BNL Newsroom | RHIC Renaissance Celebration, Thursday, July 30th

By Jane Koropsak | July 29, 2009

RHIC Renaissance Celebration, Thursday, July 30th

To celebrate the contribution that Renaissance Technologies, Inc., made to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the entire Lab community is invited to a series of RHIC Renaissance events on Thursday, July 30, beginning with the Roads to Discovery ceremony at 11:30 a.m., followed by a 1.8-mile Collide the Ions walk for autism research around the newly re-dedicated RHIC Ring Road. The day’s activities also include talks preceding and following the walk.

Collide the Ions walkers will get blue and yellow T-shirts and walk around the ring in opposite directions. Halfway around the ring, the walkers will symbolically "collide" and this "collision" will be recorded in a photograph and video. All walk participants will receive free commemorative T-shirts and ice cream. Brookhaven Science Associates will donate $10 per walker to the Autism Research Foundation. Parking is limited, so please car-pool. In case of inclement weather or a heat advisory, the walk will be canceled.

Program Agenda

At the RHIC STAR Detector Hall

11:30 - 11:35	Welcome
	Sam Aronson, Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory

11:35 - 11:40	A Personal Perspective on the 2006 RHIC Run (or How I Earned My Doctorate by Smashing Protons)
	Astrid Morreale, Doctoral Student, University of California at Riverside

11:40 - 11:50	What the 2006 Run Meant to the RHIC Community
	Barbara Jacak, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University, Spokesperson for the PHENIX Experiment Since 2006

11:50 - 12:00	Yes, C-AD, There Is a Santa Claus: How Renaissance Saved the 2006 RHIC
	Derek Lowenstein, Chair, Collider Accelerator Department, BNL

12:00 - 12:15	Roads to Discovery
	Sam Aronson, Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Walk to Benefit Autism Research

12:15 - 1:15

1.8-Mile “Collide the Ions” Walk Around the RHIC Ring to Benefit the Autism Science Foundation Employees, Guests, Students, and Friends

At Berkner Hall

2:00 - 2:05	Welcome
	Sam Aronson, Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory

2:05 - 2:35	Initial Perspectives on the DOE Science Program
	William Brinkman, Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy. (NOTE:This talk will be webcast on WBNL.)

2:35 - 3:00	Paradigm Lost:  How ~~Sin~~ Spin Undid the Quark Model
	Robert Jaffe, the Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:00 - 3:10	Break

3:10 - 3:35	Chern-Simons Theory Hints at Broken Symmetry in Hot Quark Soup
	Dmitri Kharzeev, Leader, Nuclear Physics Theory Group, BNL

3:35 - 4:00	Roadmap for Future Discoveries at RHIC
	Steven Vigdor, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, BNL

4:00 - 5:00	Reception