STAR 25-year celebration

Name: STAR 25-year celebration
Start: 2025-12-17T01:59:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-18T20:00:00-05:00
Location: BNL

17 Dec 2025, 01:59 → 18 Dec 2025, 20:00 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.

Slide show for old STAR photos: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13v_CeNwB-nZqQT9DiB6N0kGPfCc5OT3C/view?usp=sharing

Slide show for current STAR members

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kbWR377vsb_wQ7_RuU-48u3-L50XBfsqqFYtMs9zIjk/edit?usp=sharing

Registration

Registration form for STAR 25-year celebration

Participants

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Wednesday 17 December
- Wed 17 Dec
- Thu 18 Dec
- Plenary session 1
  - 1
    
    Session Chair
    
    Speaker: Helen Caines (Yale)
  - 2
    
    Spokespersons' Welcome
    
    Speakers: Frank Geurts (Rice University), Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 3
    
    ALD's Welcome
    
    Speaker: Prof. Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)
  - 4
    
    A STAR is Born
    
    Speaker: John Harris (Yale University)
    
    A STAR is Born.pdf
  - 5
    
    The First Flow Studies and the Discovery of the "Perfect Fluid"
    
    Speaker: Raimond Snellings (Utrecht University)
    
    BNL STAR 25-years Snellings.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee Break
  - 6
    
    Session Chair
    
    Speaker: Cheuk-Ping Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 7
    
    Early European Contributions to STAR
    
    Speaker: Reinhard Stock
  - 8
    
    Creation of STAR's White Paper
    
    Speaker: Tim Hallman
    
    STAR25.pptx
  - 9
    
    Chinese Contributions to STAR
    
    Speaker: Yugang Ma
  - 10
    
    Polarization and related phenomenon
    
    Speaker: Dr Subhash Singha (Institute of Modern Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 11
    
    Strange hadron production in O+O collisions at 200 GeV at STAR
    
    Speaker: Iris Pinto (Yale University)
    
    STAR25Aniversary-Ponce_FINAL.pdf
- Plenary session 2
  - 12
    
    Session Chair
    
    Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)
  - 13
    
    Indian Contributions to STAR
    
    Speaker: Bedangadas Mohanty (National Institute of Science Education and Research)
    
    STAR-India-25years-final.pdf
  - 14
    
    STAR's contributions to Understanding the Phase Diagram
    
    Speaker: Mathias Labonte (UC Davis)
    
    Understanding_thePhaseDiagram.pdf
  - 15
    
    Proton number fluctuation measurements from BES-II
    
    Speaker: ASHISH PANDAV (NISER Bhubaneswar)
  - 16
    
    Brazilian Contributions to STAR
    
    Speaker: Jun Takahashi
    
    2025_12_Takahashi_BNL.pdf
  - 17
    
    STAR Operations - The Importance of Detector Experts and Being Present in The Control Room
    
    Speaker: William Christie (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    STAR_Celeb_Ops_2025.pptx
  - 15:35
    
    Coffee Break
  - 18
    
    Session Chair
    
    Speaker: Barbara Trzeciak (Czech Technical University in Prague)
  - 19
    
    The Successful Partnership Between CAD and STAR To Fully Leverage RHIC’s Versatility
    
    Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)
    
    2025-12-17 STAR celebration - successful partnership STAR-C-AD.pptx
  - 20
    
    STAR's Contributions to Exploiting UPCs
    
    Speaker: Prof. Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)
    
    jdb_STAR_25_years_UPC.pdf
  - 21
    
    Tracking the baryon number with nuclear collisions
    
    Speaker: Chun Tsang (Kent State University)
    
    STAR_25_years_celebration.pdf
  - 22
    
    J/Psi measurements at STAR
    
    Speaker: Zebo Tang (University of Science and Technology of China (USTC))
  - 23
    
    STAR’s contributions to Heavy Flavor Physics
    
    Speaker: Xin Dong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    
    20251217_STAR25_HF_short.pdf
  - 24
    
    Korean Contributions to STAR
    
    Speaker: In Kwon Yoo
    
    PNU_STAR_2025.pdf
  - 18:15
    
    Reception
Thursday 18 December
- Wed 17 Dec
- Thu 18 Dec
- Plenary session 3
  - 25
    
    Session Chair
    
    Speaker: Xiaoxuan Chu (BNL)
  - 26
    
    STAR's Contributions to Solving the "Spin Crisis”
    
    Speaker: Renee Fatemi (University of Kentucky)
    
    STAR@25_Fatemi.pdf
    
    STAR@25_Fatemi.pdf
    
    STAR@25_Fatemi.pdf
    
    STAR@25_Fatemi.pdf
    
    STAR@25_Fatemi.pdf
  - 27
    
    W AL TMD Measurement
    
    Speaker: Chao Wang
  - 28
    
    n-point EEC measurements using 510 GeV pp dataset
    
    Speaker: Manny Rosales Aguilar
  - 29
    
    STAR’s contributions to the Theoretical Understanding of Cold QCD
    
    Speaker: Anna Stasto (Penn State University)
    
    star25_anna_stasto.pdf
  - 30
    
    Japanese Contributions to STAR
    
    Speaker: ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)
  - 10:40
    
    Group Photo Followed by Coffee Break
  - 31
    
    Session Chair
    
    Speaker: Rosi Reed
  - 32
    
    STAR’s contributions to high pT and Jet Physics
    
    Speaker: Olga Evdokimov (UIC)
    
    2025_STAR-25_Evdokimov.pdf
  - 33
    
    EEC measurements at STAR
    
    Speaker: Andrew Tamis (Yale University)
    
    Tamis_STAR_25.pdf
  - 34
    
    Egyptian Contributions to STAR
    
    Speaker: Dr Ahmed Hamed (American University in Cairo)
  - 35
    
    Current European Contributions to STAR
    
    Speaker: Jana Bielcikova (Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)
    
    star_europe_final.pdf
- Plenary session 4
  - 36
    
    Session Chair
    
    Speaker: Jihee Kim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 37
    
    STAR Power of Jet Quenching
    
    Speaker: Xin--Niang Wang
    
    STAR25.pptx
  - 38
    
    Baryon correlations in heavy ion collisions
    
    Speaker: Ke Mi
  - 39
    
    STAR's contribution to understanding the bulk properties of the QGP
    
    Speaker: Dr Bjoern Schenke (BNL)
    
    STAR25-Schenke.pdf
  - 40
    
    CME Searches
    
    Speaker: Zhiwan Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    
    STAR_25_CME_ZhiwanXu.pdf
  - 15:30
    
    Coffee Break
  - 41
    
    Session Chair
    
    Speaker: Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  - 42
    
    STAR - Looking to the Future
    
    Speaker: Frank Geurts (Rice University)
    
    STAR25-future.pdf
  - 43
    
    Open Mike
    
    Congratulations_to_STAR.mp4
    
    Sowinski_STAR 25 BDay.pptx
    
    STAR_PMD.pptx
  - 44
    
    Farewell
    
    Speakers: Frank Geurts (Rice University), Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- Plenary session 5: Work dinner