  The Electron Ion Collider will have two interaction regions that can be
instrumented with detectors. The first region will be instrumented as part of
the project and needs to be capable of delivering the physics that has been
outlined by the National Academy of Sciences and ready at the start of beam
commissioning near the end of this decade. Plans for a second complementary
detector to be located at a second interaction region are already in progress
and will hopefully come to fruition just a few years after the first detector
comes online. While the basic parameters of these detectors are being selected
using conventional approaches, the optimization of the detectors is already
being enhanced by making use of advanced optimization techniques.
