Conference Program
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| 10:00 | Special Workshop on Isomers (Announcement) |
| Program of Workshop on Isomers |
Sunday morning, there exists the possibility to attend Holy Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. If your are interested in a service of another Christian denomination or religion a list of services can be found here.
| 10:00 | Mass at the Basilica with the Liturgical Choir |
| 11:45 | Mass at the Basilica with the Notre Dame Folk Choir |
During the day on Sunday, there is ample opportunity for activities on campus and in the area. On the following link, you will find a selection of what is possible to do in the area. On this site, you can also find a list of opportunities for dining.
Possible activities around Notre Dame
In the afternoon, the University's Snite Museum of Art is open. The collections of the Snite Museum of Art place it among the finest university art museums in the USA. The Fritz & Millie Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery of the museum is featuring the BRANCACCI PROJECT - PHASE ONE. In this series of murals, Bill Sandusky, professor of art at Saint Mary’s College, reinterprets the fresco cycle painted in the Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, Italy by Masaccio, Masolino and Filipino Lippi between about 1424 and 1480.
| 13:00 - 17:00 | Snite Museum of Art (on campus) |
| starting at 16:00 | Registration at the Center for Continuing Education (CCE), McKenna Hall |
| 17:30 - 20:30 | Welcoming reception in the courtyard of the Snite Museum of Art. Live Music is provided by the "NUCLEAR JAZZ QUARKTET" |
Nuclear Structure I (Isomers and Gamma Spectroscopy)
Chair: Rick Casten
| 8:30 | (25+5) min | Ani Aprahamian | Welcome and general remarks |
| 9:00 | (25+5) min | George Dracoulis | Isomers and Aspects of Nuclear Structure |
| 9:30 | (25+5) min | Jonathan Billowes | Isomer and ground state properties of yttrium and scandium isotopes measured by laser spectroscopy |
| 10:00 | (15+5) min | Norbert Pietralla | In-Beam g-Spectroscopy of Low-Spin Mixed-Symmetry States of 138Ce with Gammasphere in Singles-Mode |
| 10:20 | Coffee break |
Nuclear Structure II : Dedicated to the Memory of D.D. Warner
Chair: Ani Aprahamian
| 11:00 | (25+5) min | Rick Casten | Emerging Collectivity in Nuclei, Shape Coexistence, and Proton-Neutron Interactions |
| 11:30 | (25+5) min | Piet Van Isacker | Symmetry and Wigner energy in nuclei |
| 12:30 | (25+5) min | Takaharu Otsuka | Varying shell structure of sd-pf nuclei |
| 13:00 | (25+5) min | Alison Bruce | Light proton drip line nuclei studied using secondary-fragmentation reaction at GSI |
| 13:30 | Lunch break |
Nuclear Astrophysics I (CN0 Cycle)
Chair: Michael Wiescher
| 14:30 | (25+5) min | Art Champagne | Seeing the Stars and Capturing Gamma-Rays at LENA |
| 15:00 | (15+5) min | Hanns-Peter Trautvetter | Low energy underground study of 14N(p,g)15O differential and total cross section at LUNA |
| 15:20 | (15+5) min | Ralf Plag | An independent measurement of the 12C(a,g)16O cross section with the Karlsruhe 4p BaF2 detector |
| 15:40 | (15+5) min | Aaron Couture | 19F(p,g): Putting a Lid on the CNO Cycle |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
Fundamental Physics
Chair: Alan Wuosmaa
| 16:30 | (15+5) min | Victor Flambaum | Parity and time reversal violation in atomic and nuclei and test of Standard Model |
| 16:50 | (15+5) min | Pil-Neyo Seo | Measurement of Parity-Violating Gamma-ray Asymmetry in Radiative Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at LANSCE |
| 17:10 | (15+5) min | Raymond Moreh | Scattering of keV Neutrons and the problem of Quantum Entanglement |
