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, July 28, 2015 (8:45 AM) to Thursday, July 30, 2015 (2:00 PM)

Monday, July 27, 2015
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

8:45 AM Registration
Registration
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Opening
9:30 AM - 10:05 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Welcome - Peter Butler (University of Liverpool)

9:35 AM Nuclear Structure Theory: today and tomorrow - Witold Nazarewicz (MSU/ORNL/Warsaw)
10:05 AM Shell structure via heavy nuclei I
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

10:05 AM Impact of superheavy element research on nuclear theory - Teng Lek Khoo (Argonne National Laboratory)
10:30 AM Break, Registration
Break, Registration
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM Shell structure via heavy nuclei II
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:05 PM In-beam studies of the structure of exotic nuclei - Rauno Julin (University of Jyväskylä)
12:30 PM Lunch, Industrial exhibition, Registration
Lunch, Industrial exhibition, Registration
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM New experimental probes I
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Developments in in-beam conversion electron spectroscopy - Janne Pakarinen (University of Jyväskylä)

2:25 PM Recent developments in detection technology for scientific research applications - James Cocks (Canberra Industries)

2:50 PM Nuclear Physics Experiments with High-Power Lasers and Brilliant Gamma Beams at the ELI-NP Facility - Dimiter Balabanski (ELI-NP)
3:15 PM Break, Industrial exhibition
Break, Industrial exhibition
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Shapes & strengths
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Thermodynamic and electromagnetic properties of nuclei - Magne Guttormsen (University of Oslo)

4:25 PM Couplings between particle and phonons around neutron-rich doubly-magic nuclei - Silvia Leoni (University of Milano and INFN)

4:50 PM Beta-strength, decay heat and anti-neutrino spectra from Total Absorption Spectroscopy - Krzysztof Rykaczewski (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
5:15 PM Leisure time
Leisure time
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Reception
Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
9:15 AM Nuclear astrophysics
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Can we use nuclear structure to constrain the sites of the r-process? - Ani Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame)

9:40 AM The Triangular D3h Symmetry of 12C - Moshe Gai (University of Connecticut)

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

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

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

12:05 PM Myths of Collective Structures in Atomic Nuclei - John Sharpey-Schafer (University of the Western Cape)
12:30 PM Lunch, Industrial exhibition
Lunch, Industrial exhibition
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM New vistas of nuclear structure
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Exploring yrast structures in neutron-rich nuclei with deep-inelastic collisions - Bogdan FORNAL (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

2:25 PM New developments in nuclear DFT - Jacek Dobaczewski (Universities of Warsaw, Jyväskylä and York)

2:50 PM Precision Measurements of Nuclear Ground-state Properties for Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Fundamental Studies - Klaus Blaum (Max-Planck-Institute Heidelberg)
3:15 PM Break, Conference photo
Break, Conference photo
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Nuclear structure & fundamental physics
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Nuclear physics with ion traps - Juha Äystö (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

4:25 PM Constraining the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Matrix Elements using Transfer Reactions - Sean Freeman (University of Manchester)

4:50 PM Probing beyond-‘Standard-‘Model physics at low energy - Tim Chupp (University of Michigan)
5:15 PM Leisure time
Leisure time
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Conference Banquet
Conference Banquet
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Thursday, July 30, 2015
9:15 AM Aspects of nuclear collectivity II
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Measurement of B(E3; 0 - 3-) strength in strongly octupole correlated nuclei near 224Ra - Marcus Scheck (University of the West of Scotland)

9:40 AM Octupole correlations beyond the mean field - Luis Robledo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

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

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

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

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

12:15 PM Summary talk - John Simpson (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
12:35 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:35 PM - 2:00 PM

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