My contributed abstract was selected for a plenary presentation at Strangeness in Quark Matter 2016.  The abstract is reproduced here, and a pdf file of the draft presentations are attached below.

The talk is 25'+5' so version 1, with 39 slides, is too long.  I will probably make the feeddown correction slides backup.  I may also shorten the CME and CVE intro slides.

Comments on what to discard/shorten, as well as on content, are very welcome.

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The submitted abstract
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Observation of global hyperon polarization in non-central heavy ion collisions at STAR

Non-central collisions between ultra-relativistic heavy ions involve
tens of thousands of h-bar of angular momentum. It is unclear how much,
if any, of this angular momentum is transferred to the quark-gluon plasma
created at midrapidity. Such a transfer may arise via a spin-orbit
coupling in QCD or, in a hydrodynamic picture, through shear forces that
generate a vorticity in the fluid. While chemical equilibrium inferred
from emitted particle ratios is well-established in heavy ion collisions,
the thermal distribution of angular momentum amongst these particles is
less understood. Angular momentum thermalization
or vorticity in the QGP may result in a correlation between the spin of
emitted hadrons and the direction of the angular momentum of the overall
system. This global polarization is distinct from polarization
relative to the particle production plane observed at very forward
angles in p+p collisions. Due to their self-analyzing nature,
hyperons reveal their spin orientation in their decay. STAR has measured
the first non-zero signal of the polarization of Lambdas and AntiLambdas
relative to the direction of the collision's angular momentum,
estimated by the event reaction plane, at several collision energies. I
will discuss details of the analysis, the energy dependence of the
signal, and two methods of quantifying the polarization. I will also
discuss detector and accelerator upgrades that will allow us to study
this new signal in far greater detail in the upcoming second phase of
the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC.