RHIC Retreat 2008
March 31st - April 1st
Closeout April 2nd

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Monday, March 31st
AM Session	Overview Session
(8:30 - 12:15)
Chair:	T. Roser
08:30	Welcome	D. Lowenstein
08:40	Introduction	F. Pilat
08:45	The Nuclear Physics Program and plans for RHIC Run-9	S. Vigdor
09:15	Projections for Run-9 and beyond	W. Fischer
09:30	Run-8: Deuteron - Gold	C. Gardner
09:45	Run-8: Polarized Protons	C. Montag
10:00	Run-8: Low energy	T. Satogata
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45	The STAR Experiment	W. Christie
11:15	The Phenix Experiment	M. Leitch
11:45	The APEX Program	F. Pilat
12:00	The Scheduling Physicist’s view	M. Sivertz
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
PM Session	Preparation for Ion and PP  Operations
(14:00 - 18:30)
Chair:	W. Fischer
Organizers:	K. Brown, C. Montag
14:00	Stochastic cooling	M. Brennan
14:20	56 MHz cavity update, plans	I. Ben Zvi
14:40	Transition: Longitudinal improvements	N. Abreu
15:00	Transition: Transverse improvements	C. Montag
15:20	IBS lattice evaluation	V. Ptitsyn
15:40	Beta-squeeze improvements for Run9	T. Satogata
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30	PP cross sections, comparison run to run	A. Drees
16:50	Transverse emittance measurement, preservation	A. Zelenski
17:10	Longitudinal emittance reduction, preservation	E. Pozdeyev
17:30	AGS performance and polarization	H. Huang
17:50	Strategy for polarization development in RHIC	M. Bai
18:10	Polarimetry	Y. Makdisi
20:00 - 21:30	Dinner
Tuesday, April 1st
AM Session	Operations and Systems
(8:30-12:30)
Chair:	P. Pile
Organizers:	F. Pilat, P. Ingrassia
08:30	Operations statistics, Human error	P. Ingrassia
08:50	Maintenance and shutdown organization	P. Sampson
09:10	The view from operations	G. Marr
09:30	AGS Vacuum and operations for Run-9	L. Ahrens
09:50	RHIC Polarimeter operations	M. Sivertz
10:10	Solutions and Plans for 10Hz compensation	J. Tuozzolo
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50	Power supplies	D. Bruno
11:10	RHIC LLRF phase1, 9 MHz plans	A. Zaltsman
11:30	Access Controls	J. Reich
11:50	Controls	J. Morris
12:10	Instrumentation	T. Russo
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
PM Session	Panel led Discussion
(2:00-6.00 PM)
Chair:	D. Lowenstein
Panel:	L. Ahrens, P. Ingrassia, W. MacKay, R. Michnoff, J. Sandberg, T. Satogata
14:00 - 16:00	Panel-led Session – Part 1
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	Panel-led Session – Part 2
Wednesday, April 2nd
(13:30-16:30)	Retreat Closeout, Snyder Auditorium, Bldg. 911
Chair:	D. Lowenstein
13:30	CERN LHC Heavy Ions	J. Jowett
14:00	Preparation for Run-9 - Ions	K. Brown
14:30	Preparation for Run-9 – Polarized Protons	C. Montag
14:50	Review of plans for PP 250	M. Bai
15:10	Operations & systems // MCR Upgrade	F. Pilat
15:40	Panel –led discussion session	M. Brennan

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