| 17:30 | (15+5) min | Gary Mitchell | Random Matrix Thermodynamics | 17:50 | (15+5) min | Marcus McEllistrem | Isospin symmetry of isobaric triplets along the N ~ Z line |
| 18:10 | (15+5) min | Sadia Choudry | Study of Charge symmetry in 18O and 18Ne |
| 18:30 | Dinner Break |
Data for Nuclear- and Astrophysics Applications with Reception (Room 210 - 214)
Chair: Rick Firestone
| 19:30 | (15+5) min | Filip Kondev | Nuclear Structure and Decay Data Evaluation: Current Status and Future Perspectives |
| 19:50 | (15+5) min | Alexander Sukharuk | An Updated Library of Reaction Rates for the Astrophysical rp-Process. The Importance for the Nuclear Structure Effects |
| 20:10 | (15+5) min | Iris Dillmann | (n,g) cross sections of light p nuclei: Towards an updated experimental database for the s and p process and KADoNiS- An experimental online database for the s and p process |
| 20:30 | (15+5) min | Boris Pritychenko | Nuclear Data Resources for Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics and Nuclear Reaction and Structure Databases of the National Nuclear Data Center |
| 20:50 | (15+5) min | Kim Guinyun | Measurements of Neutron Capture Cross Sections for Gd isotopes in the Energy Region from 10 keV to 90 keV |
Nuclear Masses and Shell Model
Chair: Grant Mathews
| 8:30 | (25+5) min | Alejandro Frank | Nuclear Forecasting as Pattern Recognition: Can we predict Nuclear Masses? |
| 9:00 | (25+5) min | Juha Äystö | Recent developments in mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei |
| 9:30 | (15+5) min | M.B. Gomez Hornillos | Mass Measurements with the CSS2 & CIME cyclotrons @ GANIL |
| 09:50 | (15+5) min | Milan Matos | Recent Achievements and Future of Mass Measurements with Fast Radioactive Beams |
| 10:10 | (15+5) min | Bruce Barrett | Effective Interactions and Operators in Nuclei within the No-Core Shell Model |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
Nuclear Astrophysics II (Charged Particle Reactions and Reaction Rates)
Chair: Art Champagne
| 11:00 | (15+5) min | Wangpeng Tan | Threshold states in 19Ne and the CNO breakout reaction 15O(a,g)19Ne |
| 11:20 | (25+5) min | Hendrik Schatz | Nuclear astrophysics with fast radioactive beams |
| 11:50 | (15+5) min | Yang Sun | Nuclear isomers: structures and applications |
| 12:10 | (15+5) min | Gyorgy Gyurky | Radiative capture reactions and a-elastic scattering on 106Cd for the astrophysical p-process |
| 12:30 | (25+5) min | Albetro Mengoni | Reaction rates for stellar nucleosynthesis |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
Nuclear Reactions I (Reaction with Neutron-Rich Nuclei)
Chair: Jerry Wilhelmy
| 14:30 | (25+5) min | Jolie Cizewski | Neutron-transfer reactions with exotic neutron-rich beams: |
| 15:00 | (15+5) min | Filomena Nunes | Do halos exist on the drip line of deformed nuclei? |
| 15:20 | (15+5) min | Plamen Boutachkov | Doppler shift as a tool for studies of resonant (p,n) reactions with RIBs, spectroscopy of 7He |
| 15:40 | (15+5) min | Emil Betak | Model calculations of radiative capture of nucleons in MeV region |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
Nuclear Structure III (O+ States and Gamma Spectroscopy)
Chair: Gabriela Popa
| 16:30 | (25+5) min | Shelly Lesher | The Nature of 0+ States in 158Gd |
| 17:00 | (15+5) min | Nicola Lo Iudice | Pairing versus quadrupole collectivity of low-lying 0+ states in deformed nuclei |
| 17:20 | (15+5) min | Naotaka Yoshinaga | Recent progress on the 0+ dominance |
| 17:40 | (15+5) min | Paul Garrett | Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy at TRIUMF-ISAC | 18:00 | (15+5) min | Bronwyn Hyland | Precision Branching Ratio Measurement of 62Ga |
| 18:20 | Break |
| 19:30 | Poster Session | Poster abstracts |
| During the poster session, there is a reception with food and drinks. The food service starts at 19:00 hours. | ||
