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RHICfest

US/Eastern
Science & User Support Center (SUSC) (BNL)

Science & User Support Center (SUSC)

BNL

Stephen Peggs (BNL)
Description

 

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.

 

    • 08:30 09:00
      Continental Breakfast 30m
    • 09:00 09:05
      Welcome - Abhay Desphande 5m
    • 09:05 12:00
      Unmatched beam flexibility & performance
      Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
      • 09:05
        The heavy ion story 30m
        Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)
      • 09:35
        Optics flexibility and pre-history 30m
        Speaker: Steven Tepikian (C-AD)
      • 10:05
        The polarization story 30m
        Speaker: Thomas Roser (BNL)
      • 10:35
        Coffee Break 25m
      • 11:00
        Bunched beam stochastic cooling 30m
        Speaker: Michael Blaskiewicz (BNL)
      • 11:30
        RF accelerated electron cooling 30m
        Speaker: Alexei Fedotov (Collider-Accelerator Department, BNL)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch (on your own) 1h
    • 13:00 16:15
      Commissioning: early experience
      Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
      • 13:00
        Prolog: from ADD to RHIC (Remote) 15m
        Speaker: Jie Wei (MSU)
      • 13:15
        The 5 commissioning teams 15m
        Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)
      • 13:30
        Collisions, collimators & correctors 15m
        Speaker: Angelica Drees (Collider-Accelerator)
      • 13:45
        Building and commissioning RHIC 15m
        Speaker: Dejan Trbojevic (CAD)
      • 14:00
        TBD 15m
        Speaker: Fulvia Pilat (BNL)
      • 14:15
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 14:45
        Polarimetry 15m
        Speaker: Dr Haixin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)
      • 15:00
        TBD 15m
        Speaker: Mei Bai (SLAC)
      • 15:15
        First orbit, first collisions 15m
        Speaker: Todd Satogata (JLAB)
      • 15:30
        TBD (Remote) 15m
        Speaker: Michael Harrison (BNL)
      • 15:45
        1 eVs or bust / whetever happened to Band One? 15m
        Speaker: Mike Brennan (BNL)
      • 16:00
        Epilog: from RHIC to eRHIC 15m
        Speaker: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
    • 16:15 17:00
      Open Discussion 45m
    • 18:00 21:00
      No Host Dinner 3h
    • 08:30 09:00
      Continental Breakfast 30m
    • 09:00 12:00
      Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 1
      Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
      • 09:00
        Operational performance & reflections on recent developments 30m
        Speaker: Michiko Minty (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 09:30
        Ion sources 30m
        Speaker: Deepak Raparia (BNL)
      • 10:00
        Booster 30m
        Speaker: Kiel Hock (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 10:30
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00
        AGS 30m
        Speaker: Vincent Schoefer (CAD)
      • 11:30
        Mechanical systems 30m
        Speaker: Joseph Tuozzolo (C-AD)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch (on your own) 1h
    • 13:00 16:30
      Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2
      Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
      • 13:00
        Power supplies 30m
        Speaker: George Ganetis (BNL)
      • 13:30
        Superconducting magnets 30m
        Speaker: michael anerella (bnl)
      • 14:00
        Radio Frequency 30m
        Speaker: Freddy Severino (BNL)
      • 14:30
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 15:00
        Vacuum 30m
        Speaker: Dan Weiss (BNL)
      • 15:30
        Operations 30m
        Speaker: Gregory Marr (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 16:00
        Cryogenics 30m
        Speaker: Roberto Than (BNL)
    • 16:30 17:00
      Open Discussion 30m