STAR Collaboration Meeting: eTOF and BES-II workshop (Dec. 2024)

Dec 3, 2024, 8:00 AM → Dec 6, 2024, 6:00 PM US/Eastern

Large Seminar Room (Bldg 510 Physics)

The STAR Collaboration Meeting eTOF and BES-II workshop will take place between December 3-6 at BNL. 

• December 3 is focused on eTOF discussions, as a follow-up to the eTOF workshop held at GSI in February.
• December 4-6 is dedicated to the BES-II workshop. 

 

Registration fee: $100 for all in-person participants

Payment will be collected on site. Following options are available:

• Cash
• Check

 

BES_II_workshop_agenda.pdf

Tuesday, December 3

8:55 AM → 12:30 PM eTOF workfest: Closed Sessions on eTOF Data Analysis

Convener: Norbert Herrmann (Heidelberg University / GSI)

8:55 AM Opening remark for eTOF workshop

Speaker: Frank Geurts (Rice University)

9:00 AM eTOF related calibration

Speaker: Yannick Soehngen

10:00 AM eTOF related calibration

Speaker: Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

11:00 AM eTOF related calibration

Speaker: Mathias Labonte (UC Davis)

12:00 PM Software/Claibration

Speaker: Gene Van Bruren

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM eTOF workfest: Embedding, centrality, QA

Convener: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

1:30 PM Simulation/embedding

Speaker: Xianglei Zhu

2:00 PM Centrality

Speaker: Grigory Nigmatkulov (UIC)

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break & seminar on Critical point search by Ashish Pandav (small seminar room)

3:30 PM → 6:35 PM eTOF workfest: eTOF physics

Convener: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

3:30 PM Data/production QA

Speaker: Ashik Ikbal Sheikh (Kent State University)

4:00 PM eTOF related physics analysis

Speaker: Yannick Soehngen

4:30 PM eTOF related physics analysis

Speaker: Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

5:00 PM eTOF related physics analysis

Speaker: Mathias Labonte (UC Davis)

5:30 PM eTOF related physics analysis

Speaker: Hongcan Li

Wednesday, December 4

8:25 AM → 10:30 AM BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: LFS

Convener: Yue-Hang Leung

8:25 AM Opening remark for BES-II workshop

Speaker: Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:30 AM CAD talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Xiaodong Jiang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:00 AM LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Fang Yi

9:30 AM LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Aswini Kumar Sahoo

10:00 AM LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chenlu Hu

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: FCV and CF

Convener: Yue-Hang Leung

11:00 AM FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chengdong Han

11:30 AM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Ke Mi

12:00 PM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chuan Fu

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 4:30 PM BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: CF-FCV-Theory

Convener: Richard Sato

1:30 PM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Vinh Luong

2:00 PM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Mate Csanad

2:30 PM FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Sooraj Radhakrishnan (Kent State University/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

3:00 PM (Remote) SMASH-vHLLE Hybrid Approach: Transport Coefficients and Equation of State

Speaker: Hannah Elfner (GSI, University Frankfurt)

3:45 PM A new RQMD formulation: Potentials/EoS in the microscopic transport model JAM

Speaker: Nara Yasushi

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Coffee Break

5:00 PM → 6:15 PM BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: Theory & Overview

Convener: Richard Sato

5:00 PM Constraining the EOS from flow and the QCD CP from proton fluctuations

Speaker: Agnieszka Sorensen (UCLA)

5:45 PM FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)

Thursday, December 5

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: Theory

Convener: Nu Xu (LBNL)

9:00 AM (Remote) Structure of light hypernuclei and hyperon-nucleon interaction

Speaker: Emiko Hiyama

9:45 AM (Remote) Spin effects in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Qun Wang (University of science and technology of China)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: Theory

Convener: Nu Xu (LBNL)

11:00 AM The QCD critical point and fluctuations

Speaker: Mikhail Stephanov (UIC)

11:45 AM The QCD phase diagram in view of BES II

Speaker: Volker Koch (MS70A-3307)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 4:00 PM BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: Correlations and Fluctuations

Convener: Prithwish Tribedy (BNL)

1:30 PM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: ASHISH PANDAV (LBNL)

2:00 PM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Bappaditya Mondal

2:30 PM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Yige Huang

3:00 PM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Hanwen Feng

3:30 PM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Rutik Manikandhan (student@uh.edu;faculty@uh.edu)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: LFS-FCV

Convener: Prithwish Tribedy (BNL)

4:30 PM LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Matt Harasty

5:00 PM LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chenliang Jin

5:30 PM FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Xingrui Guo

6:00 PM FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Zhiwan Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Friday, December 6

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM STAR Closed session: FCV-CF

Convener: ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)

9:00 AM FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Dr Subhash Singha (Institute of Modern Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences)

9:30 AM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Xin Zhang

10:00 AM CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM STAR Closed session: LFS

Convener: ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)

11:00 AM LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chen Liubing

11:30 AM LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Yingjie Zhou

12:00 PM LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Xianwen Bao

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM STAR Closed session: Remaining topics & Closeout

Convener: ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)