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2026 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting & RHIC Science Symposium

US/Eastern
Anders Knospe (Lehigh University), Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University), Peter Steinberg (BNL)
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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
  • Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory
  • Fixed-target@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. 

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Event ID:  E000007621

Note: This meeting falls under Exemption E. Meetings such as Advisory Committee and Federal Advisory Committee meetings. Solicitation/Funding Opportunity Announcement Review Board meetings, peer review/objective review panel meetings, evaluation panel/board meetings, and program kick-off and review meetings (including those for grants and contracts) are open to the public.

    • Workshop: AI/ML I
    • Workshop: Baryon Junction & Stopping I
    • Workshop: Fixed-target@EIC
    • Workshop: Jets & Hard Probes
    • 12:00
      No Host Lunch
    • Workshop: AI/ML II

      Afternoon I

    • Workshop: Baryon Junction & Stopping II

      Afternoon I

    • Workshop: Fixed-target@EIC

      Afternoon I

    • Workshop: Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory

      2nd Morning session

    • Workshop: UPC & Electromagnetic Processes

      2nd Morning session

    • 12:00
      No Host Lunch
    • AUM Plenary I
      • 1
        Welcome Remarks from the Lab Director
      • 2
        Opening Remarks from ALD - Looking to the Future
      • 3
        C-AD Report
      • 4
        Group Picture
      • 15:05
        Coffee
      • 5
        STAR Run Report
      • 6
        sPHENIX Run Report
      • 7
        Workshop Report: Jets & Hard Probes
    • 17:00
      Reception & Poster Session
    • Plenary II
      • 8
        STAR Physics Highlights
      • 9
        sPHENIX Physics Highlights
      • 10
        PHENIX Physics Highlights
      • 10:15
        Coffee Break
      • 11
        DOE Report
      • 12
        NSF Report
      • 13
        Workshop Report: AI/ML
      • 14
        Workshop Report: Baryon Junction & Stopping
    • 12:00
      No Host Lunch
    • Plenary III
      • 15
        Workshop Report: NSRL
      • 16
        Workshop Report: UPC & Electromagnetic Processes
      • 17
        Workshop Report: Fixed Target @ EIC
      • 15:00
        Coffee Break
      • 18
        EIC, ePIC and the future physics
      • 19
        Sambamurti Award
      • 20
        Merit and Thesis Awards
      • 21
        Poster Award
      • 16:10
        Coffee Break
      • 22
        Sambamurti Lecture
    • RHIC Symposium
      • 23
        Lab Director's Welcome
      • 24
        T.D. Lee Memorial

        Status of field before RHIC

      • 25
        The status of the field before RHIC
      • 26
        Making RHIC Possible: Reflections on the Machine
        Speaker: Thomas Roser (BNL)
      • 10:30
        Coffee Break
      • 27
        Spokesperson Talk: STAR
      • 28
        Spokesperson Talk: PHENIX
      • 29
        Spokesperson Talk: PHOBOS
      • 30
        Spokesperson Talk: BRAHMS
      • 31
        Panel Discussion
      • 32
        David Gross: Reflections on RHIC
    • 12:15
      Lunch
    • RHIC Symposium
      • 33
        The QGP as we understand it 20+ years later
      • 34
        Impact of RHIC on understanding the nucleon spin
      • 15:10
        Coffee Break
      • 35
        Impact of RHIC on the LHC (Science and social impact)
      • 36
        Reflections from past NPP Associate Laboratory Directors
    • RHIC Symposium: BSA Distinguished Lecture & Banquet
      • 16:45
        Refreshments
      • 37
        BSA Distinguished Lecture
      • 38
        Host Dinner
    • RHIC Symposium
      • 39
        Sam Aronson Memorial

        Creating the RHIC machine

      • 40
        Completing the sPHENIX Scientific Mission
        Speakers: Megan Connors (Georgia State University), Megan Connors (Georgia State University RBRC)
      • 41
        Completing the STAR Scientific Mission
        Speaker: Frank Geurts (Rice University)
      • 10:05
        Coffee Break
      • 42
        Completing the PHENIX Scientific Mission
        Speaker: Yasuyuki Akiba (RIKEN)
      • 43
        Completing the RHIC Scientific Mission (Theory Perspectives)
      • 44
        Reflections on the success and impact of the RBRC
    • 12:00
      Lunch (Hosted)
    • RHIC Symposium
      • 45
        Bjoerken Memorial
      • 46
        Scientific Origins of the Electron Ion Collider
      • 47
        From RHIC to EIC: Connections between RHIC and EIC science
      • 15:15
        Coffee Break
      • 48
        Making the EIC possible, Machine perspectives
      • 49
        Lessons from RHIC in designing ePIC
      • 50
        Early Career Panel