Name: Nuclear Physics Over The Years: From the high spin era to rare isotopes
Start: 2025-09-19T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-20T14:35:00-04:00
Location: Friday Conference Center, UNC Chapel Hill

Nuclear Physics Over The Years: From the high spin era to rare isotopes

from Friday, September 19, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, September 20, 2025 (2:35 PM)

Monday, September 15, 2025
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Friday, September 19, 2025
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 8:50 AM
Room: Sun Flower Room
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome Remarks by the Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNC - Fabian Heitsch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

8:40 AM Welcome Remarks by the TUNL Director - Calvin Howell (Duke University)
8:50 AM Session 1: High spin collectivity & superdeformation
Session 1: High spin collectivity & superdeformation
8:50 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Sun Flower Room
Contributions

8:50 AM Superdeformation at ATLAS: from the Notre Dame BGO Array to GRETINA - Michael Carpenter (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:10 AM Exotic Nuclear Structure under the Microscope - Seeing ‘AYEBALL to AYEBALL’ with Robert - Patrick Regan (University of Surrey)

9:30 AM Taking Nuclei for a Spin - Partha Chowdhury (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)

9:50 AM A High-Spin Journey with Robert - Daryl Hartley (United States Naval Academy)
10:15 AM Symposium Photo and Coffee Break
Symposium Photo and Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Photo (Atrium), Refreshment (Blueberry Hills)
10:35 AM
10:35 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: Sun Flower Room
Contributions

10:35 AM States, Levels, and Excitations in Weakly Bound Nuclei - Ben Kay (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:55 AM Solenoidal Spectrometers for Nuclear Reaction Studies - Alan Wuosmaa (University of Connecticut)

11:15 AM Dipping a toe into the neutron-rich waters of the fp-shell - Sean Freeman (The University of Manchester)

11:35 AM Unveiling exotic features in neutron-rich nuclei with direct reactions - Ritu Kanungo (TRIUMF)

11:55 AM The Thrill of Searching for Hidden Shell Gaps Together - Bogdan Fornal (Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
12:20 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: FCC Lounge
1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Sun Flower Room
Contributions

1:20 PM From the ANL-Notre Dame BGO Array to the Ultimate Compton Suppression. - David Radford (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

1:40 PM Trapped at Argonne - Jason Clark (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:00 PM Probing the Neutron-Neutron Interaction and the Structure of the Neutron at Low Energies - Calvin Howell (Duke University & TUNL)

2:20 PM Gammasphere experiments with Robert: examples from a herculean effort - Walter Reviol (Argonne National Laboratory)
2:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Blueberry Hill
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:25 PM
Room: Sun Flower Room
Contributions

3:05 PM Highlights in the neutron-rich Ni isotopes - Benjamin Crider (Mississippi State Universit)

3:25 PM The Quest for the Driplines - Bradley Sherrill (FRIB/MSU)

3:45 PM Building the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams - Thomas Glasmacher (FRIB/MSU)

4:05 PM Marrying In‑Beam and Decay Spectroscopy to Reveal the Structure of Exotic Nuclei - Dariusz Seweryniak (Argonne National Lab)
4:25 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:25 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Sun Flower Room
4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Sun Flower Room
Contributions

4:50 PM Open nuclear systems in Structure and Astrophysics - Ingo Wiedenhoever (Florida State University)

5:10 PM To TUNL and beyond! Robert's contributions to studying the cosmos at TUNL - Richard Longland (North Carolina State University)

5:30 PM Spectroscopy for Astrophysics in the Janssens Era - Kelly Chipps (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

5:50 PM The Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance in Exotic Nuclei and the Asymmetry Term of Nuclear Incompressibility - Umesh Garg (University of Notre Dame)
6:10 PM Reception
Reception
6:10 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Second Floor Atrium

6:45 PM

6:45 PM - 9:45 PM
Room: Redbud Room
Saturday, September 20, 2025

8:00 AM Breakfast and Networking
Breakfast and Networking
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Sun Flower Room
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Sun Flower Room
Contributions

9:05 AM Connecting Shape Coexistence at Spin 0 to Superdeformation at High Spins - Silvia Leoni (Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN)

9:25 AM Innovations in Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence with the Clover Array - Samantha Johnson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & TUNL)

9:45 AM Collectivity across the nuclear chart - Heather Crawford (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:05 AM Exploring N=32,34 and 40 and the inverse-impact law - Alexandra Gade (FRIB/MSU)
10:25 AM Coeee Break
Coeee Break
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Sun Flower Room
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Sun Flower Room
Contributions

10:50 AM Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy at TRIUMF-ISAC: Past, Present, Future - Greg Hackman (TRIUMF)

11:10 AM Some notes on the last 50 years of nuclear physics and the next 50 years - Alex Brown (FRIB/MSU)

11:30 AM On the birth of an alpha particle - Robert Grzywacz (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

11:50 AM The Rumsfeld Matrix and Weak Binding Speculations - Augusto Macchiavelli (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
12:10 PM Closing Remarks - Robert V. F. Janssens (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & TUNL)
Closing Remarks
- Robert V. F. Janssens (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & TUNL)
12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: Sun Flower Room
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: FCC Lounge