Name: QCD Spin Physics: A Symposium to Honor Jacques Soffer
Start: 2019-04-10T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-04-10T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Monday, April 8, 2019
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

9:00 AM Registration
Registration
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

9:40 AM Welcome - Robert Tribble (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:40 AM Jacques Soffer: the man with a passion for discovery - Naohito Saito (J-PARC/KEK)

10:10 AM Collaborating with Jacques Soffer - Ivan Schmidt (Federico Santa Maria Technical University)
11:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
11:30 AM Session Chair: Robert Jaffe
Session Chair: Robert Jaffe
11:30 AM - 1:45 PM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:30 AM A spin on swift protons - Nigel Buttimore (Trinity College Dublin)

12:00 PM The statistical model for parton structure: a review - Franco Buccella (INFN Naples)

12:30 PM Constraints on spin observables - Jean-Marc Richard (IN2P3 & University of Lyon)

1:00 PM Comments about Jacques Soffer - Elliot Leader (Imperial College London)
1:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
2:30 PM Session Chair: Yuji Goto
Session Chair: Yuji Goto
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

2:30 PM Snakes and rotators - Waldo Mackay

3:00 PM Polarized beam operations - Mei Bai (GSI)

3:30 PM The long road to RHIC polarimetry - Yousef Makdisi
4:00 PM Group Photo / Coffee
Group Photo / Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
4:30 PM Session Chair: Mike Tannenbaum
Session Chair: Mike Tannenbaum
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

4:30 PM Spin-dependent parton distributions - then & now - Werner Vogelsang (Tuebingen)

5:00 PM Probing sea quarks via weak boson production in polarized proton collisions - Sanghwa Park (Stony Brook University)

5:30 PM RHIC's unpolarized W/Z program - Matt Posik (Temple University)

6:00 PM Thanks from the Soffer Family - Danielle Soffer
6:30 PM Reception
Reception
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room