STAR 25-year celebration

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

17 Dec 2025, 01:59 → 18 Dec 2025, 18:50 US/Eastern

Large Seminar Room (BNL)

Large Seminar Room

BNL

Description

The 25-year celebration for the STAR experiment will take place on Dec. 17-18 at BNL. Both in-person and remote participation will be accommodated.

The event contains:

Two days of plenary sessions
Evening Reception on Dec. 17
Free dinner on Dec. 18

This event is free with no registration fee.

Registration

Registration form for STAR 25-year celebration

Participants

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Wednesday 17 December
- Wed 17 Dec
- Thu 18 Dec
- 08:59 → 12:20
  Plenary session 1
  - 08:59
    
    Session Chair 1m
    
    Speaker: Helen Caines (Yale)
  - 09:00
    
    Spokespersons' Welcome 20m
    
    Speakers: Frank Geurts (Rice University), Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 09:20
    
    ALD's Welcome 10m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)
  - 09:30
    
    A STAR is Born 30m
    
    Speaker: John Harris (Yale University)
  - 10:00
    
    The First Flow Studies and the Discovery of the "Perfect Fluid" 30m
    
    Speaker: Raimond Snellings (Utrecht University)
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee Break 29m
  - 10:59
    
    Session Chair 1m
    
    Speaker: Cheuk-Ping Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 11:00
    
    Early European Contributions to STAR 10m
    
    Speaker: Reinhard Stock
  - 11:10
    
    Creation of STAR's White Paper 30m
    
    Speaker: Tim Hallman
  - 11:40
    
    Chinese Contributions to STAR 10m
    
    Speaker: Yugang Ma
  - 11:50
    
    Polarization and related phenomenon 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Subhash Singha (Institute of Modern Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 12:05
    
    Strange hadron production in O+O collisions at 200 GeV at STAR 15m
    
    Speaker: Iris Pinto (Yale University)
- 13:59 → 18:15
  Plenary session 2
  - 13:59
    
    Session Chair 1m
    
    Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)
  - 14:00
    
    Indian Contributions to STAR 10m
    
    Speaker: Bedangadas Mohanty (National Institute of Science Education and Research)
  - 14:10
    
    STAR's contributions to Understanding the Phase Diagram 30m
  - 14:40
    
    Proton number fluctuation measurements from BES-II 15m
    
    Speaker: ASHISH PANDAV (NISER Bhubaneswar)
  - 14:55
    
    Brazilian Contributions to STAR 10m
    
    Speaker: Jun Takahashi
  - 15:05
    
    STAR Operations - The Importance of Detector Experts and Being Present in The Control Room 30m
    
    Speaker: William Christie (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 15:35
    
    Coffee Break 29m
  - 16:04
    
    Session Chair 1m
    
    Speaker: Barbara Trzeciak (Czech Technical University in Prague)
  - 16:05
    
    The Successful Partnership Between CAD and STAR To Fully Leverage RHIC’s Versatility 30m
    
    Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)
  - 16:35
    
    STAR's Contributions to Exploiting UPCs 30m
  - 17:05
    
    Tracking the baryon number with nuclear collisions 15m
    
    Speaker: Chun Tsang (Kent State University)
  - 17:20
    
    STAR’s contributions to Heavy Flavor Physics 30m
    
    Speaker: Xin Dong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  - 17:50
    
    J/Psi measurements at STAR 15m
    
    Speaker: Zebo Tang (University of Science and Technology of China (USTC))
  - 18:05
    
    Korean Contributions to STAR 10m
    
    Speaker: In Kwon Yoo
Thursday 18 December
- Wed 17 Dec
- Thu 18 Dec
- 08:59 → 12:15
  Plenary session 3
  - 08:59
    
    Session Chair 1m
    
    Speaker: Xiaoxuan Chu (BNL)
  - 09:00
    
    STAR's Contributions to Solving the "Spin Crisis” 30m
    
    Speaker: Renee Fatemi (University of Kentucky)
  - 09:30
    
    W AL TMD Measurement 15m
    
    Speaker: Chao Wang
  - 09:45
    
    n-point EEC measurements using 510 GeV pp dataset 15m
    
    Speaker: Manny Rosales Aguilar
  - 10:00
    
    STAR’s contributions to the Theoretical Understanding of Cold QCD 30m
    
    Speaker: Anna Stasto (Penn State University)
  - 10:30
    
    Japanese Contributions to STAR 10m
    
    Speaker: ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)
  - 10:40
    
    Coffee Break 29m
  - 11:09
    
    Session Chair 1m
    
    Speaker: Rosi Reed
  - 11:10
    
    STAR’s contributions to high pT and Jet Physics 30m
    
    Speaker: Olga Evdokimov (UIC)
  - 11:40
    
    EEC measurements at STAR 15m
    
    Speaker: Andrew Tamis (Yale University)
  - 11:55
    
    Egyptian Contributions to STAR 10m
    
    Speaker: Dr Ahmed Hamed (American University in Cairo)
  - 12:05
    
    Current European Contributions to STAR 10m
    
    Speaker: Jana Bielcikova (Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)
- 13:59 → 18:50
  Plenary session 4
  - 13:59
    
    Session Chair 1m
    
    Speaker: Jihee Kim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 14:00
    
    STAR Power of Jet Quenching 30m
    
    Speaker: Xin--Niang Wang
  - 14:30
    
    Baryon correlations in heavy ion collisions 15m
    
    Speaker: Ke Mi
  - 14:45
    
    STAR's contribution to understanding the bulk properties of the QGP 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Bjoern Schenke (BNL)
  - 15:15
    
    CME Searches 15m
    
    Speaker: Zhiwan Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  - 15:30
    
    Coffee Break 29m
  - 15:59
    
    Session Chair 1m
    
    Speaker: Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 16:00
    
    STAR - Looking to the Future 30m
    
    Speaker: Frank Geurts (Rice University)
  - 16:30
    
    Open Mike 1h 25m
  - 17:55
    
    Farewell 5m
    
    Speakers: Frank Geurts (Rice University), Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)