2024 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting

11 Jun 2024, 09:00 → 14 Jun 2024, 18:00 US/Eastern

Anders Knospe (Lehigh University), Marzia Rosati (Iowa State University (mrosati@iastate.edu)), Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)

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The Annual RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting will be held on June 11-14, 2024. 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 Tuesday, June 11 and Wednesday, June 12 will enable more in-depth discussions of the following topics:

 * Beam Energy Scan
 * Computing, Machine Learning, & AI
 * Heavy Flavor & Quarkonia
 * Jets
 * Spin Physics, Cold QCD, & UPCs
 * Flow & Vorticity
 * Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

There will be an in-person poster session on Thursday, June 13. Plenary sessions will be held on Thursday, June 13 and Friday, June 14. Reports on operation status from the sPHENIX and STAR experiments and highlights from PHENIX, sPHENIX and STAR experiments, EIC detectors, reports from representatives from the funding agencies, and award ceremonies will be held during the plenary sessions.

Event ID: E000005813

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.

Tuesday, 11 June

09:00 → 17:00 Computing, Machine Learning, & AI

Conveners: Jakub Kvapil (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Tanner Mengel (University of Tennessee (UTK))

09:00 → 15:00 Flow & Vorticity

Conveners: Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Yu Hu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:00 → 18:00 Cold QCD, Spin Physics, & UPCs from RHIC to the EIC

Conveners: Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University), Sookhyun Lee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Wednesday, 12 June

08:00 → 12:00 Jets

Speakers: Anthony Hodges (University of Illinois), Jussi Viinikainen (University of Illinois at Chicago)

09:00 → 15:00 Beam Energy Scan

Conveners: Yevheniia Khyzhniak (Ohio State University), Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis), Zhiwan Xu (University of California, Los Angeles)

09:00 → 17:00 Heavy Flavor

Conveners: Anthony Frawley (Florida State University), Antonio Carlos Oliveira da Silva (Iowa State University)

13:00 → 17:00 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Convener: Justin Frantz (Ohio University)

Thursday, 13 June

09:00 → 18:00 Plenary Session I

09:00 Welcome Remarks

09:10 Opening Remarks

09:35 C-AD Report

10:00 STAR Run 24 Report

10:25 sPHENIX Run 24 Report

10:50 Coffee Break & Poster Session

11:15 Report from DOE

11:45 Report from NSF

12:15 No Host Lunch Break & Poster Session

14:00 Report on the DOE Heavy-Ion Program

14:30 TBA

14:50 Coffee Break & Poster Session

15:20 sPHENIX Highlights

17:30 Poster Session & Cocktail Hour

Friday, 14 June

09:00 → 13:00 Plenary Session II