Selected Conference Presentations

The 8th International Conference on the Initial Stages in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, June 13, 2025
Contributed Talk, "Entanglement-Driven Correlations: A New Window into Early-Time QCD Dynamics"

2nd International Workshop on Ultra-Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions, June 13, 2025
Invited Plenary, "Probing Nuclear Structure through UPCs"

Wayne State University, February 27, 2025
Seminar, "Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

STAR Collaboration Meeting, December 11, 2024
Plenary Talk, "STAR Forward Upgrade"

STAR Collaboration Meeting, October 24, 2024
Plenary Talk, "STAR Forward Upgrade"

STAR Collaboration Meeting, August 14, 2024
Plenary Talk, "STAR Forward Upgrade"

Physics with High-Luminosity Proton-Nucleus Collisions at the LHC, July 5, 2024
Plenary Talk, "LHCb plans with photoinduced interactions in pA collisions"

LHCb IFT Workshop, July 2, 2024
Plenary Talk, "Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference in Ultra Peripheral Collisions"

2024 RHIC & AGS Users Meeting, June 11, 2024
Plenary Talk, "Workshop Summary: Cold QCD, Spin Physics, and Ultra-Peripheral Collisions from RHIC to EIC"

Joint Nuclear Physics Meeting of Kent State University and Ohio State University, May 21, 2024
Seminar, "Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

Physics Department, Cedarville University, April 11, 2024
Colloquium, "High Energy Nuclear Physics: From RHIC to the EIC Era"

LHC Forward Physics Workshop, March 13, 2024
Talk, "LHCb: Looking Forward"

The 39th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, February 12, 2024
Plenary Talk, "A Photon Runs Through It"

EIC/ePIC PreTDR Readiness Meeting, February 7, 2024
Plenary Talk, "DIS Electron Finding in ePIC"

Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Japanese Physical Society, November 30, 2023
Talk, "Nuclear Tomography through Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

The XVI Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, November 9, 2023
Invited Plenary, "Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

Top Quarks at the Precision Frontier, October 2, 2023
Invited Talk, "Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

Junior Day at the STAR Collaboration Meeting, September 12, 2023
Lecture, "The STAR Forward Rapidity Upgrade"

Quark Matter 2023 - the XXXth International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, September 8, 2023
Invited Plenary, "Discoveries in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions; Past, Present, Future"

The 2023 RHIC & AGS Users Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, August 3, 2023
Invited Plenary, "The ePIC Detector and Collaboration"

Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, August 2, 2023
Colloquium, "Breaking the Quantum Double-Slit Experiment to Peek Within Atomic Nuclei"

The 2023 EIC Users Meeting and ePIC Collaboration Meeting, July 26, 2023
Invited Plenary, "Update on Integration of Particle Flow and DIS Electron Finding"

The 2023 JETSCAPE Summer School, July 18, 2023
Lecture, "The Physics of Ultra-Peripheral Collisions"

MESON 2023, June 23, 2023
Invited Plenary, "Probing Gluon Dynamics with Polarized-Photon Gluon Collisions"

Science 'n Suds, Monthly Outreach Event, May 7, 2023
Public Lecture, "Creating Matter and Anti-matter from Light"

Quantum Photonics Treehouse Series, April 22, 2023
Lecture, "Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

RHIC-BES Online Seminar Series, April 12, 2023
Seminar, "Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

Physics Department, Kent State University, March 8, 2023
Colloquium, "Nuclear Tomography through Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

Institute for Nuclear Theory, Intersection between Nuclear Structure and High Energy Nuclear Physics, February 28, 2023
Invited Seminar, "Nuclear Tomography through Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, January 11, 2023
Colloquium, "Entanglement Enabled Spin Interference"

Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society, October 28, 2022
Talk, "Discovery of the Breit-Wheeler Process and its Application to Nuclear Charge and Mass Radii Measurements"

Workshop on Electromagnetic Effects in Strongly Interacting Matter, October 26, 2022
Invited Plenary, "Photon Mediated Processes at STAR: Studying the Electromagnetic Fields of Heavy-ion Collisions"

QCD Townhall Long Range Plan Meeting at MIT, September 24, 2022
Invited Talk, "Quantum Entanglement Enabled Nuclear Tomography"

New Vistas in Photon Physics Workshop, September 22, 2022
Invited Talk, "Discoveries with Polarized Photons at STAR"

9th Quarks and Nuclear Physics Conference, September 7, 2022
Invited Plenary, "The STAR Forward Rapidity Physics Upgrade"

Accelerating RHIC Science with Machine Learning, June 7, 2022
Talk, "Machine Learning in Experiment & Analysis"

Brookhaven National Laboratory, May 3, 2022
Seminar, "Quantum Interference Enabled Nuclear Tomography"

Instituto de Física Teórica, São Paulo, Brasil, April 6, 2022, ZOOM
Seminar, "Utilizing Photon-mediated Processes to Probe the Ultra-strong Electromagnetic fields of Heavy-ion Collisions"

The Ohio State University, March 31, 2022
Physics Coloquium, "Discoveries & Applications with Polarized Photons"

STAR Collaboration Meeting, February 24, 2022
Invited Plenary, "Tomography of Ultra-relativistic Nuclei with Polarized Photon-Gluon Collisions"

STAR Collaboration Meeting, February 20, 2022
Plenary Talk, "Update on STAR Forward Upgrade Project"

RBRC Workshop: Physics Opportunities from the RHIC Isobar Run January 25, 2022
Talk, Probing Nuclear Structure with Photon-Gluon Collisions

Workshop on Chirality, Vorticity, and Magnetic Fields in Heavy-ion Collisions, November 5, 2021
Invited Talk, "Experimental Results on Magnetic Fields in Ultra-peripheral Heavy-ion Collisions"

NuSTEAM High School Outreach Program, Brookhaven National Laboratory, August 12, 2021
Lecture, "The Physics of the STAR Forward Rapidity Upgrade"

LPHYS 2021: 29th Annual International Laser Physics Workshop, July 19, 2021
Invited Talk, "Observation of the Breit-Wheeler Process in Heavy-ion Collisions"

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Heavy-Ion Tea Seminar, June 22, 2021
Seminar, "Mapping the Electromagnetic Fields of Heavy-ion Collisions"

CFNS Workshop on RHIC Science Program toward EIC in the Coming Years, May 25, 2021
Invited Talk, "Linearly Polarized Photon-Gluon Collisions"

CFNS Workshop on Open Questions in Photon-induced Interactions, April 28, 2021
Invited Talk, "Correlations in Collisions of Polarized Photons"

APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Group on Hadronic Physics, April 16, 2021
Invited Talk, "Photon Mediated Processes from Strong Electromagnetic Fields"

The University of Plymouth, UK, March 17, 2021, ZOOM
Seminar, "Observation of the Breit-Wheeler Process in Heavy-Ion Collisions"

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, March 1, 2021, ZOOM
Seminar, "The Future is Breit: Photons at RHIC, LHC, and Beyond"

The Schwinger Effect and Strong-Field Physics, January 26, 2021, ZOOM
Seminar, "Observation of the Breit-Wheeler Process in Heavy-Ion Collisions"

VIth Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, January 13th, 2021, ZOOM
Talk, "Probing the Nucleus with Linearly Polarized Photons"

RHIC & AGS Users Meeting, October 22nd, 2020, ZOOM
Invited Presentation, "Effects of Strong Fields in Ultra-Peripheral and Peripheral A+A collisions"

115th High-Energy Nuclear Physics in China (HENPIC) Seminar, July 30, 2020, ZOOM
Seminar, "Observation of the Breit-Wheeler Process in Heavy-Ion Collisions"

UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas, May 16, 2020
Seminar, "Probing Ultra Strong Electromagnetic Fields"

Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, March 3, 2020
Plenary, "Probing Extreme Electromagnetic Fields with the Breit-Wheeler Process"

The Ohio State University, February 5, 2020
Seminar, "Probing Extreme Electromagnetic Fields with the Breit-Wheeler Process"

Quark Matter, November 5, 2019
Parallel, "Measurement of the $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow e^+e^-$ Process and its Angular Correlations"

Initial Stages, June 24, 2019
Parallel Talk, "STAR Upgrades"

RHIC & AGS User’s Meeting, June 4, 2019
Plenary, "STAR Upgrades"

FAIRNESS next generation scientists, May 24, 2019
Lecture, "Exploring QCD Matter at High Baryon Density"

Shandong University, May 10, 2019
Seminar, "Machine Learning for Heavy Ion Collisions"

STAR Collaboration Meeting Student Day, March 29, 2019
Lecture, "Machine Learning Opportunities in STAR"

Shandong University, January, 2019, Shandong, China
Invited Seminar, "Energy Dependence of Jet Quenching Signatures"

Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 16, 2018, Upton, NY, USA
Invited Seminar, "Energy Dependence of Jet Quenching Signatures"

International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, October 3, 2018
Parallel, "$\mu^+\mu^-$ Production in p+p and p+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV with the Muon Telescope Detector at STAR"

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, April 5, 2018, Berkeley, CA, USA
Invited Seminar, "Prospects for BES 2: what we learned in phase 1 and what to expect next"

Quark Matter, May 2018, Venice, Italy
Plenary Flash Talk, "Muon Identification using Neural Networks with the Muon Telescope Detector at STAR"

Texas Heavy Ion and Spin Symposium, Nov 2017, Rice University, Houston USA
Plenary Talk, "STAR Dilepton Measurements in BES I and Plans for BES II"

CBM/STAR Joint Workshop, March 2017, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Plenary Talk, "BES II and Future Dilepton Measurements at STAR"

Quark Matter, Feb 2017, Chicago, USA.
Parallel Talk, "Dilepton Production in p+p, Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV and U+U collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 193 GeV"

Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, March 2016, Guadeloupe, France
Plenary talk, "Identified Light and Strange Hadron Spectra at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 14.5 GeV with STAR at RHIC BES I"

Quark Matter, Oct 2015, Kobe, Japan
Parallel Talk, "Identified Light and Strange Hadron Spectra at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 14.5 GeV and Systematic Study of Baryon/Meson Effect at Intermediate Transverse Momentum with STAR at RHIC BES I"

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