Name: 2012 RHIC Retreat
Start: 2012-07-25T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2012-07-27T16:50:00-04:00
Location: Universe

2012 RHIC Retreat

from Wednesday 25 July 2012 (08:30) to Friday 27 July 2012 (16:50)

Monday 23 July 2012
Tuesday 24 July 2012
Wednesday 25 July 2012
08:30 Chair Wolfram Fischer
Chair Wolfram Fischer
08:30 - 11:55
Room: July 25 – 26, 2012 at the Bellport Country Club, July 27 at BNL
Contributions

08:30 Welcome - Thomas Roser (BNL)

08:35 Introduction - Vincent Schoefer (CAD)

08:45 RHIC Nuclear Physics - Steve Vigdor (BNL)

09:05 Projections for Run 13 - Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

09:25 Run 12: Polarized Protons Lessons Learned - Vincent Schoefer (CAD)

09:50 Run 12: Heavy Ions Lessons Learned - Yun Luo (C-AD, BNL)

10:35 The View from STAR - William Christie (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:55 The view from PHENIX - X He (BNL)

11:15 Scheduling Physicist's view - Francois Meot (bnl)

11:35 Air conditioning at CAD - Al Pendzick (BNL)
11:55 Lunch
Lunch
11:55 - 13:30
Room: July 25 – 26, 2012 at the Bellport Country Club, July 27 at BNL
13:30 Chair Haixin Huang
Chair Haixin Huang
13:30 - 16:46
Room: July 25 – 26, 2012 at the Bellport Country Club, July 27 at BNL
Contributions

13:30 AGS Polarized Protons: What now? - Haixin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)

13:55 RHIC Polarization: What now? - Mei Bai (BNL)

14:20 Polarimetry - William Schmidke (BNL)

15:05 Electron Lens - Xiaofeng Gu (Collider Accelerator Department, BNL)

15:30 EBIS - James Alessi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:55 EBIS Ions in the Injectors - Chris Gardner (BNL)

16:20 Stochastic Cooling - Kevin Mernick (BNL)

16:45 Adjourn
Thursday 26 July 2012
08:30 Chair Peter Ingrassia
Chair Peter Ingrassia
08:30 - 11:30
Room: July 25 – 26, 2012 at the Bellport Country Club, July 27 at BNL
Contributions

08:30 Operations Statistics and Failure Analysis - Peter Ingrassia (C-AD MCR)

08:40 RF Reliability - Alex Zaltsman (BNL)

09:00 RHIC P/S Reliability - Donald Bruno (BNL)

09:20 Maintenance, Reliability and Scheduling - Paul Sampson (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:05 The New MCR: Lessons Learned - Travis Shrey (BNL)

10:15 The View from Operations - R. Tuccio (BNL)

10:40 A New Model for Run Coordination - Gregory Marr (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:05 RHIC Ramps in the Feedback Age - Al Marusic (BNL)
11:30 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 13:00
Room: July 25 – 26, 2012 at the Bellport Country Club, July 27 at BNL
13:00
13:00 - 16:41
Room: July 25 – 26, 2012 at the Bellport Country Club, July 27 at BNL
Contributions

13:00 AGS LLRF Upgrade Commissioning - Freddy Severino (BNL)

13:25 Longitudinal Emittance: Source to Store - Kevin S Smith (BNL)

13:50 RF Developments for Polarized Protons - J. M. Brennan (Brookhaven national labs)

14:15 High(er) Intensity Protons - Christoph Montag (BNL)

15:00 APEX Highlights - Mei Bai (BNL)

15:20 He3: Results of Injector Test and Plans - Haixin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)

15:40 Access Controls System Upgrades - Darren Hillis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:00 Developments in Beam Instrumentation and Control - Michiko Minty (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:20 Controls: Startups and Mode Changes - Seth Nemesure (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:40 Adjourn
Friday 27 July 2012
13:30 Chair Thomas Roser
Chair Thomas Roser
13:30 - 16:26
Room: July 27, 2012 at BNL, Bldg. 911A, Snyder Seminar Room
Contributions

13:30 State of the Complex - Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

13:55 Performance Challenges for p^ and Heavy Ions - Haixin Huang (BNL)

14:20 Operations and Reliability - Peter Ingrassia (C-AD MCR)

14:45 RF, Instrumentation and Controls - M. Blaskiewicz (Brookhaven National Lab)

15:35 Plan for Run 13: Polarized Protons - Vahid Ranjbar (BNL)

16:00 Plan for Run 13: Heavy Ions - Guillaume Robert-Demolaize (BNL/C-AD)

16:25 Adjourn