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

11 May 2026, 09:00 → 15 May 2026, 18:00 US/Eastern

Anders Knospe (Lehigh University), Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University), Peter Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting & RHIC Science Symposium

May 11 – 15, 2026 · Brookhaven National Laboratory

■ Users' Meeting     ■ RHIC Symposium     ■ Keynote Speaker

Monday May 11	Tuesday May 12	Wednesday May 13	Thursday May 14	Friday May 15
Users' Meeting Workshops All Day Jets & Hard Probes AI/ML Baryon Junction & Stopping Fixed-target@EIC	Users' Meeting Workshops Ultraperipheral & EM Processes NASA Space Radiation Lab Users' Meeting Poster Session Afternoon + Evening Users' Meeting Plenary Session Begins Afternoon C-AD & STAR + sPHENIX run reports.	Users' Meeting Plenary Session Morning Experiment status & highlights. DOE report and EIC/ePIC updates Users' Meeting Plenary Session Afternoon Workshop summaries and award ceremonies.	RHIC Symposium Morning Session Commemorating 25+ years of RHIC discovery science. ★ Keynote 11:55 AM Prof. David Gross “Reflections on RHIC” Chancellor’s Chair Prof. of Theoretical Physics, UCSB RHIC Symposium Afternoon Session Celebrating RHIC science and its lasting impact. ★ BSA Distinguished Lecture + Dinner 5:00 PM Prof. Barbara Jacak “Little Bangs at RHIC and the Big Bang at the Beginning” Distinguished Prof., Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley	RHIC Symposium Morning Session Completing the RHIC scientific mission RHIC Symposium Afternoon Session Looking forward to decades of discovery at the EIC.

2026 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting (Monday - Wednesday)

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 (Thursday - Friday)

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. 

Keynote Speakers 

Thursday, May 14th, 11:55 am

Prof. David Gross, Chancellor’s Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics UCSB - Presenting: "Reflections on RHIC"

 

 Thursday, May 14th, 5pm

Prof. Barbara Jacak, Distinguished professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Presenting the 2026 Brookhaven Science Associates Distinguished Lecture: "Little Bangs at RHIC and the Big Bang at the Beginning"

 

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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.

Monday 11 May

09:00 → 12:00 Workshop: AI/ML I - SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 123

Convener: Cameron Dean (MIT)

09:00 Setup

09:10 The EIC-Beam AI Collaboration: Preparing Machine Learning for the Electron-Ion Collider

Speaker: Georg Hoffstaetter (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

26_05_11RHIC_Hoffstaetter.pdf

26_05_11RHIC_Hoffstaetter.pptx

09:35 Towards Foundation Models for Next-Generation Experiments at the EIC: A Perspective

Speaker: Cristiano Fanelli (College of William & Mary)

2026_RHIC_AGS_CFanelli.pdf

09:55 Coffee Break

10:45 SciBot: Your "AI Librarian" for Navigating RHIC’s Fragmented Institutional Knowledge

Speaker: Ankush Reddy Kanuganti (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

SciBot_RHIC_AUM_2026-3.1.pdf

11:10 AI Surrogate Modeling for Fast Simulation of the Hydrodynamic Evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Speaker: Seungjun Lee (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

[260511] AI Surrogate Modeling for Fast Simulation of the Hydrodynamic Evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma.pdf

[260511] AI Surrogate Modeling for Fast Simulation of the Hydrodynamic Evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma.pptx

11:35 sPHENIX CycleGAN

Speaker: Shuhang Li (Columbia University)

sPHENIX_CycleGAN_sli.pdf

09:00 → 12:00 Workshop: Baryon Junction & Stopping I - SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 148

Conveners: Chun Tsang (Kent State University), Chun Yuen Tsang (Kent State University)

09:00 Current status of the baryon junction

Speakers: Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University and BNL), Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University and BNL)