| There will be a prize of $500 awarded to the best poster presented by a postdoctoral fellow or a graduate student. A selection committee of 3 distinguished scientists will be judging the posters. The prize is funded by Prof. Steven Yates of Kentucky University for CGS-12 in honor of the memories of Jean Kern and Raman Subramanian (Founder’s Award) and it will be awarded at the banquet. |
Nuclear Astrophysics III (s-Process Nucleosynthesis)
Chair: Karl-Ludwig Kratz
| 8:30 | (25+5) min | Michael Heil | The s process and its relation to explosive nucleosynthesis |
| 9:00 | (15+5) min | Ana Alpizar-Vincente | Measurement of neutron capture cross section of 62Ni in the keV region |
| 9:20 | (15+5) min | Robert Hatarik | 102Pd(n,g) cross section measurement using DANCE |
| 9:40 | (15+5) min | Stefano Marrone | Measurement of the 139La(n,g) Cross Section at n_TOF |
| 10:00 | (15+5) min | Cesar Domingo | Measurement of the resonance capture cross section of 204,206Pb and termination of the s-process |
| 10:20 | Coffee break |
Neutron Capture Reactions I
Chair: Hans Boerner
| 11:00 | (15+5) min | Undraa Agvaanluvsan | The radiative strength function using the neutron-capture reaction on 151,153Eu |
| 11:20 | (15+5) min | Tamas Belgya | Determination of thermal neutron capture cross sections using cold neutron beams at the Budapest PGAA-NIPS facilities |
| 11:40 | (15+5) min | Stephan Walter | Method for (n,g) cross section measurements on unstable isotopes |
| 12:00 | (15+5) min | Robert Rundberg | Neutron Capture Cross Sections of 236U and 234U |
| 12:20 | (15+5) min | Daniel Cano-Ott | Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements at n_TOF of 237Np, 240Pu and 243Am for the Transmutation of Nuclear Waste(*) | 12:40 | (15+5) min | Ron Nelson | Neutron-Induced Gamma-Ray Cross Section Standards and 56Fe Inelastic Scattering |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 15:00 | Boarding of the busses in front of McKenna Hall |
| 15:15 | Departure of the busses |
Conference Excursion to Chicago and Banquet
The conference banquet will take place on board a ship and will include an architectural tour of the city of Chicago from the Chicago River.
Nuclear Structure IV
Chair: Torben Lauritsen
| 8:30 | (25+5) min | Jan Jolie | Level dynamics of yrare states |
| 9:00 | (15+5) min | Volker Werner | New findings for mixed-symmetry states |
| 9:20 | (15+5) min | Frantisek Becvar | Independent evidence for M1 scissors resonances built on the levels in the quasicontinuum of 163Dy |
| 9:40 | (15+5) min | Steve Yates | Complex two-phonon structures in 93Nb |
| 10:00 | (15+5) min | Anton Tonchev | Low-Energy Dipole Modes of Excitation Below the Neutron Separation Energy |
| 10:20 | (15+5) min | Adam Hecht | Search for enhanced alpha preformation in the N=Z+1 nuclei 113Ba, 109Xe, 105Te |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
Neutron Capture Reactions II and Nuclear Structure
Chair: Denis De Frenne
| 11:00 | (15+5) min | Chris Angell | Photo-Induced Population of the h11/2 Isomeric States in (g,n) Reactions |
| 11:20 | (15+5) min | Vladimir Solovyev | General approach to materials classification using neutron analysis techniques | 11:40 | (15+5) min | Masayuki Igashira | Measurement of Gamma Rays from keV-Neutron Capture Reaction by Zr-90, 94 |
| 12:00 | (15+5) min | Toshiro Ohsaki | Measurement of Capture Gamma Rays from the 46- and 84-keV Neutron Resonances of 24Mg |
| 12:20 | (15+5) min | Kim Lister | Doorway States in the 12C(12C,g)24Mg Radiative Capture Process |
| 12:40 | (15+5) min | Zoltan Elekes | Bound excited states in 27F |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
Application and Development of Nuclear Techniques
