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We hope that this web publication will in some small measure reflect the excitement of the RHIC and AGS program at Brookhaven, as explained by some of the people who are doing the experiments, analyzing the data, and writing the papers.
Secretary
Chu’s Visit to BNL
By Steven Vigdor
"New Secretary of Energy Steven Chu visited Brookhaven on
Monday March 23 to announce the first allocations of stimulus
funding from the DOE Office of Science via the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) — and to take a whirlwind tour of
the laboratory’s facilities, including RHIC." More...
Listen
and Speak to Future Scientists: Volunteer to be Adopted by Your
Local High School
By Abhay Deshpande
The "Adopt-A-Physicist" program is run by the SPS physics honors
society in collaboration with the APS, AAPT and the AIP. It
involves bringing physicists and high school students and their
teachers into contact via the web and email for 3 weeks. During
that time, the physicist tries to get to know the students and
teachers, and answer any physics questions they might have.
More...
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National
Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility primarily
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Hundreds
of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the
universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its
creation. What physicists learn from these collisions may help us
understand more about why the physical world works the way it does,
from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.