5th ANL/MSU/JINA/INT FRIB Workshop on

Bulk Nuclear Properties

Michigan State University, November 19-22, 2008


This workshop on "Bulk Nuclear Properties" is the fifth in a series of theory workshops related to FRIB - links to the previous workshops are given below.

The program covers a variety of related topics divided into seven sessions. Each session has a convener who will provide some key questions to be considered by the speakers and  guide the discussions.

Organizing committee: Pawel Danielewicz (chair), Alex Brown, George Bertsch, Witek Nazarewicz, Madappa Prakash, Bob Wiringa



Wednesday Nov 19 9:00
Convener: Alex Brown
Understanding Nuclear Masses (10)

9:10
John Michael Pearson
HFB Mass Models and the EOS of Neutron-Star Inner Crusts (30+10)

9:50
Mario Stoitsov Large-Scale Mass Table Calculations (30+10)

10:30
break
(30)

11:00
Peter Moller
Nuclear Fission and Stability at the End of the Periodic System (30+10)

11:40
Javid Sheikh Dynamics of Spontaneous Fission (20+5)

12:05
General Discussion

12:30
lunch






2:00
Convener: Pawel Danielewicz
Central Collisions (10)

2:10
Betty Tsang
Determining the EOS of Asymmetric Matter with Heavy Ion Collisions (30+10)

2:50
Pawel Danielewicz
From Stopping to Viscosity in Nuclear Reactions (30+10)

3:30
break
(30)

4:00
Bao-An Li
Constraining the EOS of Neutron-Rich Nuclear Matter and
Properties of Neutron Stars with Central Heavy-Ion Collisions (30+10)

4:40
Akira Ono
Clusters and Fragments Formed in Expanding Nuclear Matter
 in Heavy-Ion Collisions (30+10)

5:20
Arnau Rios
Nonequilibrium Green's Function Approach for Central Reactions (20+5)

5:45
General Discussion




Thursday Nov 20
9:00
Convener: Bob Wiringa
Ab-Initio Nuclear Structure (10)

9:10
Bob Wiringa
Recent Developments in Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo (30+10)

9:50
David Dean Medium-Mass Nuclei form Chiral Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions (30+10)

10:30
break
(30)

11:00
Georgios Papadimitriou Radius of Helium-6 in Gamow Shell Model (20+5)

11:25
General Discussion

12:15
lunch






2:00
Convener: Jorge Piekarewicz Giant Resonances, Nuclear Matter & Equation of State (10)

2:10
Umesh Garg
Nuclear Incompressibility and Symmetry Energy From the
Compressional-Mode Giant Resonances (30+10)

2:50
Hiro Sagawa
 Spin-Isospin Mode in Finite Nuclei
and EOS in Dense Nuclear Matter (30+10)

3:30
break
(30)

4:00
Jirina Stone
Microscopic Models of the Equation of State of High Density
 Nuclear Matter (30+10)

4:40
Wim Dickhoff
A Secure Path to the Dripline Using Theory and Experiment (30+10)

5:30
General Discussion




Friday Nov 21
9:00
Convener: Jirina Stone Nuclear Energy Functional (10)

9:10
Scott Bogner
Microscopically Based Nuclear Energy Density Functionals (30+10)

9:50
Jorge Piekarewicz
Nuclear Physics of Neutron Stars (30+10)

10:30
break
(30)

11:00
Will Newton
Skyrme Energy Functional Applied to Neutron Star Crust Self-Consistently
in 3D and Finite Temperature (20+5)

11:25
Junchen Pei
Coordinate-Space HFB Calculations of Weakly Bound
and Very Deformed Systems (20+5)

11:50
General Discussion

12:00
lunch






2:00
Convener: Madappa Prakash
Neutron Stars (10)

2:10
James Lattimer
Neutron Star Observations And The Equation Of State (30+10)

2:50
Bob Rutledge
Measuring the Mass-Radius Relationship of
Neutron Stars with X-ray Spectroscopy (30+10)

3:30
break
(30)

4:00
Ed Brown
Diagnostics of Dense Matter from Accreting Neutron Stars  (30+10)

4:40
Dany Page
Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars  (30+10)

5:10
Thomas Klaehn
Neutron Stars and the High Density Equation of State (20+5)

5:35
Andrew Steiner The Neutron Star Crust: Building Bridges Between
Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (20+5)

5:50
General Discussion




Saturday Nov 22
9:00
Convener: Witek Nazarewicz
Applications of the Density Functional (10)

9:10
Gianluca Colo
Constraints, Limits and Extensions for Nuclear Energy Functionals (30+10)

9:50
Nicolas Schunck
Application of DFT to the Spectroscopy of Odd Mass Nuclei (30+10)

10:30
break
(30)

11:00
Chuck Horowitz
The Lead Radius Experiment and Neutron Rich Matter (30+10)

11:40
Jun Terasaki
Systematics of the First 2+ Excitation
in Spherical Nuclei with Skyrme-QRPA (30+10)

12:20
General Discussion - Sagawa



Organizing committee: Pawel Danielewicz (chair), Alex Brown, George Bertsch, Witek Nazarewicz, Madappa Prakash, Bob Wiringa

Link to ANL Theory Group
Link to INT webpage
Link to JINA
Link to MSU Nuclear Theory Group

First Argonne/MSU/JINA/INT RIA Workshop
The r-process: the astrophysical origin of the heavy elements and
related Rare Isotope Accelerator Physics,
Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, January 8-10, 2004
http://www.int.washington.edu/PROGRAMS/ria.html

Second Argonne/MSU/JINA/INT RIA Workshop
Reaction Mechanisms for Rare Isotope Beams,
Michigan State University, March 9-12, 2005
http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~brown/RIA-reaction-2005/RIA-reaction-2005.html

Third ANL/MSU/INT/JINA RIA Theory Workshop
Opportunities with Exotic Beams
Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, April 4 - 7, 2006
http://www.phy.anl.gov/theory/ria06_workshop_prog.html

Fourth Argonne/INT/MSU/JINA RIA Theory Workshop
Rare Isotopes and Fundamental Symmetries
Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, September 19 -
22, 2007
http://www.int.washington.edu/PROGRAMS/ria4.html