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, May 20, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, May 23, 2025 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 19, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
9:00 AM Morning 1
Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Physics Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

9:00 AM Experimental overview of the BES II - Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:30 AM Analysis of BES Fluctuations and cumulants (experimental) - Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

10:00 AM UPC - Ashik Ikbal
Morning 1
Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM STAR Heavy Flavor Physics Overview - Kaifeng Shen

9:30 AM sPHENIX Heavy Flavor Overview - Alexander Patton (MIT)

10:00 AM PHENIX Heavy Flavor Overview - Ming Liu (Los Alamos)
Morning 1
Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Berkner Hall Room B
Contributions

9:15 AM EIC Commissioning - Andrii Natochii (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:40 AM RHIC R&R - David Chan (BNL) Marianna Albanese

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:50 AM Energy correlators from RHIC to EIC - Jani Penttala (UCLA)
12:30 PM No Host Lunch Break
No Host Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Berkner Hall Room B
Contributions

1:30 PM Report on EIC Early Physics Workshop (Phenomenology) - Shohini Bhattacharya (University of Connecticut)

1:55 PM The Cold QCD Program at sPHENIX - Virgile Mahaut (CEA)

2:20 PM The ePIC Far Forward Detectors - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2:40 PM ePIC PID Status Update - Prakhar Garg (Yale University)
1:50 PM Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
1:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Physics Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

1:50 PM Flow Overview (experimental) - MD Nassim

2:20 PM Flow and Isobars Overview (theory) - Niseem Magdy

2:50 PM eToF calibration - Mathias Labonte
2:00 PM Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Theory of Quarkonia - Xiaojun Yao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2:30 PM Theory of Open Heavy Flavor - Yu Fu

3:00 PM ePIC overview - Dongwi Dongwi (Stony Brook University)
3:30 PM Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
3:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Berkner Hall Room B
Contributions

3:30 PM ePIC DAQ Status Update - Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

3:50 PM ePIC Tracking Status and Plan - Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

4:10 PM Calorimetry at ePIC - Tristan Protzman (Lehigh University)

4:30 PM ePIC Computing Status Update - Dmitrii Kalinkin (University of Kentucky)

4:50 PM Report on EIC Early Physics Workshop (ePIC) - Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
3:50 PM Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Physics Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

3:50 PM The role of Neutron Stars in constraining the QCD Equation of State - Veronica Dexheimer (Kent State University)

4:20 PM Probing Dense Nuclear Matter: Connecting Neutron Stars and Heavy-Ion Collisions - Nanxi Yao
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
9:00 AM Morning 1
Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM High-pT physics in sPHENIX - Daniel Lis

9:25 AM Jet theory highlights - Carlota Andres (LIP, Lisbon)

9:50 AM Jets in STAR - Andrew Tamis (Yale University)
Morning 1
Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Berkner Hall B
Contributions

9:00 AM Overview of AI/ML applications at RHIC - Jakub Kvapil (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:30 AM The Ecology of Uncertainty: Capturing Epistemic Doubt in Hadron Structure Analyses - Brandon Kriesten (University of Virginia)

9:55 AM Preparing the Jet-AI/ML landscape for the EIC - Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University)
10:45 AM Morning 2
Morning 2
10:45 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:00 PM Foundation Model for Tracking - Yihui Ren
1:30 PM Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

1:30 PM Small systems - hydrodynamics - Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

1:55 PM Small systems - STAR - Souvik Paul (staff@stonybrook.edu;student@stonybrook.edu)

2:20 PM Small systems - LHC - Blair Seidlitz (Columbia University)

2:45 PM QCD collectivity inside high-multiplicity jets in p+p - Austin Baty (University of Illinois Chicago)
Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Large Seminar Room (LSR)
Contributions

1:30 PM EIC Science with High School students! - Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University)

2:15 PM Group free discussion on the current state of mentoring - Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University) Rosi Reed (Lehigh University)
3:30 PM Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Medical Large Conference Room
Contributions

3:30 PM Anisotropic flow measurements - highlights from STAR BES program - Sharang Sharma (IISER Tirupati)

3:55 PM Heavy-flavor anisotropic flow - CMS - Nihar Saha

4:20 PM Anisotropic flow measurements - PHENIX highlights and sPHENIX prospects - Ron Belmont (University of North Carolina Greensboro)
6:00 PM AUM dinner @ Painters - Reservation Required
AUM dinner @ Painters - Reservation Required
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Thursday, May 22, 2025

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Room: 488
Part A
Part A
9:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome Remarks (remote) - JoAnne Hewett (Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:10 AM Opening Remarks - Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)

9:35 AM Report from the DOE (remote) - Dr. Sharon Stephenson (Physics Research Division Director, Office of Nuclear Physics, Department of Energy)

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

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

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

11:50 AM Group Picture
12:00 PM No Host Lunch Break & Poster Session
No Host Lunch Break & Poster Session
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Part C
Part C
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Workshop Report: Jets - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

1:20 PM Workshop Report: Heavy Flavor - Gregory Ottino (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

1:40 PM Workshop report: Flow - Ejiro Umaka (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Zhengxi Yan (student@stonybrook.edu;staff@stonybrook.edu)
2:00 PM Coffee Break & Poster Session
Coffee Break & Poster Session
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Part D
Part D
2:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM sPHENIX Highlights - JaeBeom Park Jaebeom Park

3:00 PM PHENIX Highlights - Takao Sakaguchi (BNL)

3:30 PM STAR Highlights - Chenliang Jin (Rice University)

4:00 PM Presentation of Merit & Thesis Awards - Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)

4:05 PM Thesis Award Winner - Weijian (Lucy) Lin

4:10 PM Thesis Award Winner - Zhiwan Xu (Argonne National Laboratory)

4:15 PM Special announcement: Annual Reviews Video Contest for Early-Career Physicists - Michael Peskin (SLAC)
4:20 PM Poster Session & Reception
Poster Session & Reception
4:20 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM Session 1
Session 1
4:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM The birth of RHIC and its first discoveries - William Zajc (Columbia University)

5:15 PM From RHIC to the LHC and back again - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder)

5:45 PM RHIC physics at high baryon density - Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

6:15 PM The lasting impact of RHIC science - Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Friday, May 23, 2025

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 488
Part A
Part A
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Workshop Report: BES - Dekra Almaalol (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Emilie Duckworth (Kent State University)

9:20 AM Workshop Report: AI/ML - Yeonju Go (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:40 AM Workshop Report: ePIC/EIC - Cheuk-Ping Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Derek Anderson (Iowa State University)

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

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

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

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

11:40 AM Poster Winner - Iris Ponce

11:55 AM Business Meeting - Anders Knospe (Lehigh University)
12:15 PM End of Meeting Luncheon Compliments of BSA
End of Meeting Luncheon Compliments of BSA
12:15 PM - 1:05 PM

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