New for 2009, the Nuclear Physics Gordon Research Seminar will be held on Saturday and Sunday immediately preceding the Gordon Conference. This seminar is a unique opportunity for young researchers (students and postdocs) to present their work, exchange ideas and data, and network with their future colleagues. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the Gordon Conference as well. (Note that each requires a separate application.)
There will be two sessions of talks (Sat. afternoon and Sun. morning), all by young researchers. We invite all students and postdocs who wish to be speakers at the GRS to submit abstracts; talks will be chosen based on those abstracts. The goal of the seminar is to provide an atmosphere where young researchers can take an active role in the discussions and can feel free to ask any questions. There will be ample time, both during the sessions and Saturday evening, for discussion and interaction.
Faculty and senior researchers are also welcome to attend the GRS, to provide feedback and facilitate discussion.
| SATURDAY |
| 2:00 pm | Check-in Begins |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Nuclear Astrophysics |
| Discussion Leader: Sean Tulin (Caltech/TRIUMF) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Chithra Nair (Forschungzentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
"Nuclear astrophysics with real photons: photoactivation of p-nuclei" |
| 3:40 pm - 3:50 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Probing the Nucleon |
| Discussion Leader: Joe Calson (Los Alamos) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | David Flay (Temple University)
"Precision Measurement of the Neutron d2: The Color Field Response to the Polarized Nucleon" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:40 pm | Wesley Gohn (University of Connecticut)
"Semi Inclusive Pion Electroproduction in DIS" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:10 pm | Whitney Armstrong (Temple University)
"Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment (SANE)" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:30 am - 12:30 pm | Topics in Nuclear Physics |
| Discussion Leader: Brad Plaster (University of Kentucky) |
| 9:30 am - 9:55 am | Kevin Zhang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Daya Bay Experiment and Its Background" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am - 10:30 am | Annelise Malkus (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
"Searching for New Physics with Solar Neutrinos" |
| 10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Chitrasen Jena (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"Phi meson production and Cronin effect in d+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:00 pm | Kevin Hickerson (Caltech)
"Measuring fundamental beta-decay parameters using Ultracold Neutrons" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | GRS Evaluation |
| (Discuss request for a subsequent GRS; Fill out Evaluation Forms) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 2:00 pm. |