RHICfest

Jul 9, 2026, 8:00 AM → Jul 10, 2026, 5:00 PM 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 and celebrate 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 Spiro's in Rocky Point on Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 6 p.m. 

Please register for attendance in-person or virtually and also for dinner.

 

Thu, July 9

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM → 9:05 AM Welcome - Abhay Desphande

9:05 AM → 12:00 PM Unmatched beam flexibility & performance

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

9:05 AM The heavy ion story

Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

9:35 AM Optics flexibility and pre-history

Speaker: Steven Tepikian (C-AD)

10:05 AM The polarization story

Speaker: Thomas Roser (BNL)

10:35 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM Bunched beam stochastic cooling

Speaker: Michael Blaskiewicz (BNL)

11:30 AM RF accelerated electron beam cooling

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

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM No Host Lunch (Food truck will be available)

1:00 PM → 4:15 PM Commissioning: early experience

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

1:00 PM Prolog: from ADD to RHIC (Remote)

Speaker: Jie Wei (MSU)

1:15 PM Building and commissioning RHIC

Speaker: Dejan Trbojevic (CAD)

1:30 PM First orbit, first collisions

Speaker: Todd Satogata (JLAB)

1:45 PM 1 eVs or bust / whatever happened to Band One?

Speaker: Mike Brennan (BNL)

2:00 PM Collisions, collimators & correctors

Speaker: Angelica Drees (Collider-Accelerator)

2:15 PM Coffee Break & Group Photograph

2:45 PM How to tame a snake

Speaker: Dr Vadim Ptitsyn (EIC, BNL)

3:00 PM Polarimetry

Speaker: Dr Haixin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)

3:15 PM Decoupling, nonlinear correction and other strange activities

Speaker: Fulvia Pilat (BNL)

3:30 PM TBD

Speaker: Mei Bai (SLAC)

3:45 PM TBD (Remote)

Speaker: Michael Harrison (BNL)

4:00 PM Epilog: from RHIC to eRHIC

Speaker: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

4:15 PM → 5:00 PM Open Discussion

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM No Host Dinner

Fri, July 10

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 1

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

9:00 AM Operational performance & reflections on recent developments

Speaker: Michiko Minty (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:30 AM Ion sources

Speaker: Deepak Raparia (BNL)

10:00 AM Booster

Speaker: Kiel Hock (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM AGS

Speaker: Vincent Schoefer (CAD)

11:30 AM Mechanical systems

Speaker: Joseph Tuozzolo (C-AD)

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM No Host Lunch

1:00 PM → 4:30 PM Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

1:00 PM Power supplies

Speaker: George Ganetis (BNL)

1:30 PM Superconducting magnets

Speaker: Michael Anerella (bnl)

2:00 PM Radio Frequency

Speaker: Freddy Severino (BNL)

2:30 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM Vacuum

Speaker: Dan Weiss (BNL)

3:30 PM Operations

Speaker: Gregory Marr (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

4:00 PM Cryogenics

Speaker: Roberto Than (BNL)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Open Discussion