Name: RHICfest
Start: 2026-07-09T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-10T17:00:00-04:00
Location: BNL

Monday 6 July 2026
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Thursday 9 July 2026

08:30 Continental Breakfast
Continental Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)

09:00 Welcome - Abhay Deshpande
Welcome - Abhay Deshpande
09:00 - 09:05
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
09:05 Unmatched beam flexibility & performance
Unmatched beam flexibility & performance
09:05 - 12:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
Contributions

09:05 The heavy ion story - Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

09:35 Optics flexibility and pre-history - Steven Tepikian (BNL)

10:05 The polarization story - Thomas Roser (BNL)

11:00 Bunched beam stochastic cooling - Michael Blaskiewicz (BNL)

11:30 RF-based electron cooling - Alexei Fedotov (BNL)
12:00 No Host Lunch (Food truck will be available)
No Host Lunch (Food truck will be available)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
13:00 Commissioning: early experience
Commissioning: early experience
13:00 - 16:15
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
Contributions

13:00 Prolog: from ADD to RHIC (Remote) - Jie Wei (MSU)

13:15 Building and commissioning RHIC - Dejan Trbojevic (BNL)

13:30 First orbit, first collisions - Todd Satogata (JLAB)

13:45 1 eVs or bust / whatever happened to Band One? - Mike Brennan (BNL)

14:00 Collisions, collimators & correctors - Angelica Drees (BNL)

14:45 How to tame a snake - Vadim Ptitsyn (BNL)

15:00 Polarimetry - Haixin Huang (BNL)

15:15 Decoupling, nonlinear correction and other strange activities - Fulvia Pilat (ORNL)

15:30 TBD - Mei Bai (SLAC)

15:45 TBD (Remote) - Michael Harrison (BNL)

16:00 Epilog: from RHIC to eRHIC - Stephen Peggs (BNL)
16:15 Open Discussion
Open Discussion
16:15 - 17:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)

18:00 No Host Dinner
No Host Dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
Friday 10 July 2026

08:30 Continental Breakfast
Continental Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
09:00 Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 1
Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 1
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
Contributions

09:00 Operational performance & reflections on recent developments - Michiko Minty (BNL)

09:30 Ion sources - Deepak Raparia (BNL)

10:00 Booster - Kiel Hock (BNL)

11:00 AGS: From strong focusing to strong physics - Vincent Schoefer (BNL)

11:30 Mechanical systems - Joseph Tuozzolo (BNL)
12:00 No Host Lunch
No Host Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
13:00 Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2
Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2
13:00 - 16:30
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
Contributions

13:00 Power supplies - George Ganetis (BNL)

13:30 Superconducting magnets - Michael Anerella (BNL)

14:00 Radio Frequency - Freddy Severino (BNL)

15:00 Vacuum - Dan Weiss (BNL)

15:30 Operations - Gregory Marr (BNL)

16:00 Cryogenics - Roberto Than (BNL)
16:30 Open Discussion
Open Discussion
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)