Name: 2025 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting
Start: 2025-05-20T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-23T18:00:00-04:00
Location: No location set

2025 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting

from Tuesday 20 May 2025 (08:00) to Friday 23 May 2025 (18:00)

Monday 19 May 2025
Tuesday 20 May 2025
09:00 Morning 1
Morning 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Physics Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

09:00 Experimental overview of the BES II - Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:30 Analysis of BES Fluctuations and cumulants (experimental) - Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

10:00 UPC - Ashik Ikbal
Morning 1
Morning 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 STAR Heavy Flavor Physics Overview - Kaifeng Shen

09:30 sPHENIX Heavy Flavor Overview - Alexander Patton (MIT)

10:00 PHENIX Heavy Flavor Overview - Ming Liu (Los Alamos)
Morning 1
Morning 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Berkner Hall Room B
Contributions

09:15 EIC Commissioning - Andrii Natochii (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:40 RHIC R&R - David Chan (BNL) Marianna Albanese

10:10 EIC Machine Status and Plans - Christoph Montag (BNL)
11:00 Morning 2
Morning 2
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Physics Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

11:00 Theoretical overview of the BES - Lipei Du (McGill University)

11:30 QCD equation of state at finite density and the critical point - Johannes Jahan

12:00 Cumulants and fluctuations measurement at the BES II - volodymer vovchenko
Morning 2
Morning 2
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 LHC Open Heavy Flavor - Deepa Thomas (The University of Texas at Austin)

11:30 LHC Quarkonia - Maria Elena Ascioti
Morning 2
Morning 2
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Berkner Hall Room B
Contributions

11:00 EIC Physics in PHENIX - Devon Loomis (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

11:25 An Overview of the STAR Spin Physics Program: From RHIC to EIC - Jae Nam (Temple University)

11:50 Energy correlators from RHIC to EIC - Jani Penttala (UCLA)
12:30 No Host Lunch Break
No Host Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall Room B
Contributions

13:30 Report on EIC Early Physics Workshop (Phenomenology) - Shohini Bhattacharya (University of Connecticut)

13:55 The Cold QCD Program at sPHENIX - Virgile Mahaut (CEA)

14:20 The ePIC Far Forward Detectors - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:40 ePIC PID Status Update - Prakhar Garg (Yale University)
13:50 Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
13:50 - 15:20
Room: Physics Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

13:50 Flow Overview (experimental) - MD Nassim

14:20 Flow and Isobars Overview (theory) - Niseem Magdy

14:50 eToF calibration - Mathias Labonte
14:00 Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

14:00 Theory of Quarkonia - Xiaojun Yao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:30 Theory of Open Heavy Flavor - Yu Fu

15:00 ePIC overview - Dongwi Dongwi (Stony Brook University)
15:30 Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
15:30 - 17:15
Room: Berkner Hall Room B
Contributions

15:30 ePIC DAQ Status Update - Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:50 ePIC Tracking Status and Plan - Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:10 Calorimetry at ePIC - Tristan Protzman (Lehigh University)

16:30 ePIC Computing Status Update - Dmitrii Kalinkin (University of Kentucky)

16:50 Report on EIC Early Physics Workshop (ePIC) - Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
15:50 Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
15:50 - 16:50
Room: Physics Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

15:50 The role of Neutron Stars in constraining the QCD Equation of State - Veronica Dexheimer (Kent State University)

16:20 Probing Dense Nuclear Matter: Connecting Neutron Stars and Heavy-Ion Collisions - Nanxi Yao
Wednesday 21 May 2025
09:00 Morning 1
Morning 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 High-pT physics in sPHENIX - Daniel Lis

09:25 Jet theory highlights - Carlota Andres (LIP, Lisbon)

09:50 Jets in STAR - Andrew Tamis (Yale University)
Morning 1
Morning 1
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Berkner Hall B
Contributions

09:00 Overview of AI/ML applications at RHIC - Jakub Kvapil (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:30 The Ecology of Uncertainty: Capturing Epistemic Doubt in Hadron Structure Analyses - Brandon Kriesten (University of Virginia)

09:55 Preparing the Jet-AI/ML landscape for the EIC - Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University)
10:45 Morning 2
Morning 2
10:45 - 12:25
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

10:45 Jets at the LHC - Riccardo Longo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Riccardo Longo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

11:15 EECs in Jets - Beatrice Liang-Gilman (member@berkeley.edu;student@berkeley.edu;faculty@berkeley.edu;employee@berkeley.edu)

11:40 Data and Analysis Preservation at RHIC - Eric LANCON (BNL)

12:00 Jets in ePIC - Derek Anderson (Iowa State University)
Morning 2
Morning 2
10:45 - 12:25
Room: Berkner Hall B
Contributions

