ICNT workshop "Physics of exotic nuclei: Theoretical advances and challenges"

Asia/Tokyo
Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building (RIKEN Wako Campus)

Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

RIKEN Wako Campus

2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
Description
Radioactive-isotope-beam facilities of new generation provide exciting future for low-energy nuclear physics. To make the most of these opportunities to extend our understanding of the nature and the universe, extensive collaboration between theory and experiment is indispensible. In June 1-6, 2014, the second conference on Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science (ARIS2014) will be held in Tokyo. This is the flagship conference in the relevant field and we expect a large number of participants from all over the world to participate in the conference. Utilizing this occasion, this ICNT workshop is organized as a satellite activity. The workshop will provide a nice opportunity to further extend discussion during the ARIS2014 conference. We are planning to set up two major topics associated with theoretical efforts in physics of exotic nuclei: "Ab-initio approaches to nuclear structure" and "Iterative methods in nuclear structure calculations". On each day, we plan to have a limited number of talks, with a plenty of discusion time.

    • 09:30 10:00
      Opening Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Takashi Nakatsukasa (University of Tsukuba)
      • 09:30
        Opening 15m
        Speaker: Takashi Nakatsukasa (University of Tsukuba)
      • 09:45
        Welcome address 15m
        Speaker: Hiroyoshi Sakurai (RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science)
    • 10:00 12:30
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Dr Noritaka Shimizu (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo)
      • 10:00
        No-Core CI calculations of p-shell nuclei with 2- and 3-body forces 1h
        Speaker: Pieter Maris (Iowa State University)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Break 30m
      • 11:30
        Chiral forces along mid-mass isotope chains 1h
        Speaker: Vittorio Soma (TU Darmstadt)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 16:00
      Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
    • 16:00 17:30
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Dr Noritaka Shimizu (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo)
      • 16:00
        Monte Carlo shell model for no-core calculations 45m
        Speaker: Takashi Abe (Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 16:45
        Local chiral effective field theory interactions and applications 45m
        Speaker: Alexandros Gezerlis (University of Guelph)
        Slides
    • 18:00 20:00
      Welcome party 2h The first cafeteria (Daiichi Shokudo)

      The first cafeteria (Daiichi Shokudo)

      RIKEN Wako Campus

    • 10:00 12:30
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Carlo Barbieri (University of Surrey)
      • 10:00
        Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei and nuclear matter 1h
        Speaker: Stefano Gandolfi (LANL)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Break 30m
      • 11:30
        Factorization algorithms for large-scale many-body problems 1h
        Speaker: Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 16:00
      Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
    • 16:00 17:30
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Carlo Barbieri (University of Surrey)
      • 16:00
        Nuclear Green's function Monte Carlo with chiral forces 45m
        Speaker: Joel Lynn (LANL)
        Slides
      • 16:45
        Spectroscopy and theoretical uncertainties in medium-mass nuclei including 3N forces 45m
        Speaker: Javier Menéndez-Sánchez (TU Darmstadt)
        Slides
    • 10:00 12:30
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Haozhao Liang (RIKEN Nishina Center)
      • 10:00
        Ab-initio derivation of Covariant Density Functional Theory and Relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock Theory in Finite Nuclei 1h
        Speaker: Peter Ring (TU Munich)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Break 30m
      • 11:30
        Excitation of low-lying dipole states via nuclear field 1h
        Speaker: Edoardo G. Lanza (INFN/Catania)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 16:00
      Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
    • 16:00 17:45
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Haozhao Liang (RIKEN Nishina Center)
      • 16:00
        Studying short-range correlations with unitarily transformed interactions and operators 45m
        Speaker: Thomas Neff (GSI)
        Slides
      • 16:45
        Nuclear Moments of Inertia as an Indicator of the Phase Transition in a Finite System 20m
        Speaker: Kazuko Sugawara-Tanabe (RIKEN)
        Slides
      • 17:05
        Monte Carlo shell model calculations for nuclei around 68Ni 20m
        Speaker: Yusuke Tsunoda (University of Tokyo)
      • 17:25
        Cluster structure of Be isotopes based on Monte Carlo shell model 20m
        Speaker: Tooru Yoshida (CNS, University of Tokyo)
    • 10:00 12:30
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Takashi Nakatsukasa (RIKEN Nishina Center)
      • 10:00
        Optimizing energy density functionals for nuclear structure models 1h
        Speaker: Dario Vretenar (University of Zagreb)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Break 30m
      • 11:30
        Finite amplitude method in axial basis 1h
        Speaker: Markus Kortelainen (University of Jyvaskyla)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 16:00
      Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
    • 16:00 17:30
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Takashi Nakatsukasa (RIKEN Nishina Center)
      • 16:00
        Finite-amplitude method for low-lying collective modes and QRPA sum rules 45m
        Speaker: Nobuo HINOHARA (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
        Slides
      • 16:45
        Interacting boson model and nuclear mean field 45m
        Speaker: Kosuke Nomura (GANIL)
        Slides
    • 10:00 12:30
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Dario Vretenar (University of Zagreb)
      • 10:00
        Microscopic investigations of deformed halo nuclei 1h
        Speaker: Jie Meng (Peking University)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Break 30m
      • 11:30
        Skyrme-EDF for charge-changing excitation modes 1h
        Speaker: Kenichi Yoshida (Niigata University)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 15:00
      Talks & Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan
      Convener: Dario Vretenar (University of Zabreb)
      • 14:00
        Physics at the proton drip-line 20m
        Speaker: Lidia Ferreira (IST Lisbon)
      • 14:20
        Quasi-particle resonance near threshold in neutron drip-line nuclei 20m
        Speaker: Yoshihiko Kobayashi (Niigata University)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        Spin triplet pairing and spin-isospin response 20m
        Speaker: Hiroyuki Sagawa (RIKEN Nishina Center / University of Aizu)
    • 15:00 17:00
      Discussion Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      Meeting room (435, 437), Main Research Building

      RIKEN Wako Campus

      2-1 Hirosawa Wakoshi 351-0198 Japan