I would like to extend my warm welcome to all the ANPA members who have gathered in-person and remotely in Florida to exchange ideas, discuss together and learn more on High Energy/Nuclear/Particle Physics. The 7th ANPA2024 Conference would have a lot of responsibilities to shoulder especially covering a broad range of energy from perhaps KeV to TeV scales and I would like to express an early thanks to all the members, especially the members of High Energy/Nuclear/Particle Physics. The vision of ANPA is beyond just providing the platform, but also to inspire future generation of Nepali physicists all over the globe. I wish that the 7th ANPA2024 will be successful and enjoyable to all the participants and stimulate young High Energy/Nuclear/Particle Physicists to continue active work for the future physics. Let’s Physics!”

History and Future of accelerator development at Brookhaven National Lab

This talk gives a brief history on particle accelerators and Brookhaven Lab’s contributions to advances in the field of accelerator physics. It will then provide an overview of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility and the physics experiments that took place there. It will also discuss plans for the transition from RHIC to the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).