Name: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nuclear Shell Model and Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Start: 2024-07-19T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-21T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Argonne National Laboratory

Celebrating 75 Years of the Nuclear Shell Model and Maria Goeppert-Mayer

from Friday, July 19, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Sunday, July 21, 2024 (4:30 PM)

Monday, July 15, 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Friday, July 19, 2024
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:15 AM Welcome - Kawtar Hafidi (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:30 AM A brief history of a big idea for a small thing - Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University)

10:05 AM Development and Applications of the ab initio No-Core Shell Model - James Vary (Iowa State University)
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Maria Goeppert Mayer – From Göttingen to the Nobel Prize in Physics - Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

1:00 PM Quest for a comprehensive shell model to track the evolution in nuclear structure - Rebeka Lubna (FRIB)

1:25 PM Overview of the History of the Nuclear Shell Model and Personal Perspectives on its Future - Jerry Draayer (LSU)

1:50 PM Microscopic effective interactions for the nuclear shell model - Nadya Smirnova (GANIL)

2:15 PM The Nilsson Model and Medium-Mass Nuclei - Heather Crawford (LBNL)
2:40 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

3:00 PM Towards a microscopic understanding of the shell model: status and open questions - Ragnar Stroberg (ND)

3:25 PM Applications of the ab initio no-core shell model - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)

3:50 PM Large-scale shell-model calculations, quasi-particle shell model, and their applications - Noritaka Shimizu (University of Tsukuba)
4:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:15 PM - 4:25 PM
4:25 PM
4:25 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:25 PM Structure and reaction observables of drip-line nuclei with the Gamow Shell Model - Nicolas Michel (Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou)

4:50 PM Shell Model for double beta decay - Mihai Horoi (Central Michigan University)

5:15 PM Pushing the limits of the shell model towards the continuum - Kostas Kravvaris (LLNL)
Saturday, July 20, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Celebrating Maria Goeppert twice: shell model and double beta decay - Javier Menendez (University of Barcelona)

9:25 AM The shell structure of the neutron-rich Ca isotopes - Pieter Doornenbal (RIKEN)

9:50 AM Deconstructing the $g_A$ puzzle within the realistic shell model - Luigi Coraggio (Università degli Studi "Luigi Vanvitelli" - INFN Naples)

10:15 AM Ab initio studies on muon capture to probe neutrinoless double-beta decay - Lotta Jokiniemi (TRIUMF)
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Physics Division Auditorium
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Shell model meets in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy on both sides of the nuclear chart - Alexandra Gade (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)

11:25 AM Nuclear Data in the Cosmos from the Interacting Shell Model - Sofia Karampagia (Grand Valley State University)

11:50 AM Frontiers in explosive nuclear astrophysics - Gavin Lotay (University of Surrey)
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Physics Division Auditorium

1:00 PM Travel to Chicago
Travel to Chicago
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM CWP
CWP
2:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
Contributions

2:30 PM Welcome - Chiara Bissolotti (Argonne National Laboratory) Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago)

2:35 PM No-Core Shell Model densities and ab initio effective potentials for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering - Charlotte Elster (Ohio University)

3:00 PM No Nus is Good News: From the Origin of Matter, to the Rarest Radioactive Decay in the Universe - Leslie Rogers (Argonne National Laboratory)

3:25 PM Journey into Biological Materials - Alison Patteson (Syracuse University)

3:50 PM Nuclear Issues in National Security - Rhiannon Hutton (Institute for Defense Analyses)
4:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Physics Division Auditorium

4:30 PM Panel discussion
Panel discussion
4:30 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall

5:10 PM Small group discussions
Small group discussions
5:10 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall

5:45 PM

5:45 PM - 6:45 PM

7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: City View Room
Sunday, July 21, 2024
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:30 AM Spin-Orbit Splittings in the Presence of Weak Binding - Benjamin Kay (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:55 AM Isospin Symmetric Island of Inversion at the N=Z line - Frederic Nowacki (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Strasbourg)

10:20 AM Some aspects of the quenching of single-particle strength - Augusto Macchiavelli (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
10:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Physics Division Auditorium
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Ab Initio Investigation of Radiative Capture and Electron-Positron Pair Production - Peter Gysbers (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)

11:25 AM Beta decay recoil-order terms for studies of physics beyond the Standard Model - Grigor Sargsyan (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)

11:50 AM Ab initio theory towards reliable neutrinoless double beta decay nuclear matrix element - Antoine Belley (TRIUMF)
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Physics Division Auditorium
1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

1:15 PM Quantum Computing and the Shell Model - Jon Engel (University of North Carolina)

1:40 PM Neural network quantum states for the nuclear many-body problem - Alessandro Lovato (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:05 PM A weak entanglement approximation for nuclear structure: proton-neutron approximate shell model - Oliver Gorton (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
2:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Physics Division Auditorium
2:45 PM
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:45 PM Elucidating the Ge nuclei with the shell model - Erin Peters (University of Kentucky)

3:10 PM Level Densities and Gamma-Ray Strength Functions in Heavy Nuclei with Shell-Model Monte Carlo - Dallas DeMartini (Yale University)

3:35 PM Nuclear shapes studied by Monte Carlo shell model calculations - Yusuke Tsunoda (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo)

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