English: Signing the six-year extension of the agreement on the physics program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the RIKEN BNL Research Center (RBRC) are (front) Maki Kawai, executive director of Japan’s RIKEN, and Sam Aronson, BNL director. With them are members of the RBRC Management Steering Committee, RBRC and BNL observers, RIKEN administrative staff, and other distinguished attendees. At Brookhaven National Laboratory.