10:45 Machine learning on FPGAs for event selection - Hannah Bossi

11:10 Real-time Information Distillation on Novel AI Hardware - Yi Huang (Brookhaven national lab)

11:35 Generative AI for Jet Analysis and Detector Simulation - Shuhang Li (Columbia University)

12:00 Foundation Model for Tracking - Yihui Ren
13:30 Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
13:30 - 15:10
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

13:30 Small systems - hydrodynamics - Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

13:55 Small systems - STAR - Souvik Paul (staff@stonybrook.edu;student@stonybrook.edu)

14:20 Small systems - LHC - Blair Seidlitz (Columbia University)

14:45 QCD collectivity inside high-multiplicity jets in p+p - Austin Baty (University of Illinois Chicago)
Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

13:30 EIC Science with High School students! - Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University)

14:15 Group free discussion on the current state of mentoring - Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University) Rosi Reed (Lehigh University)
15:30 Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

15:30 Anisotropic flow measurements - highlights from STAR BES program - Sharang Sharma (IISER Tirupati)

15:55 Heavy-flavor anisotropic flow - CMS - Nihar Saha

16:20 Anisotropic flow measurements - PHENIX highlights and sPHENIX prospects - Ron Belmont (University of North Carolina Greensboro)
18:00 AUM dinner @ Painters - Reservation Required
AUM dinner @ Painters - Reservation Required
18:00 - 20:00
Thursday 22 May 2025

09:00

09:00 - 16:45
Room: 488
Part A
Part A
09:00 - 10:25
Contributions

09:00 Welcome Remarks (remote) - JoAnne Hewett (Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:10 Opening Remarks - Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)

09:35 Report from the DOE (remote) - Dr. Sharon Stephenson (Physics Research Division Director, Office of Nuclear Physics, Department of Energy)

10:05 C-AD Report - Travis Shrey (BNL)
10:25 Coffee Break & Poster Session
Coffee Break & Poster Session
10:25 - 10:50
10:50 Part B
Part B
10:50 - 12:00
Contributions

10:50 STAR Run 25 Report - Yu Hu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:20 sPHENIX Run 25 Report - Rosi Reed (Lehigh University)

11:50 Group Picture
12:00 No Host Lunch Break & Poster Session
No Host Lunch Break & Poster Session
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Part C
Part C
13:00 - 14:00
Contributions

13:00 Workshop Report: Jets - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

13:20 Workshop Report: Heavy Flavor - Gregory Ottino (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

13:40 Workshop report: Flow - Ejiro Umaka (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Zhengxi Yan (student@stonybrook.edu;staff@stonybrook.edu)
14:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
Coffee Break & Poster Session
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 Part D
Part D
14:30 - 16:20
Contributions

14:30 sPHENIX Highlights - JaeBeom Park Jaebeom Park

15:00 PHENIX Highlights - Takao Sakaguchi (BNL)

15:30 STAR Highlights - Chenliang Jin (Rice University)

16:00 Presentation of Merit & Thesis Awards - Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)

16:05 Thesis Award Winner - Weijian (Lucy) Lin

16:10 Thesis Award Winner - Zhiwan Xu (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:15 Special announcement: Annual Reviews Video Contest for Early-Career Physicists - Michael Peskin (SLAC)
16:20 Poster Session & Reception
Poster Session & Reception
16:20 - 16:45
16:45 Session 1
Session 1
16:45 - 18:45
Contributions

16:45 The birth of RHIC and its first discoveries - William Zajc (Columbia University)

17:15 From RHIC to the LHC and back again - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder)

17:45 RHIC physics at high baryon density - Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

18:15 The lasting impact of RHIC science - Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Friday 23 May 2025

09:00

09:00 - 13:00
Room: 488
Part A
Part A
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Workshop Report: BES - Dekra Almaalol (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Emilie Duckworth (Kent State University)

09:20 Workshop Report: AI/ML - Yeonju Go (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:40 Workshop Report: ePIC/EIC - Cheuk-Ping Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Derek Anderson (Iowa State University)

10:00 EIC Project Status - Jim Yeck
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Part B
Part B
11:00 - 12:15
Contributions

11:00 ePIC: Status & Plans - Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)

11:30 Sambamurti Award - Anders Knospe (Lehigh University) John Haggerty (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:35 Poster Awards - Anders Knospe (Lehigh University)

11:40 Poster Winner - Iris Ponce

11:55 Business Meeting - Anders Knospe (Lehigh University)
12:15 End of Meeting Luncheon Compliments of BSA
End of Meeting Luncheon Compliments of BSA
12:15 - 13:05

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