Program

Monday, March 17
5:00 pm Registration (Pollard Auditorium)
6:00 pm Reception (hors d'oeuvres, wine, and soft drinks)
8:00 pm End registration and reception
Tuesday, March 18
8:00 am Registration (continued until 4 pm)
8:30 Welcome and general announcements
8:40 Latest news about RIA
W. Nazarewicz, RIA Steering Committee
9:00 The International Accelerator Facility for Beams of Ions and Anti-Protons at Darmstadt
H. Gutbrod, GSI
9:30 Development of beam line detectors at RIKEN
S. Nishimura, RIKEN
10:00 Magnetic devices for fast beams
D. Morrisey, NSCL
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Gamma-ray detection for experiments with fast beams
T. Glasmacher, NSCL
11:30 Gamma-ray detection for experiments with slow beams
M. Riley, FSU
12:00 Present and future experiments with high resolution strip detector arrays
E. Pollacco, Saclay
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Characteristics of fast and re-accelerated beams at RIA
J. Nolen, ANL, and B. Sherril, NSCL
2:30 Working Group Discussions
Gamma-I, Electronics-I, Targets-I
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Resume discussions
Wednesday, March 19
9:00 Prospects for nuclear astrophysics at RIA
A. Champagne, UNC
9:30 Experimental systems at the ISAC radioactive beams facility
J. D'Auria, SFU
10:00 Physics with recoil separators at RIA
C. Davids, ANL
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Experimental techniques for nuclear reaction studies with RNB at SPIRAL
M. Lewitowicz, GANIL
11:30 On the role of fast neutron measurements in scattering experiments with rare-isotope beams
H. Emling, GSI
12:00 Nuclear collision studies with time projection chambers
G. Westfall, NSCL
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Working Group Discussions
Electronics-II, Particle-I, Decay (stopped beams), Magnets (low energy)
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Resume discussions
Thursday, March 20
9:00 Instrumentation for low-energy and post-accelerated radioactive beams at ISOLDE
T. Nilsson, ISOLDE
9:30 Detector requirements for decay spectroscopy
K. Rykaczewski, ORNL
10:00 Nuclear reaction studies at coulomb barrier energies with advanced silicon detector systems
P. Woods, Edinburgh
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Experiments at RIA in support of the DOE/NNSA national security mission
M. Kreisler, DOE
11:30 Fundamental Interactions at RIA
G. Savard, ANL
12:00 Atomic methods for radii and moments: relations to precision measurement
J. Behr, TRIUMF
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Working Group Discussions
Gamma-II, Particle-II, Fundamental Interactions, Magnets (fast beams)
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Resume discussions
Friday, March 21
9:00 Working Group Discussions
Gamma-III, Electronics-III, Targets-II
10:30 Coffee Break
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Summary Reports of Working Groups:
Particle, Magnets, Decay, and Fundamental Interactions
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Resume Reports
5:30 Adjourn
6:00 Tour of the HRIBF (Participants will return to Pollard Auditorium before 9pm)
Saturday, March 22
9:00 Summary Reports of Working Groups:
Gamma, Electronics, Targets
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Resume Reports
12:30 Close of Meeting
  Lunch
   
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