Monday, October 15, 2007

8:00-8:50:	Registration/Check-in/Finding Location in the INT
8:50-9:00:	Start of workshop: Opening comments by the organizers
9:00-10:30:	Achim Schwenk (TRIUMF): "Recent Developments in Two- and Three-Nucleon Interactions for Nuclear Structure"
10:30-11:00:	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30:	Ionel Stetcu (Los Alamos National Lab): "Effective Field Theory (EFT) Inspired Approaches to Solving Few- and Many-Body Systems"
12:30-13:45:	Lunch on your own
13:45-15:15:	Wick Haxton (INT/U Washington): "The Form of the Two- Nucleon Effective Interaction in Harmonic-Oscillator Based Effective Theory"
15:15-18:00:	Group meetings/Discussions/Special Seminars
	Dinner on your own

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

8:30-10:00:	Bruce Barrett/Alexander Lisetskiy (U of Arizona): "Standard Shell-Model Effective Interactions from the No Core Shell Model (NCSM) calculations"
10:00-10:30:	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00:	Robert Roth (TU-Darmstadt): "Towards ab initio nuclear structure calculations beyond the p-shell" and Thomas Neff (GSI): "Cluster states and shell model configurations in the Fermionic Molecular Dynamics approach"
12:00-13:30:	Lunch on your own
13:30-15:00:	Richard Furnstahl (Ohio State U): "Density Functional Theory for Nuclei"
15:00-18:00:	Group meetings/Discussions/Special Seminars
	Dinner on your own

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
(On Wednesday we must be out of the lecture hall by 3 p.m.!)

8:30-10:00:	Willem Dickhoff (Washington U, St Louis): "The Green's Function Method as a Framework for Data-Driven Extrapolations to the Drip Line and the Extension of the Density Functional Methods"
10:00-10:30:	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00:	Giuseppina Orlandini (U of Trento, Italy): "The Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) Method and Its Connections with Other Approaches" and Sonia Bacca (GSI, Darmstadt): "Application of the LIT Method to EM Reactions with Nuclei: Recent Results"
12:00-13:30:	Lunch on your own
13:30-15:00:	Jorge Dukelsky (Madrid, Spain) "Exactly Solvable Pairing Models"
15:00-18:00:	Group meetings/Discussions/Special Seminars
	Dinner on your own

Thursday, October 18, 2007
(On Thursday we must be out of the lecture hall by 3:30 p.m!)

8:30-10:00:	David Dean (Oak Ridge National Lab): "Nuclear Coupled Cluster Theory: Current Status and Prospects"
10:00-10:30:	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00:	Jerry Draayer (LSU/SURA) and Kristina Launey (LSU) "Sympletic NCSM--Taming the Model Space Dilemma"
12:00-13:30:	Lunch on your own
13:30-15:00:	Ruben Fossion (Padova/Mexico) "Shape-phase Transitions and Two-particle Transfer Intensities" and Veerle Hellemans (Ghent) "Criticality in the Interacting Boson Model with Configuration Mixing"
15:00-18:00:	Group meetings/Discussions/Special Seminars
18:30:	Workshop Group Reception and Dinner at Portage Bay Cafe (Cash bar for reception, dinner paid for separately)

Friday, October 19, 2007

8:30-10:00:	David Rowe (U Toronto) "Embedding Collective Models in the Shell Model"
10:00-10:30:	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00:	Mark Caprio (U. Notre Dame): "Excited State Quantum Phase Transitions in Pairing Systems"
12:00-13:30:	Lunch on your own
13:30-15:00:	Stijn De Baerdemacker (Ghent): "The Collective Model from a Cartan-Weyl Perspective" and Lorenzo Fortunato (Padova) "Bosonic Symmetries of BEC"
15:00:	Official End of the Workshop but discussions are welcome to continue.