Symmetry Principles Program

Symmetry Principles in Many-Body Phenomena

Status of Program (February 3, 1999)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

9:00 - 12:00: Registration
John Beacom, Chair

13.00 p.m. - Welcome Opening

13.05 p.m. Wick Haxton Brief Overview of Ginocchio's Career

13.20 p.m. Igal Talmi Group Theory and Spectroscopy

14.00 p.m. Joe Carlson Many-Body Methods for Few-Nucleon Systems

14.40 p.m. Stuart Pittel An improved single-particle basis for nuclear structure studies far from stability

15.20 p.m. Coffee Break

Victor Zamfir, Chair

15.50 p.m. Reiner Kruecken Nature of excited 0+ states in 154Sm

16.30 p.m. Jolie A. Cizewski Probing Structure of Nuclei at Finite Temperature and Spin via Decay of Superdeformed Rotational Bands in Lead Nuclei

17.10 p.m. Gerard J. Stephenson Chiral Boundary Conditions and Macromolecules

17.50 p.m. Kouichi Hagino Application of the IBM to Double Phonon Excitations in Subbarrier Fusion

19.00 p.m. WELCOME RECEPTION

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Stuart Pittel, Chair

8.00 a.m. Bruce Barrett Large Basis No-Core Shell-Model Calculations for p-shell nuclei

8.40 a.m. Takahiro Mizusaki Driving to SU(3) symmetry and shape coexistence in pf-shell nuclei

9.20 a.m. Victor Zamfir Phase Coexistence in Low Energy Nuclear Spectra

10.00 a.m. Coffee Break

Roxanne Springer, Chair

10.30 a.m. Serdar Kuyucak Dynamical Symmetries and Shape-phase Transitions in the Vibron Model

11.10 a.m. Bunny C. Clark An Overview of Relativistic Treatments of Hadron-Nucleus Reactions

11.50 a.m. Kazuko Tanabe Pseudo spin and Dirac equation

12.30 p.m. Miki Wadati Quantum Integrable Particle Systems with Long-Range Interactions

13.10 p.m. Lunch Break

Afternoon - FREE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Franco Iachello, Chair

8.30 a.m. Takaharu Otsuka `Q-phonon scheme for mixed-symmetry states

9.10 a.m. Wick Haxton Correlations in the fractional quantum Hall effect

9.50 a.m. Ka Hae Kim Supersymmetric Q-phonon

10.30 a.m. Coffee Break

Larry Zamick, Chair

11.00 a.m. Dimitri Kuznesov To be announced

11.40 a.m. Naotaka Yoshinaga Nuclear Algebraic Models and Quantum Chaos

12.20 p.m. Lunch Break

Jolie Cizewski, Chair

14.00 p.m. Franco Iachello `Algebraic Models of Anharmonic Polymer Chains

14.40 p.m. Nobuaki Yoshida IBM2 Symmetries in the Xe-Ba-Ce Region

15.20 p.m. Piet Van Isacker Nuclear collective structure at zero isospin

16.00 p.m. Coffee Break

Bunny Clark, Chair

16.30 p.m. Hitoshi Nakada `Realistic shell model view of mixed-symmetry states in Cr-Fe region

17.10 p.m. Naftali Auerbach Time-Reversal and Parity Violating Electromagnetic Moments in Nuclei and Atoms

17.50 p.m. Larry Zamick Fermionic Symmetries

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20

Wick Haxton, Chair

8.30 a.m. George Fuller Symmetry, Neutrinos, and Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology

9.10 a.m. John Beacom Symmetries and Supersymmetries in Neutrino Physics

9.50 a.m. Roxanne Springer Applications of an Effective Theory for Two-Nucleon Systems

10.30 a.m. Coffee Break

Taka Otsuka, Chair

11.00 a.m. Baha Balantekin Algebraic Approach to Shape Invariance

11.40 a.m. Peter Herczeg Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Nuclei

12.20 p.m. Lunch Break

Baha Balantekin, Chair

14.00 p.m. James P. Vary Effective Hamiltonians - From Nuclear Spectra to Quantum Field Theory

14.40 p.m. Joe Ginocchio `On the Origins of Symmetries in Many - Body Systems

Evening CONFERENCE BANQUET