Physics Department Summer Lectures 2026

Contribution List

1. Welcome Remarks

Hong Ma (BNL)

08/06/2026, 13:15

Hosted by: Rachid Nouicer

5. Introduction to QCD and spin physics

Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)

08/06/2026, 13:30

Hosted by: Rachid Nouicer

2. The Electron Ion Collider - the next QCD frontier : Understanding the Glue That Binds Us All

Prof. Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)

15/06/2026, 13:15

Hosted by: Rachid Nouicer

7. Particle Accelerators: What are they, how do they work and why are they important to us?

Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

22/06/2026, 13:15

Hosted by: Rachid Nouicer

9. The Standard Model and Beyond

Sally Dawson (BNL)

02/07/2026, 13:30

Hosted by: Robert Szafron

8. What is the Higgs boson and how was it discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)?

Elizabeth Brost (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

06/07/2026, 13:30

Hosted by: Chris Rasmussen

3. Re-Engineering the Big Bang: The Physics of Heavy Ion Collisions

James Dunlop (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

13/07/2026, 13:30

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

6. Neutrinos: How to Catch a Ghost Particle

Jay Hyun Jo (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

20/07/2026, 13:30

Hosted by: Vladimir Tishchenko

4. Introduction to AI in Physics

Yeonju Go (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

27/07/2026, 13:30

Hosted by: Rachid Nouicer

10. Creating the Hottest Fluid in the Universe with a Single Photon

Blair Seidlitz (Columbia University)

30/07/2026, 13:30

Hosted by: Peter Steinberg

Abstract: The hottest matter ever created exists for only a tiny fraction of a second, yet it behaves like an almost perfect liquid. This remarkable state of matter, known as the quark--gluon plasma, filled the universe just millionths of a second after the Big Bang and is now recreated by smashing together atomic nuclei at nearly the speed of light with particle...