RIA Theory Group: News

RIA Theory Group News
Updated 9-12-05

Upcoming conference: International Conference onn Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. For more information, see the website for the conference at http://www.nn2006.com.br/nn2006/

The RIA Theory Group Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with The RIA Users Organization meeting in Detroit. The RIATG meeting will begin at 9:00am on Saturday, 10 September and will end at 1:30pm. Directly following the RIATG meeting, there will be a meeting of the RIAUO (see below). See http://www.orau.org/ria/ for details on lodging.

The agenda for the RIATG meeting will be along the following lines:

1) Discussion of the Blue Book. We have been working on this document since the Chicago meeting. It is now complete. We will describe what went into making the document, and will describe the science and recommendations contained in the Blue Book. Copies will be available.

2) Planning for the RIKEN/RIA Theory Center. This proposal was submitted in late June to DOE. We want to inform RIATG of the process we envision for opportunities to do collaborative work at RIKEN through the Center.

3) RIA Theory Group members were involved in other activities, including RIA Day in DC (May). We will describe these.

4) Announcement of the INT/RIA/MSU/ANL workshop on RIA in 2006.

5) New election process. Believe it or not, the elections process for new officers (terms beginning 1 January) needs to commence.

6) The next 18 months: a key time in the quest for RIA. We will discuss what theorists can do and how they can be involved. This will fold into the RIA UO meeting directly following our meeting.

We look forward to your attendance.

Please follow this link to register: http://www.orau.org/ria/conference.htm

Regards,

David Dean, for the ExComm.

Second Argonne/MSU/JINA/INT RIA Workshop:
Reaction Mechanisms for Rare Isotope Beams
March 9-12, 2005, Michigan State University

See http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~brown/RIA-reaction-2005/RIA-reaction-2005.html for more details.

June 11, 2004
Executive Committee Elects David Dean as Chair.

June 4, 2004
Executive Committee Election Results

The results of the election for Executive Committee are as follows, with area and term of office indicated.

RIA-theory Executive Committee

D. Dean	S	(to 12/31/05)
J. Dobaczewski	S	(to 12/31/05)
K. Langanke	A	(to 12/31/07)
E. Ormand	S	(to 12/31/07)
F. Nunes	R	(to 12/31/05)

Let us hope that the RIA project gets started before the next election cycle!

George Bertsch
Michael Wiescher
Witold Nazarewicz
Bob Wiringa

April 19, 2004
Final Report of NSAC Subcommittee on Nuclear Theory

The Final Report of the NSAC Subcommittee on Nuclear Theory is posted in the documents section.

April 19, 2004
Presentations from Workshop Posted

Presentations from the Workshop of the RIA Theory Working Group are posted on the Documents page.

April 6, 2004
Nominations Committee Formed, Charter Created, Call for Executive Committee Nominations

"On April 6, 2004 the nominations committee was officially formed and put out a call for nominations to the Executive Committee. The RIA Theory Group now has a charter and a nominating committee consisting of Witold Nazarewicz, Robert Wiringa, Michael Wiescher, and myself (George Bertsch).

Following the charter, we are now soliciting nominations for the Executive Committee. There are five open slots, with duties and conditions described in Sec. 3 of the charter. Please send me your nominations by April 26. Self-nominations are very welcome."

—George Bertsch, for the Nominating Committee

March 12, 2004
RIATG Charter Approved

On March 12, 2004 the RIA Theory Group approved the charter with a unanimous vote.