RHICfest

9 Jul 2026, 08:00 → 10 Jul 2026, 17:00 US/Eastern

Science & User Support Center (SUSC) (BNL)

Stephen Peggs (BNL)

 

Join us for RHICfest on July 9-10, 2026 at BNL's Science & User Support Center (SUSC), Building 101 to survey RHIC's accelerator physics and engineering legacy

• • Unmatched beam flexibility & performance
  • Technical innovations & advances
  • Alumni and retiree communities

 

A no-host dinner will be held at Spiros in Rocky Point on Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 6 p.m. 

Please register if you plan to attend in-person or virtually.

 

Thursday 9 July

08:30 → 09:00 Continental Breakfast

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome - Abhay Desphande

09:05 → 12:00 Unmatched beam flexibility & performance

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

09:05 The heavy ion story

Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

09:35 Optics flexibility and pre-history

Speaker: Steven Tepikian (C-AD)

10:05 The polarization story

Speaker: Thomas Roser (BNL)

10:35 Coffee Break

11:00 Bunched beam stochastic cooling

Speaker: Michael Blaskiewicz (BNL)

11:30 RF accelerated electron cooling

Speaker: Alexei Fedotov (Collider-Accelerator Department, BNL)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch (on your own)

13:00 → 16:15 Commissioning: early experience

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

13:00 Prolog: from ADD to RHIC (Remote)

Speaker: Jie Wei (MSU)

13:15 The 5 commissioning teams

Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

13:30 Collisions, collimators & correctors

Speaker: Angelica Drees (Collider-Accelerator)

13:45 Building and commissioning RHIC

Speaker: Dejan Trbojevic (CAD)

14:00 TBD

Speaker: Fulvia Pilat (BNL)

14:15 Coffee Break

14:45 Polarimetry

Speaker: Dr Haixin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)

15:00 TBD

Speaker: Mei Bai (SLAC)

15:15 First orbit, first collisions

Speaker: Todd Satogata (JLAB)

15:30 TBD (Remote)

Speaker: Michael Harrison (BNL)

15:45 1 eVs or bust / whetever happened to Band One?

Speaker: Mike Brennan (BNL)

16:00 Epilog: from RHIC to eRHIC

Speaker: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

16:15 → 17:00 Open Discussion

18:00 → 21:00 No Host Dinner

Friday 10 July

08:30 → 09:00 Continental Breakfast

09:00 → 12:00 Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 1

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

09:00 Operational performance & reflections on recent developments

Speaker: Michiko Minty (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:30 Ion sources

Speaker: Deepak Raparia (BNL)

10:00 Booster

Speaker: Kiel Hock (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 AGS

Speaker: Vincent Schoefer (CAD)

11:30 Mechanical systems

Speaker: Joseph Tuozzolo (C-AD)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch (on your own)

13:00 → 16:30 Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

13:00 Power supplies

Speaker: George Ganetis (BNL)

13:30 Superconducting magnets

Speaker: michael anerella (bnl)

14:00 Radio Frequency

Speaker: Freddy Severino (BNL)

14:30 Coffee Break

15:00 Vacuum

Speaker: Dan Weiss (BNL)

15:30 Operations

Speaker: Gregory Marr (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:00 Cryogenics

Speaker: Roberto Than (BNL)

16:30 → 17:00 Open Discussion