sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Yip, Kin" <kinyip AT bnl.gov>]

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Organizational Announcement: Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and 
Particle Physics

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Haiyan Gao, who has served as 
Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Nuclear and Particle Physics since 
June 2021, will be leaving the Laboratory and returning to Duke University 
full time, effective June 30, 2024. Haiyan has been a key member of the Lab's 
leadership team since her arrival, and her knowledge, insight, and 
collaborative nature will be sorely missed.

Abhay Deshpande, currently director of Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) science at 
Brookhaven and founding director of the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear 
Science (CFNS) at Stony Brook University, has agreed to serve as interim ALD 
- effective July 1, 2024 - while we conduct an international search for 
Haiyan's replacement. We will share more information on that search process 
when it is available. 

Abhay is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the department of Physics and 
Astronomy at Stony Brook University. Abhay studies the quark-gluon structure 
and dynamics inside the protons and nuclei to understand Quantum 
Chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions within the Standard Model 
of physics. He also uses precision probes to explore the limits of the 
Standard Model of physics and search for effects beyond it. Abhay has been 
involved in and led nuclear/particle physics experiments at Brookhaven as 
well as at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), DESY (Hamburg, Germany), Jefferson 
Laboratory (Newport News, Virginia), and PSI (Zurich, Switzerland). He was 
one of the earliest proponents of the EIC (since the late 1990s) and has been 
a leader in developing EIC science, making the case for it, and initiating 
and organizing the users community and detector collaborations around the 
project.

During her time at Brookhaven, Haiyan oversaw two runs at the Relativistic 
Heavy Ion Collider; the construction, installation, and commissioning of the 
sPHENIX detector; and the expansion of the Lab's isotope research and 
production capabilities—all while enabling significant progress on the EIC 
project. She proved to be a responsive, caring leader whose contributions to 
the Lab's success went well beyond her immediate responsibilities. I hope you 
will join me in wishing her the best in her future endeavors and in 
supporting Abhay in this key interim position.

- JoAnne Hewett
Laboratory Director

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