Users' e-Log
Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community.
APS Prizes to RHIC Physicists
Several prizes were awarded to physicists working on RHIC.
Satoshi Ozaki was awarded the Robert R. Wilson Prize of the American Physical Society for his leadership of the RHIC and TRISTAN accelerator projects. More information is available here.
Paul Sorensen of the STAR experiment was awarded the George E. Valley Jr. Prize, and Saskia Mioduszewski of the STAR (and formerly PHENIX) experiment was awarded the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award.
The full list of APS prizes this year is available here.
SPIN 2008
Many of the plenary talks from SPIN 2008 recently held in Charlottesville, Virginia, can be found here.
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.