Name: 2023 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting
Start: 2023-08-01T08:25:00-04:00
End: 2023-08-04T18:00:00-04:00
Location: No location set

Monday 31 July 2023
Tuesday 1 August 2023
09:00
09:00 - 15:00
Contributions

09:00 ML Technique Overview in Nuclear or High Energy Physics (local) - Yihui (Ray) Ren

09:30 Construction and Fitting of a Deep Generative Hadronization Model (remote) - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (CERN)

10:00 A Closed-Form, Differentiable Metric on Event (remote) - Andrew Larkoski (UCLA)

11:00 Interpretable Machine Learning Methods for Jet Background Subtraction in Heavy Ion Collisions - Tanner Mengel (University of Tennessee)

11:30 Tracking with a Graph Neural Network (remote) - Charline Rougier (ATLAS)

13:00 ML- enabled End-to-End Tracking Reconstruction and Trigger Detection - Giorgian Borca-Tasciuc (Stony Brook University )

13:30 AI Based Reconstruction for Highly Granular Hadronic Calorimeter for EIC (remote) - Bishnu Karki (University of California, Riverside)

14:30 FPGA Driven Machine Learning for Heavy Flavour Event Identification (remote) - Jakub Kvapil (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
09:00 - 12:15
Contributions

09:00 Overview of Spin Physics - Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)

09:30 Neutron Spin with Double-Spectator Tagging - Jackson Pybus (MIT)

09:50 Gluon Polarization from Global Analyses - Christopher Cocuzza (Temple University)

10:30 Diffractive Physics: LHC and RHIC Synergies - Yuri Kovchegov (The Ohio State University)

11:00 Diffractive Physics from LHC to EIC - Minjung Kim (Other@lbl.gov;Guest@lbl.gov)

11:30 Jets in eP and eA - Kevin Adkins (Morehead State University)

11:50 Extracting Heavy Flavor Particles with ePIC - Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:10 End of Workshop
15:00
15:00 - 17:00
Contributions

15:00 Introduction Talks from Invited Speakers - Charles Barber (National Science Foundation) Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Iris Ponce (Yale University ) Kitt Carpenter (Vanderbilt University ) Shua Sanchez (MIT) Xandria Quichocho (Texas State) Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

16:20 Round-Table Panel Discussion
Wednesday 2 August 2023
09:00
09:00 - 17:00
Contributions

09:00 Opening Remarks

09:15 BES Overview - Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

09:45 Fentoscopy at BES - Yevheniia Khyzhniak

10:30 Flow at BES - Cameron Racz (University of California @ Riverside)

11:00 BES CME - Zhiwan Xu

11:30 Fluctuations at BES - Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

12:00 BES Dileptons - Zaochen Ye (Rice university)

14:00 Femtoscopy, EoS & Other Theory - Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)

14:30 Hydro Fluctuations - Maneesha Sushama Pradeep (University of Illinois at Chicago)

15:00 Longitudinal Physics at BES - Lipei Du (Ohio State University)

15:45 Experimental constraints on the initial stages of A+A collisions at lower energy - Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (Research Associate)

16:15 Tracking the Baryon Number with Heavy-ion Collisions - Chun Yuen Tsang

16:45 Open Discussion
09:00 - 17:00
Contributions

09:00 Recent Theoretical Developments on Jets - João Barata (BNL/IGFAE)

09:40 Recent Jet Results from STAR - Diptanil Roy (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

10:25 Jet Quenching - Shuzhe Shi (McGill University)

10:55 Progress Toward Jet Physics Measurements in sPHENIX - Anthony Hodges (University of Illinois)

11:20 LHC Jet Perspectives - Wenqing Fan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

13:45 Recent Heavy Flavor Results from STAR - Veronika Prozorova

14:10 Recent Jet and Heavy Flavor Results from PHENIX - Daniel Richford (Baruch)

14:40 Heavy Flavor Energy Loss with JETSCAPE - Gojko Vujanovic (Wayne State University)

