The first International African Symposium on Exotic Nuclei IASEN2013

from Monday, 2 December 2013 (08:00) to Friday, 6 December 2013 (18:00)
Cape Town (Lord Charles Hotel)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Dec 2013
3 Dec 2013
4 Dec 2013
5 Dec 2013
6 Dec 2013
AM
09:00
Opening (until 09:20) (Lord Charles Hotel)
09:20
Structure Session I (until 11:10) ()
09:20 Perspectives of physics of exotic nuclei beyond the shell evolution - Prof. Takaharu Otsuka (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)   ()
09:55 The ALTO facility for the production of rare nuclei - Dr Fadi ibrahim (IPN Orsay, CNRS)   ()
10:20 Status of the FLNR DRIBs Project - Dr Andrey POPEKO (Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)   ()
10:45 Nuclear structure: from stable to unstable nuclei - Prof. Victor Voronov (Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)   ()
11:10
Tea (until 11:30) ()
11:30
Structure Session II (until 12:55) ()
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 - Dr Hans-Jürgen Wollersheim (GSI Helmholtzzentrum)   ()
12:30 Investigations of shape conundra using Coulomb-excitation measurements at RIB facilities - Prof. Nico Orce (University of the Western Cape)   ()
09:00
Address by the Deputy Director-General of Science & Technology (until 09:35) ()
09:35
Facilities I (until 10:45) ()
09:35 A Rare-Ion facility at iThemba LABS - Dr Robert Bark (iThemba LABS)   ()
10:10 The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams - Prof. Michael Thoennessen (Michigan State University)   ()
10:45
Tea (until 11:05) ()
11:05
Facilities II (until 12:50) ()
11:05 GANIL/SPIRAL 2 – status and future - Dr Marek Lewitowicz (GANIL)   ()
11:40 The ISOLDE facility at CERN: production, study and application of exotic isotopes. - Dr Karl Johnston (Experimentalphysik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)   ()
12:15 RIKEN RI beam factory, Japanese flagship for nuclear Science - Dr Hideto En'yo (RIKEN Nishina Center)   ()
09:00
Reaction Session (until 10:50) ()
09:00 Highlights from TRIUMF's Rare Isotope Program - Prof. Reiner Kruecken (TRIUMF)   ()
09:35 Exploring exotic nuclei within the MCAS framework - Prof. Steven Karataglidis (University of Johannesburg)   ()
10:00 Neutron knockout on beams of Sn-106,108 and Cd-106 - Dr Giordano Cerizza (University of Tennessee)   ()
10:25 Two-nucleon transfer reactions and implications for studies of unstable nuclei - Prof. Anthony Cowley (Stellenbosch University and iThemba LABS)   ()
10:50
Tea (until 11:10) ()
11:10
Applications Session I (until 12:35) ()
11:10 Hyperfine interactions in condensed matter research - Prof. Krishanlal Bharuth-Ram (University of KwaZulu-Natal)   ()
11:45 An overview of emission 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy investigations in metal oxides - Dr 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 - Dr Ulrich Wahl (IST/ITN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa)   ()
09:00
Super-Heavy Elements Session (until 10:50) ()
09:00 The NUSTAR project at GSI and FAIR - Dr Juergen Gerl (GSI)   ()
09:35 Super-heavy element and other exotic nuclei research at LLNL - Dr Mark Stoyer (LLNL)   ()
10:00 Isomers and enhanced stability of the heaviest elements - Dr Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)   ()
10:25 Spectroscopy of very heavy elements at and beyond the limits - Prof. Benoit gall (IPHC)   ()
10:50
Tea (until 11:10) ()
11:10
Applications Session II (until 12:35) ()
11:10 Radioactive ion beams at ISOLDE: applications to semiconductor physics - Dr Manfred Deicher (Experimentalphysik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)   ()
11:45 Emission Mössbauer spectroscopy of Mn/Fe implanted III-nitrides - Mr 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 - Prof. Patrick Regan (University of Surrey & The National Physical Laboratory, UK)   ()
09:00
Astrophysics Session (until 10:50) ()
09:05 Nuclear input with relevance for supernova dynamics and nucleosynthesis - Prof. Karlheinz Langanke (GSI Darmstadt)   ()
09:40 Roles of nuclear weak processes in stars - Prof. Toshio Suzuki (Nihon University)   ()
10:05 Fusion study of 194Pt with 6Li at around barrier energies - Prof. Catalin Borcea (IFIN-HH Bucharest)   ()