RHIC-AGS-Baryons2026.pdf

10:00 Generalized parton distributions and their implications for observables relevant to baryon junction dynamics

Speaker: Simonetta Liuti (University of Virginia)

RHIC_UG.pptx.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Probing gluon density via deep inelastic scattering, and its implications on baryon junctions

Speaker: Prithwish Tribedy (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

tribedy_rhic_ags_2026_dis_gluons_stringy_proton.pdf

11:30 Flavor-independent rapidity slope in baryon transport

Speakers: Zhangbu Xu (Kent State University), Zhangbu Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

xzb2RHICUSERS_052026.pdf

09:00 → 12:00 Workshop: Fixed-target@EIC- SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 121 - 122

Conveners: Agnieszka Sorensen (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Charles-Joseph Naïm (Stony Brook University (CFNS))

09:00 FIXE initiative

Speaker: Charles-Joseph Naïm (Stony Brook University (CFNS))

AGS_RHIC_v1.pdf

09:25 Cross-section measurements for the interpretation of cosmic rays

Speaker: Philip von Doetinchem (University of Hawaii)

2605_epic_pvd.pdf

09:50 Space, nuclear data, and an EIC fixed target program

Speaker: David Brown (NNDC-Brookhaven National Laboratory)

dbrown.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Physics opportunities for a fixed-target program in EIC

Speaker: Cesar daSilva (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

FixedTarget-EIC-2.pdf

FixedTarget-EIC-2.pptx

11:25 p+A Physics in an EIC Fixed-Target Setup

Speaker: Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)

Users_pA.pdf

11:50 Discussion

09:00 → 12:00 Workshop: Jets & Hard Probes - SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 124 - 125

Conveners: Virginia Bailey (Georgia State University), Yeonju Go (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:00 Recent Measurements at the LHC

Speaker: Hannah Bossi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

HBossi_RHICAGS_2026.pdf

09:30 Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions (Theory)

Speaker: João Barata (CERN)

RHIC_Barata.pdf

10:00 Recent Measurements from sPHENIX

Speaker: Hanpu Jiang (Columbia University)

sPHENIX AUM2026 jet & photon measurement.pdf

10:25 Coffee Break

10:40 Recent Measurements from STAR

Speaker: Isaac Mooney (Yale University)

Mooney_RHICAGS-AUM-26.pdf

11:05 Recent Measurements in Small Systems at the LHC and RHIC

Speaker: Christopher McGinn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

rhicAGSSpring26_LightIons_CMcGinn_20260511_vFinal.pdf

11:35 Jets at the Electron-Ion Collider (Theory)

Speaker: Felix Ringer (YITP Stony Brook University)

BNL26_FRinger.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 No Host Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 Workshop: AI/ML II - SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 123

Afternoon I

Convener: Cameron Dean (MIT)

14:00 Variable Rate Neural Compression for TPC Data

Particle colliders produce data at extraordinary rates, posing major challenges for transmission and storage. High-throughput compression algorithms are therefore essential. In the sPHENIX experiment taking data at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a time projection chamber records three-dimensional (3D) particle trajectories that are highly sparse, making conventional learning-free lossy compression ineffective. Convolutional neural networks have surpassed traditional methods in compression ratio and accuracy. However, they fail to exploit sparsity for efficiency. To address these gaps, we present BCAE-VS, a bicephalous convolutional autoencoder with variable compression ratio for sparse data, which adapts compression to input complexity through key-point identification and sparse convolution. BCAE-VS achieves higher accuracy and compression ratios than prior neural approaches while being orders of magnitude smaller. Moreover, its throughput increases with sparsity—a property not observed in other methods. Although it was developed for collider experiments, BCAE-VS readily extends to other sparse data domains, such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensing and 3D microscopy.

