STAR 25-year celebration

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

Large Seminar Room (BNL)

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. 

 

Wednesday 17 December

08:59 → 12:20 Plenary session 1

08:59 Session Chair

Speaker: Helen Caines (Yale)

09:00 Spokespersons' Welcome

Speakers: Frank Geurts (Rice University), Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:20 ALD's Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)

09:30 A STAR is Born

Speaker: John Harris (Yale University)

10:00 The First Flow Studies and the Discovery of the "Perfect Fluid"

Speaker: Raimond Snellings (Utrecht University)

10:30 Coffee Break

10:59 Session Chair

Speaker: Cheuk-Ping Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:00 Early European Contributions to STAR

Speaker: Reinhard Stock

11:10 Creation of STAR's White Paper

Speaker: Tim Hallman

11:40 Chinese Contributions to STAR

Speaker: Yugang Ma

11:50 Polarization and related phenomenon

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

Speaker: Iris Pinto (Yale University)

13:59 → 18:15 Plenary session 2

13:59 Session Chair

Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

14:00 Indian Contributions to STAR

Speaker: 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

Speaker: ASHISH PANDAV (NISER Bhubaneswar)

14:55 Brazilian Contributions to STAR

Speaker: Jun Takahashi

15:05 STAR Operations - The Importance of Detector Experts and Being Present in The Control Room

Speaker: William Christie (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:35 Coffee Break

16:04 Session Chair

Speaker: Barbara Trzeciak (Czech Technical University in Prague)

16:05 The Successful Partnership Between CAD and STAR To Fully Leverage RHIC’s Versatility

Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

16:35 STAR's Contributions to Exploiting UPCs

17:05 Tracking the baryon number with nuclear collisions

Speaker: Chun Tsang (Kent State University)

17:20 STAR’s contributions to Heavy Flavor Physics

Speaker: Xin Dong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:50 J/Psi measurements at STAR

Speaker: Zebo Tang (University of Science and Technology of China (USTC))

18:05 Korean Contributions to STAR

Speaker: In Kwon Yoo

Thursday 18 December

08:59 → 12:15 Plenary session 3

08:59 Session Chair

Speaker: Xiaoxuan Chu (BNL)

09:00 STAR's Contributions to Solving the "Spin Crisis”

Speaker: Renee Fatemi (University of Kentucky)

09:30 W AL TMD Measurement

Speaker: Chao Wang

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

Speaker: Manny Rosales Aguilar

10:00 STAR’s contributions to the Theoretical Understanding of Cold QCD

Speaker: Anna Stasto (Penn State University)

10:30 Japanese Contributions to STAR

Speaker: ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)

10:40 Coffee Break

11:09 Session Chair

Speaker: Rosi Reed

11:10 STAR’s contributions to high pT and Jet Physics

Speaker: Olga Evdokimov (UIC)

11:40 EEC measurements at STAR

Speaker: Andrew Tamis (Yale University)

11:55 Egyptian Contributions to STAR

Speaker: Dr Ahmed Hamed (American University in Cairo)

12:05 Current European Contributions to STAR

Speaker: Jana Bielcikova (Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)

13:59 → 18:50 Plenary session 4

13:59 Session Chair

Speaker: Jihee Kim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:00 STAR Power of Jet Quenching

Speaker: Xin--Niang Wang

14:30 Baryon correlations in heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Ke Mi

14:45 STAR's contribution to understanding the bulk properties of the QGP

Speaker: Dr Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

15:15 CME Searches

Speaker: Zhiwan Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:30 Coffee Break

15:59 Session Chair

Speaker: Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:00 STAR - Looking to the Future

Speaker: Frank Geurts (Rice University)

16:30 Open Mike

17:55 Farewell

Speakers: Frank Geurts (Rice University), Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)