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Waltzing to the Nuclear Limits
A Symposium in Honor of Lee Riedinger
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
February 25 - 27, 2011
PROGRAM
| Friday Afternoon | ||
| Noon | Registration Opens | |
| 13:00-16:00 | Softball Game (optional) | |
| 17:00-17:15 | Conference Welcome | Rick Casten (Yale University) |
| Friday Evening (17:15 - 19:45) | ||
| Session Ia | Exploring Exotic Nuclear Shapes | Chair: Geirr Sletten (Niels Bohr Institute) |
| 17:15-17:45 | "Following Lee" | Gudrun Hagemann (Niels Bohr Institute) |
| 17:45-18:15 | "Broken symmetries and their precursors" | Stefan Frauendorf (University of Notre Dame) |
| 18:15-18:35 | "Tidal waves and the onset of collectivity above N=126" | Walter Reviol (Washington University) |
| 18:35-19:05 | Break | |
| Session Ib | Coulomb Excitation of Sn Isotopes/New European Facility | Chair: Carrol Bingham (University of TN) |
| 19:05-19:25 | "Coulomb Excitation of neutron-rich Sn isotopes" | David Radford (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) |
| 19:25-19:45 | "A new European facility: Extreme Light Infrastucture" | Victor Zamfir (Bucharest) |
| Dinner | On your own | |
| Saturday Morning (8:30-11:40) | ||
| Session IIa | Nuclear Shape Coexistence | Chair: Bruce Barrett (University of Arizona) |
| 8:30-9:00 |
"Photoexcitation and possible links between high-and low-K states in 176Lu and 180Ta" |
George Dracoulis (Australian National Univ.) |
| 9:00-9:20 | "Where have all the phonons gone" | Steve Yates (University of Kentucky) |
| 9:20-9:40 |
"Quantum phase transitions from the physics of (sometimes imaginary) nuclei" |
Volker Werner (Yale University) |
| 9:40-10:00 |
"The dynamics of continuum coupling and the distribution of resonance widths" |
Naftali Auerbach (Tel Aviv University) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break | |
| Session IIb | Extremes of Nuclear Spin | Chair: Chang Hong Yu (Oak Ridge National Lab.) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
"The ultrahigh spin structure of the erbiums:
The return of collectivity" |
John Simpson (STFC Daresbury Laboratory) |
| 11:00-11:20 | "Shape changes and shape coexistence in rapidly rotating nuclei" | Ingemar Ragnarsson (Lund University) |
| 11:20-11:40 | "When fusion fails: Spinning up very heavy neutron-rich nuclei" | Partha Chowdury (University of Mass. Lowell) |
| Lunch | On your own | |
| Saturday Evening (3:30-6:30) | ||
| Session IIIa | Spectroscopy Far Off Stability: New Tools | Chair: John D’Auria (Simon Fraser Univ/TRIUMF) |
| 15:30-16:00 | "Status and plan of Gretina" | I. Yang Lee (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.) |
| 16:00-16:20 | "AGATA - current status and physics programme" | Paul Nolan (University of Liverpool) |
| 16:20-16:40 |
"Ground state properties of the neutron-rich copper and gallium isotopes" |
Jonathan Billowes (University of Manchester) |
| 16:40-17:00 | "Spins and orbits far-from-stability" | Noemie Koller (Rutgers University) |
| 17:00-17:20 | Break | |
| Session IIIb | Spectroscopy Far Off Stability | Chair: Con Beausang (University of Richmond) |
| 17:20-17:50 | "Investigating changing shell structure in neutron-rich nuclei " | Robert Janssens (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| 17:50-18:10 | "Recoil-Distance lifetime measurements in exotic nuclei" | Kris Starosta (Simon Fraser University) |
| 18:10-18:30 | "Shell evolution towards N=40 in Cr and Fe nuclei" | Alexandra Gade (Michigan State University) |
| 18:30-19:30 | Reception, Poster Session | |
| 19:30-0:00 |
“Waltzing to the Nuclear Limits” Dinner along with Continued Physics Discussions |
Chair: Rick Casten (Yale University) |
| Sunday Morning (9:00 - 12:00) | ||
| Session IVa | New Vistas in Nuclear Physics | Chair: Jeff Winger (Mississippi State University) |
| 9:00-9:30 |
“Prospects for reaching the limits of nuclei with the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams” |
Bradley Sherrill (Michigan State University) |
| 9:30-9:50 | "Neutron-transfer reactions at the HRIBF " | Kate Grzywacz-Jones (University of Tennesse) |
| 9:50-10:10 | "HRIBF decay studies of fission products for nuclear fuel cycle" | Krzysztof Rykaczewski (Oak Ridge National Lab.) |
| 10:10-10:30 |
"Recent results on gamma spectroscopy from the GANIL/SPIRAL facility" |
Faical Azaiez (CNRS/IN2P3) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break | |
| Session IVb | Physics Education | Chair: Jerry Draayer (Louisiana State University) |
| 10:50-11:10 | "The role of simulations in science and innovation" | David Dean (Department of Energy) |
| 11:10-11:30 | "Gamma vibrational bands from Lee to the present" | Joseph Hamilton (Vanderbilt University) |
| 11:30-12:00 | "My physics family" | Lee Riedinger (University of Tennessee) |