Speaker: Yi Huang (Brookhaven national lab)

2026-05-11_BCAE-VS.pptx

14:25 sPHENIX Foundation Models

Speaker: David Park (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

dpark_RHIC_AGS_Annual_Users_Meeting_25min_FM4NPP_0510_2026.pdf

14:00 → 17:00 Workshop: Baryon Junction & Stopping II - SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 148

Afternoon I

Conveners: Chun Tsang (Kent State University), Chun Yuen Tsang (Kent State University)

14:00 Measuring baryon production at HERA, and its potential on baryon junction

Speaker: Gage Tustin (BNL)

Tustin_BaryonJunctionAndStopping2026_Final.pdf

Tustin_BaryonJunctionAndStopping2026_Final.pptx

14:30 Probing the Baryon Junction at the CLAS12 Experiment

Speaker: Wenliang Li (Stony Brook University CFNS)

2026_May_AGS_Baryon_stopping_workshop.pdf

15:00 Finding the baryon number within the proton

Speaker: Spencer Klein (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

BackwardproductionKleinRHICAGAusersmeeting.pdf

14:00 → 17:00 Workshop: Fixed-target@EIC - SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 121 - 122

Afternoon I

Conveners: Agnieszka Sorensen (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Charles-Joseph Naïm (Stony Brook University (CFNS))

14:00 Physics opportunities for the QCD phase diagram

Speaker: Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)

bnl-aum-2026-slides.pdf

14:25 Probing the QCD Phase Diagram at the EIC: Modeling High-Baryon Density Fluids in the Fixed-Target Regime

Speaker: Lipei Du (McGill University)

RHIC-AGS 2026 - L Du.pdf

14:50 Logistics of a Fixed-Target Program at the EIC: Lessons Learned from Previous FXT programs

Speaker: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

DAC_FXT_at_EIC_May_11_2026_v1.pdf

15:15 Discussion

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Collaboration & Open Discussion

Tuesday 12 May

09:00 → 12:00 Workshop: Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory- SUSC Bldg. 101. Conference Room 121- 122

2nd Morning session

Conveners: Jessica Gasparik (Brookhaven National Lab), Trevor Olsen (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:00 Introduction NSRL, Research Topics, Speakers

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

Speaker: Jessica Gasparik (Brookhaven National Lab)

09:10 Drug Adjuncts that mitigate the Molecular and Cellular impacts of Galactic Cosmic Radiation

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 mechanistic understanding and therapeutic development.

Speaker: Dr Robert Schwartz (Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University)

09:50 HEARTS and HEARTS++, the present and future of radiation effects testing with very-high-energy, heavy ion beams

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 working on Monte Carlo simulations of beam-matter interactions in the machine protection system envisaged for the High-Luminosity upgrade project of the Large Hadron Collider. Andreas joined the CERN Radiation-to-Electronics team in 2021, working on his PhD thesis titled "Ground-based research analogs for beyond LEO exploration." As of 2025, he is the laboratory manager of the HEARTS@CERN heavy ion radiation effects test facility.

Speaker: Andreas Waets (CERN)

10:30 Machine Learning Assisted Tuning and Diagnostics of NSRL Beams

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 to a mature beamline with diverse beam conditions and apply machine learning tuning to generate a uniform beam distribution.

Speaker: Eiad Hamwi (BNL)

11:10 Nuclear Data Measurements in Support of NASA Planetary Science Missions

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 used to analysis the datasets from these missions.

This discussion highlights a recent measurement at NSRL and how this data can be applied to a planetary spectroscopy mission.

Speaker: Patrick Peplowski (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)

Peplowski_NSRL_20260508.pdf

11:55 Close-out

09:00 → 12:00 Workshop: UPC & Electromagnetic Processes- SUSC Bldg. 101 Conference Room 124-125

2nd Morning session

Conveners: Ashik Ikbal Sheikh (Kent State University), Prof. Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)

09:00 Session Introduction : Ultra-Peripheral Collisions

Speaker: Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

09:30 Measurements of EM-probes at PHENIX and sPHENIX

Speaker: Mariia Mitrankova (Stony Brook University)

10:00 Measurements of Vector mesons in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions at STAR

