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STAR Collaboration Meeting
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Sunday, 24 February 2013 :: day 1

Junior Day
Conveners: Hui/Alice/Grant
(Large Seminar Room : 09:00 - 12:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Spokesperson's welcome ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Nu Xu |
09:30 | GEM based Transition Radiation Detector ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Shuai Yang |
10:00 | MTD in Run12 and Installation for Run13 ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Chi Yang |
10:30 | Coffee break ( 00:30 ) | |
11:00 | Cumulant Ratio Analyses ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Evan Sangaline (UC Davis/LBL) |
11:30 | Spin Measurements at STAR Forward Detectors ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Yuxi Pan |
12:00 | Lunch ( 02:00 ) | |
14:00 | eRHIC ( 00:45 ) 0 files | Thomas Ullrich |
14:45 | eSTAR ( 00:45 ) 0 files | Zhangbu Xu |
15:30 | Coffee break ( 00:30 ) | |
16:00 | v2 and spectra ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Xu Sun |
16:30 | Tribble report ( 01:00 ) 0 files | Panel discussion |
18:00 | Pizza & Beer ( 02:00 ) |
Monday, 25 February 2013 :: day 2



Computing Session (Plenary)
Conveners: Jerome Lauret
(Large Seminar Room : 09:00 - 12:10)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Spokesperson's welcome and STAR status ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Nu Xu |
09:30 | FGT software status ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Xuan Li (Temple University) |
10:00 | HFT software status ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Jonathan Bouchet (KSU) |
10:30 | Coffee break ( 00:20 ) | |
10:50 | A review of Vertex Finding in STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Xin Dong (LBNL) |
11:20 | Embedding activity report, status ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Mustafa Mustafa (Purdue) |
11:50 | Overview of simulation activities ( 00:20 ) 2 files | Jason Webb (BNL) |
Computing Session (Plenary)
Conveners: Gene van Buren
(Large Seminar Room : 14:00 - 15:30)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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14:00 | Integrated tracking in STAR: A report on Stv progress ( 00:20 ) 2 files | Victor Perevoztchikov (BNL) |
14:20 | Irmo project: Cloud infrastructure strategy for DOE Science ( 00:20 ) 2 files | Evan Sangaline (UC-Davis / BNL) |
14:40 | S&C (all but the kitchen sink) activities ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Jerome Lauret (BNL) |
15:10 | Coffee break ( 00:20 ) |
Theory Session (Plenary)
Conveners: Nu Xu
(Large Seminar Room : 15:30 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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15:30 | LQCD calculations and RHIC BES program ( 00:45 ) 1 file | Swagato Mukherjee |
16:15 | pA and forward physics ( 00:45 ) 1 file | Adrian Dumitru |
17:00 | Jet production in polarized pp collisions ( 00:45 ) 1 file | Werner Vogelsang |
Tuesday, 26 February 2013 :: day 3



Heavy Flavor I
Conveners: Wei Xie, Yifei Zhang, Daniel Kikola
(2-95 : 09:00 - 12:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Low-pT J/psi in p+p and d+Au 200 GeV - paper status (EVO) ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Christopher Powell (LBNL) |
09:20 | D0 in Au+Au 200 GeV - paper update (EVO) ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Yifei Zhang (USTC) |
09:50 | D0 in U+U collisions at 193 GeV ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
10:20 | Coffee break ( 00:20 ) | |
10:40 | D0 and D* in p+p 500 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file | David Tlusty (Nuclear Physics Inst., Academy of Sciences) |
11:10 | J/psi in U+U collisions at 200 GeVĀ (EVO) ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Ota Kukral (CTU) |
11:40 | J/psi in p+p collisions at 500 GeV run 11 (EVO) ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Qian Yang (USTC) |
12:10 | D0 in U+U 193 GeV ( 00:15 ) 1 file | David Tlusty (Nuclear Physics Inst., Academy of Sciences) |
Spin I
Conveners: Renee Fatemi, Pibero Djawotho
(Room 2-78 : 09:00 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | 2009 pp200 inclusive jet A_LL paper ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Pibero Djawotho (Texas A&M) |
09:30 | 2009 pp200 dijet A_LL paper / New analysis status ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Matt Walker / Bernd Surrow / Xuan Li (Temple University) |
10:00 | 2009 pp200 dijet A_LL and cross section ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Brian Page (Indiana) |
10:30 | Coffee break ( 00:20 ) | |
10:50 | 2009 pp500 dijet cross section ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Grant Webb (Kentucky) |
11:20 | 2011 pp500 Sivers+Collins ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Jim Drachenberg (Valparaiso) |
11:50 | Lambda D_LL ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Ramon Cendejas (UCLA) |
12:20 | Lunch break ( 01:40 ) | |
14:00 | Default and Modified PPV Performance on pp500 Zero-bias Events ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Zilong Chang (Texas A&M) |
14:30 | FMS Run 12 update ( 00:45 ) 1 file | Steve Heppelmann (Penn State) |
15:15 | Coffee break ( 00:20 ) | |
15:35 | FMS jets ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Mriganka Mouli Mondal (Texas A&M) |
16:05 | FMS jets ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Thomas Burton (BNL) |
16:35 | Run 11 FMS ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Yuxi Pan (UCLA) |
Bulk Correlations - Femtoscopy Session
Conveners: Hiroshi Masui, Daniel Cebra, Shusu Shi
(Large Seminar Room : 09:00 - 12:20)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Proton Femtoscopy(EVO) ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Hanna Zbroszczyk (Warsaw) |
09:30 | BES anti-proton femtoscopy (EVO) ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Andrew Peterson (Ohio State) |
10:00 | Pion-Kaon Femtoscopy ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Katarzyna Poniatowska (Warsaw) |
10:30 | Coffee Break ( 00:20 ) | |
10:50 | Kaon Femtoscopy ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Martin Girard (Warsaw) |
11:20 | Kaon Femtoscopy Paper Update ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Robert Vertesi (NPI Prague) |
Light Flavor Spectra PWG parallel session
Conveners: Lokesh Kumar, Frank Geurts, Xianglei Zhu
(Room: 2-160 : 09:00 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Rcp at BES ( 00:25 ) 2 files | Stephen Horvat (Yale) |
09:25 | Strangeness at BES ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Feng Zhao (UCLA) |
09:50 | Identified particle production in Au+Au 27 GeV ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Sabita Das (IOPB) |
10:15 | Coffee Break ( 00:30 ) | |
10:45 | Au+Au 19.6 GeV analysis status ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Daniel Cebra (UCDavis) |
11:10 | Muonic Atoms ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Kefeng Xin (RICE) |
11:35 | Dielectrons at BES ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Patrick Huck (LBNL) |
12:00 | Lunch Break ( 02:00 ) | |
14:15 | Paper status: BES Strangeness-II on K0s, Lambda and Xi (short paper) ( 00:15 ) 2 files | Xianglei Zhu (Tsinghua Univ.) |
14:30 | Paper status: BES Strangeness (Long paper) ( 00:15 ) 0 files | Xianglei Zhu (Tsinghua Univ.) |
14:45 | Paper status: Centrality dependence of freeze-out parameters (short paper) ( 00:15 ) 0 files | Lokesh Kumar (KSU) |
15:00 | Paper status: BES PID long paper ( 00:15 ) 0 files | Lokesh Kumar (KSU) |
15:15 | Coffee Break ( 00:30 ) | |
15:45 | Paper status: Dielectron in AuAu@200GeV Long paper ( 00:15 ) 1 file | Xin Dong (LBNL) |
16:00 | Paper status: Dielectron in BES 19.6 - 62.4 GeV (short paper) ( 00:15 ) 0 files | B. Huang, P. Huck, J. Butterworth (BNL, LBNL, RICE) |
16:15 | Paper status: Dielectron in BES 19.6 - 62.4 GeV (Long paper) ( 00:15 ) 0 files | B. Huang, P. Huck, J. Butterworth (BNL, LBNL, RICE) |
16:30 | Paper status: Dielectron v2 measurements in AuAu@200GeV ( 00:15 ) 0 files | Xiangli Cui (BNL, USTC) |
16:45 | Paper status: Leptonic decay of phi and omega in Au+Au 200 GeV ( 00:15 ) 0 files | Masayuki Wada (UT) |
Heavy Flavor II
Conveners: Wei Xie, Yifei Zhang, Daniel Kikola
(Small Seminar room : 14:00 - 17:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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14:00 | Systematic uncertainties on J/psi production in Au+Au 39 and 62 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Wangmei Zha (USTC) |
