Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
40th Course
The Strong Interaction: From Quarks and Gluons to Nuclei and Stars
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2018

Blackett Institute (San Domenico)


Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday  Sunday


Monday, September 17

Chair: Jochen Wambach
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome
09:05 - 09:40 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen, Germany)
A brief history of the town of Erice
09:45 - 10:45 Anthony Thomas (Adelaide, Australia)
Fundamental nuclear physics: from quarks and gluons to finite nuclei and neutron stars
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Amand Faessler
11:30 - 12:30 Sinya Aoki (Kyoto, Japan)
Hadron interactions from lattice QCD
12:45 Lunch

Chair: Thomas Walcher
16:00 - 16:35 Heinz Clement (Tuebingen, Germany)
Status of Dibaryons: Hexaquarks versus Molecules
16:45 - 17:20 Michal Praszalowicz (Krakow, Polska)
On a possibility of baryonic exotica
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Heinz Clement
18:00 - 18:30 Yuki Kamiya (Kyoto, Japan)
Structure of hadron resonances with a nearby zero of the amplitude
18:40 - 19:10 Abby Powell (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Polarimetry for Linearly Polarised Photons Using Coherent Pion Production at MAMI
19:20 - 19:50 Andrei Davydov (Moscow, Russia)
Non-Perturbative Vacuum Polarization Effects in One- and Two-Dimensional Supercritical Dirac-Coulomb Systems

Tuesday, September 18

Chair: Michael Buballa
09:00 - 10:00 Silas Beane (Seattle, United States)
Nuclear reactions from lattice QCD simulations
10:15 - 10:50 Thomas Walcher (Mainz, Germany)
A different view of quark spin determination from spin structure functions of the nucleon.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Omar Benhar
11:30 - 12:30 Carlo Barbieri (Guildford, United Kingdom)
Ab-initio nuclear many-body problems and QCD forces
12:45 Lunch

chair: Yuki Kamiya
16:00 - 16:35 Hirokazu Tamura (Sendai, Japan)
Recent Results in Hypernuclear Physics
16:45 - 17:20 Varese Timoteo (Limeira - SP, Brazil)
Exploring few-nucleon systems and hadronic matter with effective interactions
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Abby Powell
18:00 - 18:30 Fabian Hildenbrand (Darmstadt, Germany)
Structure of three-body hypernuclei
18:40 - 19:10 Abdul Quddus (Aligarh, India)
Surface properties of hot thermally fissile nuclei

Wednesday, September 19

09:00 - 20:00 Excursion:
Monreale and Palermo
Leaving at 9:00 h from Porta Trapani.

Thursday, September 20

Chair: Hirokazu Tamura
09:00 - 10:00 Kathrin Wimmer (Tokyo, Japan)
Structure of exotic nuclei
10:15 - 10:50 Jerry Draayer (Baton Rouge, United States)
Ab Initio Symmetry Adapted No-core Shell Model Result for Medium Mass Nuclei
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Jerry Draayer
11:30 - 12:30 Witold Nazarewicz (East Lansing, Michigan, USA)
Applications of Nuclear Density Functional Theory
12:45 Lunch

Chair: Gabor David
16:00 - 16:35 Horst Lenske (Giessen, Germany)
Strangeness and Charm Production on Nuclei by Antiprotons
16:45 - 17:20 Philipp Gubler (Naka-gun, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki, Japan)
The phi meson in nuclear matter and the strangeness content of the nucleon
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Lucia Oliva
18:00 - 18:30 Debdeep Ghosal (Basel, Switzerland)
Measurement of \pi^{0}\pi^{+/−} Photoproduction off the Deuteron and D-butanol targets
18:40 - 19:10 Jonas Braun (Darmstadt, Germany)
Electromagnetic properties of one-neutron halo nuclei in Halo EFT
19:20 - 19:50 Wael Elkamhawy (Darmstadt, Germany)
Description of Ne-31 in Halo EFT

Friday, September 21

Chair: Anthony Thomas
09:00 - 10:00 Alexandre Obertelli (Darmstadt, Germany)
Shell Structure at the Extremes
10:15 - 10:50 Gagandeep Singh (Roorkee, India)
Coulomb dissociation of 34Na and its relevance in nuclear astrophysics
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Norbert Herrmann
11:30 - 12:30 Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo (Darmstadt, Germany)
R-process nucleosynthesis and its electromagnetic signatures
13:45 - 19:00 Excursion: San Vito lo Capo
Excursion with lunch packages and towels on the bus to the beach in San Vito lo Capo. Bus leaves at 13:45 h from Porta Trapani.

Saturday, September 22

Chair: Michal Praszalowicz
09:00 - 10:00 Duncan Galloway (Clayton, Australia)
Thermonuclear explosions on neutron-star crusts
10:15 - 10:50 Sanjay Reddy (Seattle, USA)
Dark matter in neutron stars
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Gagandeep Singh
11:30 - 12:30 David Blaschke (Wroclaw, Poland)
Astrophysical constraints on the high-density EoS including deconfinement
12:45 Lunch

Chair: Philipp Gubler
16:00 - 16:30 Wolfgang Cassing (Giessen, Germany)
A fresh look at the electromagnetic radiation from the QGP
16:40 - 17:10 Lucia Oliva (Darmstadt, Germany)
Influence of the electromagnetic fields on hadronic observables in proton-induced collisions
17:20 - 17:50 Gabor David (Ridge, NY, USA)
Direct photon probes of hot QCD matter - what we learned and what we didn't (yet)
18:00 - 18:30 Coffee
Chair: Horst Lenske
18:30 - 19:00 Roman Zhokhov (Protvino, Russia)
Chiral imbalance and pion condensation in QCD phase diagram
19:10 - 19:55 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen , Germany)
The traceless disappearance of a scientist: Ettore Majorana

Sunday, September 23

Chair: Varese Timoteo
09:00 - 10:00 James Lattimer (Stony Brook, NY, USA)
The Nuclear Equation of State and Neutron Stars
10:15 - 10:50 Omar Benhar (Roma, Italy)
Modelling Neutron Star Matter in the Age of Gravitational Waves
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Roman Zhokhov
11:30 - 12:30 Andreas Bauswein (Heidelberg, Germany)
Neutron star mergers and the high-density equation of state
12:45 Lunch

Chair: Wolfgang Cassing
16:00 - 16:35 Irais Bautista (Puebla, Mexico)
Collectivity in no-thermalized proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions
16:45 - 17:20 Norbert Herrmann (Heidelberg, Germany)
CBM's path towards dense baryonic matter
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Jochen Wambach
18:00 - 19:30 Sanjay Reddy (Seattle, USA)
Summary

20:15 - 24:00 Conference Dinner