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Workshop Program

Due to a conflict in reservations, the Workshop has been moved to the APT building on the LANSCE site. The main sessions will now be in the Pinon Conference Room. The other sessions will be in:

Lunch will be provided on-site both days.

(This is a tentative schedule.)

Sunday, October 29

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Reception at the Los Alamos Inn

Monday, October 30

Morning Session, Pinon Conference Room

8:30 am to 9:00 am
Registration
9:00 am to 9:15 am
Welcome and Opening remarks, David Vieira and John McClelland, LANL
9:15 am to 9:45 am
Overview of RIA, Jerry Nolen, ANL
9:45 am to 10:15 am
ATW R & D overview, Phillip Finck, ANL
10:15 am to 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am to 11:15 am
SBSS R & D overview, Steve Becker, LANL
11:15 am to 11:45 am
Radioisotope and biomedical applications of RIA, Jose Alonso, LBNL
11:45 am to 12:15 pm
Application of RIA for high sensitivity wear diagnostic studies in medicine and industry, Peter Fehsenfeld, Karlsruhe

Afternoon Session

1:30 pm to 3:15 pm
Working groups, Session I
SBSS, Johndale Solem, LANL, chair
1. Present status of nuclear cross sections and possibilities with RIA, Stephanie Frankle, LANL
2. Nuclear level densities for SBSS, Robert Haight, LANL
3. Gamma-ray measurements for applications at RIA, Matthew Devlin, LANL
4. Needs for the thermonuclear theory program, Gerry Hale, LANL
Medical applications and radioisotopes, Dennis Phillips, LANL, chair
1:30 to 1:40 Introductory remarks, Dennis Phillips, LANL
1:40 to 1:55 Overview of possibilities for medical and industrial isotope production at RIA, Jerry Nolen, ANL
1:55 to 2:10 Q & A regarding production rates
2:10 to 2:25 Radioisotopes for biosciences, Tom Ruth, TRIUMF
2:40 to 2:55 Heavy nuclides for nuclear medicine, Robert Atcher, LANL
2:55 to 3:15 Q & A regarding heavy nuclides
Materials Science, Peggy McMahan, LBNL, chair
1. Beta-NMR materials science studies, Gerry Morris, TRIUMF
2. Radiation effects studies using stable and radioactive beams, Peggy McMahan, LBNL
3. Production of neutrons and ultra-cold neutrons at RIA, Jerry Nolen, ANL
3:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Coffee break
3:45 pm to 5:30 pm
Working groups, Session II
SBSS, Steve Wender, LANL, chair
5. Reaction cross sections for isomers and radiochemistry, Lee Bernstein, LLNL
6. Neutron capture measurements on radioactive targets, John Ullmann, LANL
7. Stockpile stewardship, radiochemistry, and radioactive beams, Mark Stoyer, LLNL
8. (ATW:) RIA potential for improved models for ATW calculations, Stepan Mashnik, LANL
Medical applications and radioisotopes, Dennis Phillips, LANL, chair
3:45 to 4:15 Medical Applications of the South African National Accelerator Centre: Radioisotope production and particle beam therapy, Meiring Nortier, NAC and Werner Richter, University of Stellenbosch
4:15 to 4:30 Q & A regarding NAC
4:30 to 5:30 Round Table discussion
Materials Science
Round table discussion on materials science using RIA
7:30 pm onwards
No-host dinner at Gabriel's Restaurant. Sign up at registration desk with Robin Shaw.

Tuesday, October 31

Morning Session

9:00 am to 10:15 am
Working groups, Session III
ATW, Mark Chadwick, LANL, chair
1. ATW simulations and the role of nuclear cross section data, Holly Trellue, LANL
2. ATW production rates using accelerator-mass spectrometry, Richard Pardo, ANL
3. Radiative capture measurements for ATW, Robert Haight, LANL
4. Proton scattering at RIA and microscopic optical potentials, Steven Karataglidis, LANL
SBSS
Round Table discussion on SBSS, J. Wilhelmy, D. Barr, M. MacInnes, S. Becker, S. Frankle, .....
Medical applications and radioisotopes
Additional speakers or Round Table discussion to formulate an Executive Summary for potential applications of RIA in isotope Production and Medicine.
Materials Science
Round table discussion of materials science using RIA, continued....
10:15 am to 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am to 12:15 pm
Working groups, Session IV
ATW, Mark Chadwick, LANL, chair
5. RIA R & D for ATW, Dennis Slaughter, LLNL
6. Fission probability calculations for ATW, Peter Moller, LANL
SBSS, closing remarks
The role of nuclear physics in the Stockpile Stewardship Program, Stephen Sterbenz, LANL
Medical applications and radioisotopes
Additional speakers or Round Table discussion to formulate an Executive Summary for potential applications of RIA in Isotope Production and Medicine.

Afternoon Session, Pinon Conference Room

1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Summaries by Working Group Convenors: Anna Hayes (SBSS), Mark Chadwick (ATW), Dennis Phillips (Radioisotopes), and Peggy McMahan (Materials Science)
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Closing remarks
4:00 pm onwards
Refreshments

The organisers request that the convenors remain after the Workshop for a Working Dinner on the evening of Tuesday, October 31.