Advances and perspectives in computational nuclear physics

5 Oct 2014, 15:45 → 7 Oct 2014, 18:00 US/Hawaii

Kohala 3 (Oct. 5,6); Kona 4(Oct.7) (Hilton Waikoloa Village)

Joe Carlson (LANL), Takashi Nakatsukasa (University of Tsukuba)

This meeting is held at Hilton Waokoloa Village in October 5-7, 2014. It is focused on latest theoretical and technical advances in computational sciences in nuclear physics and related area, including particle and astrophysics, to discuss future perspectives in the exa-scale computing. This is a satellite activity of the Fourth Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the American Physical Society and The Physical Society of Japan (October 8-11, 2014).
This meeting is supported by the JSPS Bilateral Program, "Open Partnership Joint Projects/Seminars", for a promotion of international scientific exchanges between Japan and counterpart countries.

Sunday, 5 October

15:45 → 17:00 Session 1

Convener: Joseph Carlson (LANL)

15:45 Opening address

16:00 Numerical Study of QCD Phase Diagram with High Multi-precision Arithmetic

Speaker: Atsushi Nakamura (Hiroshima University)

Slides Nakamura.pdf

16:30 QCD calculations of nuclear binding energies and electromagnetic properties

Speaker: William Detmold (MIT)

Slides Detmold.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:30 Session 1-2

Convener: Kosuke Sumiyoshi (Numazu National College of Technology)

17:30 Heavy-ion collisions and nuclear EOS

Speaker: Akira Ono (Tohoku University)

Slides Ono.pdf

18:00 Advances in computational nuclear physics: Recent progress on ascertaining the core collapse supernova explosion mechanism

Speaker: Anthony Mezzacappa (University of Tennessee)

Slides Mezzacappa.pdf Note: more than 60 MB

Monday, 6 October

09:00 → 10:30 Session 2-1

Convener: Witold Nazarewicz (MSU/ORNL)

09:00 Reconstructing the neutron-star equation of state from inspiralling binary neutron stars

Speaker: Benjamin Lackey (Syracuse University)

Slides Lackey.pdf

09:30 Origin of the r-process nuclei

Speaker: Shinya Wanajo (RIKEN)

Slides Wanajo.pdf

10:00 Emergence of rotational bands in light nuclei from ab initio nuclear structure calculations

Speaker: Pieter Maris (Iowa State University)

Slides Maris.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 2-2

Convener: Noritaka Shimizu (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo)

11:00 Nuclear structure from no-core Monte Carlo shell model

Speaker: Takashi Abe (University of Tokyo)

Slides Abe.pdf

11:30 Realtime techniques for studying dynamics in cold atom and nuclear systems

Speaker: Michael Forbes (Washington State University)

Slides 40MB Forbes.pdf

12:00 Ab initio study of nuclear four-body reactions

Speaker: Shigeyoshi Aoyama (Niigata University)

Slides Aoyama.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 2-3

Convener: Shinya Aoki (YITP)

14:00 Hadron spectroscopy from lattice QCD

Speaker: Jozef Dudek (Old Dominion University)

Slides Dudek.pdf

14:30 Light nuclei from lattice QCD

Speaker: Takeshi Yamazaki (University of Tsukuba)

Slides Yamazaki.pdf

15:00 High-performance computing in nuclear density functional theory

Speaker: Nicolas Schunck (LLNL)

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session 2-4

Convener: Sanjay Reddy (University of Washington)

16:00 Systematic calculation of electric dipole responses

Speaker: Tsunenori Inakura (Chiba University)

Slides Inakura.pdf

16:30 Supernova neutrino physics: A computational challenge

Speaker: George Fuller (University of California San Diego)

17:00 Finite nuclei and nuclear matter from lattice QCD

Speaker: Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN)

Slides Hatsuda.pdf

Tuesday, 7 October

09:00 → 12:30 Computational nuclear phyiscs I

Convener: Takashi Nakatsukasa (University of Tsukuba / RIKEN)

09:00 What can we learn from large-scale MCSM calculations?

Speaker: Takaharu Otsuka (University of Tokyo)

09:30 Quantum Monte Carlo studies of nuclei and matter

Speaker: Stefano Gandolfi (LANL)

Slides Gandolfi.pdf

10:00 Hadronic interactions and exotic hadrons from lattice QCD

Speaker: Yoichi Ikeda (RIKEN Nishina Center)

10:30 Break

11:00 Lattice QCD: Nucleon structure

Speaker: Huey-Win Lin (University of Washington)

11:30 Merger of binary neutron stars in numerical relativity

Speaker: Masaru Shibata (YITP)

12:00 Relativity and neutron star mergers

Speaker: Francois Foucart (LBNL)

Slides Foucart.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:30 Computational nuclear physics II

Convener: James Vary (Iowa State University)

14:00 Baryon number distribution in lattice QCD

Speaker: Keitaro Nagata (KEK)

Slides Nagata.pdf

14:30 Lattice QCD: Equation of state

Speaker: Swagato Mukherjee (BNL)

15:00 Formation of clusters in stable and unstable nuclei explored by antisymmetrized molecular dynamics

Speaker: Masaaki Kimura (Hokkaido University)

Slides Kimura.pdf

15:30 Break

16:00 Computing nuclear matrix elements for double-beta decay

Speaker: Jonathan Engel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Slides Engel.pdf

16:30 Roles of dense matter & neutrino transfer in core-collapse supernovae

Speaker: Kosuke Sumiyoshi (Numazu College of Technology)

Slides Sumiyoshi.pdf

17:00 Nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Luke Roberts (Caltech)