Agenda
Agenda Subject to Change
A hard copy of the updated Agenda will be available each day of the conference
| Sunday, May 12, 2013 — Memorial Union | ||
| 5:30-6:30pm Welcome Reception (registration also available) | ||
| Monday, May 13, 2013 — Memorial Union | ||
| 7:30-8:30am | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30-8:45am | Conference opening | |
| Chair: Bruce Barrett | ||
| 8:45-9:30am | Keynote Talk: Ab Initio Nuclear Structure — From Light to Medium Weight Nuclei | |
| 9:30-10:00am | A Survey of Experimental Challenges to Computational Nuclear Physics | |
| 10:00-10:30am | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Winfried Leidemann | ||
| 10:30-11:00am | Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Transitions and Reactions | |
| 11:00-11:30am | Green's Function Monte Carlo Calculations of Carbon | |
| 11:30-12:00pm | Ab initio calculations of p-shell nuclei with JISP16 | |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| Chair: Robert Wiringa | ||
| 1:30-2:15pm | Keynote talk: Unraveling Mysteries of the Strong Interaction — 'Top Down' versus 'Bottom Up' Considerations | |
| 2:15-2:45pm | Utilizing Symmetry Coupling Schemes in Ab Initio Nuclear Structure Calculations | |
| 2:45-3:15pm | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Steven Pieper | ||
| 3:15-3:45pm | Nuclear Isospin Violation — How it Turned Out and Where it is Going | |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Fermions: Cold Atoms and Neutrons | |
| 4:15-4:45pm | Hans Weidenmüller | Nuclear Excitation by a Strong Zeptosecond Laser Pulse: Theoretical Expectations |
| Tuesday, May 14, 2013 — Memorial Union | ||
| 7:30-8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |
| Chair: Martin Savage | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Keynote Talk: Light-Front Quantum Chromodynamics | |
| 9:15-9:45am | Modeling Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions | |
| 9:45-10:15am | Generalized Parton Distributions for the Proton | |
| 10:15-10:45am | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Morten Hjorth-Jensen | ||
| 10:45-11-15am | Nonperturbative Calculations in the Light-front Field Theory | |
| 11:15-11:45am | Introduction to Basis Laight-Front Quantization Approach to QCD Bound State Problems | |
| 11:45-12:15pm | Positronium in Basis Light Front Quantization | |
| 12:15-1:45pm | Lunch | |
| Chair: Stanley Brodsky | ||
| 1:45-2:30pm | Keynote Talk: Nuclear Forces from Quantum Chromodynamics | |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Hot Nuclear Matter in Intense Magnetic Field | |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Gaute Hagen | ||
| 3:30-4:00pm | Light-front Quantization of Non-linear Sigma Models | |
| 4:00-4:30pm | Light-front Quantization and DLCQ of Large N Scalar QCD_2 | |
| 4:30-5:00pm | Scattering in Time-dependent Basis Light-front Quantization | |
| Wednesday, May 15, 2013 — Memorial Union | ||
| 7:30-8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |
| Chair: Achim Schwenk | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Keynote talk: Ab initio Approaches to Nuclear Reactions | |
| 9:15-9:45am | Recent Results With the Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) Method | |
| 9:45-10-15am | Ab initio Description of Light Nuclei in the Berggren Basis | |
| 10:15-10:45am | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Jerry Draayer | ||
| 10:45-11:15am | Oscillator basis and scattering | |
| 11:15-11:45pm | Super Heavy Element Studies at RAON | |
| 11:45-12:15pm | The View From Germantown | |
| 12:15-1:45pm | Lunch | |
| Chair: Takaharu Otsuka | ||
| 1:45-2:15pm | Living on the Edge of Stability, the Limits of the Nuclear Landscape | |
| 2:15-2:45pm | The Nucleus: Laboratory for QCD | |
| 2:45-3:15pm | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Peter Sauer | ||
| 3:15-3:45pm | Relativistic Symmetries in Nuclei and Hadrons | |
| 3:45-4:45pm | Distinguished Lecture: Computational Nuclear Physics: Key To Discovery Opportunities | |
| 4:45 -6:00pm | Social Hour; Cash Bar — Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, South Ball Room | |
| 6:00 pm | Group photo and Banquet Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Campanile Room | |
| Thursday, May 16, 2013 — Howe Hall | ||
| 7:30-8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |
| Chair: Joseph Ginicchio | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Keynote Talk: Challenges in Computational Science at Exascale | |
| 9:15-9:45am | Accelerating Ab Initio Nuclear Physics Calculations with GPUs and Optimization Techniques | |
| 9:45-10:15am | Exploring Intel Xeon Phi and NVidia GPUs for Nuclear Physics Simulations | |
| 10:15-10:45am | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Mark Caprio | ||
| 10:45-11-15am | Chao Yang | Computational Techniques for Accelerating Nuclear Configuration Interaction Calculations in MFDn |
| 11:15-11:45am | Adaptive Pseudo-Spectral Method for Solving HFB Equations | |
| 11:45-12:15pm | Hai Ah Nam | Computational Nuclear Physics for Modern Computing Architectures |
| 12:15-1:15pm | Lunch onsite (covered by the conference fee paid in full) | |
| Chair: Esmond Ng | ||
| 1:15-1:45pm | Monte Carlo Shell Model and Shape Phase Transitions in Exotic Nuclei | |
| 1:45-2:15pm | Monte Carlo Shell Model Towards Ab Initio Calculations | |
| 2:15-2:45pm | Neutron Matter with Chiral Effective Field Theory: Perturbative and First Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations | |
| 2:45-3:15pm | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Chao Yang | ||
| 3:15-3:45pm | Infrared and Ultraviolet Cutoffs: Convergence Strategies for Harmonic Oscillator Basis Expansion Methods | |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Corrections to Nuclear Energies and Radii in Finite Oscillator Spaces | |
| 4:15-4:45pm | Convergence of NCCI Calculations for Light P-shell Nuclei with the Coulomb-Sturmian Basis | |
| 5:30pm | Tour to ISU Horticulture Research Station & Dinner | |
| Friday, May 17, 2013 — Memorial Union | ||
| 7:30-8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |
| Chair: Dick Furnstahl | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Keynote Talk: Origin and Properties of Strong Inter-nucleon Interactions | |
| 9:15-9:45am | Nuclear Forces and Light Nuclei from Chiral Effective Field Theory | |
| 9:45-10:15am | New Horizons in Ab Initio Nuclear Structure Theory | |
| 10:15-10:45am | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Petr Navatil | ||
| 10:45-11-15am | Studies of Hot Dense Nuclear Matter with the PHENIX Detector at RHIC | |
| 11:15-11:45am | Three Nucleon Scattering at Relativistic Energies | |
| 11:45-12:15pm | Three-Nucleon Forces — Revisited | |
| 12:15-1:45pm | Lunch break | |
| Chair: Wayne Polyzou | ||
| 1:45-2:15pm | Shell Model Interactions from the In-medium Similarity Renormalization Group | |
| 2:15-2:45pm | High-resolution Probes of Low-resolution Nuclei | |
| 2:45-3:15pm | Refreshment break | |
| Chair: Ruprecht Machleidt | ||
| 3:15-4:00pm | Bruce Barrett | Conference Summary |
| 4:00pm | Conference Closing | |