RIA Meetings and Workshops
Updated 5-2-08

Nuclear Structure at the Extremes

May 8-10, 2008
University of West of Scotland

Entitled "Nuclear Structure at the Extremes", the conference will focus on new developments in both experimental and theoretical nuclear-structure physics and the many-body problem, covering a broad range of topics. These will include:

• Physics of Radioactive Ion Beams
• Nuclear Spectroscopy
• The Nuclear Many-Body Problem
• Connecting Nuclei with the Universe
• Connecting Hadrons with Nuclei
• Nuclei as Mesoscopic Open Quantum Systems

Further information can be found at: http://www.uws.ac.uk/schoolsdepts/es/nuclearstructure

Nuclear Structure 2008

June 3-6, 2008
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI

The Nuclear Structure 2008 (NS2008) is the 12th in a series of nuclear structure conference organized biennially by North America national laboratories. Previous meetings in this series have been held at Oak Ridge, Argonne, Berkeley,East Lansing and Chalk River. These conferences are devoted to recent experimental and theoretical developments in the research on nuclei near the limits of isospin, spin and excitation energy.

Further information may be found at:
http://meetings.nscl.msu.edu/ns2008/

Lead Radius Experiment (PREX) Workshop

August 17-9, 2008
TJNAF, Newport News, VA

We invite everyone interested in neutron rich matter, nuclear structure, or electron scattering and fundamental symmetries to Virginia this summer. The Lead Radius Experiment (PREX) Workshop will be held Aug. 17-19, 2008 at Jefferson Laboratory. PREX is a fascinating experiment that uses parity violation to accurately determine the neutron radius in 208Pb. This has remarkably broad applications to astrophysics, nuclear structure, atomic parity non-conservation, and tests of the Standard model.

Further information may be found at: http://conferences.jlab.org/PREX/

Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses

September 7-13, 2008
Ryn, Poland

General information:
This conference has already a long history, as its origins go back to the 1950s and 1960s to Atomic Mass and Fundamental Constants (AMCO) and the Nuclei Far From Stability (NFFS) series of conferences. Held jointly in 1992, the conferences officially merged in 1995 in Arles, France where the First International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses (ENAM) was held. Since then, subsequent conferences have been held at Bellaire, Michigan (1998), Hameenlinna, Finland (2001), and Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia USA (2004). The fifth conference will be held at Castle Ryn in Mazurian Lakes District, Poland, organized by the University of Warsaw together with the Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies.

Topics:
Following the tradition, the conference will cover a broad range of topics consisting of talks highlighting recent achievements in the following
fields:

• Atomic masses and fundamental constants
• Fundamental symmetries and interactions
• Nuclear astrophysics
• Nuclear moments, radii, and transition rates
• Forms of radioactivity
• Nuclear structure, nuclei at the drip lines
• Heaviest elements and fission
• Radioactive ion beam production
• Reactions with radioactive ion beams
• Experimental developments and applications

In addition to invited talks, the program will consist of oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts. The remaining contributions, if suitable for this conference, may be presented as posters. (The posters will be accompanied by a short oral presentations during a dedicated session.)

Further information may be found at: http://enam08.fuw.edu.pl/

Interfacing Structure and Reactions at the Centre of the Atom

December 1-5, 2008
Queenstown, New Zealand

Kernz08 aims at bringing together a wide spectrum of research activities, both theoretical and experimental, that combine nuclear structure and nuclear reactions, as well as applications such as nuclear astrophysics.
Though these research directions often involve different sub-communities of nuclear physicists, we have seen that the interplay between these fields has not only been strengthened in recent years, but should also strengthen and unify nuclear physics itself.

It is therefore of utmost importance to bring researchers from disparate scientific groups in close contact in order to a) discuss common problems, b) present recent results, c) become informed about the latest developments in theory as well as about the most recent achievements in experiments. To meet these goals and furthermore initiate interdisciplinary collaborations, Kernz08 will cover the following scientific topics from both theoretical and experimental perspectives:

• Reactions involving nuclear structures at the extremes (spin, isospin, deformations, energy, and isomers)
• Halo physics below and above thresholds
• Excitation and decay of collective, isomeric and super-deformed configurations
  
• Near-barrier fusion, in particular of exotic and weakly-bound nuclei
• Fusion and structure of the heaviest elements (new elements, high K-isomers, fission barriers, ... )
• Ab-initio and shell-model calculations for reactions
• Nucleon scattering as a probe for nuclear structure
  
• Production, statistics and decay of compound nuclear states
• Bound and continuum spectroscopy by indirect reactions
• Developments in mean field theories, cluster models and molecular dynamics
• Nuclear pairing and pair transfer reactions.
• Nucleosynthesis in the cosmos and nuclear physics aspects
• Real photons in nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics.
• Weak-interaction processes in nuclear astrophysics - Neutrino physics
• Facilities and instrumentation for future spectroscopy
• Radioactive and exotic relativistic beams
  

Further information may be found at: http://www.kernz.org/

Radioactive Nuclear Beams Conference, RNB8

May 26-30, 2009 Grand Rapids, MI

The Radioactive Nuclear Beams series of meetings was inaugurated in 1989 in order to foster collaboration and information sharing among the leaders in the production and use of exotic nuclei beams. The programs of these meeting traditionally include presentations on the forefront of nuclear theory, the most modern and future production facilities and breaking experimental results in this field.

The eight meeting will be hosted by the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan in May 2009.

Further information may be found at: http://meetings.nscl.msu.edu/rnb8

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