Conference Program
| Nuclear Structure '06 Program | |||
| Sunday July 23, 2006 | |||
| 17:00-21:00 | Registration (Pollard Auditorium) | ||
| 18:00-21:00 | Welcome Reception (Pollard Auditorium) |
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| Monday July 24 | |||
| 8:45 | C. Baktash, L.Riedinger, G. Young | Welcome & General Announcements | |
| Session I.A | Chair: W. Nazarewicz | ||
| 9:00 | Rupert Machleidt | Nuclear Forces From Effective Field Theory | |
| 9:25 | Larry Cardman | Nuclear Structure at JLAB | |
| 9:50 | Alexandra Gade | Nuclear-Structure Studies in the Vicinity of N=28 | |
| 10:15 | Jacek Dobaczewski | Shell Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei: A Theoretical Perspective | |
| 10:40 | Break | ||
| Session I.B, Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Gammasphere -- C.J. Lister | |||
| 11:10 | Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri | Introduction | |
| 11:20 | Augusto Macchiavelli | Gammasphere: The First Decade | |
| 11:50 | Paul Fallon | Nuclear Superdeformation | |
| 12:20 | Teng-Lek Khoo | Decay into and Out of the Superdeformed Well and Structure of Shell-Stabilized Nuclei | |
| 12:50 | Lunch | ||
| Session I.C: Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Gammasphere -- D.C. Radford | |||
| 14:30 | Demetrios Sarantites | Gammasphere as an Auxiliary Detector | |
| 15:00 | Doug Cline | Neutron-Rich and Coulex Experiments | |
| 15:30 | Mike Carpenter | Proton Drip-Line Spectroscopy | |
| 16:00 | Break | ||
| Session I.D: Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Gammasphere -- I.-Y. Lee | |||
| 16:30 | Bob Wadsworth | Magnetic Rotation in Nuclei: A Brief Review and Open Questions | |
| 17:00 | George Dracoulis | High-K Spectroscopy | |
| 17:30 | Stefan Frauendorf | A Closeup of the Spinning Nucleus | |
| Tuesday July 25 | |||
| Session II. A | Chair: K. Matsuyanagi | ||
| 9:00 | Ken Nollett | Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Bound and Unbound Nuclear States | |
| 9:25 | Achim Schwenk | Nuclear Structure With Low-Momentum Interactions | |
| 9:50 | Thomas Neff | Nuclear Structure With Correlated Realistic Interactions | |
| 10:15 | Thomas Papenbrock | Coupled-Cluster Theory for Nuclei | |
| 10:40 | Break | ||
| Session II. B | Chair: M. Guttormsen | ||
| 11:10 | Felix Liang | Fusion of Radioactive 132Sn and 64Ni | |
| 11:30 | Lee Bernstein | Measuring the Un-Measurable - Surrogate Reactions Using STARS+LIBERACE* | |
| 11:50 | Shaofei Zhu | Approaching 78Ni Along the N=50 Line Utilizing Deep Inelastic Reactions | |
| 12:10 | Sunniva Siem | Level Densities and Radiative Strength Functions in Sm Isotopes | |
| 12:35 | Gurgen Ter Akopian | Neutron Excess Nuclei of Hydroge and Helium Studied at ACCULINNA | |
| 12:42 | Lunch | ||
| Session II.C | Chair: M. Smith | ||
| 14:00 | Olof Tengblad | Properties of 9B and 12C Determined in Beta-Decay and in Low Energy Reaction | |
| 14:25 | Ronald Livesay | The Structure of 8B Through Measurement of 7Be+P Scattering | |
| 14:45 | Adam Hecht | Decay of the r-Process Waiting Point Nucleus 138Sn and Adjacent Nuclei | |
| 15:05 | Ari Jokinen | Precision Measurements of Ground-State Masses for Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics | |
| 15:25 | Peter Schury (poster) | First Precision Penning Trap Mass Measurements of Short-Lived Nuclei From Fast Beam Fragmentation | |
