Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Current Status and Perspectives in Nuclear Science
Discussion Leader: Andrea Jedele (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:05 pm
Farheen Naqvi (University of Notre Dame, USA)
"Overview on Nuclear Structure"
4:05 pm - 4:10 pm
Discussion
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm
Bryan Wiggins (Indiana University, USA)
"Overview on Nuclear Reactions"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Frontiers in Nuclear Structure
Discussion Leader: Justin Vadas (Indiana University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Kalle Auranen (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
"Systematic Studies of Non-Yrast Isomeric Intruder 1/2+ States in Odd-Mass Nuclei 197-203At"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Nabin Rijal (Florida State University, USA)
"A Study of Lithium Destruction and Its Implication on the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Anne Forney (University of Maryland, USA)
"Extension of Triaxiality in the Germanium Nuclei to A=78"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Jack Henderson (TRIUMF, Canada)
"Collective Aspects of Nuclear Structure as a Constraint on Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Nuclear Matrix Element Calculations"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Daniel Hoff (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"Peculiar Spin Assignment of Excited Projectiles"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Michael Jones (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Understanding the Nature of the Low-Energy Enhancement in the Photon Strength Function of 56 Fe"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Frontiers in Nuclear Reactions
Discussion Leader: Bryan Wiggins (Indiana University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Heshani Jayatissa (Texas A&M University, USA)
"Alpha-Capture Reaction Rates for 22 Ne(α,n) Reaction via Sub-Coulomb Alpha Transfer"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Marco Salathe (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Identification of the First-Excited 2p2h Configuration in 35P"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Maria Anastasiou (Florida State University, USA)
"Study of the 18Ne(a,p)21Na Reaction with ANASEN and Its Significance in the Breakout from the Hot CNO Cycle"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Kyle Brown (Michigan State University, USA)
"Measuring Two-Proton Decay with the Invariant-Mass Method"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Justin Vadas (Indiana University, USA)
"Measuring the Fusion Cross-Section of 39,47K + 28Si at Near-Barrier Energies"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Cole Pruitt (Washington University in St Louis, USA)
"Constraining the Dispersive Optical Model with Total Neutron Cross Sections"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
A question-answer session with scientists from diverse careers in nuclear science.
Discussion Leader: Joseph Belarge (Florida State University, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Diverse Career Paths in Nuclear Science
Meghan Anzelc (AXIS Insurance, USA)
Jessica Baler (Office of Naval Intelligence, USA)
Ben Kay (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Sharon Stephenson (Gettysburg College, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes