talk 15mSpeaker: Dmytro Oliinychenko (University of Washington)
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Lunch Break 30m
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EIC PhysicsConveners: Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Sylvester Joosten (Argonne National Laboratory), Tanja Horn (Catholic University)
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Backward u-channel DVCS 25mSpeakers: Bill Li (Stony Brook University), Wenliang Li (Stony Brook University CFNS)
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Coffee Break 20m
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Meson Structure 25mSpeaker: Richard Trotta (The Catholic University of America)
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Lunch Break 35m
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Neutron Spin via e+He3 collisions 25mSpeakers: Dien Nguyen (JLab), Dien Nguyen (JLAB)
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Heavy Flavor at the EIC 25mSpeakers: Sooraj Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Radhakrishnan (Kent State University/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Coffee Break 20m
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Tagged EMC effect 25mSpeakers: Kong Tu (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)
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Weak Mixing Angle at the EIC 25mSpeaker: Michael Nycz (JLab)
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Small SystemsConveners: Chun Shen (Wayne State University), Takahito Todoroki (University of Tsukuba), shengli huang (Stony Brook University)
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Collectivity and Baryon junction in Ultra-peripheral Collisions 25mSpeaker: Wenbin Zhao (Wayne State University)
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UPC Measurements at STAR 25mSpeaker: Nicole Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Search for Collective Effects in Small System obtained in ep collisions at HERA 25mSpeaker: Chuan Sun (Stony Brook University)
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Coffee Break 15m
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PHENIX Summary of Small Systems 25mSpeaker: Maya Shimomura (nara women's university)
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Lambda Polarization Measurements in Small Systems 25mSpeaker: Willian M. Serenone (Universidade de São Paulo)
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Future STAR Polarization Measurements in Small Systems 25mSpeaker: Joseph Adams (Ohio State University)
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Accelerating RHIC Science with Machine LearningConveners: Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab), Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Yale University and BNL)
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Introduction 5mSpeaker: Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)
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Deep learning for high energy nuclear physics from theoretical perspective 30mSpeaker: Prof. Longgang Pang (CCNU)
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Machine Learning based fast data processing and autonomous trigger for sPHENIX and EIC detectors 30mSpeaker: Dr Yasser Corrales Morales (LANL)
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Coffee Break 10m
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Machine Learning techniques in lattice QCD 30mSpeaker: Denis Boyda (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Machine Learning in Experiment and Analysis 30mSpeakers: Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory), James Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Panel discussion 45mSpeakers: Denis Boyda (Argonne National Laboratory), James Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory), LongGang Pang (Department of physics, UC Berkeley), Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Yale University and BNL), Yasser Corrales Morales (LANL), Yihui Ren
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EIC DetectorConveners: Alexander Kiselev (BNL), Friederike Bock (ORNL), Giacomo Contin (Universita' di Trieste e INFN Trieste)
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EIC General Purpose Detector requirements 30mSpeakers: Dr E. C. Aschenauer (BNL), Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab)
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EIC tracker development and plan 20mSpeaker: Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Coffee Break 10m
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Far backward + Far forward 20mSpeaker: Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Lab)
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DAQ & electronics 20mSpeakers: Alexandre Camsonne (JLAB), Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Lunch Break 45m
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EIC Project Detector R&D Program 30mSpeaker: Patrizia Rossi (Jefferson Lab)
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eRD101 - Modular RICH (mRICH) 15mSpeaker: Deepali Sharma (Georgia State University)
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Coffee Break 10m
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eRD104 & eRD111 - Silicon tracker and services reduction 15mSpeaker: Nicole Apadula
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eRD105 - SciGlass e/m calorimetry 15mSpeaker: Tanja Horn (Catholic University)
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eRD108 - Curved and flat MPGD trackers 15mSpeaker: Sourav Tarafdar (Vanderbilt University)
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eRD112 - AC-LGAD time-of-flight detectors 15mSpeaker: Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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Spin/Cold QCQConveners: Dr Alexey Vladimirov (Universitaet Regensburg), Jinlong Zhang (Shandong University), Sook Hyun Lee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
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Coffee Break 15m
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HF+JetConveners: Timothy Rinn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Xiaojun Yao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yi Yang (National Cheng Keung University)
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Coffee Break 15m
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The LIDO/Jetscape Framework 30mSpeaker: Weiyao Ke (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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The sPHENIX Perspective 20mSpeaker: Virginia Bailey (Georgia State University)
