Users' e-Log
Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community.
Blogging for LHC
Rene Bellwied of Wayne State University joins Peter Steinberg of Brookhaven National Laboratory in giving the US LHC bloggers a heavy ion perspective here.
Chancellor's Award for Chuck Pancake
Chuck
Pancake of Stony Brook University has received the Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Professional Service. Chuck did much of
the design and implementation of the PHENIX drift chamber
electronics, and is now playing a crucial role in the barrel
silicon pixel detector project.
Kieran Boyle Receives Doctorate
Abhay Deshpande reports that Kieran Boyle has been granted his Ph.D. by Stony Brook University for his thesis "Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry of π0 Production in Polarized Protons at 200 GeV." He was also awarded the Lee Wilcox Prize by the President of Stony Brook University for being one of the five best doctoral research theses selected from all fields at the University.
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.