Name: Advances in Nuclear Matter Dynamics: A Tribute to Declan Keane
Start: 2023-12-01T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-12-02T13:10:00-05:00
Location: Physics Department, Kent State University

Advances in Nuclear Matter Dynamics: A Tribute to Declan Keane

from Friday, 1 December 2023 (08:30) to Saturday, 2 December 2023 (13:10)

Monday, 27 November 2023
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Thursday, 30 November 2023
Friday, 1 December 2023
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Opening remarks. Mike Strickland (5 min) - Mike Stickland (Kent State University)

08:35 When KSU Became Keane on Physics - Peter Tandy

09:00 Spiros Margetis (10 min) - Spyridon Margetis (Kent State University and DOE)

09:10 How much of the QCD phase diagram is still uncharted? - Veronica Dexheimer (Kent State University)

09:30 Antimatter, Hypernuclear, "Calm and Collective" - John Harris (Yale University)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 108 Smith Hall
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 Physics at High Baryon Density - Study the QCD Phase Structure in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions - Nu Xu (LBL)

11:00 Two decades in the past, and a look into the future! - Zhangbu Xu (Brookhaven National Lab)

11:30 In Pursuit of Knowledge and Wisdom - Aihong Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: 108 Smith Hall
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Provost's remarks. Melody Tankersley (10 min) - Melody Tankersley (Kent State University)

13:40 Heavy-ion physics at CNR - Mike Strickland (Kent State University)

14:00 Beginnings at BEVALAC and AGS - Hans Georg Ritter (LBL)

14:30 Connecting experiment to the QCD phase diagram - Grazyna Odyniec (LBL)
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 108 Smith Hall
15:30
15:30 - 17:20
Contributions

15:30 STAR Zero-Degree Calorimeter Shower Max Detector and its Physics - Gang Wang (UCLA)

16:00 Perspectives of scientists involved in World War II - Alan Scott (University of Wisconsin-Stout)

16:50 The many facets of directed flow in heavy-ion collisions (on ZOOM) - Sooraj Radhakrishnan (Kent State University)
18:00 Dinner, KSU Student Center, Room 306ABC
Dinner, KSU Student Center, Room 306ABC
18:00 - 20:00
Saturday, 2 December 2023
08:50
08:50 - 10:30
Contributions

08:50 Stellar Intensity 101 – HBT for Nuclear Physicists / An Angular Diameter Measurement of Merak with the VERITAS Array - Mike Lisa (Ohio State University)

09:20 Observation of antihypertriton in AuAu collisions at 200 GeV. (on ZOOM) - Jinhui Chen (Fudan University)

09:50 George Fai's remarks (10 min) - George Fai (Kent State University and DOE)

10:00 Navigating through Directed Flow in RHIC (on ZOOM) - Subhash Singha (Institute of Modern Physics)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 108 Smith Hall
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Open Mic (~ 60 min)

12:00 Retrospective album. - Gang Wang (UCLA)

12:10 Presentation of Certificate of Contribution and STAR spokesperson's remarks. - Frank Geurts (Rice University)

12:20 Dean's remarks, Mandy Munro-Stasiuk (10 min) - Mandy Nunro-Stasiuk (Kent State University)

12:30 Declan's remarks