(Note: we are adding slides and videos as of January 2024 [permissions pending] following the report on the symposium in Nuclear Physics News. If you do not see the slides or recording, please check back later or contact Ben Kay.)
July 9, 2023 – Sunday
19:30-21:00 Reception at the Argonne Guest House
July 10, 2023 – Monday
8:00-9:00 Registration and Coffee, Auditorium Lounge in the Physics Division
Session 1 Chair: Fredrik Tovesson (Director, Physics Division)
9:00-9:15 Opening remarks:
Paul Kearns (Director, Argonne National Laboratory)
Peter Littlewood (Chair, Department of Physics, UChicago)
9:15-9:45 Walter Henning, Argonne National Laboratory
-- Early Days, the Mössbauer Effect, and Reactions with RIBs
[slides] [presentation]
9:45-9:55 Discussion
9:55-10:25 Coffee break
Session 2 Chair: Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University & TRIUMF)
10:25-10:55 Takaharu Otsuka, University of Tokyo
-- Legend and Prospect of the Tensor Force in Nuclei
10:55-11:05 Discussion
11:05-11:35 Sean Freeman, University of Manchester & CERN
-- Twenty Years of Science with John: a Bit of a
Renaissance with Transfer Reactions [slides] [recording]
11:35-11:45 Discussion
11:45-12:15 Augusto Macchiavelli, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
-- "I quibble about this Augusto": John and some aspects
of weak binding phenomena in atomic nuclei [slides]
12:15-12:25 Discussion
12:25-14:00 Lunch (Building 203)
A group photograph will be taken outside before we eat
Session 3 Chair: Kirby Kemper (Florida State University)
14:00-14:30 Walter Kutschera, University of Vienna
-- AMS searches for the unknown (quarks, superheavies, and
Ca-41 dating of early man) [slides] [recording]
14:30-14:40 Discussion
14:40-15:10 Michael Paul, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
-- Heavy-element production in massive stars, neutron-star
mergers and supernovae probed in the laboratory
15:10-15:20 Discussion
15:20-15:50 Jerry Nolen, Argonne National Laboratory
-- Nuclear reactions in the 1960s to medical isotopes
in the 2020s [slides] [recording]
15:50-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:20 Coffee break
Session 4 Chair: Russell Betts (Illinois Institute of Technology)
[A recording of the entire Session 4 can be found here.]
16:20-16:50 Robert Janssens, University of North Carolina and TUNL
-- "It will be interesting to see what you can learn
with photon beams" [slides] [recording - see above link]
16:50-17:00 Discussion
17:00-17:30 Alan Wuosmaa, University of Connecticut
-- Science with Solenoidal Spectrometers: Past, Present,
and Future [slides] [recording - see above link]
17:30-17:40 Discussion
18:30- Banquet at Argonne Guest House, after dinner speeches,
open mic (shuttle bus available). The Guest House bar opens
at 18:15.
July 11, 2023 – Tuesday
8:30-9:00 Coffee, Auditorium Lounge in the Physics Division
Session 5 Chair: Robert Janssens (University of North Carolina and TUNL)
9:00-9:30 Bob Rosner, University of Chicago
-- Crystallizing Beams ... [slides] [recording]
9:30-9:40 Discussion
9:40-10:10 Jeffrey Hangst, Aarhus University
-- Crystalline Beams, the SSC, or Antihydrogen:
When There Are No Good Choices
10:10-10:20 Discussion
10:20-10:50 Coffee break
Session 6 Chair: Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago)
10:50-11:20 Benjamin Kay, Argonne National Laboratory
-- "Please see me" (and some adventures with
single-nucleon transfer) [slides] [recording]
11:20-11:30 Discussion
11:30-12:00 Dennis Kovar, former Department of Energy
-- John Schiffer and the U.S. Nuclear Physics Program
12:00-12:10 Discussion
12:10-12:40 Don Geesaman, Argonne National Laboratory
-- Transparency in Nuclei and in Nuclear Planning
12:40-12:50 Discussion
End of Symposium
