Program

Tuesday, January 4

  
10:00Bus departure from Hotel Tulip Inn Ritz in Mexico City
10:30Bus stop at Sanborns San Angel (Insurgentes Sur # 2105)
12:00Registration at Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc
14:00Lunch
  
16:00 - 16:10Welcome
  
Session 1: Nuclear Structure I
16:10 - 16:50Ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell model, Jerry P. Draayer (Louisiana State U.)
16:50 - 17:30The density matrix renormalization group and the nuclear shell model, Stuart Pittel (U. of Delaware)
17:30 - 18:10Partial conservation of seniority in nuclei, Piet Van Isacker (GANIL)
  
18:10 - 18:30Coffee Break
  
Session 2: Radioactive Beams
18:30 - 19:10Experimental determination of nuclear quadrupole moments, Elizabeth Padilla-Rodal (ICN-UNAM)
19:10 - 19:50Ultrasensitive tools for the study of environmental radioactivity, Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri (ORNL)
  
20:00Welcome Dinner
  

Wednesday, January 5

08:00 - 09:00Breakfast
  
Session 3: Nuclear Astrophysics
09:00 - 09:40R-process nucleosynthesis and nuclear masses, Ani Aprahamian (U. of Notre Dame)
09:40 - 10:20Nuclear and particle physics aspects of Big Bang nucleo-synthesis, Osvaldo Civitarese (UNLP)
10:20 - 11:00Cross sections for astrophysics and other applications, Jutta Escher (LLNL)
  
11:00 - 11:20Coffee Break
  
Session 4: Nuclear Reactions I
11:20 - 12:00Evaporation protons from 8B + 58Ni at near barrier energies, Elí Aguilera (ININ)
12:00 - 12:40Calculations on the threshold anomaly for the nuclear systems 6Li and 7Li with targets 27Al and 28Si, Arturo Gómez-Camacho (ININ)
12:40 - 13:20Mechanism of heavy ion fusion to superheavy nuclei, Werner Scheid (Justus-Liebig-U. Giessen)
  
14:00Lunch
  
Session 5: Nuclear Structure II
16:00 - 16:40Phenomenological and microscopic cluster models and their phase transitions, Paul R. Fraser (ICN-UNAM)
16:40 - 17:20Proton-neutron pairing in algebraic and solvable models, Sergio Lerma (U. Veracruzana)
17:20 - 18:00Quantum phase transitions in finite algebraic models, Pavel Cejnar (Charles U.)
  
18:00 - 19:40Poster Session & Coffee Break
  
20:00Dinner
  

Thursday, January 6

08:00 - 09:00Breakfast
  
Session 6: Neutron Physics
09:00 - 09:40Ultracold Neutron: a laboratory for low-energy particle physics, Chen-Yu Liu (Indiana U.)
09:40 - 10:20A measurement of the parity violating proton asymmetry in the capture of polarized cold neutrons on 3He, Libertad Barrón-Palos (IF-UNAM)
10:20 - 11:00Spectroscopy of gravitationally bound states with ultra-cold neutrons, Stefan Baeßler (U. of Virginia)
  
11:00 - 11:20Coffee Break
  
Session 7: LHC Physics
11:20 - 12:00Nuclei/antinuclei production at LHC energies, Arturo Menchaca-Rocha (IF-UNAM)
12:00 - 12:40ALICE - year one, Guy Paic (ICN-UNAM)
  
Session 8: Nuclear Reactions II
12:40 - 13:20Ab initio theory of light ion reactions, Petr Navratil (LLNL)
13:20 - 14:00Investigating the symmetry energy of nuclear matter with heavy-ion reactions, Sherry Yennello (Texas A&M)
  
14:00Lunch
  
 Free Evening
  
20:00Dinner
  

Friday, January 7

08:00 - 09:00Breakfast
  
Session 9: Hadron Physics
09:00 - 09:40Spin and flavor content of baryons, Roelof Bijker (ICN-UNAM)
09:40 - 10:20The few body problem of the quark-model hadron structure, Alfredo Valcarce (U. de Salamanca)
10:20 - 11:00QCD at low energies: a many-body approach, Peter O. Hess (ICN-UNAM)
  
11:00 - 11:20Coffee Break
  
Session 10: Nuclear Structure III
11:20 - 12:00Nuclear masses, shell effects and deformations, Jorge G. Hirsch (ICN-UNAM)
12:00 - 12:40Why nuclei are prolate: deformation is a collective effect, Pavel Stránský (ICN-UNAM)
12:40 - 13:20Uncertainties in nuclear transition matrix elements for neutrinoless double beta decay, P. K. Rath (U. of Lucknow)
  
14:00Lunch
  
15:45Bus departure to Mexico City
Updated on December 21, 2010