14:30 | Upsilons ( 00:40 ) 1 file | Anthony Kesich (UC Davis) |
15:25 | Low-pT J/psi in Au+Au and Cu+Cu 200 GeV - paper status (EVO) ( 00:15 ) 1 file | Daniel Kikola (Purdue University) |
15:40 | e-h and e-e correlations in AuAu 200 GeV Run 11 ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Jay Dunkelberger (UCLA) |
Bulk Correleations - Paper Proposal Status Reports
Conveners: Hiroshi Masui, Daniel Cebra, Shusu Shi
(Large Seminar Room : 14:00 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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14:00 | Azimuthally sensitive HBT at BES energies ( 00:20 ) 0 files | Christopher Anson (Ohio State) |
14:20 | Chiral Magnetic Effect in BES energies ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Gang Wang (UCLA) |
14:40 | Lambda-Lambda correlations ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Neha Shah (UCLA) |
15:00 | Long Moments Paper ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Daniel Cebra (UC Davis) |
15:20 | Afternoon Break ( 00:20 ) | |
15:40 | Generalized Balance Functions ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Hui Wang (BNL) |
16:00 | Three particle correlations ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Paul Sorensen (BNL) |
16:20 | Decomposition of flow, flow fluctuation, and nonflow in Au+Au at 200 GeV ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Li Yi (Purdue) |
16:40 | Elliptic Flow in U+U ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Hui Wang (BNL) |
17:00 | Paper status update: Flow harmonics. ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Yadav Pandit (UIC) |
17:20 | BES pt fluctuations (EVO) ( 00:20 ) 1 file | John Novak (Michigan State) |
UPC/pp2pp
Conveners: Wlodek Guryn, Janet Seger
(14:00 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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14:00 | Rho diffraction analysis update ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Ramiro Debbe (BNL) |
14:30 | Rho diffraction paper preparation ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Ramiro Debbe |
15:00 | J/Psi paper preparation ( 00:30 ) 0 files | Bill Schmidke (BNL) |
15:30 | Future Plans ( 00:30 ) 0 files | All-Discussion |
Jet Correlations I
Conveners: Saskia Mioduszewski and Fuqiang Wang
(Small Seminar Room : 16:00 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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16:00 | Near-side correlations in d+Au vs. Au+Au ( 00:30 ) 0 files | Joshua Konzer |
16:30 | Paper proposal update ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Alan Davila |
17:00 | yT-yT Correlations Analysis ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Lanny Ray |
17:30 | FMS-EEMC embedding status ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Xuan Li (Temple University) |
Wednesday, 27 February 2013 :: day 4



Light Flavor Spectra PWG parallel session-II
Conveners: Lokesh Kumar, Frank Geurts, Xianglei Zhu
(Room: 2-160 : 09:00 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Paper status: Light nuclei measurements in Au+Au 200 GeV ( 00:15 ) 1 file | Chitrasen Jena (IOPB) |
09:15 | Paper status: Multiplicity and Pseudo-rapidity distributions of Inclusive Photons at forward rapidity at BES energies ( 00:15 ) 1 file | Dronika Solanki (Jaipur Univ.) |
09:30 | Paper status: Hypertriton measurements in STAR ( 00:15 ) 1 file | Zhangbu Xu (BNL) |
09:45 | Paper status: BES Rcp, RAA of charged and identified particles ( 00:15 ) 1 file | Evan Sangaline (UCDavis) |
10:00 | Paper status: Fixed target measurements in STAR ( 00:15 ) 1 file | Chris Flores (UCDavis) |
10:15 | Paper status: Light Nuclei Au+Au 7.7-200 GeV ( 00:15 ) 1 file | Bill Llope (RICE) |
10:30 | Coffee Break ( 00:30 ) | |
11:00 | Paper status: Strange particle production in pp and CuCu@62GeV ( 00:15 ) 2 files | Geraldo Vasconcelos (UNICAMP) |
11:15 | Paper status: Kshort, Lambda, Lambda-bar in run 9 pp collisions at 200 GeV ( 00:20 ) 0 files | Yichun Xu (USTC) |
UPC/pp2pp
Conveners: Wlodek Guryn, Janet Seger