| 15:32 | Break | ||
| Session II.D | Chair: P. Chowdhury | ||
| 16:00 | Walter Loveland | Overview of the Synthesis of the Heaviest Elements | |
| 16:25 | Kouji Morimoto | Experiments On Synthesis of Superheavy Elements at RIKEN | |
| 16:50 | Rodi Herzberg | Trans-Fermium Spectroscopy | |
| 17:15 | Sujit Tandel | Multi-Quasiparticle States in 254No: K-Conservation, Single Particle Energies and Pairing Strengths | |
| Session II.E (Evening) | Discussion Leader: M. Riley | ||
| 19:30-21:00 | Town Meeting On Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy | ||
| Wednesday July 26 | |||
| Session III.A | Chair: A. Baran | ||
| 9:00 | Willem Dickhoff | Microscopic Many-Body Calculations of Nucleons Near the Fermi Energy | |
| 9:20 | Richard Furnstahl | Density Functional Theory From Effective Field Theory and the Renormalization Group | |
| 9:45 | Sait Umar | 3-D Unrestricted TDHF Calculations of Heavy-Ion Collisions | |
| 10:05 | Kenichi Matsuyanagi | Sensitivity of Soft Vibrational Modes On Quadrupole Deformations in 32Mg and 34Mg | |
| 10:25 | Break | ||
| Session III.B | Chair: S. Tabor | ||
| 10:55 | Javier Valiente-Dobon | Exploring the Changing of Shell Structure of Nuclei at N=50 | |
| 11:20 | Maurycy Rejmund | Reaching New Frontiers With Deep Inelastic Reactions at GANIL | |
| 11:45 | Chang-Hong Yu | Coulomb Excitation of Neutron-Rich Radioactive Beams Near 132Sn | |
| 12:05 | Joakim Cederkall | In Beam Spectroscopy at REX-ISOLDE | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| Session III.C | Chair: A.V. Ramayya | ||
| 14:00 | Mark Riley | The Return of Significant Collectivity Beyond Band Termination in N~90 Erbium Nuclei at Ultra-High Spin | |
| 14:20 | Costel Petrache | Misinterpretation of Near-Degenerate Bands as Chiral Partners | |
| 14:45 | Joseph Hamilton (Poster) | Evidence for Chiral Doublet-Bands in 108,110,112 Ru | |
| 14:55 | Daniel Almehed | Dynamical Aspects of Chiral Rotation | |
| 15:15 | Mirela Fetea | A First Test of the E(5/4) Bose-Fermi Symmetry: The Structure of 135Ba | |
| 15:35 | Gillis Carlsson (Poster) | Many-Particles Plus Rotor Description of Magnetic Bands at High Spin | |
| 15:42 | Walter Reviol (Poster) | The "Octupole Transitional" Nuclei 219,220Th | |
| 15:49 | Nobuo Hinohara (Poster) | Microscopic Approach to Oblate-Prolate Shape Coexistence Phenomena in Nuclei Around 68Se and 72Kr | |
| Poster Session & Tours | |||
| 16:00 | Break | ||
| 16:00 | Poster Session | ||
| 17:30 | Board buses for tours | ||
| 18:00-20:00 | Tour of SNS or HRIBF | ||
| 20:30 | Buses return to hotels | ||
| Thursday July 27 | |||
| Session IV.A | Chair: T. Glassmacher | ||
| 9:00 | Aoi Nori | Structure Studies of Nuclei in and Near the Island of Inversion at RIPS | |
| 9:30 | Andreas Schiller | First Excited State of Doubly-Magic 24O | |
| 9:50 | James Terry | Single-Particle Structure Near the Island of Inversion by Neutron Knockout From 26,28Ne and 30,32Mg | |
| 10:10 | Julien Gibelin | Search for Low-Lying Dipole Strength in the Neutron Rich Nucleus 26Ne | |
| 10:30 | Break | ||
| Session IV.B | Chair: I. Ragnarsson | ||
| 11:00 | Taka Otsuka | Shell Evolution and Nuclear Forces | |
| 11:30 | Petr Navratil | Applications of the Ab initio No-Core Shell Model for Nuclear Structure and Reactions | |