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Diversity, Equity, and InclusionConveners: Agnieszka Sorensen (University of Washington), Stacyann Nelson (Howard University)
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Improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in a physics department: Recommendations from the EP3 Guide 25mSpeaker: Sarah McKagan (American Association of Physics Teachers)
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Speaker Statistics in Heavy-Ion Collisions by Gender 25mSpeaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Mentoring as two-way learning. Increasing the number of Indigenous/First Nations physics students 25mSpeaker: Astrid Morreale (DOE Office of Nuclear Physics)
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DOE NP strategies for diversifying nuclear physics 15mSpeaker: Paul Sorensen (DOE Office of Nuclear Physics)
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Coffee Break 15m
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Practical steps to diversifying nuclear physics (a panel discussion) 1h 15m
The panel, moderated by Mr. Noel Blackburn (BNL), will feature several researchers and educators with a track record of mentoring students from underrepresented minority (URM) communities in physics classrooms, in research, and in pursuing physics careers. The discussion will focus on both increasing the number of URMs in physics majors and on building inclusive environments that level the playing field. The panel will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Speakers: Dina Myers Stroud (Vanderbilt University), Frank Geurts (Rice University), Mark Harvey (Texas Southern University), Mickey Chiu (Brookhaven National Lab), Paul Gueye (Michigan State University), Rene Bellwied (University of Houston)
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Plenary Session I - 9:00 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. Session IConvener: Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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Welcome Remarks 25mSpeaker: Haiyan Gao (BNL, Associate Laboratory Director, Nuclear and Particle Physics )
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Report from DOE 25mSpeaker: Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy, Associate Director of the Office of Science for Nuclear Physics )
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DOE NP Facility 10mSpeaker: James Sowinski (Department of Energy, Nuclear Physics Facilities, Program Manager)
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Beam Energy Scan 25mSpeaker: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)
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Coffee Break 20m
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Plenary Session I - 10:45 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. Session IIConvener: Carl Gagliardi (Texas A&M University)
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Report on RHIC Run22 25mSpeaker: Vincent Schoefer (Brookhaven National Lab, CAD)
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PHENIX Highlights 25mSpeaker: Cesar da Silva (Los Alamos National Lab)
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Lunch Break 1h 5m
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Plenary Session I- 1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Session IIIConvener: Marzia Rosati (Iowa State University)
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Report from NSF 25mSpeaker: Allena K. Opper (National Science Foundation, Program Director)
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Viewpoint from the DOE Program Manager for Heavy Ion 25mSpeaker: Kenneth Hicks (Department of Energy, Program Manager, Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics)
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Merit Awards 5mSpeaker: Haiyan Gao (BNL, Associate Laboratory Director, Nuclear and Particle Physics )
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Thesis Awards 5mSpeaker: Robert Tribble (BNL, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Director's Office)
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Thesis Award Winner Flash Talk I 10mSpeaker: Niveditha Ramasubramanian (Stony Book University)
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Coffee Break 40m
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Poster Session - 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.Conveners: Agnieszka Sorensen (University of Washington), Roli Esha (Stony Brook University), Stacyann Nelson (Howard University)
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Poster Session 2h 30m
Will be held at this link: https://indico.bnl.gov/event/15827
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Plenary Session II 9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Session IVConvener: Megan Connors (Georgia State University RBRC)
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Experimental Investigation into CME 25mSpeaker: Evan Finch (Southern Connecticut State University)
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EIC Project Status 25mSpeaker: James Yeck ((Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director, Electron-Ion Collider)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Plenary Session II 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Session VConvener: Justin Frantz (Ohio University)
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EIC Physics 25mSpeaker: Bernd Surrow (Temple University)
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EIC Detectors 25mSpeaker: John Lajoie (Iowa State University)
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Lunch Break 1h 30m
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Plenary Session II 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Session VIConvener: Ron Belmont (University of North Carolina Greensboro)
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion 25mSpeaker: Noel Blackburn (BNL, Chief Diversity Officer, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)
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BNL Facilities and Operations 25mSpeaker: Thomas Daniels (BNL, Associate Laboratory Director, Facilities and Operations )
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UEC Business Meeting 25mSpeaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Poster Award 5mSpeaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Poster Award Winner - Flash Talk - Derek Anderson 10mSpeaker: Derek Anderson (Texas A&M University)
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