Name: Reflections on the atomic nucleus
Start: 2015-07-28T08:45:00+01:00
End: 2015-07-30T14:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Reflections on the atomic nucleus

from Tuesday 28 July 2015 (08:45) to Thursday 30 July 2015 (14:00)

Monday 27 July 2015
Tuesday 28 July 2015

08:45 Registration
Registration
08:45 - 09:30
09:30
09:30 - 10:05
Contributions

09:30 Welcome - Peter Butler (University of Liverpool)

09:35 Nuclear Structure Theory: today and tomorrow - Witold Nazarewicz (MSU/ORNL/Warsaw)
10:05
10:05 - 10:30
Contributions

10:05 Impact of superheavy element research on nuclear theory - Teng Lek Khoo (Argonne National Laboratory)
10:30 Break, Registration
Break, Registration
10:30 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:30
Contributions

11:15 The shell structure and stability of super-heavy nuclei - Michael Bender (Université Bordeaux and CNRS/IN2P3)

11:40 Current challenges in superheavy element research - Rodi Herzberg (University of Liverpool)

12:05 In-beam studies of the structure of exotic nuclei - Rauno Julin (University of Jyväskylä)
12:30 Lunch, Industrial exhibition, Registration
Lunch, Industrial exhibition, Registration
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 Developments in in-beam conversion electron spectroscopy - Janne Pakarinen (University of Jyväskylä)

14:25 Recent developments in detection technology for scientific research applications - James Cocks (Canberra Industries)

14:50 Nuclear Physics Experiments with High-Power Lasers and Brilliant Gamma Beams at the ELI-NP Facility - Dimiter Balabanski (ELI-NP)
15:15 Break, Industrial exhibition
Break, Industrial exhibition
15:15 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:15
Contributions

16:00 Thermodynamic and electromagnetic properties of nuclei - Magne Guttormsen (University of Oslo)

16:25 Couplings between particle and phonons around neutron-rich doubly-magic nuclei - Silvia Leoni (University of Milano and INFN)

16:50 Beta-strength, decay heat and anti-neutrino spectra from Total Absorption Spectroscopy - Krzysztof Rykaczewski (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
17:15 Leisure time
Leisure time
17:15 - 18:00

18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday 29 July 2015
09:15
09:15 - 10:30
Contributions

09:15 Can we use nuclear structure to constrain the sites of the r-process? - Ani Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame)

09:40 The Triangular D3h Symmetry of 12C - Moshe Gai (University of Connecticut)

10:05 If you like it you should have put a ring on it - Philip WOODS (University of Edinburgh)
10:30 Break, Industrial exhibition
Break, Industrial exhibition
10:30 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:30
Contributions

11:15 Coexisting quadrupole shapes in heavy exotic nuclei - Piet Van Duppen (KU Leuven)

11:40 Spin 60 and beyond: Exotic behavior at the limits of angular momentum - Mark Riley (Florida State University)

12:05 Myths of Collective Structures in Atomic Nuclei - John Sharpey-Schafer (University of the Western Cape)
12:30 Lunch, Industrial exhibition
Lunch, Industrial exhibition
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 Exploring yrast structures in neutron-rich nuclei with deep-inelastic collisions - Bogdan FORNAL (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

14:25 New developments in nuclear DFT - Jacek Dobaczewski (Universities of Warsaw, Jyväskylä and York)

14:50 Precision Measurements of Nuclear Ground-state Properties for Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Fundamental Studies - Klaus Blaum (Max-Planck-Institute Heidelberg)
15:15 Break, Conference photo
Break, Conference photo
15:15 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:15
Contributions

16:00 Nuclear physics with ion traps - Juha Äystö (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

16:25 Constraining the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Matrix Elements using Transfer Reactions - Sean Freeman (University of Manchester)

16:50 Probing beyond-‘Standard-‘Model physics at low energy - Tim Chupp (University of Michigan)
17:15 Leisure time
Leisure time
17:15 - 19:00

19:00 Conference Banquet
Conference Banquet
19:00 - 23:00
Thursday 30 July 2015
09:15
09:15 - 10:30
Contributions

09:15 Measurement of B(E3; 0 - 3-) strength in strongly octupole correlated nuclei near 224Ra - Marcus Scheck (University of the West of Scotland)

09:40 Octupole correlations beyond the mean field - Luis Robledo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

10:05 Dual quantum liquid picture of nuclei and its implication to reflection asymmetry - Takaharu Otsuka (University of Tokyo)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:15
Contributions

11:00 Producing radioactive ion beams through the ISOL method: advances, challenges and opportunities - Mark Huyse (KU Leuven)

11:25 TSR project at ISOLDE - Fredrik Wenander (CERN)

11:50 Radioactive Beam Facilities for Tomorrow - Yorick Blumenfeld (Institut de Physique Nucléaire-Orsay)
12:15
12:15 - 12:35
Contributions

12:15 Summary talk - John Simpson (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 14:00

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