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University of the West of Scotland


Nuclear Structure at the Extremes


Carnegie 2008 Conference

Presentations

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Day 1: Thursday 8th May 2008
Day 2: Friday 9th May 2008
Day 3: Saturday 10th May 2008
Contributed presentations

DAY 1

THURSDAY 8th MAY 2008
Session I
David Dean (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Nuclear coupled-cluster theory
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Achim Schwenk (TRIUMF)
Low-momentum interactions for nuclear structure
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Session II
Craig McNeile (University of Glasgow)
Hadron spectroscopy from lattice QCD
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Thomas Papenbrock (University of Tennessee)
Random matrices and chaos in nuclear spectra
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Marek Ploszajczak (GANIL)
Shell model for weakly-bound/unbound nuclear states
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Jan Jolie (University of Cologne)
Quantum phase transitions in atomic nuclei
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Session III
Daniel Watts (University of Edinburgh)
Nuclear structure from pion photoproduction
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Guenther Rosner (University of Glasgow)
Hadron structure and spectroscopy at FAIR
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Session IV
Takaharu Otsuka (University of Tokyo)
Structure of exotic nuclei and the nuclear force
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Kim Lister (Argonne National Laboratory)
Tests of ab-initio shell models of light nuclei through
precise DSAM measurements: The special case of 10Be

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Public Lecture
Akito Arima (Japan Science Foundation)
Why do we need international collaboration in science?
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DAY 2

FRIDAY 9th MAY 2008
Session V
Kees de Jager (Jefferson Laboratory)
Nuclear structure research at JLab:
from neutron stars to quarks

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Hendrik Schatz (Michigan State University)
Nuclear astrophysics with rare isotopes
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William Gelletly (University of Surrey)
RISING to the challenges
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Session VI
Nigel Orr (LPC Caen)
Probing the structure of light nuclei beyond
the neutron dripline via knockout and breakup

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Dirk Rudolph (Lund University & GSI)
RISING: Mirror isomers in the 1f7/2 shell
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Morten Hjorth-Jensen (University of Oslo)
From nuclear forces to the nuclear many-body problem:
a tale on many-body methods, status and future perspectives

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Session VII
Jim Beene (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
HRIBF: Science highlights and future perspectives
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Bob Chapman (University of the West of Scotland)
The spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei
using binary reactions

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Anna Wilson (Australian National University)
Search for hyperdeformation in 124Xe
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Session VII
Paul Fallon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Neutron-proton coupling in light neutron-rich nuclei
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Public Lecture
Achim Richter (TU Darmstadt)
Playing billiards with microwaves -
quantum manifestations of classical chaos

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DAY 3

SATURDAY 10th MAY2008
Session IX
Piet Van Duppen (KU Leuven)
Probing the structure of neutron-rich nuclei around
Z=28 using beta decay and Coulomb excitation

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Silvia Lenzi (University of Padova)
Structure of neutron-rich nuclei near N=40
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Sean Freeman (University of Manchester)
Trends in single-particle states outside Z=50
and N=82 probed with transfer reactions

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Session X
Jacek Dobaczewski
(University of Warsaw & University of Jyväskylä)
Extensions of nuclear energy density functionals
beyond the current standard form

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Jerzy Dudek (IReS Strasbourg)
Concepts of nuclear stability based on
geometrical high-rank symmetries

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Nicolas Schunck (University of Tennessee)
Towards the spectroscopy of odd-mass nuclei
in density functional theory

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Thomas Duguet (CEA Saclay)
Non-empirical pairing energy density functional for nuclei
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Session XI
Martin Freer (University of Birmingham)
Clustering in nuclei
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Juha Äystö (University of Jyväskylä)
Mass measurements as probes of shell structures near 78Ni
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Cyrus Baktash (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Probing shell structure away from stability
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Peter Butler (University of Liverpool)
Probing nuclear shapes using low energy radioactive beams
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Witek Nazarewicz (University of Tennessee & UWS)
Concluding remarks
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Contributed Presentations

THURSDAY 8th MAY 2008
Session III
The development of the
Spectrometer for Exotic Fission Fragments

J. A. Dare (University of Manchester)
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Single-particle states in 21O
B. Fernández-DomÍnguez (University of Liverpool)
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Exploring high deformation in the neutron-rich
zirconium region via laser spectroscopy

D.H. Forest (University of Birmingham)
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Symmetry term and many body correlations
G. Giuliani (INFN Catania)
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The proton drip-line in the neighbourhood of 100Sn
A. Gottardo (University of Edinburgh)
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Interpretation of evidence for multiphonon vibrations
competing with rotations at high spin in 180Os

N.M. Lumley (University of Manchester)
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Differential plunger lifetime measurements
on 144Ho using recoil isomer tagging

P.J.R. Mason (University of Manchester)
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Large B(E1) discrepancies in the mirror pair 67As
and 67Se: Coherent enhancement effects?

R. Orlandi (University of the West of Scotland)
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The Sage Spectrometer
Philippos Papadakis (University of Liverpool)
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Beyond band termination: Ultra-high spin
spectroscopy studies of 160,161Er

S.V. Rigby (University of Liverpool)
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Nuclear structure at the extremes: a perspective
at the mean field level and beyond with effective
Gogny and Skyrme forces

R.R. Rodriguez-Guzman (CEA Saclay)
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FRIDAY 9th MAY 2008
Session VI
High intensity laser-driven photo-proton reactions
M. Shaw (University of the West of Scotland)
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Hardcore truncated coupled-cluster method
M. Stauf (University of Manchester)
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Mass dispersions beyond Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock
P.D. Stevenson (University of Surrey)
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The effect of the tensor force on the predicted
shell closures in superheavy nuclei

E.B. Suckling (University of Surrey)
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Investigations of single-particle/hole
states with a 26Ne beam

J.S. Thomas (University of Surrey)
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High-spin states in 89Rb
D.A. Torres (University of the West of Scotland)
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Contacts

The conference email address is
Nuclear.Structure@uws.ac.uk

If you have any questions relating to the conference please contact the conference administrator or one of the local organizers.

Conference Administrator

Carol MacDonald Carol.MacDonald@uws.ac.uk

Local Organizers

Robert Chapman
Tel: (44) (0) 141 848 3600
Robert.Chapman@uws.ac.uk

Xiaoying Liang
Tel: (44) (0) 141 848 3450
Xiaoying.Liang@uws.ac.uk

Witek Nazarewicz
Tel: (44) (0) 141 849 4077
witek@utk.edu

John F. Smith
Tel: (44) (0) 141 848 3652
John.F.Smith@uws.ac.uk

Klaus Spohr
Tel: (44) (0) 141 848 3437
Klaus.Spohr@uws.ac.uk

 

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Americal Physical Society

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European Physical Journal

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