Focus questions for the INT Program, "Quantitative Large-Amplitude
Shape Dynamics"

1. What are the needs for the applications of fission?
2. What accuracy and precision can we now achieve in measurements
related to fission?
3. What are our short- and medium-term experimental needs?
4. What can we learn about fission dynamics from reactions induced
by particle transfer and by inelastic scattering?
5. How reliable are the theories of collective dynamics based on
the adiabatic HFB approximation, the time-dependent HFB, and
other approaches?
6. Is the WKB an adequate approximation for subbarrier tunneling?
7. What are the roles of statistical vs inertial dynamics in the
descent from the fission barrier to scission?
8. What is the present status of measuring fission lifetimes?
9. How can one gain insight into dynamics around the barrier
from simplified many-body models?
10. What are the limits of validity of statistical decay models?
11. Can we improve models of trans-target production in deep
inelastic scattering?
12. What is the dynamic evolution of dinuclear systems leading
to quasi-fission?
13. What are the best ways to measure fusion probabilities?
14. How does weak binding of projectile or target affect the
fusion reaction?
15.  How well do we understand deep subbarrier fusion?
16.  Is fission recycling a significant contributor to r-process
nucleosynthesis?
17.  What phenomenology-based codes provide the most reliable
information for r-process simulations??