Name: The first International African Symposium on Exotic Nuclei IASEN2013
Start: 2013-12-02T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-12-06T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Cape Town

Monday, 2 December 2013

09:00

09:00 - 09:20
Room: Lord Charles Hotel
09:20
09:20 - 11:10
Contributions

09:20 Perspectives of physics of exotic nuclei beyond the shell evolution - Takaharu Otsuka (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)

09:55 The ALTO facility for the production of rare nuclei - Fadi ibrahim (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

10:20 Status of the FLNR DRIBs Project - Andrey POPEKO (Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

10:45 Nuclear structure: from stable to unstable nuclei - Victor Voronov (Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
11:10

11:10 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:55
Contributions

11:30 0+ excited states in nuclei: critical signatures of structure - John L. Wood (Georgia Tech)

12:05 PreSPEC-AGATA nuclear structure studies using radioactive isotope beams - Hans-Jürgen Wollersheim (GSI Helmholtzzentrum)

12:30 Investigations of shape conundra using Coulomb-excitation measurements at RIB facilities - Nico Orce (University of the Western Cape)
12:55

12:55 - 13:55
13:55
13:55 - 15:20
Contributions

13:55 Molecular structures and clustering effects in reactions induced by light nuclei - Christian BECK (IPHC & Universite de Strasbourg)

14:30 The K600 High Energy-Resolution Zero-Degree Facility at iThemba LABS - Retief Neveling (iThemba LABS)

14:55 Electron shell and alpha-decay - Yury Tchuvilsky (INP Moscow State University)
15:20

15:20 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 17:40
Contributions

15:40 The role of the atomic nucleus in testing fundamental symmetries: Can we moderate wavefunction related uncertainties? - Smarajit Triambak (University of Western Cape)

16:15 Status and perspectives of double beta decay searches - Kai Zuber (TU Dresden)

16:40 Beta-decay spectroscopy of N=82 nuclei and the path of the r-process: - Giuseppe Lorusso (RIKEN)

17:05 Studies of light exotic nuclei at ACCULINNA/ACCULINNA-2 facilities - Leonid Grigorenko (FLNR, JINR)
Tuesday, 3 December 2013

09:00

09:00 - 09:35
09:35
09:35 - 10:45
Contributions

09:35 A Rare-Ion facility at iThemba LABS - Robert Bark (iThemba LABS)

10:10 The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams - Michael Thoennessen (Michigan State University)
10:45

10:45 - 11:05
11:05
11:05 - 12:50
Contributions

11:05 GANIL/SPIRAL 2 – status and future - Marek Lewitowicz (GANIL)

11:40 The ISOLDE facility at CERN: production, study and application of exotic isotopes. - Karl Johnston (Experimentalphysik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)

12:15 RIKEN RI beam factory, Japanese flagship for nuclear Science - Hideto En'yo (RIKEN Nishina Center)
12:50

12:50 - 13:50
13:50
13:50 - 15:00
Contributions

13:50 Radioactive ion beams for nuclear astrophysics at Texas A&M University - Robert Tribble (Texas A&M University)

14:25 Exploring nuclear structure by binary reactions with stable and radioactive nuclear beams - Giacomo de Angelis (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)
15:00

15:00 - 15:20
15:20
15:20 - 16:30
Contributions

15:20 International FAIR - challenges and chances in modern physics and technologies - Florian Weissbach (FAIR GmbH, Darmstadt)

15:55 Nuclear science and applications with next generation of high-power lasers and brilliant low-energy gamma beams at ELI-NP - Sydney GALES (ELI-NP)
16:30

16:30 - 18:00

18:00

18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Contributions

09:00 Highlights from TRIUMF's Rare Isotope Program - Reiner Kruecken (TRIUMF)

09:35 Exploring exotic nuclei within the MCAS framework - Steven Karataglidis (University of Johannesburg)

10:00 Neutron knockout on beams of Sn-106,108 and Cd-106 - Giordano Cerizza (University of Tennessee)

10:25 Two-nucleon transfer reactions and implications for studies of unstable nuclei - Anthony Cowley (Stellenbosch University and iThemba LABS)
10:50

10:50 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:35
Contributions

11:10 Hyperfine interactions in condensed matter research - Krishanlal Bharuth-Ram (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

11:45 An overview of emission 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy investigations in metal oxides - Deena Naidoo (School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS, 2050)

12:10 Emission channeling with short-lived isotopes (EC-SLI) at CERN’s ISOLDE facility - Ulrich Wahl (IST/ITN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
12:35

12:35 - 13:35

13:35

13:35 - 19:00

19:00

19:00 - 19:20
Room: Waterfront
Thursday, 5 December 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Contributions

09:00 The NUSTAR project at GSI and FAIR - Juergen Gerl (GSI)

09:35 Super-heavy element and other exotic nuclei research at LLNL - Mark Stoyer (LLNL)

10:00 Isomers and enhanced stability of the heaviest elements - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:25 Spectroscopy of very heavy elements at and beyond the limits - Benoit gall (IPHC)
10:50

10:50 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:35
Contributions

11:10 Radioactive ion beams at ISOLDE: applications to semiconductor physics - Manfred Deicher (Experimentalphysik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)

11:45 Emission Mössbauer spectroscopy of Mn/Fe implanted III-nitrides - Hilary Masenda (School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa)

12:10 Using LaBr3 detectors for precision lifetimes measurements of excited states of 'interesting' nuclei - Patrick Regan (University of Surrey & The National Physical Laboratory, UK)
12:35

12:35 - 13:35
13:35
13:35 - 14:55
Contributions

13:35 The SPES project at the Legnaro National Laboratories: status and perspectives - Giacomo de Angelis (INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

14:10 The subtleties of pairing and collective structures in deformed nuclei - John F Sharpey-Schafer (University of Western Cape)

14:35 Study of isoscalar giant resonances in exotic nuclei by means of inverse reactions - Muhsin Harakeh (KVI)
14:55

14:55 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 16:55
Contributions

15:15 Local suppression of collectivity in the N=80 isotones at the Z=58 subshell closure - Christopher Bauer (TU Darmstadt)

15:35 Spin and parity dependent level densities in exotic calcium isotopes - Iyabo Usman (University of the Witwatersrand)

15:55 Observation of light shape isomers in the multi-body decay of 252Cf (sf) - Yuri Pyatkov (JINR, MEPhI)

16:15 Dilute excited states in light nuclei - Alla Demyanova (NRC Kurchatov Institue Moscow Russia)

16:35 Effect of electron screening in alpha decay - Feodor Karpeshin (GSI)
15:15 - 16:55
Contributions

15:15 GALS – setup for production and study of heavy neutron rich nuclei - Sergey Zemlyanoy (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)

15:35 SHELS - Separator for Heavy ELement Spectroscopy. First results. - Andrey Popeko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Reserach)

15:55 Study of nuclear clustering and cluster decay using the modern shell model approach - Alexander Volya (Florida State University)

16:15 Clusters, halos and S-factors in fermionic molecular dynamics - Hans Feldmeier (GSI)

16:35 Investigation into the effects of deformation on proton emission rates via lifetime measurments - M J Taylor (Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
Friday, 6 December 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Contributions

09:05 Nuclear input with relevance for supernova dynamics and nucleosynthesis - Karlheinz Langanke (GSI Darmstadt)

09:40 Roles of nuclear weak processes in stars - Toshio Suzuki (Nihon University)

10:05 Fusion study of 194Pt with 6Li at around barrier energies - Catalin Borcea (IFIN-HH Bucharest)

10:30 Exotic nuclei in astrophysics - Yuri Penionzhkevich (JINR)
10:50

10:50 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:35
Contributions

11:10 Complete electric and magnetic dipole response of nuclei from zero degree inelastic proton scattering - Peter von Neumann-Cosel (Institut fuer Kernphysik, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt)

11:45 Investigating the photon strength function to discrete levels - Mathis Wiedeking (iThemba LABS)

12:10 Production of p-nuclides in photonuclear reactions - Konstantin Stopani (Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics)
12:35

12:35 - 13:35

13:35

13:35 - 14:40