Name: 2023 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting
Start: 2023-08-01T08:25:00-04:00
End: 2023-08-04T18:00:00-04:00
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2023 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting

from Tuesday, August 1, 2023 (8:25 AM) to Friday, August 4, 2023 (6:00 PM)

Monday, July 31, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM ML Technique Overview in Nuclear or High Energy Physics (local) - Yihui (Ray) Ren

9:30 AM Construction and Fitting of a Deep Generative Hadronization Model (remote) - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (CERN)

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

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

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

1:00 PM ML- enabled End-to-End Tracking Reconstruction and Trigger Detection - Giorgian Borca-Tasciuc (Stony Brook University )

1:30 PM AI Based Reconstruction for Highly Granular Hadronic Calorimeter for EIC (remote) - Bishnu Karki (University of California, Riverside)

2:30 PM FPGA Driven Machine Learning for Heavy Flavour Event Identification (remote) - Jakub Kvapil (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Overview of Spin Physics - Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)

9:30 AM Neutron Spin with Double-Spectator Tagging - Jackson Pybus (MIT)

9:50 AM Gluon Polarization from Global Analyses - Christopher Cocuzza (Temple University)

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

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

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

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

12:10 PM End of Workshop
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM 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)

4:20 PM Round-Table Panel Discussion
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening Remarks

9:15 AM BES Overview - Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

9:45 AM Fentoscopy at BES - Yevheniia Khyzhniak

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

11:00 AM BES CME - Zhiwan Xu

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

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

2:00 PM Femtoscopy, EoS & Other Theory - Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)

2:30 PM Hydro Fluctuations - Maneesha Sushama Pradeep (University of Illinois at Chicago)

3:00 PM Longitudinal Physics at BES - Lipei Du (Ohio State University)

3:45 PM Experimental constraints on the initial stages of A+A collisions at lower energy - Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (Research Associate)

4:15 PM Tracking the Baryon Number with Heavy-ion Collisions - Chun Yuen Tsang

4:45 PM Open Discussion
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Recent Theoretical Developments on Jets - João Barata (BNL/IGFAE)

9:40 AM Recent Jet Results from STAR - Diptanil Roy (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

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

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

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

1:45 PM Recent Heavy Flavor Results from STAR - Veronika Prozorova

2:10 PM Recent Jet and Heavy Flavor Results from PHENIX - Daniel Richford (Baruch)

2:40 PM Heavy Flavor Energy Loss with JETSCAPE - Gojko Vujanovic (Wayne State University)

3:25 PM LHC Quarkonia Perspectives - JaeBeom Park

3:50 PM Progress Toward Heavy Flavor Measurements in sPHENIX - Antonio Carlos Oliveira da Silva (Iowa State University)

4:15 PM End of Workshop
Detector Overviews
Detector Overviews
9:00 AM - 11:10 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM sPHENIX Overview - Ejiro Umaka (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:30 AM STAR Forward Upgrade - Xilin Liang (University of California, Riverside)

9:50 AM 2nd EIC Detector - Sangbaek Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:40 AM ePIC Overview - Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

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

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

11:50 AM ePIC Far Forward and Far Backward Detectors - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM sPHENIX Calorimetry - Hanpu Jiang (Columbia University)

2:20 PM ePIC Hadronic Calorimetry - Nicolas Schmidt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))

2:40 PM ePIC Electromagnetic Calorimetry - Zhongling Ji (UCLA)
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM STAR Foward Tracker - Zhen Wang (Shandong University)

3:50 PM sPHENIX Tracking - Joseph Bertaux (staff@purdue.edu;student@purdue.edu;member@purdue.edu;employee@purdue.edu)

4:10 PM ePIC Tracking - Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:11 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM ePIC Readout Electronics - Fernando Barbosa (JLab)

4:50 PM EIC Polarimetry - Zhengqiao Zhang
Thursday, August 3, 2023
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome Remarks - JoAnne Hewett (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lab Director)

9:10 AM Nuclear Physics at BNL - via Zoom - Haiyan Gao (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics)

9:35 AM C.A.D. Run 23 Report - Travis Shrey (Brookhaven National Laboratory, CAD Run 23 Coordinator)

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

10:25 AM STAR Run 23 Report - Kong Tu (Brookhaven National Laboratory )
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:15 PM Annual Users' Meeting Group Picture
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM QGP Theory Talk - Yacine Mehtar-Tani (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2:25 PM Report on the DOE Program for Heavy Ions - via Zoom - Kenneth Hicks (Department of Energy, Program Manager of Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics)
3:20 PM
3:20 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

3:20 PM PHENIX Highlights - Rachid Nouicer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

3:50 PM sPHENIX Highlights - Anne Sickles (University of Illinois)

4:20 PM STAR Highlights - Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

4:50 PM Merit Awards & Thesis Awards - JoAnne Hewett (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lab Director)

5:20 PM Thesis Award Flash Talk I - Anthony Hodges (University of Illinois)

5:40 PM Thesis Award Flash Talk II - via Zoom - Dingwei Zhang
Friday, August 4, 2023
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Report from NSF - via Zoom - Talk Cancelled - Allena Opper (National Science Foundation, Program Director)

9:20 AM EIC Theory Talk - Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Laboratory )

9:45 AM EIC Accelerator Development - Ferdinand Willeke (Brookhaven National Laboratory )

10:10 AM EIC Project Status - via Zoom - James Yeck (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director for EIC)
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:20 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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