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

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, pre-order form available at registration)
No Host Lunch (Food truck will be available, pre-order form available at registration)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
13:00 Commissioning: early experience
Commissioning: early experience
13:00 - 16:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
Contributions

13:00 Satoshi to Mike: "You could use an honest job" (Remote) - Michael Harrison (BNL)

13:15 Prolog: from ADD to RHIC (Remote) - Jie Wei (MSU)

13:30 Building and commissioning RHIC - Dejan Trbojevic (BNL)

13:45 First orbit, first collisions - Todd Satogata (JLAB)

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 Early RHIC commissioning - Mei Bai (SLAC)

15:45 Epilog: from RHIC to eRHIC - Stephen Peggs (BNL)
16:00 Open Discussion
Open Discussion
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)

18:00 No Host Dinner
No Host Dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Friday 10 July 2026
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)

09:40 Superconducting magnets - Michael Anerella (bnl)

10:10 Booster - Kiel Hock (BNL)

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

11:30 Mechanical Systems - Joseph Tuozzolo (C-AD)
12:00 No Host Lunch (pre-order form from cafeteria available at registration, for delivery to Bldg. 101)
No Host Lunch (pre-order form from cafeteria available at registration, for delivery to Bldg. 101)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
13:00 Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2
Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2
13:00 - 16:15
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)
Contributions

13:00 Power supplies - George Ganetis (BNL)

13:25 Ion Sources - Deepak Raparia (BNL)

13:50 Radio Frequency - Kevin Mernick (BNL)

14:15 Beamline vacuum systems: history and innovations - Dan Weiss (BNL)

15:00 Operations - Gregory Marr (BNL)

15:25 Cryogenics - Roberto Than (BNL)

15:50 Controls - Kevin Brown (C-AD)
16:15 Open Discussion
Open Discussion
16:15 - 17:00
Room: Science & User Support Center (SUSC)