Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Merging Structure with Reactions
Discussion Leader: Paul Fallon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Jimmy Rotureau (Michigan State University, USA)
"Ab Initio Approach for the Construction of Microscopic Potentials"
8:00 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm
Heather Crawford (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"First Spectroscopy of 40 Mg"
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm
Marlene Assie (IPN Orsay, France)
"NP Pairing Along the N=Z Line Through Transfer Reactions"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Steven Pain (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
"Advances in Direct Reaction Measurements"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Daniel Santiago-Gonzalez (Louisiana State University, USA)
"Transfer Reactions on a Nanosecond Isomer: Probing the Single-Particle Character of High-Spin States in 19 F"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Direct Reactions with Slow and Fast Beams and Perspectives in Nuclear Theory
Discussion Leaders: Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University, Canada), Ben Kay (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) and Erich Ormand (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Calem Hoffman (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
"The Role of Weakly-Bound S States Across the Chart"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:55 am
Takeshi Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Exploring the Neutron Drip Line and Beyond by Breakup Experiments"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Wilton Catford (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
"New Results and Approaches for Nucleon Transfer with Radioactive Beams"
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Alan Wuosmaa (University of Connecticut, USA)
"Ground-State Properties of the 'Nucleus' 5 H from the 6 He(d,3 He)5 H Reaction"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Gregory Potel (Michigan State University, USA)
"Inclusive Reactions in a 3-Body Model"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Sofia Quaglioni (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Recent Developments in Ab Initio Reaction Theory"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Joaquin Drut (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Intersections with Complex Systems: Novel Systems and Methods"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
High Density Nuclear Matter
Discussion Leader: Hirokazu Tamura (Tohoku University, Japan)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Diego Lonardoni (NSCL, Michigan State University / Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"The EOS of Neutron Star Matter: Many-Body Forces and Strangeness"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Atsushi Tamii (Osaka University, Japan)
"Electromagnetic Response of Nuclei Relevant to the Nuclear Equation of State Studied by Proton Inelastic Scattering"
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm
Jin-hee Chang (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, USA)
"SπRIT TPC: A Detector for Constraining the Symmetry Energy Around Twice the Saturation Density"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Takeshi Koike (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with Strangeness: Recent Results from J-PARC"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Satoshi Nakamura (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Study of Hypernuclei with Electron Beams"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
New Perspectives for Heavy Element Research and Perspectives on Nuclear Reactions
Discussion Leaders: Partha Chowdhury (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), Walter Loveland (Oregon State University, USA) and Lee Sobotka (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Christoph Duellman (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)
"The Superheavy Elements Place in the Periodic Table: How They Fit and Why"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Sait Umar (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Using TDHF to Study Quasifission Dynamics for SHE Searches"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Jacklyn Gates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"New Results from FIONA"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:55 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:55 am - 11:15 am
Romualdo deSouza (Indiana University, USA)
"Fusing Neutron-Rich Nuclei at the Barrier: Interplay of Structure and Dynamics"
11:15 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am
Manuel Camano Fresco (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
"Inverse Kinematics: A Window for New Experimental Observable in Fission"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:05 pm
Aurel Bulgac (University of Washington, USA)
"New Results on the Theory of Fission"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Kyle Brown (Michigan State University, USA)
"Measuring Two-Proton Decay with the Invariant-Mass Method"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Nuclear Structure with a Twist
Discussion Leaders: Alexandra Gade (Michigan State University, USA) and Robert Janssens (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Olivier Sorlin (Grand Accelerateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), France)
"A Walk on the Wild Side: Bubble Nuclei and
Drip Line Phenomena"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm
Zsolt Podolyak (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
"Role of Nucleonic Resonances in the Population of Excited States in High-Energy Reactions"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
