Hirschegg 2003

Nuclear Structure and Dynamics at the Limits

January 12 to 18, 2003

PROGRAM


SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2003

17:00 - 22:00 Registration and Welcome Reception (cold cuts and beverages) at the Waldemar Petersen Haus

MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2003

09:00 - 12:10Morning Session (chair: Freder Beck )
09:00 - 09:40 Marek Lewitowicz (Caen): 
Slow and fast radioactive beams in study of light nuclei far from stability
09:40 - 10:10 Hiroyoshi Sakurai (Tokyo): 
Spectroscopy on very neutron-rich nuclei at N=20 ~ 28
10:10 - 10:40 B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
10:40 - 11:10 Thomas Glasmacher (EastLansing): 
The structure of neutron-rich nuclei explored via in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of fast beams
11:10 - 11:40 Olivier Sorlin (Orsay): 
Study of neutron-rich nuclei around the N=40 subshell closure
11:40 - 12:10 Mark Huyse (Leuven): 
Decay studies of neutron-rich Po, Bi and Pb isotopes

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:00Afternoon Session (chair: Jochen Wambach )
17:00 - 17:30Peter Ring (Garching)
The relativistic quasiparticle random phase approximation and applications in exotic nuclei.
17:30 - 18:00Jorge Dukelsky (Madrid)
Density matrix renormalization group
18:00 - 18:30Achim Schwenk (Columbus)
The renormalization group approach to neutron matter
18:30 - 19:00Thomas Neff (Darmstadt)
Short-ranged central and tensor correlations in nuclear many-body systems

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2003

09:00 - 12:10Morning Session (chair: Gottfried Münzenberg )
09:00 - 09:40 Wolfgang Trautmann (Darmstadt): 
Isospin effects in multifragmentation - review of experiments and interpretations
09:40 - 10:10 Karl-Heinz Schmidt (Darmstadt): 
The isospin thermometer - a new method to determine the freeze-out temperature in fragmentation reactions
10:10 - 10:40 B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
10:40 - 11:10 James Elliott (Berkeley): 
An experimental measure of the phase diagram of bulk nuclear matter
11:10 - 11:40 Silvia M. Lenzi (Padova): 
Isospin symmetry in medium-light nuclei
11:40 - 12:10 Victor Ziman (Birmingham)
Clusters in light n-rich nuclei

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:00Afternoon Session (chair: Piet van Duppen )
17:00 - 17:30 Marek Ploszajczak (Caen)
Shell model description of neutron-rich nuclei
17:30 - 18:00 Oliver Arndt (Mainz)
At the limits: very neutron-rich isotopes in the 132-Sn region
18:00 - 18:30 Gerda Neyens (Leuven)
Moments of neutron rich nuclei near disappearing shell closures N=8 and N=20
18:30 - 19:00 Margareta Hellström (Darmstadt)
Probing neutron-rich In and Cd nuclei with isomer spectroscopy

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2003

09:00 - 12:10Morning Session (chair: Ernst Roeckl )
09:00 - 09:40 Witold Nazarewicz (Knoxville): 
Nuclear structure at the limits
09:40 - 10:10 Thomas Aumann (Darmstadt): 
Continuum spectroscopy of exotic nuclei
10:10 - 10:40 B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
10:40 - 11:10 Hubert Grawe (Darmstadt): 
Shell structure from N=Z (  100Sn) to N>>Z ( 78Ni).
11:10 - 11:40 Christoph Scheidenberger (Darmstadt): 
New results on atomic masses and nuclear decay rates from experiments with single exotic nuclei at FRS-ESR
11:40 - 12:10 Vadim Rodin (Tübingen): 
Electromagnetic transitions between giant resonances within continuum-RPA

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:00Afternoon Session (chair: Hans Geissel )
17:00 - 17:40Karsten Riisager (Aarhus)
Structure of halo nuclei - overview of the experimental data
17:40 - 18:10Jim Al-Khalili (Guildford)
A theoretical overview of the structure and dynamics of halo nuclei
18:10 - 18:40Haik Simon (Darmstadt)
Correlations in 2 and 3 particle decay
18:40 - 19:10Maria Cristina Volpe (Heidelberg)
Short versus long range interactions and the size of two-body weakly bound systems
   Evening 20:00h: Conference Dinner at Hotel Birkenhöhe

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2003

09:00 - 12:10Morning Session (chair: Peter Armbruster )
09:00 - 09:40 Sigurd Hofmann (Darmstadt): 
On the synthesis of new elements
09:40 - 10:10 Andrey Popeko (Dubna): 
Synthesis of superheavy elements with  48Ca beams
10:10 - 10:40 B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
10:40 - 11:10 Stefan Typel (Darmstadt): 
Alpha decay half-lives of super-heavy nuclei
11:10 - 11:40 Rauno Julin (Jyväskylä): 
In-beam spectroscopy of very heavy elements
11:40 - 12:10 Rolf-Dietmar Herzberg (Liverpool): 
Conversion electron spectroscopy around Z=100

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:00Afternoon Session (chair: Horst Lenske )
17:00 - 17:30Elias Khan (Orsay)
Nuclear structure at the drip-line
17:30 - 18:00Bertram Blank (Argonne)
Two-proton emission from proton drip-line nuclei
18:00 - 18:30 Frank Herfurth (Geneve)
Masses of nuclei close to the drip-line
18:30 - 19:00Christoph Keil (Gießen)
Spin-orbit and spin-spin interaction in intermediate mass hypernuclei

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2003

09:00 - 12:10Morning Session (chair: Walter Henning )
09:00 - 09:40 Hendrik Schatz (East Lansing): 
Nuclear astrophysics and nuclei far from stability
09:40 - 10:20 Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo (Barcelona): 
Weak-interaction processes in stars
10:20 - 10:50 B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
10:50 - 11:30 Guy Savard (Argonne): 
Mass measurements along the rp- and r-process path
11:30 - 12:00 Karl-Ludwig Kratz (Mainz): 
r-process signatures

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:00Afternoon Session (chair: Karlheinz Langanke )
17:00 - 17:30Barry Davids (Groningen)
Alpha-decay branching ratios of near-threshold states in   19Ne and the astrophysical rate of   15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne
17:30 - 18:00John D'Auria (Burnaby)
Nuclear astrophysics with the DRAGON facility at TRIUMF-ISAC
18:00 - 18:30Ivan Borzov (Bruxelles)
First-forbidden decays near the r-process paths

Evening 20:30h:"Glühwein"-Party

End of the workshop