JINA R-Process Discussion

January 28 - 29, 2005
Center For Continuing Education, Rm.100, McKenna Hall
University of Nore Dame, IN, USA

Friday, January 28 2005

9:00 am

Opening remarks

Michael Wiescher (ND)

Session 1

Observational Results

session chair: Tim Beers

9:15 am

Stellar abundance observations
and the r-process

John Cowan (Oklahoma)

9:40 am

discussion

 

10:00 am

Abundance constraints on the
conditions for two r-processes

Jim Truran (Chicago)

10:20 am

discussion

 

10:30 am

Carbon enhanced stars in SDSS

Sivarani Thirupathi (MSU)

10:50 am

discussion

 

11:00 am

coffee break

 

11:30 am

Supernova induced turbulent mixing in
relation to recent observational results

Dinshaw Balsara (ND)

11:50 am

discussion

 

12:00 pm

Opportunities with SEGUE & CEEC

Tim Beers (MSU)

12:20 pm

discussion

 

12:30 pm

Lunch - Morris Inn

 

Session 2

r-Process Sites

session chair: Jim Truran

2:00 pm

"r-Process in the Hot Supernova Bubble: Where
do we stand and where do we go from here?"

Grant Mathews (ND)

2:20 pm

discussion

 

2:30 pm

Magnetic fields and rotation in protoneutron star winds

Todd Thompson (UC Berkeley)

2:50 pm

discussion

 

3:00 pm

r-process elements in globular clusters and
the astrophysical site of the r-process

Kaori Otsuki (Chicago)

3:20 pm

discussion

 

3:30 pm

r-process studies at LANL

Frank Timmes (LANL)

3:50 pm

discussion

 

4:00 pm

coffee break

 

Session 3

Theory of Neutron Rich Nuclei

session chair: Hendrik Schatz

4:30 pm

Nuclear structure and r-process modeling

Bernd Pfeiffer (Mainz)

4:50 pm

discussion

 

5:00 pm

Phenomenological attempts
for mass systematics

Matt Quinn (ND)

5:15 pm

discussion

 

5:20 pm

Nuclear mass model predictions
for r-process studies

Peter Möller (LANL)

5:40 pm

discussion

 

7 - 10 pm

Greenfields, Hesburgh Peace Center - Reception & Dinner @ 8:00

Saturday, January 29 2005

9:00 am

TBA

Alexander Lisetskiy (MSU)

9:20 am

discussion

9:30 am

Nuclear structure study extended
to the 132Sn region

Yang Sun (ND)

9:50 am

discussion

 

10:00 am

Mean field model approaches
for r-process studies

Anatoli Afanasjev (ND)

10:20 am

discussion

 

10:30 am

coffee break

 

Session 4

r-process experiments

session chair: Ani Aprahamian

11:00 am

r-process experiments at fragment
separator facilities

Fernando Montes (MSU)

11:20 am

discussion

 

11:30 am

r-process experiments at ISOL facilities

Karl Ludwig Kratz (Mainz)

11:50 am

discussion

 

12:00 pm

Mass measurements at storage rings

Milan Matos (MSU)

12:20 pm

discussion

 

12:30 pm

Lunch - Morris Inn

 

Session 5

Summary discussions (discussion leaders: Aprahamian, Beers, Schatz)

1:30 pm

New projects and initiatives for 2005

 

2:30 pm

New collaborations for 2005

 

3:30 pm

Workshop concludes

 



The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA)

  Jan. 27, 2005