(1-189 : 09:00 - 12:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Nuclear slope B and investigation of some systematic effects in RUN09 data. ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Ivan Koralt |
09:30 | pi+pi- mass spectrum in Central Exclusive Production ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Radek Kycia |
09:50 | Central Exlusive Production 2009 data paper ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Leszek Adamczyk |
10:10 | Update on ANN, ASS paper 2009 data ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Igor Alekseev |
10:30 | Coffee Break ( 00:30 ) | |
11:00 | Simulations of Trigger Efficiency and Bias in 2009 ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Rafal Sikora (AGH UST) |
11:25 | UPC Trigger in Run 13 ( 00:25 ) 1 file | J.H. Lee (BNL ) |
11:50 | Lunch Break ( 02:10 ) | |
14:00 | PHASE IIA Physics Topics ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Elke Aschenauer (TBC) |
14:30 | Future Plans - Discussion ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Wlodek Guryn + All |
Heavy Flavor III
Conveners: Wei Xie, Yifei Zhang, Daniel Kikola
(2-95 : 09:00 - 12:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Update on low-pT J/psi in p+p 200 GeV run 9 (EVO) ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Leszek Kosarzewski (WUT) |
09:20 | Non-photonic electrons in d+Au and p+p (run 9) 200 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Olga Hajkova (Czech Technical University) |
09:50 | Update on measurements of non-photonic electrons in Au+Au collisions at 39 and 62 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Mustafa Mustafa (Purdue University) |
10:20 | Coffee break ( 00:20 ) | |
10:40 | Update on non-photonic electron v2 in Au+Au collisions at 39, 62 and 200 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Daniel Kikola (Purdue University) |
11:10 | Status of J/psi polarization analysis in p+p 200 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Barbara Trzeciak (WUT) |
Jet Correlations II
Conveners: Saskia Mioduszewski and Fuqiang Wang
(Small Seminar Room : 09:00 - 12:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Jet v2 ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Alice Ohlson |
09:30 | Photon v2 ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Ahmed Hamed |
10:00 | Update on full jet reconstruction ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Peter Jacobs |
10:30 | coffee break ( 00:20 ) | |
10:50 | Inclusive jet spectrum ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Jan Rusnak |
11:20 | Underlying event studies ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Jana Bielcikova |
Bulk Correlations III
Conveners: Hiroshi Masui, Daniel Cebra, Shusu Shi
(Large Seminar Room : 09:00 - 12:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Anti-Particle Resonance Study via HBT Correction ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Qi-Ye Shou (SINAP) |
09:30 | Blast Wave fits to v2 and spectra ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Xu Sun (LBNL) |
10:00 | BBC upgrade ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Alex Schmah (LBNL) |
10:30 | Coffee Break ( 00:20 ) | |
10:50 | Clan multiplicity ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Aihong Tang (BNL) |
11:10 | Pion V2 in U+U and CMW ( 00:20 ) 1 file | Qi-Ye Shou (Shanghai IAP) |
11:30 | Discussions --- Analysis Plans for Run 13, Review Paper, Future Directions ( 00:30 ) 0 files | open discussion (all) |
Spin II
Conveners: Renee Fatemi, Pibero Djawotho
(Room 2-160 : 09:00 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | 2012 W cross section ratio ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Maxence Vandenbroucke/Bernd Surrow (Temple University) |
09:30 | W A_L ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Jan Balewski (MIT) |
10:00 | W A_N ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Salvatore Fazio and Dmitri Smirnov (BNL) |
10:30 | Coffee break ( 00:20 ) | |
10:50 | 2006 pp200 EEMC pi0 A_LL and cross section ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Stephen Gliske (Argonne) |
11:20 | 2006 pp200 EEMC pi0 A_N ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Jim Drachenberg (Valparaiso) |
Convenor lunch
(2-160 : 12:15 - 13:45)
Jet Correlations III
Conveners: Saskia Mioduszewski and Fuqiang Wang
(Small Seminar Room : 14:00 - 15:30)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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14:00 | Paper proposal update ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Chanaka da Silva |
14:30 | p-p triggered and unbiased correlations ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Duncan Prindle |
15:00 | p-p Glauber and Trigger-Associated TCM ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Tom Trainor |
Upgrade Session (Plenary)
Conveners: Flemming Videbaek
(Large Seminar Room : 15:30 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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15:30 | FGT ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Bernd Surrow (Temple University) |
15:55 | MTD ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Joseph Butterworth (Rice) |
16:20 | HFT ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Zhenyu Ye (UIC) |
16:45 | iTPC ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Zhangbu Xu (BNL) |
17:10 | Forward Cal ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Huan Huang (UCLA) |
17:35 | Physics opportunities with low cost upgrade ( 00:25 ) 1 file | Elke Aschenauer (BNL) |
18:00 | Discussion ( 00:25 ) 0 files |
Council Meeting
(2-160 : 18:30 - 23:00)
Thursday, 28 February 2013 :: day 5



STAR Status Session (Plenary)
Conveners: Jamie Dunlop
(Large Seminar Room : 09:00 - 12:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | Detector Status for Run13 ( 00:30 ) 0 files | Bill Christie |
09:30 | Future physics ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Carl Gagliardi |
10:00 | Upgrade Report ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Flemming Videbaek |
10:30 | Coffee break ( 00:30 ) | |
11:00 | Computing status ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Jerome Lauret |
11:30 | Council Report ( 00:15 ) 0 files | Gary Westfall |
STAR Status Session (Plenary)
Conveners: Elke Aschenauer
(Large Seminar Room : 14:00 - 16:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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14:00 | Analysis and Paper Status ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Xin Dong |
14:30 | Full jet reconstruction in heavy ion collisions ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Jan Rusnak (NPI, Czech) |
15:00 | Recent v2 results from U+U collisions ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Hui Wang (BNL) |
15:30 | Coffee break ( 00:30 ) |
PWG report Session (Plenary)
Conveners: Xin Dong
(Large Seminar Room : 16:00 - 18:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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16:00 | JetCorr PWG Summary ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Saskia Mioduszewski (TAMU) |
16:30 | BulkCorr PWG Summary ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Daniel Cebra (UC Davis) |
17:00 | Light Flavor PWG Summary ( 00:30 ) 2 files | Frank Geurts (Rice Univ.) |
17:30 | Heavy Flavor PWG Summary ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Wei Xie (Purdue Univ.) |
Friday, 1 March 2013 :: day 6

PWG report Session (Plenary)
Conveners: Huan Huang
(Large Seminar Room : 09:00 - 12:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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09:00 | The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: Status and Future ( 00:50 ) 1 file | Berndt Muller |
09:50 | UPC PWG Summary ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Wlodek Guryn (BNL) |
10:20 | Spin PWG Summary ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Pibero Djawotho (TAMU) |
10:50 | Coffee break ( 00:30 ) |
iTPC Project Discussions
Conveners: Zhangbu Xu, Jamie Dunlop
(Building 510, room 2-95 (2nd floor, back of building) : 14:00 - 17:00)
Time | Talk | Presenter |
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14:00 | iTPC project overview and latest news (20+20) ( 00:40 ) 1 file | Jim Thomas (LBL) |
14:40 | iTPC simulations (15+15) ( 00:30 ) 1 file | Hui Wang (BNL) |
15:10 | Hardware components and suggestions ( 00:30 ) 0 files | Alexei Lebedev (BNL) |
15:40 | Shandong Facility (25+15) ( 00:40 ) 0 files | Chengguang Zhu (SDU) |
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