Conference Program
 
Nuclear Chemistry

June 15-20, 2003
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH

Chair:
Robert Wadsworth

Vice Chair:
Pawel Danielewicz

Supported By:


SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and check-in
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSTRUCTURE OF NEUTRON RICH LIGHT/MEDIUM MASS NUCLEI (I)
Discussion Leader: R.V.F. Janssens (Argonne National Laboratory)
A. Gade (Michigan State University)
Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams
K. Asahi (Tokyo Institute of Technology / RIKEN)
Measurements of nuclear moments for light unstable nuclei
B. Fornal (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow)
New sub-shell closures at N=32 and N=34 in neutron rich nuclei
G. Neyens (University of Leuven)
Moments of light and intermediate mass nuclei in their isomeric and ground states
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:30 amSTRUCTURE OF NEUTRON RICH LIGHT/MEDIUM MASS NUCLEI (II)
Discussion Leader: H. Emling (G.S.I.)
J. Tostevin (University of Surrey)
One- and two-nucleon spectroscopy: A role for knockout reactions?
D. Bazin (Michigan State University)
Wavefunction spectroscopy with knockout reactions
R. Palit (University of Frankfurt)
Ground state spectroscopy of neutron rich nuclei via high-energy reactions
10:30 am - 11:00 amCoffee Break and Photograph
11:00 am - 12:30 pmNUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY USING RADIOACTIVE ION BEAMS
Discussion Leader: J. Cizewski (Rutgers University)
R. Kozub (Tennessee Technological University)
Transfer reactions using radioactive ion beams from the HRIBF
H. Scheit (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg)
In-beam gamma spectroscopy of neutron-rich Na and Mg isotopes at REX-ISOLDE
E. Padilla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / UNAM)
Nuclear spectroscopy using RIBs at the HRIBF
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmFree Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmRECENT ADVANCES IN RADIOACTIVE DECAY STUDIES
Discussion Leader: J. Aysto (University of Jyvaskyla)
A. Piepke (University of Alabama)
Double beta decay: The next frontier in neutrino physics?
G. Hackman (TRIUMF)
Recent results from the 8Graphics/symbols/greek/pi.gif spectrometer at TRIUMF - ISAC
P. Dessagne (IReS laboratory, Strasbourg)
Beta decay studies of neutron rich nuclei near the closed shells
M. Pfutzner (Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw)
Two-proton radioactivity: the status and perspectives
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:40 amMASS MEASUREMENTS AND CALCULATIONS
Discussion Leader: C. Thibault (CSNSM, Orsay)
J.M. Pearson (University of Montreal)
Present status of Skyrme-Hartree-Fock mass formulas
J. Clark (University of Manitoba / Argonne National Laboratory)
Precise mass measurements of nuclides near the paths of the rp- and r- processes
Ch. Scheidenberger (G.S.I.)
New results on atomic masses and nuclear decay rates from experiments with single exotic nuclei at FRS-ESR
10:40 am - 11:10 amCoffee Break
11:10 am - 12:30 pmHEAVY ELEMENT SPECTROSCOPY
Discussion Leader: W. Loveland (Oregon State University)
R.-D. Herzberg (University of Liverpool)
Spectroscopy around Z=100: Challenge and opportunity
M.P. Carpenter (Argonne National Laboratory)
Coulomb excitation and few nucleon transfer reactions with heavy beams on actinide targets
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmFree Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPHASE TRANSITIONS AND CRITICAL POINT SYMMETRIES IN NUCLEI
Discussion Leader: R. Casten (Yale University)
J. Jolie (University of Koln)
Phase transitions in the extended Casten triangle: from experimental evidence to Landau theory
R. Bijker (UNAM)
Nuclear shapes, critical points and random interactions
N. Pietralla (University of Koln)
Mass A~120: a new region of critical point nuclei?
E. Ricard-McCutchan (Yale University)
Empirical realization of the X(5) symmetry in Z~70 nuclei
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9.00 am - 10.30 amISOMERS AND SHAPE EFFECTS IN NUCLEI
Discussion Leader: P.M. Walker (University of Surrey / TRIUMF)
S. Frauendorf (University of Notre Dame)
Nuclear tidal waves at moderate and high spin
A. Hayes (University of Rochester)
Coulomb excitation paths of high-K isomer bands in 178Hf
C. Wheldon (G.S.I.)
Acessing the neutron rich A~190 shape transition region using deep-inelastic reactions
10:30 am - 11:00 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pmDEVELOPMENTS IN THEORETICAL MODELS
Discussion Leader: A. Bulgac (University of Washington)
E. Ormand (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Nuclear structure from scratch
M. Ploszajczak (GANIL)
Shell model description of weakly bound nuclei
M.V. Stoitsov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia / ORNL)
Large scale HFB calculations for exotic nuclei
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmFree Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEXOTIC NUCLEAR SHAPES AND MODES OF EXCITATION
Discussion Leader: F. Azaiez (IReS, Strasbourg)
P. Fallon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Nuclei at extreme deformations
A. Maj (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow)
The Jacobi shape transition in light nuclei studied by the GDR
G. Hagemann (Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
Rotation of a triaxial nucleus - the wobbling motion
S. Zhu (University of Notre Dame)
A composite chiral pair of rotational bands in the odd-A nucleus 135Nd
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSTUDIES OF N~Z NUCLEI AND N-P PAIRING CORRELATIONS
Discussion Leader: A. Goodman (Tulane University)
R.R. Chasman (Argonne National Laboratory)
Neutron - proton pairing in nuclei
A. Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Neutron - proton pairing and the 3He,p reaction
10:25 am - 10:55 am Coffee Break
S.M. Fischer (DePaul University)
Unravelling the Band Crossings in 68Se and 72Kr: The Quest for Neutron-Proton Pairing in N=Z Nuclei
D. Rudolph (University of Lund)
High-spin phenomena in the mass 60 region
Poster presentation
Poster presentation
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pm Dinner
7.45 pm SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Discussion Leader: P. Danielewicz (Michigan State University)
A. Nathan (University of Illinois)
Baseball: It's not nuclear physics. Or is it?
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am Departure

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