Name: STAR 25-year celebration
Start: 2025-12-17T01:59:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-18T18:50:00-05:00
Location: BNL

STAR 25-year celebration

from Wednesday 17 December 2025 (01:59) to Thursday 18 December 2025 (18:50)

Monday 15 December 2025
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Wednesday 17 December 2025
08:59
08:59 - 12:20
Room: Large Seminar Room
Contributions

08:59 Session Chair - Helen Caines (Yale)

09:00 Spokespersons' Welcome - Frank Geurts (Rice University) Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:20 ALD's Welcome - Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)

09:30 A STAR is Born - John Harris (Yale University)

10:00 The First Flow Studies and the Discovery of the "Perfect Fluid" - Raimond Snellings (Utrecht University)

10:59 Session Chair - Cheuk-Ping Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:00 Early European Contributions to STAR - Reinhard Stock

11:10 Creation of STAR's White Paper - Tim Hallman

11:40 Chinese Contributions to STAR - Yugang Ma

11:50 Polarization and related phenomenon - Subhash Singha (Institute of Modern Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences)

12:05 Strange hadron production in O+O collisions at 200 GeV at STAR - Iris Pinto (Yale University)
13:59
13:59 - 18:15
Room: Large Seminar Room
Contributions

13:59 Session Chair - Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

14:00 Indian Contributions to STAR - Bedangadas Mohanty (National Institute of Science Education and Research)

14:10 STAR's contributions to Understanding the Phase Diagram

14:40 Proton number fluctuation measurements from BES-II - ASHISH PANDAV (NISER Bhubaneswar)

14:55 Brazilian Contributions to STAR - Jun Takahashi

15:05 STAR Operations - The Importance of Detector Experts and Being Present in The Control Room - William Christie (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:04 Session Chair - Barbara Trzeciak (Czech Technical University in Prague)

16:05 The Successful Partnership Between CAD and STAR To Fully Leverage RHIC’s Versatility - Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

16:35 STAR's Contributions to Exploiting UPCs

17:05 Tracking the baryon number with nuclear collisions - Chun Tsang (Kent State University)

17:20 STAR’s contributions to Heavy Flavor Physics - Xin Dong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:50 J/Psi measurements at STAR - Zebo Tang (University of Science and Technology of China (USTC))

18:05 Korean Contributions to STAR - In Kwon Yoo
Thursday 18 December 2025
08:59
08:59 - 12:15
Room: Large Seminar Room
Contributions

08:59 Session Chair - Xiaoxuan Chu (BNL)

09:00 STAR's Contributions to Solving the "Spin Crisis” - Renee Fatemi (University of Kentucky)

09:30 W AL TMD Measurement - Chao Wang

09:45 n-point EEC measurements using 510 GeV pp dataset - Manny Rosales Aguilar

10:00 STAR’s contributions to the Theoretical Understanding of Cold QCD - Anna Stasto (Penn State University)

10:30 Japanese Contributions to STAR - ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)

11:09 Session Chair - Rosi Reed

11:10 STAR’s contributions to high pT and Jet Physics - Olga Evdokimov (UIC)

11:40 EEC measurements at STAR - Andrew Tamis (Yale University)

11:55 Egyptian Contributions to STAR - Ahmed Hamed (American University in Cairo)

12:05 Current European Contributions to STAR - Jana Bielcikova (Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)
13:59
13:59 - 18:50
Room: Large Seminar Room
Contributions

13:59 Session Chair - Jihee Kim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:00 STAR Power of Jet Quenching - Xin--Niang Wang

14:30 Baryon correlations in heavy ion collisions - Ke Mi

14:45 STAR's contribution to understanding the bulk properties of the QGP - Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

15:15 CME Searches - Zhiwan Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:59 Session Chair - Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:00 STAR - Looking to the Future - Frank Geurts (Rice University)

16:30 Open Mike

17:55 Farewell - Frank Geurts (Rice University) Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)