Bastian Schuetrumpf (Michigan State University, USA)
"Central Depression in Nucleonic Densities Across the Nuclear Chart"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm
Elizabeth McCutchan (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
"Is Nuclear Structure the Answer to the Reactor Antineutrino Puzzle?"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Christopher Chiara (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
"Electron-Induced Excitation of 93 Mo"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nuclear Structure at the Extremes of Spin and Isospin and Perspectives in Nuclear Theory
Discussion Leaders: Hironori Iwasaki (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, USA), Robert Wadsworth (University of York, United Kingdom) and Richard Chasman (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Lew Riley (Ursinus College, USA)
"Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of Direct Reactions in a Liquid hydrogen Target with GRETINA"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Navin Alahari (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds - GANIL, France)
"Physics Opportunities with Isotopically Identified Fission Fragments at VAMOS++"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Simone Bottoni (INFN - Sezione di Milano, Italy)
"Nuclear Structure Studies with Heavy-Ion Transfer Reactions and GRETINA"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:35 am
Michael Bowry (TRIUMF, Canada)
"Nuclear Spectroscopy with GRIFFIN at the TRIUMF-ISAC Facility"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 11:15 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Thorsten Kroell (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany)
"New Result from Miniball at REX- and HIE-ISOLDE"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Wojciech Satula (University of Warsaw, Poland)
"Isospin Symmetry Breaking in Atomic Nuclei"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Titus Morris (University of Tennessee, USA)
"First Principles Explorations of Medium-Mass Open-Shell Nuclei"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Nuclear Astrophysics
Discussion Leader: Ingo Wiedenhoever (Florida State University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Ani Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame, USA)
"Stellar He Burning in Deep Underground Environment"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Catherine Deibel (Louisiana State University, USA)
"Measuring Astrophysical Reaction Rates with Radioactive Ion Beams"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Gianluca Imbriani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Italy)
"Underground Measurements of Cross Sections of Astrophysical Interest (and Their Impact on Stellar Modeling)"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Kelly Chipps (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
"Novel Methods for Studying Explosive Nucleosynthesis"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nuclear Decay and Precision Nuclear Measurements
Discussion Leaders: Robert Grzywacz (University of Tennessee, USA) and Nicholas Scielzo (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Hiroshi Wantanabe (Beihang University, China)
"Recent Highlights of Decay Spectroscopy at RIBF"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Miguel Madurga (University of Tennessee, USA)
"First Beta Delayed Neutron Spectroscopy Measurement of r-process Waiting Point 132 Cd"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Kay Kolos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Precision β-Decay Studies for Fundamental Science and Applications"
10:05 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:25 am
Farheen Naqvi (University of Notre Dame, USA)
"Beta-Decay Strength Measurements in Neutron-Rich Cu Isotopes Using TAS"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:55 am
Coffee Break
10:55 am - 11:15 am
Andrew Stuchbery (The Australian National University, Australia)
"Nuclear Structure Through g-Factor Measurements: Progress and Opportunity"
11:15 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am
Guy Savard (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
"Mass Measurements on Nuclei Along the r-Process Path at CARIBU"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:05 pm
Charles Rasco (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
"Total Absorption Spectrometry: Measuring Complete Beta-Decay Feedings and Their Applications"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Kieran Flanagan (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
"Extending the Limits of Laser Spectroscopy to the Production Frontier"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Exploration and Discovery
Discussion Leader: Navin Alahari (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds - GANIL, France)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Daniel Hoff (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"Peculiar Spin Alignment of Excited Projectiles"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Sean Kuvin (University of Connecticut, USA)
"Precise Tests of Ab-Initio Calculations of Light Nuclei and Charge Symmetry Breaking in A=10 10 B"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Walter Reviol (Washington University, USA)
"Direct Reaction Studies Above 132 Sn"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
John Simpson (Daresbury Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury, United Kingdom)
"Gammas at the Gordon"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm
Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
"With Detective Sherlock Holmes in the Museum - Hidden Secrets Revealed with Nuclear Techniques"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure