Selected Conference Presentations

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"

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"

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

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"




Private and STAR Internal Presentations (protected)

2018

Date Meeting Presentation
Jan 25th STAR Collaboration Meeting Invariant Mass Spectra in p+p collisions at = 200 GeV
Jan 10th Dilepton Pair Efficiency studies




2017

Date Meeting Presentation
Dec 6th Dilepton Dimuon Background Shape Study
Dec 4th LFSUPC QM Update
Nov 22nd Dilepton Testing NN response correlations
Nov 11th Texas Heavy Ion and Spin Symposium STAR Dilepton Measurements in BES I and Plans for BES II
Nov 3rd STAR Analysis Meeting Invariant Mass Spectra in p+p collisions at = 200 GeV
Oct 20th Group UrQMD Study of Centrality Biases
Oct 27th Trigger QT cross talk
Oct 16th LFSUPC Data-Driven Muon Purity
Oct 9th Rice Data Science Conference Muon Identification in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
Oct 4th Dilepton Data-Driven Muon Purity
Sept 9 Group Meeting First MVA Results
Sept 13 Dilepton MTD Fast Simulation Update
July 19 Dilepton MTD Simulation and Multivariate Muon ID
July 5 Dilepton MTD Fast Simulation Update
June 30 STAR at Rice Dimuon Study
June 21 Dilepton MTD Fast Simulation
June 21 Software and Computing BTOF PID with Track Extension : Current Status
May 16 STAR Collaboration Meeting Dimuon Analysis Update
March 21 CBM Collaboration Meeting Simulation in STAR dimuon Analyses
March 18 CBM/STAR Joint Workshop BES II and Future Dilepton Measurements at STAR
March 1 Dilepton Background Normalization Techniques for Dimuon Analysis
Feb 7 Quark Matter 2017 Dilepton Production in p+p, Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV and U+U collisions at = 193 GeV
Jan 25 Dilepton Update Rho Meson Shape in Hadronic Cocktail
Jan 23 LFS Dimuon Invariant Mass Spectra in Au+Au & pp at = 200 GeV Collisions
Jan 18 Dilepton Dimuon Spectra Corrections
Jan 16 LFS Quark Matter Update
Jan 10 LFS Hadronic Cocktail for dimuons




2016

Date Meeting Presentation
Dec 20 Dilepton Dimuon Invariant Mass Spectra in Au+Au & pp at = 200 GeV Collisions
Dec 19 LFS Quark Matter Update
Dec 1 Internal HLT for Online VPD Calibration
Nov 28 LFS Hadronic Cocktail for Dilepton Analyses
Nov 21 LFS Running TX filese through STAR SIM
Nov 10 STAR Analysis Meeting Dimuon Invariant Mass Spectra in Au+Au & pp at = 200 GeV Collisions
Oct 31 LFS Dimuon Invariant Mass Spectra in Au+Au & pp at = 200 GeV Collisions
Oct 21 STAR at Rice Dimuon Invariant Mass Spectra in Au+Au & pp at = 200 GeV Collisions
Oct 17 Dilepton MTD Response in Run15 pp 200 GeV
Oct 14 STAR at Rice Dimuon Invariant Mass Spectra in Au+Au & pp at = 200 GeV Collisions
August 31 Software and Computing Run16 Au+Au 200 GeV TOF Calibration Update
August 16 STAR Collaboration Meeting Time Of Flight : Calibration and Software Update
August 15 STAR Collaboration Meeting Dimuon Mass Spectra in pp and Au+Au Collisions @ = 200 GeV
August 3 Software & Computing Run16 Au+Au 200 GeV TOF Calibration Update
July 25 Dilepton Proposal : Intermadiate Mass Dimuon Spectra in Au+Au Collisions @ = 200 GeV
June 25 LFS Run14 AuAu 14.5 GeV Spectra Comparison
June 13 LFS Run14 AuAu 14.5 GeV Spectra Comparison
June 1 Dilepton RunByRun QA
April 1 LFS AuAu14.5 GeV Comparison
March 15 Trigger Board PlanB Vpd L0 Resolution Check
Feb 29 WWND 2016 Identified Light and Strange Hadron Spectra @ = 14.5 GeV with STAR at RHIC BES I
Feb 24 STAR BNL Seminar Identified , K, Spectra in Au+Au Collisions at = 14.5 GeV
Feb 22 Trigger Board Run16 Trigger Board Feb22,
BBQ_Resolution,
MXQ Resolution,
VPD Resolution vs. GRefMult
Jan 22 STAR at Rice Streamlined Analysis Tasks with Condor




2015

Date Meeting Presentation
Sept 28 Quark Matter 2015 / Open Heavy Flavor and Strangeness Identified Light and Strange Hadron Spectra at = 14.5 GeV and Systematic Study of Baryon/Meson Effect at Intermediate Transverse Momentum with STAR at RHIC BES I
Sept 23-26 Pre-Quark Matter STAR Collaboration Meeting / LFS Session / Plenary Session QM Readiness Update
August 14 LFS QM Readiness Update
August 7 LFS Pid_RCP_Update_08_07_15.pdf
June 22 LFS Quark Matter Abstract
June 2 LFS PIDed_Rcp_June_02_15_Brandenburg.pdf
June 2 Bulkcorr and Heavy PWG Run14 AuAu14.5 GeV StRefMultCorr and Centrality
May 29 LFS Run 14 AuAu15 pi/k/p Embedding QA and Efficiency Calculations
May 15 LFS, Bulkcorr Systematic Uncertainties for Run14 AuAu 14.5 GeV Centrality Definitions
May 1 LFS Update on PID Rcp Analysis : PID Method
April 10 LFS PID Rcp Analyziz Update
Feb 20 LFS Reference Multiplicity Corrections for Run14 AuAu 14.5 GeV
Feb 18 Bulkcorr Reference Multiplicity Corrections for Run14 AuAu15 GeV
Feb 11 Software & Computing Issues with Run14 AuAu15 GeV Production visible in run-by-run observables
Jan 23 LFS Run14 AuAu15 GeV RefMultCorr QA - First Look




2014

Date Meeting Presentation
Nov 3 STAR Collaboration Meeting Collaboration MEeting Updated : Run14 AuAu 14.5 GeV PIDed Rcp + RefMultCorr
Oct 24 LFS Run14 AuAu15 Gev PIDed Rcp Update
Aug 8 LFS Run14 AuAu15 Gev PIDed Rcp