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

    11–15 May 2026
    US/Eastern timezone

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    Workshop

    Morning II
    12 May 2026, 09:00

    Conveners

    Workshop: Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory- SUSC Bldg. 101. Conference Room 121- 122

    • Jessica Gasparik (Brookhaven National Lab)
    • Trevor Olsen (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

    Workshop: UPC & Electromagnetic Processes- SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 124-125

    • Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)
    • Ashik Ikbal Sheikh (Kent State University)

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    2nd Morning session

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    1. 95. Introduction NSRL, Research Topics, Speakers
      Jessica Gasparik (Brookhaven National Lab)
      12/05/2026, 09:00

      The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory is a multi-purpose beamline off of the AGS Booster at the RHIC complex.
      For this workshop we showcase a set of speakers which span the broad user community the facility supports, including:

      • Radiobiology research
      • Microelectronics survivability
      • Nuclear data measurements
      • Accelerator physics
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    2. 61. Session Introduction : Ultra-Peripheral Collisions
      Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))
      12/05/2026, 09:00
    3. 96. Drug Adjuncts that mitigate the Molecular and Cellular impacts of Galactic Cosmic Radiation
      Dr Robert Schwartz (Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University)
      12/05/2026, 09:10

      Dr. Robert Schwartz is a physician-scientist at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital whose work bridges medicine and engineering. Clinically, he specializes in liver disease, including viral and metabolic conditions. His research integrates stem cell biology with engineering methods to develop in vitro models of human liver disease, with the aim of advancing...

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    4. 62. Measurements of EM-probes at PHENIX and sPHENIX
      Mariia Mitrankova (Stony Brook University)
      12/05/2026, 09:30
    5. 97. HEARTS and HEARTS++, the present and future of radiation effects testing with very-high-energy, heavy ion beams in Europe
      Andreas Waets (CERN)
      12/05/2026, 09:50

      Andreas Waets obtained a Master degree in Nuclear Physics at KU Leuven University in Belgium in 2016. He was a member of the Space Environment and Effects section at the European Space Agency between 2016 and 2018, working on plasma charging of spacecraft, radiation environment monitoring instrumentation and space mission concurrent design engineering. After ESA, he joined CERN as a Fellow...

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    6. 63. Measurements of Vector mesons in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions at STAR
      Xihe Han (Ohio State University)
      12/05/2026, 10:00
    7. 98. Machine Learning Assisted Tuning and Diagnostics of NSRL Beams
      Eiad Hamwi (BNL)
      12/05/2026, 10:30

      Eiad Hamwi is a physicist specializing in accelerator beam dynamics and simulation. He completed his Ph.D. at Cornell and is currently a postdoc at the collider-accelerator department at BNL. His current focus is on adaptive digital twins for robust control and inference.

      This talk summarizes the recent efforts to build a digital twin model for NSRL, a mature beamline with diverse beam...

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    8. 64. Mirror Quantum Tomography for UPC and beyond
      Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)
      12/05/2026, 11:00
    9. 99. Nuclear Data Measurements in Support of NASA Planetary Science Missions
      Patrick Peplowski (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
      12/05/2026, 11:10

      Dr. Patrick Peplowski is a staff scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he is in involved with the development, testing, and operation of gamma-ray and neutron spectrometers studying Mercury, Mars’ moons, asteroids, and Saturn’s moon Titan. He is also heavily involved in efforts to improve the precision and accuracy of the nuclear reaction cross section data that are...

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    10. 66. Nuclear imaging efforts at EIC
      Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      12/05/2026, 11:30
    11. 100. Close-out
      12/05/2026, 11:55
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