Preliminary Program

Tuesday June 30, 1998
5:00 - 9:00 p.m. Reception and Registration
(Center for Continuing Education)
Wednesday July 1
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome
9:00 - 9:50 R. Deslattes
Overview of developments in high-resolution gamma-spectroscopy
9:50 - 10:30 E. Kessler
Precision gamma-ray measurements I (Fundamental Constants)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 M.S. Dewey
Precision gamma-ray measurements II (Fundamental Constants)
11:40 - 12:20 M. Jentschel
GRID lifetime measurements
12:20 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 D.D. Warner
Physics with exotic beams
14:50 - 15:20 J. Doering
Low spin states from decay studies
15:20 - 16:00 R. Kruecken
Lifetime measurements of exotic beams
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:20 T. Glasmacher
High-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy with fast exotic beams
17:20 - 18:00 C.Y. Wu
Sub-nanosecond lifetime measurements using RDM
Thursday July 2
9:00 - 9:40 K.H. Heinig
Applications of high-resolution gamma-spectroscopy in solid state physics
9:40 - 10:20 N. Stritt
Study and selection of interatomic potentials on oriented single crystal metals using Crystal-GRID
10:20 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20 T. Koch
Crystal GRID
11:20 - 12:00 S. Egorov
BID
12:00 - 12:40 J. Jolie
Neutrino Induced Doppler Broadening
12:40 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 G. Mathews
Current topics in gamma ray astrophysics
14:50 - 15:40 J. Goerres
Nuclear structure and galactic gamma-ray activity
15:40 Coffee
16:10 - 16:50 S. Robinson
GRID and the study of multiphonon states
16:50 - 17:20 F. Beçvar
Simulations of gamma-cascades and modelling atomic collision chains
17:20 - 17:45 R. de Haan
Lifetimes in 178Hf
17:45 - 18:10 R. Schwenger
M1 bands in heavy Rb isotopes
19:30 Cookout and Jazz Band
Friday July 3
9:00 - 9:50 C.J. Lister
How far from stability can we go using Gammasphere and the FMA?
9:50 - 10:30 S. Yates
Electric dipole transistion and octupole-coupled excitations in spherical nuclei
10:30 Coffee
11:00 - 11:40 P. Garrett
Collective states in deformed nuclei studied with the (n,n'gamma) reaction
11:40 - 12:10 W. Reviol
Measurements of dynamic electromagnetic moments in neutron-deficient nuclei
12:10 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 R. Moreh
Zero point Motion
14:50 - 15:30 C. Doll
GAMS 5
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40 G. Savard
High-accuracy mass measurements with trapped unstable isotopes
16:40 - 17:20 D. Seweryniak
Studies of nuclear structure far from stability using the Recoil-Decay Tagging method
19:30 Workshop Reception

Organization

The members of the Scientific Advisory Committee are:

Hans Börner (Institut Laue Langevin, France)
Richard Casten (Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, USA)
Richard Deslattes (National Institute of Standards Technology, USA)
Karl-Heinz Heinig (Institut fur Ionenstrahlphysik, Germany)
Richard Hoff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
Jan Jolie (Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland)
Ernest Kessler (National Institute of Standards Technology)

The members of the Local Organizing Committee are:

Ani Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Joachim Doering (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Umesh Garg (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Michael Jentschel (Institut Laue Langevin, France)
Anna Susalla (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame, USA)



Conference Correspondence

A. Aprahamian
Department of Physics
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA
Fax: 01 219 631 5952
Telephone: 01 219 631 8120
E-mail: Aprahamian.1@nd.edu

Sponsors

The conference is supported by the University of Notre Dame and the Institut Laue Langevin.