Presentations
This page contains links to various public presentations I have made
on behalf of PHENIX. There are many more presentations made at various collaboration
meetings that can be accessed from my Collaboration
Issues page.
- Presentation at the 2006
Meeting of the BNL Program Advisory Committee
- PHENIX:
Accomplishments, Status, Perspective and Issues (PowerPoint,
PDF) presented at the July,
2006 DOE Program Review of RHIC
- PHENIX
Overview and Physics (PowerPoint,
PDF), presented at the 04-May-06
DOE review of the PHENIX VTX upgrades proposal.
- Presentation at the 2005
Meeting of the BNL Program Advisory Committee
- Overview of
the PHENIX Collaboration (PowerPoint,
PDF), presented to RIKEN
president Prof. R. Nyori on September 27th, 2005.
- PHENIX Status (PowerPoint,
PDF) presented at the July,
2005 DOE Program Review of RHIC.
- RHIC Overview (PowerPoint,
PDF) presented at the evening
'RHIC Prospects" meeting at the Spin 2004 meeting in Trieste.
- Presentation at the 2004
Meeting of the BNL Program Advisory Committee
- PHENIX Beam Use
Proposal for RHIC Runs 5 to 9 (PDF)
- Presentation (PowerPoint,
PDF)
-
Decadal Planning Material
- Presentation at
the 03-Dec-03 "Open Meeting" on Decadal Planning for RHIC (PowerPoint,
PDF)
- Presentation to
the 05-Dec-03 Meeting of the PAC on Decadal Plans (PowerPoint,
PDF)
Both of these
talks were intended to present aspects of the
PHENIX Decadal Plan to somewhat different audiences. The Decadal Plan
and many other proposals and related documents are also available from the
PHENIX "Plans and Proposals"
page.
- Presentation at the 2003
Meeting of the BNL Program Advisory Committee
- Presentation at the 2003 DOE Review
of the RHIC Program.
Available formats:
PowerPoint
, PDF
- Material for the Aug-02
meeting of the BNL Program Advisory Committee
- Presentation at the Jul-02 DOE RHIC
Program review. (The talk was requested to emphasize some PHENIX physics
discovery, along with plans for spin and for upgrades).
Available formats:
Powerpoint2002,
Older version of
PowerPoint (34 MB!),
HTML,
Postscript (12
MB).
- Two PHENIX talks given at the
2002
Pan-American Study Institute:
(I also presented a very introductory tutorial on HBT at this school;
that talk is listed under my non-PHENIX talks.)
- PHENIX
presentation (PowerPoint file
for same) to the 28-Sep-01 meeting of the BNL Program Committee, based on
our Beam Use Proposal for Extended RHIC
Running.
-
PHENIX
Overview, presented to DOE review of RHIC at BNL on 05-Sep-01. (Powerpoint
file for same.)
- PHENIX general overview talk aimed
(mostly) at non-physicists (presented to general audience at DOE
headquarters on Friday, March 2nd, 2001.)
- Two (rather similar) PHENIX Status talks given in Japan
in Feb-01:
- CC-J Dedication:
- RIKEN-BNL Steering Committee:
- PHENIX Overview talk at Quark
Matter '01:
- Beam Use
Proposal, presented to BNL
PAC on 30-Nov-00. (PowerPoint file)
- Report on
PHENIX
Baseline Physics Program at the BNL's 27-Oct-00 Long-Range Planning
workshop. (PowerPoint source.) This
talk was coordinated with Sam
Aronson's talk on PHENIX upgrades at the same workshop;
its
source is also available.
- Brief overview of
PHENIX
Upgrades for Aug-00 RHIC/AGS Users' Meeting. (
PowerPoint
source for same.)
- PHENIX
Status presentation to the BNL
PAC on 23-Mar-00. ( PowerPoint source
for this talk.) PAC recommendations from
this exercise.
- PHENIX Overview
presented at BNL Institutional Review by the U.S. Department of Energy on 23-Jul-99. This
is my first (mandated) foray into using PowerPoint animation. I have made two versions
available:
-
Animated version.
The generated HTML kind of supports it; when you see a bare slide you have to click on it
until things stop happening...
