Workshop 9-11 January 2003

Nuclear Structure Theory

Programme

Thursday 9th January

12.30 - 14.00 Buffet Lunch

Session 1 Lecture Theatre E

Chairman I J Thompson (Surrey)

14.00 - 14.50 D Dean (Oak Ridge)

Nuclear Ground State Properties from CCSD Equations

14.50 - 15.30 P Stevenson (Surrey)

A Many-body Perturbation Theory Approach to Nuclear Structure

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee / Tea

16.00 - 16.40 T Kuo (Stonybrook)

Renormalisation Group Approach for Nuclear Effective Interaction

16.40 - 17.20 M A Bentley (Keele)

Coulomb Energies as a Test of the Large-Scale Shell Model

17.20 - 18.00 E Ormand (Livermore)

Determining Nuclear Structure from First Principles

Evening 7:30 Drinks Reception Wates House

8:00 Dinner at Wates House

Friday 10th January

Session 2 Lecture Theatre E

Chairman R F Bishop (UMIST)

9.00 - 9.50 S Aberg (Lund)

Various Views of Nuclear Rotation

9.50 - 10.30 G De Angelis (INFN Legnaro)

Nuclear Structure in Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee / Tea

11.00 - 11.40 M Oi (Surrey)

Descriptions of excited states above the yrast line; High-K isomers,

gamma vibrations and wobbling motion

11.40 - 12.20 W Satula (Warsaw/Stockholm)

The Nuclear Symmetry Energy; from the drip-line to the N=Z line

12.20 - 13.00 P Regan (Surrey)

From Vibrations to Rotations as a Function of Spin

13.00 - 14.00 Buffet Lunch

Session 3 Lecture Theatre E

Chairman D Brink (Oxford)

14.00 - 14.50 Presentation of Lise Meitner Prize to Professor J P Elliott (Sussex)

14.10 - 15.00 K Kemper (Florida State University)

From Polarisation to Halo Nuclei - Ron Johnson's insights

15.00 - 15.40 J Gomez Camacho (Seville)

Robust Concepts for Understanding Polarisation Phenomena

15.40 - 16.10 Coffee / Tea

16.10 - 16.50 E J Stephenson (Indiana State)

The Deuteron in the Nuclear Environment

16.50 - 17.30 J Tostevin (Surrey)

The frozen limits and beyond: Insights from the adiabatic approximation

17.30 - 18.10 F Nunes (Oporto/Michigan State)

Few-body structure near the dripline

Dinner at Clandon Regis Golf Club - Coach leaves 7pm outside Senate House

Return Coach Departs 11pm

Saturday 11th January

Session 4 Lecture Theatre E

Chairman R C Johnson (Surrey)

9.00 - 9.50 O Bohigas (Orsay)

Quantum chaos, Random Matrix Theories and Nuclear Spectroscopy

9.50 - 10.40 J L Egido (Madrid)

Beyond the Mean Field Description with Effective Forces

10.40 - 11.20 Coffee / Tea

11.20 - 12.10 T Otsuka (Tokyo)

Evolution of Shell and Deformation in Exotic Nuclei

12.10 - 13.00 R F Casten (Yale)

The Five Frontiers of Nuclear Structure

13.00 - 14.00 Buffet Lunch