| 11:55 | Shinichiro Fujii | A New Microscopic Shell-Model Approach to Neutron-Rich Carbon Isotopes | |
| 12:15 | Guergana Stoitcheva (Poster) | Symmetry Violation and Restoration Schemes at Band Termination | |
| 12:22 | Nadya Smirnova (Poster) | The Monopole Shift in Nuclei and Properties of the Effective Nuclear Force | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| Session IV.C | Chair: L. Riedinger | ||
| 14:00 | Juergen Gerl | Nuclear In-Beam and Decay Spectroscopy With RISING | |
| 14:25 | I-Yang Lee | Progress in Development of Gamma-Ray Tracking Detectors | |
| 14:55 | Sydney Gales | Secondary Radioactive Beam Facilities in Europe: At the Dawn of a New Era | |
| 15:35 | Break | ||
| Session IV.D | Chair: J. Beene | ||
| 16:00 | Alan Shotter | Progress at ISAC | |
| 16:15 | Tohru Motobayashi | RI Beam Factory at RIKEN | |
| 16:40-18:00 | Rick Casten | RIA: Update and Open Discussion | |
| 19:00 | Cocktails (Doubletree) | ||
| 19:30-22:30 | Banquet (Doubletree) | Music by internationally renowned jazz artist Donald Brown and Friends | |
| Friday July 28 | |||
| Session V.A | Chair: V. Oberacker | ||
| 9:00 | Takashi Nakatsukasa | Static and Dynamic Approaches to Collective Excitations in Nuclei Far From Stability Line | |
| 9:25 | Masayuki Matsuo | Collective Excitations in the Strong Pairing Limit in Nuclei Near the Neutron Drip Line | |
| 9:45 | Masayuki Yamagami | Pairing and Continuum Effects for Low-Frequency Vibrational Excitations | |
| 10:05 | Jimmy Rotureau | Density Matrix Renormalization Group Approach for Many-Body Open Quantum Systems | |
| 10:25 | Break | ||
| Session V.B | Chair: N. Koller | ||
| 11:00 | Andrew Stuchbery | Nuclear Structure of n-Rich Nuclei From Excited-State g-Factor Measurements on Radioactive Beams | |
| 11:30 | Kei Minamisono | Nuclear Magnetic Moment of 57Cu Ground State | |
| 11:50 | Radomira Lozeva | Lifetime and g-Factor Measurements of Isomeric States in the Sn Region Using Relativistic Fission Fragments | |
| 12:15 | Sanjay Kumar Chamoli | Quadrupole Moment Measurement in Fragmentation Reactions: Case of 61mFe | |
| 12:35 | Volker Werner (Poster) | First Measurement of the g Factor of a Mixed-Symmetry State | |
| 12:42 | Lunch | ||
| Session V.C | Chair: C. Svensson | ||
| 14:00 | Roderick Clark | The Transition From Vibrational to Rotational Regimes in the Pairing Phase | |
| 14:20 | Geoff Grinyer | High Precision Half-Life Measurement of the Superallowed Beta+ Emitter 18Ne Via Gamma-Ray Counting | |
| 14:40 | Andrew Steer | New Spectroscopic Studies of the N=Z Nuclei 74Rb, 76Sr and 78Y | |
| 15:00 | Anatoli Afanasjev | Rotating N~Z Nuclei: A Search for Isovector and Isoscalar Neutron-Proton Pairing Condensates | |
| 15:20 | Andrew Robinson (Poster) | Ground State Proton Radioactivity from 121Pr and Alpha Decay of 105Te | |
| 15:30 | Chiara Mazzocchi (Poster) | On the Alpha Decay of 109I | |
| 15:40 | Break | ||
| Session V.D | Chair: J. Batchelder | ||
| 16:10 | Yasuro Funaki | Alpha Cluster States in 12C and 16O | |
| 16:30 | Emma Johansson | Proton Decay in the Mass 60 Region: The 10+ isomer in 54Ni | |
| 16:55 | Ernst Roeckl | One-Proton and Two-Proton Radioactivity of the (21+) Isomer in 94Ag | |
| 17:15 | Robert Grzywacz | Fast Alpha-Decay Near Doubly-Magic 100Sn: The Discovery of 105Te | |
| 17:35 | Closing remarks | ||
| 17:45 | End of the conference | ||
