Program

Wednesday May 21: (Conference site: Department of Physics, Auditorium Store Fysiske)

Registration, lunch and Abel symposium

• 10.00-16.00: The Abel symposium, possibility to attend the talk of the Abel prize winner 2008. For the full program of the Abel prize see http://www.abelprisen.no/en/. The 2008 recipients are Thompson and Tits for their contributions to group theory.
  
  
• 10.00-12.00: Registration
  
  
• 12.00-13.00: Lunch at Kafe Sverdrup, University Library
  
  

Opening of meeting, challenges for subatomic physics

Session chair: Jan Sigurd Vaagen (University of Bergen, UiB)


• 13.00-13.10: Welcome by Geir Ellingsrud, rector University of Oslo (UiO)
  
  
• 13.10-13.50: Igal Talmi (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
  Old and new quasi-magic numbers
  
  
• 13.50-14.30: Ben Mottelson (Nordita, Denmark)
  Shapes and shells redox
  
  
• 14.30-15.10: Steinar Stapnes (UiO and CERN)
  LHC perspective talk, particle physics at the terascale
  
  
• 15.10-15.40: Coffee
  
  
Session chair: Gunnar Løvhøiden (UiO)


• 15.40-16.20: Trine Tveter (UiO)
  LHC and Matter at its extreme, relativistic heavy ion collisions, experimental challenges
  
  
• 16.20-17.00: Laszlo Csernai (UiB)
  LHC and Matter at its extreme, relativistic heavy ion collisions, theoretical challenges
  


• 17.00-17.20: Break
  
  
• 17.20-18.00: Alex Brown (Michigan State University, USA)
  Theoretical and experimental challenges for nuclear structure
  
  
• 18.00-18.30: Øystein Elgarøy (UiO)
  Neutrinos and cosmology
  
  
• 18.30-19.00: Magne Guttormsen (UiO)
  Physics at the SAFE laboratory: Level density and thermodynamics of warm nuclei
  
  
• 19.00-->: Reception at Department of Physics (UiO), http://www.fys.uio.no

Thursday May 22: (Conference site: Department of Physics, Auditorium Store Fysiske)

Understanding nuclear forces, from Lattice QCD to effective field theories

Session chair: Hallstein Høgaasen (UiO)


• 9.00-9.40: Gerry Brown (State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA)
  Baryonic interactions, a historical perspective
  
  
• 9.40-10.20: Ruprecht Machleidt (University of Idaho, Moscow, USA)
  Nucleon-nucleon interactions from effective field theories
  
  
• 10.20-10.50: Coffee
  
  
• 10.50-11.30: Tetsuo Hatsuda (Tokyo University, Japan)
  Lattice QCD and nuclear forces
  
  
• 11.30-12.10: Bira van Kolck (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
  Effective field theories and nuclear interactions
  
  
• 12.10-12.50: Dan Olof Riska (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  Hadrons and nuclei in covariant quantum mechanics
  
  
• 12.50-14.00: Lunch at Kafe Sverdrup, University Library
  
  

From nuclear forces to few and many-body methods

Session chair: Hubert Grawe (GSI, Darmstadt)


• 14.00-14.40: Thomas Nilsson (Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  Experimental studies of light exotic nuclei
  
  
• 14.40-15.20: Bob Wiringa (Argone National Lab, USA)
  Dependence of nuclear binding on hadronic mass variation
  
  
• 15.20-15.50: Coffee
  
  
• 15.50-16.30: Fred Myhrer (University of South Carolina, USA)
  Effective theory and electro-weak processes
  
  
• 16.30-17.10: Steve Pieper (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
  Ab initio studies of light nuclei with Green's function Monte Carlo
  
  
• 17.10-17.25: Break
  
  
• 17.25-18.05: James Vary (Iowa State University, USA)
  No-Core Full Configuration Interaction Methods and Applications to Light Nuclei
  
  
• 18.05-18.45: Christian Forssén (Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  Reaction and structure theories
  
