RHIC Renaissance Celebration, Thursday, July 30th
July 29, 2009
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.) |
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2:35 - 3:00 | Paradigm Lost: How |
| Robert Jaffe, the Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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3:00 - 3:10 | Break |
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3:10 - 3:35 | Chern-Simons Theory Hints at Broken Symmetry in Hot Quark Soup |
| Dmitri Kharzeev, Leader, Nuclear Physics Theory Group, BNL |
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3:35 - 4:00 | Roadmap for Future Discoveries at RHIC |
| Steven Vigdor, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, BNL |
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4:00 - 5:00 | Reception |
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