Name: 2026 EIC User Group Early Career Workshop
Start: 2026-07-11T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-12T21:00:00+01:00
Location: James McCune Smith Learning Hub

2026 EIC User Group Early Career Workshop

from Saturday, July 11, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Sunday, July 12, 2026 (9:00 PM)

Monday, July 6, 2026
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Friday, July 10, 2026
Saturday, July 11, 2026

8:30 AM Registration: Registration & Coffee
Registration & Coffee
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Room 743
9:30 AM Session 1: Invited Talks
Invited Talks
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room 743
Contributions

9:30 AM Welcome and Logistics - Akshaya Vijay (University Of Manitoba) Derek Anderson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) Douglas Higinbotham (Jefferson Lab) Gary Penman (University of Glasgow) Jennifer Rittenhouse West (UC Berkeley) Wenliang Bill Li (Assistant204 Old BSU Annex204 Old BSU Annex Professor)

9:40 AM From RHIC to the EIC - Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 743
11:00 AM Session 2: Invited Talks
Invited Talks
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room 743
Contributions

11:00 AM An (Incomplete) Overview of Science Policy in the U.S. - Tarini Konchady

12:00 PM VIRTUE Demo - Sean Preins (University of California Riverside)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Room 743
1:30 PM Session 3: Contributed Talks (Detector & Hardware)
Contributed Talks (Detector & Hardware)
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Room 743
Contributions

1:30 PM (LECR) ePIC Low-Q2 Tagger - Gary Penman (University of Glasgow)

1:50 PM (EECR) Beam Test of a SiPM-on-Tile ZDC Prototype with 5.3 GeV Positrons at Jefferson Laboratory - Sean Preins (University of California Riverside)

2:10 PM (EECR) Preamplifier circuit for Direct Photon Detector for luminosity measurement - Jana Demjancukova (FNSPE CTU in Prague)

2:30 PM (EECR) Electrical characteristic for SiPM for direct method for luminosity measurement - Lada Radmacherova (Czech Technical University in Prague)

2:50 PM (LECR) Recent Developments of the AstroPix Imaging Layers for the ePIC Barrel Imaging Calorimeter - Bobae Kim (Argonne National Laboratory)
3:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Room 743
3:40 PM Session 4: Contributed Talks (Analysis, Theory/Pheno, and Beyond)
Contributed Talks (Analysis, Theory/Pheno, and Beyond)
3:40 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Room 743
Contributions

3:40 PM (LECR) Kaons Kaons, I Like Kaons - Stuart Fegan (University of York)

4:00 PM (EECR) A General Partial Wave Amplitude Formalism for Meson Electroprocution at the EIC - Dillon Leahy (University of Glasgow)

4:20 PM (EECR) High energy QCD: Evolution equations and particle production - José Garrido (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)

4:40 PM (EECR) Model-independent determination of proton structure functions at the Electron-Ion Collider - Javier Jiménez-López (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

5:00 PM (EECR) The Carbon Footprint of the Electron-Ion Collider - Ada Collins (University of Manitoba)
Sunday, July 12, 2026
9:00 AM Session 1: Contributed Talks (Analysis) and Posters
Contributed Talks (Analysis) and Posters
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room 743
Contributions

9:00 AM (EECR) Exclusive Production of Tau Lepton Pairs in Electron-Proton Collisions at the Electron-Ion Collider - Karol Ożóg (AGH University of Krakow)

9:20 AM (EECR) Exclusive Production of Electron and Muon Pairs in Electron-Proton Collisions at the Electron-Ion Collider - Kacper Kopeć (AGH University of Krakow)

9:40 AM (LECR) Drell-Yan at the EIC - Henry Klest (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:00 AM (EECR) Extracting Amplitudes for the Leptoproduction of Spin-1 Mesons - Dillon Leahy (University of Glasgow)

10:10 AM (EECR) VIRTUE: Virtual Interactive Reality Toolkit for Understanding the EIC - Sean Preins (University of California Riverside)

10:20 AM (LECR) The Dangers of Generative AI in Research - Gary Penman (University of Glasgow)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 743
11:00 AM Session 2: Contributed Talks (Analysis) and Software Tutorial
Contributed Talks (Analysis) and Software Tutorial
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room 743
Contributions

11:00 AM (LECR) Meson Structure/Lumi Measurements at the EIC - Stephen Kay (University of York)

11:20 AM EIC Software Tutorial: Track-Cluster Matching and PODIO (1) - Derek Anderson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Room 743
1:30 PM Session 3: Software Tutorial and Posters
Software Tutorial and Posters
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room 743
Contributions

1:30 PM EIC Software Tutorial: Track-Cluster Matching and PODIO (2) - Derek Anderson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

2:40 PM (EECR) Testing Particle Identification Components for the ePIC Detector - Kathleen Ramage (University of Glasgow)

2:50 PM (EECR) Design and Optical Simulation of a Laser Monitoring System for the ePIC pfRICH Detector - Zakia Sultana Tithi (Student)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room 743
3:30 PM Session 4: Voting and Town Hall
Voting and Town Hall
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room 743
Contributions

3:30 PM Group Photo

3:40 PM Voting

4:25 PM Early Career Town Hall [Closed Session] - Akshaya Vijay (University Of Manitoba) Derek Anderson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) Gary Penman (University of Glasgow) Jennifer Rittenhouse West (UC Berkeley)
6:30 PM Workshop Dinner

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM