Conference Program
 
Nuclear Physics
July 15-20, 2007
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 11:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm THE NUCLEAR PHYSICS OF STARS
Discussion Leader: John Beacom (Ohio State U.)
7:40 pm - 8:00 pmSanjay Reddy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Dense Matter and its Role in Neutron Star Structure and Evolution"
8:00 pm - 8:05 pm Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:25 pmGail McLaughlin (North Carolina State U.)
"Neutrinos from Exploding Stars"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pmYong Qian (U Minnesota)
"Nucleosynthesis via Rapid Neutron Capture and Abundances of Metal-Poor Stars"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pmHendrik Schatz (Michigan State U.)
"Nuclear Astrophysics with Fast Rare Isotope Beams"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm NEUTRINOS IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Discussion Leader: Baha Balantekin (U Wisconsin - Madison)
9:00 am - 9:25 amRobert McKeown (Caltech)
"Measuring Neutrino Oscillations with Nuclear Reactors"
9:25 am - 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 am - 9:55 amBonnie Fleming (Yale)
"First Oscillation Results from MiniBoone"
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 amCoffee Break / Group Photo
10:30 am - 10:55 amNicole Bell (U. Melbourne)
"Neutrinos in Cosmology"
10:55 am - 11:00 am Discussion
11:00 am - 11:25 amSteve Elliott (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay"
11:25 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 11:55 amJessica Dunmore (U. Washington)
"Status and Goals of the KATRIN Experiment to Measure Neutrino Mass"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:25 pmJohn Beacom (Ohio State U.)
"Neutrino Astronomy: Going Beyond the Sun"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm CHALLENGES IN NUCLEAR STRUCTURE
Discussion Leader: Witek Nazarewicz (U Tennessee)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pmRocco Schiavilla (Jefferson Laboratory/Old Dominion University)
"Light Nuclei from keV to GeV Energies: A Review"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:25 pmDavid Dean (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"Progress and Challenges in Theory of Nuclei"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pmDon Geesaman (Argonne National Laboratory)
"Paths to the Future in Nuclear Structure"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pmPaulo Bedaque (U. Maryland)
"Nuclear Forces on the Lattice"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm QCD AND THE STRUCTURE OF HADRONS
Discussion Leader: Jian-ping Chen (Jefferson Laboratory)
9:00 am - 9:25 amXiangdong Ji (U. Maryland)
"Gluons in the Proton"
9:25 am - 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 am - 9:55 amRichard Milner (MIT)
"New Results and Perspective on Elastic Electron-Nucleon Scattering"
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:55 amKostas Orginos (William and Mary)
"Hadron Structure and Interactions from Lattice QCD"
10:55 am - 11:00 am Discussion
11:00 am - 11:25 amMichel Garcon (Saclay)
"Generalized Parton Distributions"
11:25 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 11:55 amZein-Eddine Meziani (Temple U.)
"Spin Physics at Jefferson Laboratory"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:25 pmNilanga Liyanage (U. Virginia)
"Nucleon Form Factor Measurements at High Momentum Transfer"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm QUARKS, GLUONS, AND SPIN
Discussion Leader: Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State U)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pmWilliam Zajc (Columbia U.)
"The Fluid Nature of Quark-Gluon Plasma"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:25 pmRaju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"From Glasma to Plasma: Theory and Phenomenology of RHIC's Little Bang"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pmMatthias Gross-Perdekamp (U Illinois)
"Studying Proton Spin Structure with Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at RHIC"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pmCynthia Hajidakis (INFN)
"Spin Physics From HERMES"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm CP VIOLATION AND THE ORIGIN OF MATTER
Discussion Leader: Susan Gardner (U. Kentucky)
9:00 am - 9:25 amRobert Gollub (North Carolina State U.)
"The Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron"
9:25 am - 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 am - 9:55 amZheng-Tian Lu (Argonne National Laboratory)
"Search for the Nuclear Schiff Moment of Radium 225"
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:55 amChen-Yu Lu (Indiana U)
"A Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron Using a Paramagnetic Insulator"
10:55 am - 11:00 am Discussion
11:00 am - 11:25 amMaxim Pospelov (U. Victoria and Perimeter Institute)
"Electric Dipole Moments and New Physics"
11:25 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 11:55 amVincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"EDMs as Probes of Electroweak Baryogenesis Scenarios"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:25 pmStefano Profumo (U. California Santa Cruz)
"Probing Electroweak Baryogenesis: EDMs, Colliders, Dark Matter Searches and Beyond"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting
(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm QCD AND EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORIES
Discussion Leader: Roxanne Springer (Duke U)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pmIain Stewart (MIT)
"Soft Collinear Effective Theory: An Effective Theory for Energetic Hadrons and Jets"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:25 pmDaniel Philips (Ohio U.)
"Chiral Effective Field Theory for Few-Nucleon Systems: Recent Progress and Future Directions"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pmHenry Weller (Duke U.)
"Experimental Tests of Chiral Dynamics Using Photons"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pmElizabeth Jenkins (U. California San Diego)
"Large Nc QCD"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm SYMMETRY TESTS IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Discussion Leader: Geoff Greene (U. Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
9:00 am - 9:25 amBarry Holstein (U. Massachusetts)
"Hadronic Parity Violation: 1957-2007"
9:25 am - 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 am - 9:55 amShelley Page (U. Manitoba)
"Experimental Tests of Hadronic Parity Violation"
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:55 amKrishna Kumar (U. Massachusetts)
"Probing MeV to TeV Physics with Parity-Violating Electron Scattering"
10:55 am - 11:00 am Discussion
11:00 am - 11:25 am William Marciano (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Electroweak Radiative Corrections"
11:25 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 11:55 amTim Chupp (U. Michigan)
"Neutron Decay: The Standard Model and Beyond"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:25 pmLee Roberts (Boston U.)
"The Muon: A Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm NEW RESULTS AND NEW HORIZONS IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Discussion Leader: Allena Opper (George Washington U.)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pmDustin McNulty (U. Massachusetts)
"The π0 Lifetime: Experimental Probe of the QCD Axial Anomaly"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:25 pmGordon Cates (U. Virgina)
"Discovering New Dimensions of the Nucleon"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pmKrishna Rajagopal (MIT)
"Understanding Properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma Via String Theory"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pmThomas Ullrich (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"A Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture