Wednesday, July 16th

19:00

 Dinner at The Bread Company

 706 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana

Departure from the Illini Union at 6:45PM.

If you are late, please join us as you arrive.

 

 

Thursday, July 17th
Location: 1404 Siebel Center

PHENIX Status & News (talks are 25+5) Chair: Yasuyuki Akiba, RIKEN

8:30

 Arrival & Registration

8:50

Welcome - Jen-Chieh Peng, Illinois & Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, UIUC

9:00

State of the Collaboration - Barbara Jacak, Stony Brook

9:30

Operations - Ed O'Brien, BNL

10:00

Upgrades: Summary - Axel Drees, Stony Brook

10:30

Coffee Break

Global & Hadron Physics (talks are 25+5) Chair: Guy Roche, LPC Clermont

11:00

Highlights from the Global/Hadron PWG - Vicki Greene, Vanderbilt

11:30

Observable Effects of Semi-Hard Jets - Rudolph Hwa, Oregon

12:00

Physics Program of Energy Scans - Roy Lacey, Stony Brook

12:30

Lunch Break 12:30-14:00

Ligh and Heavy Vector Mesons (talks are 25+5 & 40+20) Chair: Hideki Hamagaki, Tokyo

14:00

Heavy Flavor and Light Vector Meson Measurements at PHENIX - Kyoichiro Ozawa, Tokyo

14:30

Charm(onium) Transport and Quark Coalescence in the QGP - Ralf Rapp, Texas A&M

15:30

Physics with the PHENIX Vertex Detector - Eric Mannel, Columbia

16:00

Coffee Break

Photons and Hard Scattering (talks are 25+5 & 40+20) Chair: Alice Mignerey, Maryland

16:30

Hard Scattering Measurements in PHENIX: Current Results and New Opportunities - Anne Sickles, BNL

17:00

Photon Measurements in PHENIX: Present Successes and Exciting Future - Takao Sakaguchi, BNL

17:30

Towards a Consistent Jet Tomography with Electromagnetic Radiation - Charles Gale, McGill

18:30

Session End

19:00

EC Dinner at Beckman Institute (Room 5269)

 

 

Friday, July 18th
Location: 1404 Siebel Center

Low x Physics I (talks are 25+5) Chair: Jen-Chieh Peng, UIUC

9:00

Run 8 Report - Mike Leitch, LANL

9:30

Physics with the Forward Vertex Detector - Xiorong Wang, NMSU

10:00

Flavor as a QGP Probe at High pt - Rainer Fries, Texas A&M

10:30

 Coffee Break

Low x Physics II (talks are 25+5 & 40+20) Chair: John Hill, ISU

11:00

Physics of the NCC Upgrade - Carla Vale , BNL

11:30

Lecture: Low x Physics - Yuri Kovchegov, Ohio State

12:30

 Lunch Break 12:30-14:00

Spin Physics (talks are 25+5) Chair: John Lajoie, ISU

14:00

Gluon Polarization in the Nucleon (Summary of the Urbana Workshop) - Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, UIUC

14:30

Highlights from the Spin PWG - Kensuke Okada, RBRC

15:00

Physics with the Muon Piston Calorimeter - John Koster, UIUC

15:30

Proton Structure with W's - Young Jin Kim, UIUC

16:00

Coffee Break

DAQ, Production and Analysis (talks are 25+5) Chair: Martin Purschke, BNL

16:30

DAQ Challenges: Luminosity and Detector Upgrades - John Haggerty, BNL

17:00

PHENIX Triggering after the RHIC Luminosity Upgrade - Jamie Nagle, Colorado

17:30

Production Status - Alex Linden Levy, Colorado

18:00

Analysis: Status and Plans - Tony Frawley, FSU

18:30

Session End

19:30

Collaboration Dinner at the Levis Center (2nd floor)

 

Saturday, July 19th
Location: 1404 Siebel Center

Analysis and Physics (talks are 15+5) Chair: Xiaochun He, GSU

8:30

Measuring Fragmentation Photons Using Two Particle Correlations - Ali Hanks, Columbia

8:50

Transversity from Di-Hadron Interference Fragmentation - Ruizhe Yang, UIUC

9:10

J/Psi Measurements at Mid Rapidity - Ermias Atomssa, LLR - Ecole Polytechnique

9:30

Systematic Measurements of Omega Mesons - Misaki Ouchida, Hiroshima

10:30

 Coffee Break

 

10:50

PHENIX Speakers Bureau: News - John Hill, ISU

11:15

Institutional Board Meeting Chair: Barbara Jacak, Stony Brook

12:30

 Lunch