10:30 Exotic nuclei in astrophysics - Prof. Yuri Penionzhkevich (JINR)   ()
10:50
Tea (until 11:10) ()
11:10
Resonances Session (until 12:35) ()
11:10 Complete electric and magnetic dipole response of nuclei from zero degree inelastic proton scattering - Prof. Peter von Neumann-Cosel (Institut fuer Kernphysik, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt)   ()
11:45 Investigating the photon strength function to discrete levels - Dr Mathis Wiedeking (iThemba LABS)   ()
12:10 Production of p-nuclides in photonuclear reactions - Dr Konstantin Stopani (Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics)   ()
PM
12:55
LUNCH (until 13:55) ()
13:55
Cluster Session (until 15:20) ()
13:55 Molecular structures and clustering effects in reactions induced by light nuclei - Dr Christian BECK (IPHC & Universite de Strasbourg)   ()
14:30 The K600 High Energy-Resolution Zero-Degree Facility at iThemba LABS - Dr Retief Neveling (iThemba LABS)   ()
14:55 Electron shell and alpha-decay - Prof. Yury Tchuvilsky (INP Moscow State University)   ()
15:20
Tea (until 15:40) ()
15:40
Rare Processes & Decays (until 17:40) ()
15:40 The role of the atomic nucleus in testing fundamental symmetries: Can we moderate wavefunction related uncertainties? - Prof. Smarajit Triambak (University of Western Cape)   ()
16:15 Status and perspectives of double beta decay searches - Dr Kai Zuber (TU Dresden)   ()
16:40 Beta-decay spectroscopy of N=82 nuclei and the path of the r-process: - Mr Giuseppe Lorusso (RIKEN)   ()
17:05 Studies of light exotic nuclei at ACCULINNA/ACCULINNA-2 facilities - Dr Leonid Grigorenko (FLNR, JINR)   ()
12:50
LUNCH (until 13:50) ()
13:50
Facilities III (until 15:00) ()
13:50 Radioactive ion beams for nuclear astrophysics at Texas A&M University - Dr Robert Tribble (Texas A&M University)   ()
14:25 Exploring nuclear structure by binary reactions with stable and radioactive nuclear beams - Dr Giacomo de Angelis (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)   ()
15:00
Tea (until 15:20) ()
15:20
Facilities IV (until 16:30) ()
15:20 International FAIR - challenges and chances in modern physics and technologies - Dr 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
Tour of iThemba LABS Facility (until 18:00) ()
18:00
"Braaivleis" - a barbeque (until 20:00) ()
12:35
LUNCH (until 13:35) ()
13:35
Tour of Cape Peninsula (until 19:00) ()
19:00
Conference Dinner (until 19:20) (Waterfront)
12:35
LUNCH (until 13:35) ()
13:35
Nuclear Physics (until 14:55) ()
13:35 The SPES project at the Legnaro National Laboratories: status and perspectives - Dr Giacomo de Angelis (INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)   ()
14:10 The subtleties of pairing and collective structures in deformed nuclei - Prof. John F Sharpey-Schafer (University of Western Cape)   ()
14:35 Study of isoscalar giant resonances in exotic nuclei by means of inverse reactions - Dr Muhsin Harakeh (KVI)   ()
14:55
Tea (until 15:15) ()
15:15
Nuclear Physics: Parallel Session I (until 16:55) ()
15:15 Local suppression of collectivity in the N=80 isotones at the Z=58 subshell closure - Mr 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) - Prof. Yuri Pyatkov (JINR, MEPhI)   ()
16:15 Dilute excited states in light nuclei - Dr Alla Demyanova (NRC Kurchatov Institue Moscow Russia)   ()
16:35 Effect of electron screening in alpha decay - Dr Feodor Karpeshin (GSI)   ()
15:15
Nuclear Physics: Parallel Session II (until 16:55) ()
15:15 GALS – setup for production and study of heavy neutron rich nuclei - Dr Sergey Zemlyanoy (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)   ()
15:35 SHELS - Separator for Heavy ELement Spectroscopy. First results. - Dr Andrey Popeko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Reserach)   ()
15:55 Study of nuclear clustering and cluster decay using the modern shell model approach - Dr Alexander Volya (Florida State University)   ()
16:15 Clusters, halos and S-factors in fermionic molecular dynamics - Prof. Hans Feldmeier (GSI)   ()
16:35 Investigation into the effects of deformation on proton emission rates via lifetime measurments - Dr M J Taylor (Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)   ()
12:35
LUNCH (until 13:35) ()
13:35
Round Table (until 14:40) ()