  
• 18.45-19.00: Break
  
  
• 19-->: 60 years of the shell model: what has it taught us about nuclei and the nuclear many-body problem? Discussion panel headed by Alex Brown, with Gerry Brown, Ben Mottelson and Igal Talmi

Friday May 23: (Conference site: Department of Physics, Auditorium Store Fysiske)

Effective field theory, renormalization group theories and density functional theories

Session chair: Laszlo Csernai (UiB)


• 9.00-9.40: Richard Furnstahl (Ohio State University, USA)
  Effective field theories and density functional theories
  
  
• 9.40-10.20: Achim Schwenk (TRIUMF, Canada)
  Renormalization group theories and effective field theories
  
  
• 10.20-10.50: Coffee
  
  
• 10.50-11.30: Scott Bogner (Michigan State University, USA)
  The Similarity Renormalization group in nuclear physics
  
  
• 11.30-12.10: Bertrand Giraud (IPN, Orsay, France)
  Theorems about the nuclear density functional theory. Symmetries and all that
  
  
• 12.10-12.50: Trygve Helgaker (UiO, Norway)
  Density functional theories in quantum chemistry
  
  
• 12.50-14.00: Lunch at Kafe Sverdrup, University Library
  
  

Density Functional theories and Many-body methods

Session chair: Fred Myhrer (University of South Carolina)


• 14.00-14.40: Bruce Barrett (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
  Ab initio shell model with a core: Extending the NCSM to heavier nuclei
  
  
• 14.40-15.20: Gaute Hagen (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA)
  Ab initio calculations of stable and weakly bound nuclei with coupled cluster theory
  
  
• 15.20-15.45: Maxim Kartamyshev (UiO)
  Effective three-body interactions for shell-model calculations
  
  
• 15.45-16.00: Coffee
  
  
• 16.00-16.40: Thomas Papenbrock (University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Lab, USA)
  Nuclear energy functionals
  
  
• 16.40-17.20: Dimitri Van Neck (University of Gent, Belgium)
  Constraining density functional theories from Green's functions approaches
  
  
• 17.20-18.00: Carlo Barbieri (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
  Many-body Green's functions for atoms and nuclei
  
  
• 19.30-->: Conference dinner at Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters http://www.dnva.no

Saturday May 24: (Conference site: Department of Physics, Auditorium Store Fysiske)

Many-body methods, Nuclear structure and Infinite Matter

Session chair: Magne Guttormsen (UiO)


• 9.00-9.40: Hubert Grawe (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
  Nuclear structure from rp- to r-process nuclei: experiment and shell model
  
  
• 9.40-10.20: Takaharu Otsuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  Evolution of the nuclear shells by two- and three-body nuclear forces
  
  
• 10.20-10.50: Coffee
  
  
• 10.50-11.30 David Dean, (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA):
  Progress and challenges in the physics of nuclei
  
  
• 11.30-12.10: Frederic Nowacki (IReS, Strasbourg, France)
  Cross-shell excitations in semi-magic nuclei
  
  
• 12.10-12.50: Mihai Horoi (Central Michigan University, USA)
  Large-scale shell model calculations and coupled cluster calculations
  
  
• 12.50-14.00: Lunch at the Department of Physics
  
  

Many-body methods, Nuclear structure and Infinite Matter

Session chair: Jon Magne Leinaas (UiO)


• 14.00-14.40: Andres Zuker (IReS, Strasbourg, France)
  Shell formation and nuclear masses
  
  
• 14.40-15.20: Herber Müther (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  Pairing and two-nucleon correlations
  
  
• 15.20-15.50: Sigurd Kohler (University of Arizona, USA)
  Low momentum interactions and correlations
  
  
• 15.50-16.05: Coffee
  
  
• 16.05-16.45: Artur Polls (University of Barcelona, Spain)
  Microscopic Many-Body description of Bose-Einstein condensates in the large-gas-paremeter region
  
  
• 16.45-17.15: Simen Kvaal (UiO)
  Approximation theory of many-body computations
  
  
• 17.15-18.00: James Vary (Iowa State University, Ames, USA)
  Summary of meeting