13–15 Aug 2025
Texas A&M University
US/Central timezone

Program

Wednesday, August 13, 2025    
Workshops        
Time (CDT) Workshop Organizer Program Auditorium

8:30 - 12:00

(break refreshments available ~10:30)

Workshop on Particle Tracking and Timing Andy Rogers, UMass Lowell; Alfredo Estrade, CMU; Jorge Pereira, FRIB/MSU Program Hawking Auditorium (MIST MB01)
Planning for a new Separator and Analyzer at TAMU for Understanding Reactions of Nuclei (SATURN) Grigory Rogachev (TAMU) Program MPHY 203
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch provided      
13:00  - 16:00 Early Career Workshop Jennifer Pore, LBNL; Andrea Richard, OSU; Becca Toomey, LLNL

Program

Link to the slides of Dr Gastel's talk

Hawking Auditorium (MIST MB01)
16:00 - 18:00 Student Poster Session
(refreshments provided)
Phil Adsley, TAMU   MIST hallway (Pendulum)
18:00 Tour of TAMU Cyclotron Institute offered      

 

Thursday, August 14, 2025

8:30 AM - 16:10: Working Group Sessions

Time (CDT) Session Duration (min)
7:30 - 8:30 Arrival/Registration  
8:30 - 10:00 Working Group Session 1 90
10:00 - 10:20 Break 20
10:20 - 11:50 Working Group Session 2 90
11:50 - 12:50 Lunch (provided) 60
12:50 - 14:20 Working Group Session 3 90
14:20 - 14:40 Break 20
14:40 - 16:10 Working Group Session 4 90
16:10 - 16:30 Break 20

 

Thursday, August 14, 2025
Plenary Session 1

MPHY 203-204

 
Time (CDT) Presentation Speaker Duration (min)
Session Chair: Ben Kay (ANL)
16:30 - 16:40 Welcome Grigory Rogachev (TAMU) 10
16:40 - 16:55 Presentation of FRIB Achievement Awards for Early Career Researchers Andrea Richard (Ohio University) and Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University) 15
16:55 - 17:20 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers Presentation - Experiment award winner Erich Leistenschneider (LBNL) 20+5
17:20 - 17:45 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers Presentation - Theory award winner Cole Pruitt (LLNL) 20+5
17:45 - 18:10 Informing the Nation’s Leaders: How Physicists Can Inform National Security and Science Policy Decisions Jaclyn Schmitt (Institute for Defense Analyses) 20+5
18:10 End Plenary Session 1 - Dinner on own    
18:30

Graduate Student Social Event*

*Note: this is a self-organized event by graduate students and is not sponsored

Meet at the pendulum in the Mitchell Physics Building to walk to Voodoo Brewing Company  

 

Friday, August 15, 2025
Plenary Session 2

MPHY 203-204

 
Time (CDT) Presentation Speaker Duration
Session Chair: Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University)
8:30 - 9:00 NSF Agency Comments Allena Opper, NSF 20+10
9:00 - 9:30  DOE Agency Comments Sharon Stephenson, DOE 20+10
9:30 - 10:00 FRIB Status Thomas Glasmacher (FRIB/MSU) 25+5
10:00 - 10:30 ATLAS Status Guy Savard (ANL) 25+5
10:30 - 10:40 Intro to Resolutions Andrea Richard, Chair of FRIBUOEC (Ohio University) 10
10:40 - 11:00 Group photo 
Break
  20
Session Chair: Sherry Yennello (TAMU)
11:00 - 11:25 NSAC Subcommittee Presentation on US Science Program Impact Ian Cloet (ANL) 20+5
11:25 - 11:45 ARUNA Overview Dan Bardayan (Notre Dame) 15+5
11:45 - 12:05 ARUNA Focus: Ohio University Andrea Richard (Ohio University) 15+5
12:05 - 12:25 FRIB Theory Alliance Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University) 15+5
12:25 - 12:50 Working Group Summaries, Resolutions, Closeout Andrea Richard, Chair of FRIBUOEC (Ohio University) 20+5
12:50 End of Meeting - Lunch provided    
13:00 Tour of TAMU Cyclotron Institute offered