15:25 LHC Quarkonia Perspectives - JaeBeom Park

15:50 Progress Toward Heavy Flavor Measurements in sPHENIX - Antonio Carlos Oliveira da Silva (Iowa State University)

16:15 End of Workshop
Detector Overviews
Detector Overviews
09:00 - 11:10
Contributions

09:00 sPHENIX Overview - Ejiro Umaka (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:30 STAR Forward Upgrade - Xilin Liang (University of California, Riverside)

09:50 2nd EIC Detector - Sangbaek Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:40 ePIC Overview - Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)
11:10
11:10 - 14:00
Contributions

11:10 ePIC ToF detectors - Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University )

11:30 ePIC Cherenkov Detectors - Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste)

11:50 ePIC Far Forward and Far Backward Detectors - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 sPHENIX Calorimetry - Hanpu Jiang (Columbia University)

14:20 ePIC Hadronic Calorimetry - Nicolas Schmidt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))

14:40 ePIC Electromagnetic Calorimetry - Zhongling Ji (UCLA)
15:30
15:30 - 16:30
Contributions

15:30 STAR Foward Tracker - Zhen Wang (Shandong University)

15:50 sPHENIX Tracking - Joseph Bertaux (staff@purdue.edu;student@purdue.edu;member@purdue.edu;employee@purdue.edu)

16:10 ePIC Tracking - Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
16:30
16:30 - 17:11
Contributions

16:30 ePIC Readout Electronics - Fernando Barbosa (JLab)

16:50 EIC Polarimetry - Zhengqiao Zhang
Thursday 3 August 2023
08:45
08:45 - 11:15
Contributions

09:00 Welcome Remarks - JoAnne Hewett (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lab Director)

09:10 Nuclear Physics at BNL - via Zoom - Haiyan Gao (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics)

09:35 C.A.D. Run 23 Report - Travis Shrey (Brookhaven National Laboratory, CAD Run 23 Coordinator)

10:00 sPHENIX Run 23 Report - Stefan Bathe (Baruch College, CUNY, & RBRC)

10:25 STAR Run 23 Report - Kong Tu (Brookhaven National Laboratory )
11:15
11:15 - 14:00
Contributions

11:15 Report from DOE - Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics)

11:45 Beam Energy Scan Theory - Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)

12:15 Annual Users' Meeting Group Picture
14:00
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions

14:00 QGP Theory Talk - Yacine Mehtar-Tani (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:25 Report on the DOE Program for Heavy Ions - via Zoom - Kenneth Hicks (Department of Energy, Program Manager of Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics)
15:20
15:20 - 20:00
Contributions

15:20 PHENIX Highlights - Rachid Nouicer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:50 sPHENIX Highlights - Anne Sickles (University of Illinois)

16:20 STAR Highlights - Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:50 Merit Awards & Thesis Awards - JoAnne Hewett (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lab Director)

17:20 Thesis Award Flash Talk I - Anthony Hodges (University of Illinois)

17:40 Thesis Award Flash Talk II - via Zoom - Dingwei Zhang
Friday 4 August 2023
08:45
08:45 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Report from NSF - via Zoom - Talk Cancelled - Allena Opper (National Science Foundation, Program Director)

09:20 EIC Theory Talk - Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Laboratory )

09:45 EIC Accelerator Development - Ferdinand Willeke (Brookhaven National Laboratory )

10:10 EIC Project Status - via Zoom - James Yeck (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director for EIC)
11:00
11:00 - 13:20
Contributions

11:00 ePIC talk - Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)

11:30 Detector 2 talk - Wenliang Li (Jefferson Lab)

12:00 Discovery Park & Facilities - Steven Cannella (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Manger Campus Planning & Development Office)

12:20 Poster Awards - & Flash Talk (TBD) - Vladislav Zakharov (Stony Brook University & BNL) Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)

12:40 Business Meeting, UEC Elections - Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)