Nota Bene: There is strong empirical evidence this can crash
Netscape (thanks Momchil!), and weak theoretical evidence that it works in IE4.0 and
higher.
- Non-animated version:
Yes, I know the slides are a little small. The other problem with this version is that a
few of the slides are multi-layered, which works in animation but not in this static
snapshot.
The PowerPoint source file is available
here.
- Beam Use Proposal, presented to
BNL PAC on 24-May-99. The written text of the proposal is available in
html format; the full proposal is also available as a
postscript file. The
advice
of the PAC and the comments of the Associate Director were announced on
phenix-news-l.
-
General PHENIX Colloquium.
This particular one was presented at Boston University on March 30th, 1999.
- PHENIX Perspective on CC-J,
brief presentation to RCF Advisory Committee on 03-Dec-98.
-
PHENIX Status,
presented to the November, 1998 follow-up meeting of the PHENIX TAC.
-
Presentation to U.S.-Japan
Collaboration visiting committee (16-Nov-98).
- Experiment and Collaboration Overview,
presented to the August, 1998 meeting of the PHENIX Technical Advisory Committee.
- Presentation to the "RHIC
Forum". This was a gathering in April, 1998 at the APS meeting organized by Berndt
Mueller and Miklos Gyulassy to discuss issues of "quality control" for RHIC
physics. (Strictly speaking, not a PHENIX presentation.)
-
PHENIX Overview, talk
presented at the Sep-98 BNL/RIKEN
Quarkonium workshop.
- Non-PHENIX
talks:
- New
Dimensions in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (PowerPoint,
pdf), presented
24-Sep-06 at a special
symposium honoring John Schiffer.
- J/Psi's
at RHIC (PowerPoint,
pdf), presented at BNL "Helmut-Fest"
09-May-06.
- The
History of the QGP (PowerPoint),
PHENIX Focus
seminar 28-Feb-06.
- Pursuing the
Perfect Primordial Fluid, presented 20-Feb-05 in the "Frontiers of 21st
Century Physics" session of the AAAS meeting. This talk has the same
title as the one I delivered the previous week at Kyoto (see below item),
but is quite different; this version is intended for a general scientific audience. (PowerPoint
version, pdf version with a couple of
missing slides, due to same PDF conversion problems noted below.)
- Pursuing the
Perfect Primordial Fluid, presented 14-Feb-05 at the Kyoto University
Special Symposium on Phase Transitions. (PowerPoint
version only, due to same PDF conversion problems noted below.)
- Pursuing the
Perfect Primordial Fluid- What we have learned at RHIC?, Columbia
University colloquium presented 24-Jan-05. (PowerPoint
version only, due to same PDF conversion problems noted below. BTW, it's
31 MB.)
- RHIC
Experimental Overview- What We Have (not) Learned, presented at KITP
Conference: QCD and
String Theory (Nov 15-19, 2004). Available
with audio
here.
- Experimental
Review of Hard Processes, presented at
Rencontres du Vietnam 09-Aug-04.
(PowerPoint version only; here is the
log file containing the errors
Acrobat generates when attempting to convert this file- any help or
suggestions would be most appreciated.)
- The Coming
Decade at RHIC (PowerPoint,
PDF), presented to the
Barnes sub-committee of NSAC on
08-Jun-04.
- The
Search for New States of Matter at RHIC (PowerPoint),
talk given at the
Jubilee on the 50th anniversary of the Weizmann Institute of Physics,
11-May-04.
- RHIC and the Universe,
presented at Fall Meeting of the DNP, 30-Oct-03. (PowerPoint)
, PDF)
- General RHIC
Colloquia:
- The
Fluid Nature of Quark-Gluon Plasma, presented at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 06-Apr-06 (PowerPoint)
-
Colloquium on RHIC physics presented at Duke University, 14-Apr-04 (PowerPoint)
- Colloquium on
RHIC physics presented at Rutgers University, 04-Feb-04 (PowerPoint)
- Colloquium on RHIC physics
presented at University of Wisconsin, 17-Oct-03 (PowerPoint)
- General
RHIC Colloquium (PowerPoint
file ) presented 30-Jul-03 at FNAL. This an updated version
following the release of the d-Au data on RdA
from the four collaborations. The order of presentation was changed to begin
with the high pT physics. Given the HEP background of the
audience, some introductory material was removed. Eventually this will be available as video from the
FNAL
colloquium website; here's
my guess for the link.
-
RHIC
Colloquium Talk. This is a colloquium-level talk given at Caltech
(Feb-03) and Chicago (May-03). Some subset ~50 of the 80 slides are used
for the actual talk. (Powerpoint file)
-
First
Results from RHIC, presented at the April, 2002 APS meeting. This was
a 30 minute overview talk for a 'general' audience, intended to highlight
the first results from RHIC. I tried to restrict this to data that are in
the refereed literature (to emphasize the quality and rigor of results
from the first RHIC run). In addition to the explicit references made to
various theory publications in the talk, I was greatly aided in preparing
these slides by Y. Akiba, K. Barish, A. Franz, J. Harris, T. Ludlam, J.
Nagle, T. Roser, R. Seto, P. Steinberg, and F. Videbaek.
(These are the sources that I am explicitly aware of; undoubtedly I have
borrowed figures from others who I have forgotten to
acknowledge.)
The talk employs a fair amount of animation (with some plots behind other
plots), which is best viewed in the original
PowerPoint.
- A Tutorial on HBT, presented
at the 2002 Pan-American Study Institute (Two lectures, one file).
Available formats: PowerPoint,
HTML,
PDF
-
A
Year at RHIC. Slightly updated version of Erice talk, given as
colloquia at Purdue and NYU in Fall, 2001. This is a general overview of
RHIC Run-1 results, nominally at the colloquium level. (It is really about
two hours worth of material.) PowerPoint
file (10 MB) here.
-
Results
from RHIC Run-1. A version of this talk was given at the 2001 SLAC
Summer Institute and the September-01 Erice School on Sub-Nuclear Physics.
Many of the slides presented have been borrowed from various colleagues,
to whom I am very grateful. (Powerpoint file
here)
-
RHIC
and the Search for Quark-Gluon Plasma, presented 05-Jun-01 at the
31st
Anomalous Absorption Conference. Note: The PowerPoint file is animated,
if you view it with a browser you may
have to click repeatedly to display all the material on a given
page.
-
An
Introduction to RHIC Science, presented 19-Apr-01 to the
DOE/NSF
High Energy Physics Panel on Long Range Planning for U.S. High Energy
Physics. .
Note: The PowerPoint file is animated; depending on your browser you may
have to click repeatedly to display all the material on a given
page. Thanks to Mickey Chiu, Sean Kelly, Achim Franz, Jamie Nagle,
Shoji Nagamiya, Naohito Saito, Richard Seto, Raimond Snellings, Peter
Steinberg, and all others whose figures were used in this talk. (I have
included some material in response to questions from the sub-panel.)
-
Introduction
to RHIC Physics Upgrades, presented at the U.S. Nuclear Physics
Long Range Planning resolution
meeting in March, 2001. (PowerPoint file
for same).
-
A Pedestrian's Guide to RHIC and
Its Experiments:, presented at Student Mini-Symposium at Quark Matter 2001.
Note: The PowerPoint file is animated; depending on your browser you may
have to click repeatedly to display all the material on a given
page.
-
RHIC
Experimental Overview, presented at the RIKEN/BNL Research Center
Workshop on Transversity on 18-Sep-00. The
PowerPoint
source is also available.
-
Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collisions, presented at the
7th Conference on Intersections
Between Particle and Nuclear Physics on 25-May-00. The
PowerPoint
source is also available (10 MB).
-
Heavy Ion Collider
Experiments, presented at
Instrumentation '99 conference on
15-Nov-99. You can also get the
PowerPoint
source.
-
Overview of Heavy Ion Physics,
presented as introduction to the Ph.D. thesis of J. Schmidt-Sorensen at Lund University on
May 7th, 1999. Certainly not a PHENIX talk, but fhe first few slides give an introduction
to the goals of heavy ion physics at a level (I hope) suitable for the general public.
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HBT talk given at Nucleus-Nucleus 97
Conference. This isn't a PHENIX talk at all; in fact it's the last physics talk I have
before becoming spokesperson. It's stashed here solely out of laziness. The
postcript of my write-up for the proceedings is also here.
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