Program

Talks are 40 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

Tuesday, March 23

Chair: Craig Roberts

• 09:30  Eric Isaacs, Director, Argonne National Laboratory
  Welcome
• 09:50  Dick Furnstahl, Ohio State
  Energy Density Functionals for Nuclei
• 10:40  Coffee
• 11:00  James Truran, Argonne & Chicago
  Critical Nuclear Physics for Nucleosynthetic Studies

• 11:50  Lunch

  Chair: Ivan Brida

• 13:30  Pieter Maris, Iowa State
  Ab initio no core full configuration approach to the structure of light nuclei
• 14:20  Henning Esbensen, Argonne
  Coupled-channels Calculations of Heavy-ion Fusion Reactions
• 15:10  Coffee

  Chair: Bob Wiringa

• 15:40  Kevin Schmidt, Arizona State
  Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei and neutron matter
• 16:30  Alexander Volya, Florida State
  Nuclear many-body problem: new questions, new methods, and new solutions
• 17:20  Talks end

• 17:45  Reception (Auditorium Lounge)

Wednesday, March 24

Chair: Henning Esbensen

• 09:00  Arnas Deltuva, Lisbon
  Faddeev-type calculations of three- and four-body nuclear reactions
• 09:50  Brad Meyer, Clemson
  Reaction Network Calculations for Heavy-Element Nucleosynthesis: The Next Generation
• 10:40  Coffee
• 11:00  Thomas Papenbrock, Tennessee & Oak Ridge
  Ab-initio coupled cluster computations of nuclei
  

• 11:50  Lunch

  Chair: James Truran

• 13:30  Scott Bogner, Michigan State
  Non-empirical energy density functionals for nuclei
  
• 14:20  Guy Savard, Argonne
  The study of neutron-rich nuclei at CARIBU
  
• 15:10  Coffee

  Chair: Ken Nollett

• 15:40  Petr Navratil, Livermore
  Ab initio many-body calculations of light-ion reactions
• 16:30  Aurel Bulgac, Washington
  Some Open Problems in Nuclear Large Amplitude Collective Motion (including fission)
• 17:20  Talks end

Thursday, March 25

Chair: Aurel Bulgac

• 09:00  Thomas Neff, GSI
  Light nuclei in the Fermionic Molecular Dynamics approach
  
• 09:50  Mihai Horoi, Central Michigan
  Novel High Performance Computational Aspects of the Shell Model Approach for Medium Nuclei
• 10:40  Coffee
• 11:00  Ken Nollett, Argonne
  The outer limits of quantum Monte Carlo calculations

• 11:50  Lunch

  Chair: Bob Wiringa

• 13:30  Stefan Frauendorf, Notre Dame
  Calculation of the Wigner Term in Binding Energies by Diagonalization of the Isovector Pairing Hamiltonian
• 14:20  Arnau Rios Huguet, Surrey
  Time-dependent Green's functions methods applied to reactions
• 15:10  Coffee

  Chair: Filomena Nunes

• 15:40  Joe Carlson, Los Alamos
  Neutron Matter from Low to High Densities
  
• 16:30  Alexis Diaz-Torres, Surrey
  Coupled-channels density-matrix approach to nuclear reaction dynamics
• 17:20  Talks end
• 18:30  Banquet

Friday, March 26

Chair: Steve Pieper

• 09:00  Rusty Lusk, Argonne
  How shall we program very large machines?
• 09:50  James Vary, Iowa State
  Ab initio no core shell model - status and prospects
• 10:40  Coffee
• 11:00  Brad Sherrill, Michigan State
  Physics Division Colloquium
  Designer Nuclei: A New Tool with New Applications
• 12:00  End of Workshop