Chair: James Kolata
| 14:30 | (15+5) min | Rick Firestone | Thermal Neutron Capture Cross Sections of the Palladium Isotopes |
| 14:50 | (25+5) min | John Becker | Recent experiments on Atomic-Nuclear Coupling |
| 15:20 | (15+5) min | John Ullmann | The Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Measurements at LANSCE |
| 15:40 | (15+5) min | Alexander Laptev | Distortion of pulse-height spectra of neutron capture gamma rays |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
Nuclear Astrophysics IV
Chair: Franz Kaeppeler
| 16:30 | (25+5) min | Karl-Ludwig Kratz | Nuclear-Physics Issues of r-Process Nucleosynthesis |
| 17:00 | (15+5) min | Khalil Farouqui | Neutron captures and the r-process |
| 17:20 | (15+5) min | Peter von Neuman-Cosel | Magnetic Dipole and Gamow-Teller Modes in Neutrino-Nucleus Reactions: Impact on Supernova Dynamics and Nucleosynthesis |
| 17:40 | (15+5) min | Moshe Gai | How Accuratly Do We Know the Cross Section of the 7Be(p,g)8Be Reaction? |
| 18:00 | Dinner break |
Physics and Film
In the evening, there is the possibility to see a movie as a part of the Physics & Film Series (sponsored by JINA and the Physics Department at the performing arts center of the University of Notre Dame). Tickets will be provided.
| 19:00 | Metropolis (1926) |
| 22:00 | The Andromeda Strain (1970) |
Nuclear Structure VI (High Spin Experiments)
Chair: Norbert Pietralla
| 8:30 | (25+5) min | Attila Krasznahorkay | Hyperdeformed rotational bands observed in the actinide region |
| 9:00 | (15+5) min | Slawek Kaczarowski | High Spin Bands in the A ~ 130 Nuclei: A “Non-chiral” Explanation |
| 9:20 | (15+5) min | Indramani Govil | Nuclear Structure and Octupole collectvity in 122Cs Nucleus |
| 9:40 | (15+5) min | Torben Lauritsen | Rotational Damping, Ridges and the Quasicontinuum of g rays in 152Dy |
| 10:00 | (25+5) min | Paddy Regan | Multinucleon Transfer Reactions to Study Nuclear Structural Evolution |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
Nuclear Structure VII (Nuclear Theory)
Chair: Stefan Frauendorf
| 11:00 | (25+5) min | Nadya Smirnova | Nuclear Mean Field from the Shell Model Point of View |
| 11:30 | (15+5) min | Alexander Lisetskiy | Softness of doubly-magic 78Ni and related topics |
| 11:50 | (20+5) min | Pavel Cejnar | Regular and chaotic nuclear vibrations: monodromy, bifurcations, regular islands... |
| 12:20 | (15+5) min | Vladimir Zelevinsky | Shell Model, Nuclear Reactions and Giant Resonances |
| 12:40 | (15+5) min | Till von Egidy | Correlation of Nuclear Level Densities and Masses |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
Nuclear Reactions II
Chair: Filomena Nunes
| 14:30 | (25+5) min | Hans Börner | Precision Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy at the Institut Laue Langevin |
| 15:00 | (15+5) min | Henning Esbensen | Radiative Capture versus Coulomb Dissociation Experiments |
| 15:20 | (15+5) min | Jeffrey Tostevin | Spectroscopy and correlation studies using two-nucleon knockout |
| 15:40 | (15+5) min | Pierre Capel | Influence of the projectile description on breakup calculations |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
Chair: Jan Jolie
| 16:30 | (15+5) min | Alexendru Negret | Influence on the projectile description on breakup calunations |
| 16:50 | (15+5) min | Kalin Drumev | Microscopic calculations for waiting-point nuclei |
| 17:10 | (15+5) min | Alexander Voinov | Level density and unusual low energy enhancement of γ-strength in iron isotopes |
| 17:30 | (15+5) min | Lucia-Ana Popescu | Spin-isospin excitations from the ground-state of 64Ni |
| 17:50 | Closing remarks |
| 20:00 | "A Universe of Dreams" Ensemble Galilei with NPR's Neal Conan | at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center |