The program listed here is also available as a PDF. Click on each person’s name to see and hear their recorded talk, now posted on YouTube.
Sunday, June 19
Sterling Hall, room 1310, 475 North Charter Street, Madison.
Session I: Working and having fun with Willy |
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| 8:30 am | Informal get-together with refreshments |
| 9:27 am | Mark A. Eriksson, Chair of the department, Welcome to UW-Physics |
| 9:30 am | Tom Clegg (University of North Carolina), early polarized source work in Madison and other labs (30+5 mins) |
| 10:05 am | Pupa Gilbert (University of Wisconsin), teaching with Willy, cooking with Willy and Gaby (20+5 mins) |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 am | Paula Panczenko (Tandem Press), Willy and Gaby’s art collecting (15+5 mins) |
| 11:30 am | Fleming Crim (University of Wisconsin and NSF), Willy at the National Academy of Sciences, plus comments on NSF expansion (15+5 mins) |
| 11:50 pm | Time for short, contributed reminiscences |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch Break (boxed lunch in Sterling Hall or just outside in the garden by the Newton apple tree, if the weather is good) |
Session II: Polarized Beams and Targets |
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| 2:00 pm | Tom Wise (University of Wisconsin), polarized sources and internal targets developed with Willy for outside user experiments (30+5 mins) |
| 2:35 pm | Erhard Steffens (University of Erlangen), European experiments with polarized gas targets (30+5 mins) |
| 3:10 pm | Hans-Otto Meyer (Indiana University), physics with polarized beams and polarized internal targets in storage rings (30+5 mins) |
| 3:45 pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:05 pm | Thomas Roser (Brookhaven National Laboratory), accelerating polarized ion beams in RHIC and EIC, plus reminiscences of working on Simonius-Haeberli pp parity violation experiment (30+5 mins) |
| 4:40 pm | Yousef Makdisi (Brookhaven National Laboratory), polarized hydrogen jet target and absolute beam polarization calibration at RHIC (20+5 mins) |
| 5:05 pm | Time for short, contributed reminiscences |
| 5:45 pm | Break before dinner |
| 7:00 pm | Banquet Dinner in a private room (Great Hall) at Memorial Union, with after-dinner speaker Jay Davis (formerly at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, President Emeritus of The Hertz Foundation, Owner and Chief Sharecropper, Talking Bull Vineyard) |
Monday, June 20
Sterling Hall, room 1310, 475 North Charter Street, Madison
Session III: Willy’s Legacy, Part I: Symmetry and Fundamental Interaction Tests |
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| 9:00 am | Krishna Kumar (University of Massachusetts), status and future of parity-violating electron scattering experiments (30+5 mins) |
| 9:35 am | Steve Vigdor (Indiana University), Willy’s descendants and charge symmetry Breaking (30+5 mins) |
| 10:10 am | Frank Rathmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Search for the deuteron electric dipole moment at COSY (30+5 mins) |
| 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:05 am | Ed Stephenson (Indiana University), EDM searches with polarized beams (30+5 mins) |
| 11:40 pm | Group Photo |
| 12:00 pm | Buffet lunch at Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Orchard View room. |
Session IV: Willy’s Legacy, Part II: Nucleon Spin Structure |
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| 2:00 pm | Richard Milner (MIT), Visualizing the proton: a collaboration between art and science (30+5 mins) |
| 2:35 pm | Carl Gagliardi (Texas A&M University), RHIC Spin program and gluon polarization in the proton (30+5 mins) |
| 3:10 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 pm | Elke Aschenauer (Brookhaven National Laboratory), spin structure investigations planned for EIC (30+5 mins) |
| 4:05 pm | Time for short, contributed reminiscences |
| 4:30 pm | Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin), closing tribute to Willy |
| 5:00 pm | Symposium adjournment |
| 5:30 pm | Chazen Museum of Art (800 University Avenue), Unveiling of the art donated by Willy |