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

QCD Spin Physics: A Symposium to Honor Jacques Soffer

Wednesday 10 April 2019 - 09:00

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

09:00 Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:40 Welcome - Robert Tribble (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:40 Jacques Soffer: the man with a passion for discovery - Naohito Saito (J-PARC/KEK)

10:10 Collaborating with Jacques Soffer - Ivan Schmidt (Federico Santa Maria Technical University)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
11:30 Session Chair: Robert Jaffe
Session Chair: Robert Jaffe
11:30 - 13:45
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

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

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

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

13:00 Comments about Jacques Soffer - Elliot Leader (Imperial College London)
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
14:30 Session Chair: Yuji Goto
Session Chair: Yuji Goto
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:30 Snakes and rotators - Waldo Mackay

15:00 Polarized beam operations - Mei Bai (GSI)

15:30 The long road to RHIC polarimetry - Yousef Makdisi
16:00 Group Photo / Coffee
Group Photo / Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
16:30 Session Chair: Mike Tannenbaum
Session Chair: Mike Tannenbaum
16:30 - 18:10
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

16:30 Spin-dependent parton distributions - then & now - Werner Vogelsang (Tuebingen)

17:00 Probing sea quarks via weak boson production in polarized proton collisions - Sanghwa Park (Stony Brook University)

17:30 RHIC's unpolarized W/Z program - Matt Posik (Temple University)

18:00 Thanks from the Soffer Family - Danielle Soffer
18:30 Reception
Reception
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room

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