Speaker: Xihe Han (Ohio State University)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Mirror Quantum Tomography for UPC and beyond

Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)

11:30 Nuclear imaging efforts at EIC

Speaker: Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:00 → 14:00 No Host Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 AUM Plenary I

Conveners: Evgeny Shulga (BNL), Hanna Zbroszczyk

14:00 Welcome Remarks from the Lab Director

14:10 Opening Remarks from ALD - Looking to the Future

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

14:35 C-AD Report

Speaker: Travis Shrey (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:55 Group Picture

15:05 Coffee & Poster Session

15:30 STAR Run Report

Speaker: Tristan Protzman (Lehigh University)

16:00 sPHENIX Run Report

Speaker: Ron Belmont (University of North Carolina Greensboro)

16:30 Workshop Report: Jets & Hard Probes

Speakers: Yeonju Go (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Yeonju Go (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:00 → 19:00 Social Event & Poster Session

Wednesday 13 May

09:00 → 12:01 Plenary II

Conveners: Jim Thomas (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:00 STAR Physics Highlights

Speaker: Richard Seto (University of California @ Riverside)

09:25 sPHENIX Physics Highlights

Speaker: Tanner Mengel (University of Colorado, Boulder)

09:50 PHENIX Physics Highlights

Speaker: Iurii Mitrankov (Stony Brook University)

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 DOE Report

Speaker: Sharon Stephenson

RHIC-AGS-UserMeeting-Stephenson-May-2026.pdf

RHIC-AGS-UserMeeting-Stephenson-May-2026.pptx

10:55 EIC, ePIC and the future physics

Speaker: Salvatore Fazio (University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza)

11:20 Workshop Report: AI/ML

Speaker: Cameron Dean (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

11:40 Workshop Report: Fixed Target @ EIC

Speaker: Charles Naim (Stony Brook University)

12:00 NSF Report (Cancelled)

Speaker: Allena Opper

12:01 → 14:00 No Host Lunch

14:00 → 19:20 Plenary II

Conveners: James Dunlop (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Roli Esha (Stony Brook University)

14:00 Workshop Report: NSRL

The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory is a fixed-target beamline at the RHIC synchrotron complex. Constructed in 2002 for NASA radiobiology research, the laboratory provides a range of heavy ions between protons and bismuth to a maximum rigidity of 15 Tm. Along with radiobiology experiments, the user community includes research in microelectronics damage, nuclear data measurements, and provides a mature beamline for accelerator physics applications.

The facility, which extracts beam from the AGS Booster, will continue to operate during the EIC upgrade.

Speakers: Jessica Gasparik (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Trevor Olsen (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:20 Workshop Report: UPC & Electromagnetic Processes

Speaker: Ashik Ikbal Sheikh (Kent State University)

14:40 Workshop Report: Baryon Junction & Stopping

Speaker: Chun Yuen Tsang (Kent State University)

15:25 Coffee Break

15:40 Sambamurti Award

Speaker: Dr John Hill (Interim Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:45 Merit and Thesis Awards

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

15:55 Poster Award and Flash Talk (TBA)

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

16:10 Thesis Award Flash Talk - TBA

16:20 Thesis Award Flash Talk - TBA

16:30 Business Meeting

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)

Thursday 14 May

09:00 → 12:20 RHIC Symposium: RHIC's Early Years

Convener: John Harris (Yale University)

09:00 ALD for Nuclear and Particle Physics & EIC Science Director Welcome

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

09:10 T.D. Lee Memorial

Status of field before RHIC

Speaker: Shoji NAGAMIYA (remote) (RIKEN)

09:25 The status of the field before RHIC

Speakers: Axel Drees (SUNY @ Stony Brook), Axel Drees (Stony Brook University)

10:00 Making RHIC Possible: Reflections on the Machine

Speaker: Thomas Roser (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Spokesperson Talk: STAR

