sPHENIX HCal discussion

[Craig Woody <woody AT bnl.gov>]

Dear All,
  Just a reminder that the deadline for abstract submission to this year's NSS/MIC/RTSD conference is May 6th. As most of you know, this is the largest instrumentation conference held each year and includes sessions on detector development for both nuclear and high energy physics. It's an ideal forum to present results on some of the work we're doing on sPHENIX which I'm sure would be of great interest to others in the community.

  The conference will be held totally virtually this year and will have both oral and poster presentations, but even the poster contributions will likely have "mini-oral" presentations to give authors a chance to talk about their work. It will also feature a keynote speaker, Prof. Takaaki Kajita from the University of Tokyo, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics in for the discovery of neutrino oscillations at Super Kamiokande.

  Instructions for submitting a contribution can be found on the conference website (  https://nssmic.ieee.org/2021/ ) which requires an abstract and two page summary of what will be presented. The summary is only used for paper selection and will not appear in any proceedings and can be used to describe future results that will be presented at the time of the conference. I'm sure there will be a lot of results presented on the detector upgrades that are taking place at CERN for all the LHC experiments so let's also get the word out about what we're doing in sPHENIX.

Cheers,
Craig