18-20 February 2015
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India

 PROGRAMME

 

Day -1, 18 February 2015 (Wednesday)

 

10:00 – 11:00      Inaugural Session

11:00 – 11:30      High Tea

11:30 – 12:00      B. Cederwall (KTH, Sweden)

                          Neutron-Proton Correlation Phenomena in N≈Z Nuclei Around 100Sn

12:00 – 12:25      R. Palit (TIFR, Mumbai, India)

                         Highlights of the Physics Results of Recent INGA Campaign atTIFR and Future Plans

12:25 – 12:50      G. Mukherjee (VECC, Kolkata, India)

                          Exploring the structure of nuclei using INGA: previous and upcoming campaigns

12:50 – 13:15      S. Muralithar (IUAC, New Delhi, India)

                         Nuclear structure studies using ancillary detectors at IUAC

13:15 – 14:30      Lunch

14:30 – 16:00      Poster Session (Venue: C&I Building)

16:00 – 16:30      Tea

16:30 – 16:55      S. Chattopadhyay (SINP, Kolkata, India)

                         Study of Angular momentum generation mechanisms in atomic nucleus using INGA

16:55 – 17:20      S. Chamoli (Univ. of Delhi, India)

                          Complex structure in simple nuclei; an insight into collectivity

                          in mass A ~ 100 region

17:20 – 17:30      P. Singh (TIFR, Mumbai, India)

                         Investigation of particle-hole excitations near N=50 shell closure

17:30 – 17:45      A. Bisoi (IIEST, Shibpur, India)

                         Investigation of interplay of single particle and collective modes of excitation in sd

                           shell nuclei

19:00                     Conference Banquet

 

Day -2, 19 February 2015 (Thursday)

 

09:30 – 09:55      P. Chowdhury (UMass, Lowell, USA)

    Physics of N > 150 nuclei and a new array for fast neutron spectroscopy

09:55 -10:20        C. Theisen (SPhN, Saclay, France)

                          Prompt spectroscopy of the heaviest elements at GANIL

10:20 – 10:45      S. Tandel (CBS, Mumbai, India)

                          Octupole collectivity in heavy nuclei

10:45 – 11:10      S. Mukhopadhyay (BARC, Mumbai, India)

                         Shape transition in Pt isotopes and the transition point at 188Pt

11:10 – 11:40      Tea

11:40 – 12:05      T. Kibedi (ANU, Canberra, Australia)

                          The structure of the Hoyle state via pair conversion spectroscopy

12:05 – 12:30      G. Lotay (Univ. of Surrey, UK)

                          Spectroscopic studies for explosive nuclear astrophysics

12:30 – 12:55      M. Saha Sarkar (SINP, Kolkata, India)

                          Experimental and theoretical efforts- relevance to Nuclear Astrophysics

12:55 – 13:10      D. Pandit (VECC, Kolkata, India)

                          The variation of GDR width at low temperature and the CTFM

13:10 – 14:30      Lunch

14:30 – 14:55      N. Schunck (LLNL, USA)

                          Quantifying uncertainties in nuclear density functional theory

14:55 – 15:20      J. Sheikh (Univ. of Kashmir, India)

                          Chiral and wobbling motion in atomic nuclei

15:20 – 15:45      P. Arumugam (IIT, Roorkee, India)

                          Phase transitions in warm and rotating nuclei

15:45 – 16:00      M. Bhuyan (ITP, Beijing, China)

                          The structural evolution in transition nuclei

16:00 – 16:30      Tea

16:30 – 16:55      P.  Jones (iThemba Labs, South Africa)

                           Physics with AFRODITE at iThemba LABS

16:55 – 17:20      A. Lemasson (GANIL, France)

                           Prompt gamma-ray spectroscopy of isotopically identified

                           fission fragments at VAMOS

17:20 – 17:45      R. P. Singh (IUAC, New Delhi, India)

                           Studies with Indian National Gamma Array at IUAC

17:45 – 18:15      Tea

18:15 – 19:15      A. Roy (VECC, Kolkata, India)

                          Special Lecture:  Resonances in nature

19:30                 Dinner hosted by Director VECC

 

Day-3, 20 February 2015 (Friday)

 

10:00 – 10:25      H. J. Wollersheim (GSI, Germany)

                         Isomeric States – Gateway to Nuclear Structure

10:25 – 10:50      G. Benzoni (INFN, Milan, Italy)

                         Beta-decay studies around 78Ni: Investigation of neutron-rich Fe and Ni isotopes

10:50 – 11:15      R. Raut (UGC-DAE-CSR, Kolkata, India)

                          Extending DSAM to Atypical Domains: Lifetime Measurements

                          at the sd − fp Interface

11:15 – 11:40      T. Bhattacharjee (VECC, Kolkata, India)

                          Nuclear Structure studies using light ion beams at VECC

11:40 – 12:10      Tea

12:10 – 12:35      D. Bazzaco (INFN, Padova, Italy)

12:35 – 13:00      G. de France (GANIL, France)

                           The EXILL campaign

13:00 – 13:15      R. Kshetri  (SKBU, Purulia, India)

   Insights into the operation of the clover detector: comparing the modes

   of operation and the suppression cases

13:15 – 13:25      S. Saha (TIFR, Mumbai, India)

                          Geant4 simulation of TIFR-INGA

13:25 – 14:45      Lunch

14:45 – 15:10      A. Singh (IIT, Kharagpur, India)

                          High-spin collective bands in nuclei of mass A 125 region

15:10 – 15:35      A. Chakroborty (Visva Bharati, India)

                          Nuclear Structure Studies with Fast Neutrons

15:35 – 15:45      S. S. Bhattacharyay (UGC-DAE-CSR, Kolkata, India)

                          Probing the structure of nuclei at the sd-fp interface

15:45 – 15:55      S. Das Gupta (SINP, Kolkata, India)

                          Search for positive parity states in 151Ho at low energies

15:55 – 16:30      Tea

16:30 – 17:00      Summary Talk