Speaker: Timothy Hallman (Associate Director of Science for Nuclear Physics (2009 – 2024))

10:55 Spokesperson Talk: PHENIX

Speaker: Prof. William Zajc (Columbia University)

11:05 Spokesperson Talk: PHOBOS

Speaker: Gunther Roland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

11:15 Spokesperson Talk: BRAHMS

Speaker: Flemming Videbaek (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:25 RHIC Spin Collaboration

Speaker: Yousef Makdisi (BNL)

11:35 Panel Discussion

Speakers: Gunther Roland (MIT), Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics), Prof. William Zajc (Columbia University), Yousef Makdisi (BNL), flemming videbaek (BNL)

11:55 Keynote: Chancellor’s Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics David Gross - Reflections on RHIC

Speaker: Prof. Prof. David Gross (remote) (University of California, Santa Barbara)

12:15 Group Picture

12:20 → 14:00 No Host Lunch

14:00 → 16:45 RHIC Symposium: The lasting impact & legacy of RHIC

Conveners: Doon Gibbs (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Hannah Bossi (Yale University (US))

14:00 The QGP as we understand it 20+ years later

Speaker: Berndt Mueller (Duke University)

14:35 Impact of RHIC on understanding the nucleon spin

Speakers: Jianwei Qiu (Jefferson Laboratory), Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)

15:10 Coffee Break

15:30 Impact of RHIC on the LHC (Science and social impact)

Speaker: John Harris (Yale University)

16:00 Reflections from past NPP Associate Laboratory Directors

Speakers: Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University), Prof. Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL), Berndt Mueller (BNL), Berndt Mueller (Duke University), Haiyan Gao (Duke University), Haiyan Gao (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Steve Vigdor (Indiana University @ Bloomington, BNL)

16:45 → 21:30 RHIC Symposium: BSA Distinguished Lecture & Banquet

16:45 Refreshments

17:00 Little Bangs at RHIC and the Big Bang at the Beginning

BSA Distinguished Lecture

Speaker: Barbara Jacak (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

18:00 Host Dinner

Friday 15 May

09:00 → 12:20 RHIC Symposium: Completing the RHIC Scientific Mission

09:00 Sam Aronson Memorial

Speakers: Doon Gibbs (Brookhaven National Laboratory), William Zajc (Columbia University), Prof. William Zajc (Columbia University)

09:25 The Genesis of sPHENIX

Speaker: David Morrison (BNL)

09:35 Completing the sPHENIX Scientific Mission

Speakers: Megan Connors (Georgia State University), Megan Connors (Georgia State University RBRC)

10:05 Completing the STAR Scientific Mission

Speaker: Frank Geurts (Rice University)

10:35 Coffee Break

10:50 Completing the PHENIX Scientific Mission

Speaker: Yasuyuki Akiba (RIKEN)

11:20 Completing the RHIC Scientific Mission (Theory Perspectives)

Speaker: Dr Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:50 Reflections on the success and impact of the RBRC

Speakers: Derek Teaney (Stony Brook), Farid Salazar (Temple University / Brookhaven National Lab), Megan Connors (Georgia State University RBRC), Naohito Saito (KEK - High Energy Accelerator Research Org), Dr Yacine Mehtar-Tani (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch (Hosted) - Compliments of BSA

14:00 → 18:00 RHIC Symposium: EIC and the next 25+ Years of Discovery

Convener: Prof. Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)

14:00 Scientific Origins of the Electron Ion Collider

Speaker: Richard Milner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

14:35 From RHIC to EIC: Connections between RHIC and EIC science

Speaker: Rosi Reed (Lehigh University)

15:05 Coffee Break

15:35 Making the EIC possible, Machine perspectives

Speaker: Sergei Nagaitsev (BNL)

16:10 Lessons from RHIC in designing ePIC

Speaker: John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:45 James D. Bjorken Memorial (remote)

Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (BNL)

17:00 Early Career Panel

Speakers: Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)), Zhoudunming Tu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)