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2026 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting
The Annual RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting will be held May 11–13, 2026 followed immediately on May 14 & 15th by a special RHIC Symposium commemorating the end of RHIC and celebrating 25 years of discovery. The meeting will highlight the latest results from the PHENIX, STAR and sPHENIX experiments and provide an outlook with the future programs at RHIC and the EIC. Workshops that will be held on Monday, May 11, and Tuesday, May 12, will enable more in-depth discussions of the following topics:
- Jets & Hard Probes
- Ultraperipheral & Electromagnetic Processes
- NSRL
- ePIC/EIC
- AI/ML
- Baryon Junction & Stopping
There will be an in-person poster session on Tuesday, May 12, Plenary sessions will be held on Tuesday, May 12 (afternoon), and Wednesday, May 13. Reports on operation status from the sPHENIX and STAR experiments and highlights from PHENIX, sPHENIX and STAR experiments, EIC detectors, a report from the Department of Energy and award ceremonies will be held during the plenary sessions.
RHIC Science Symposium
The RHIC Symposium will be on Thursday, May 14 and Friday, May 15 with special speakers and programming to commemorate the end of RHIC operations, to celebrate the 25+ years of discovery science accomplished, and to kick-off the transition to the Electron Ion Collider Era as we look forward to decades more discovery science.
