5:30 pm

Dinner, Lamont House

SESSION 1, 7 pm, McConnell Hall Auditorium. Chair: Michael Famiano, WMI University

7:00-7:45 pm

W. Lynch (MSU): Overview of Experimental Symmetry Energy Investigations

7:45-8:30 pm

Bao-An Li (TAMU-Commerce): Incomplete Overview of Theoretical Studies on Nuclear Symmetry Energy

8:30-9:15 pm

E. Brown (MSU): Symmetry Energy in Astrophysics

8:00-8:30 am

Continental breakfast, McConnell Hall Foyer

SESSION 2, 8:30 am, McConnell Hall Auditorium. Chair: Umesh Garg, Notre Dame

8:30-9:00 am

J. Stone (Oxford): Symmetry Energy from the Skyrme Interaction

9:00-9:30 am

I. Vidana (Coimbra): Symmetry Energy Within the BHF Approach

9:30-10:00 am

P. Moller (Los Alamos): Equation of State Parameters from FRDM Mass Model

10:00-10:30 am

F. Camera (Milano): Symmetry Energy from Pigmy Dipole and Giant Resonances

10:30-10:50 am

Coffee break

10:50-11:20 am

X. Roca-Maza (Milano): The Dipole Strength: Microscopic Properties and Correlations with the Symmetry Energy and the Neutron Skin Thickness

11:20-11:50 am

S. Riordan (UMass): Status of PREX Experiment

11:50 am-12:20 pm

M. Voskresenskaya (GSI): Clusters in the Low Density Nuclear matter and the EOS

12:30-1:30 pm

Lunch and POSTER SESSION, McConnell Hall Foyer

SESSION 3, 1:30 pm, McConnell Hall Auditorium. Chair: Betty Tsang, MSU

1:30-2:00 pm

C. Simenel (Saclay): Isospin Equilibrations in Heavy Ion Collisions

2:00-2:30 pm

Z. Chajecki (MSU): Probing Reaction Dynamics with Two-Particle Correlations

2:30-3:00 pm

G. Chaudhuri (VECL, Kolkata): Symmetry Energy from the Canonical Thermodynamical Model

3:00-3:30 pm

Z. Kohley (Oak Ridge): Fragment Flows in the Fermi Energy Regime

3:30-3:50 pm

Coffee break

3:50-4:20 pm

R. Lemmon (Daresbury Lab): Symmetry Energy from Elliptic Flows in 197Au + 197Au Reactions

4:20-4:50 pm

S. Gandolfi (LANL): Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Inhomogeneous Neutron Matter and Neutron Stars

4:50-5:20 pm

K. Kotake (NAO, Japan): Multidimensional Supernovae Simulations with a Concentration on Equation of State

5:30 pm

Dinner, Lamont House

8:00-8:30 am

Continental breakfast, McConnell Hall Foyer

SESSION 4, 8:30 am, McConnell Hall Auditorium. Chair: Alan McIntosh, TAMU

8:30-9:00 am

H. Wolter (Munich): Symmetry Energy at Subsaturation and Supersaturation Densities in Heavy Ion Collisions

9:00-9:30 am

Li Ou (TAMU-Commerce): Effects of n-p Mass Splitting on Symmetry Energy

9:30-10:00 am

Zhigang Xiao (Beijing): Symmetry Energy Constraints at Suprasaturation Density at CSR Lauzhou

10:00-10:30 am

T.Murakami (Kyoto): HIMAC Pion Experiment and Pb Isotope Radius Measurements, Pion Ratios and ESYM

10:30-10:50 am

Coffee break

10:50-11:20 am

A. Raduta (Bucharest): Neutron Star-Crust Structure and Symmetry Energy

11:20-11:50 am

I. Sagert (MSU): Nuclear Equation of State from Neutron Stars and Collapsed Supernovae

11:50 am-12:20 pm

A. Steiner (MSU): The Equation of State from Observed Masses and Radii of Neutron Stars

12:30-1:30 pm

Lunch, McConnell Hall Foyer

SESSION 5, 1:30 pm, McConnell Hall Auditorium. Chair: Gianluca Colo, Uni. of Milano

1:30-2:00 pm

G. Verde (Catania): Symmetry Energy in Dynamics at the LNS; Status and Perspectives

2:00-2:30 pm

M. Chartier (Liverpool): Future Studies of the Symmetry Energy with the R3B Experiment at FAIR

2:30-3:00 pm

B Hong (Korea University): Plan for LAMPS at KoRIA

3:00-3:30 pm

T. Isobe (RIKEN): Overview of SAMURAI/TPC Project

3:30-3:50 pm

Coffee break

3:50-4:20 pm

P. Russotto (Catania): ASY-EOS Experiment

4:20-4:50 pm

W. Newton (TAMU-Commerce): The Neutron Star Inner Crust: Symmetry Energy Dependence of Observable Properties

4:50-5:10 pm

S. Santoro (Univ. Messina): Study of Nuclear Equation of State - the ASY-EOS Experiment

5:10-5:30 pm

F. Sammarruca (Idaho): From Neutron Skins to Neutron Stars to Nuclear Reactions with a Self-consistent and Microscopic Approach

5:45 pm

Barbecue dinner, Lamont House

8:15-8:45 am

Continental breakfast, McConnell Hall Foyer

SESSION 6, 8:30 am, McConnell Hall Auditorium. Chair: Piotr Decowski, Smith College

8:45-9:15 am

C. Ko (TAMU): Pion Production in Transport Model

9:15-9:45 am

D. Coupland (MSU): Constraints on the Nuclear Symmetry Energy from Transport Equations

9:45-10:05 am

10:05-10:25 am

S.H. Lee (Yonsei Uni.): Nuclear Symmetry Energy from QCD Sum Rules

10:25-10:50 am

Coffee break

10:50-11:10 am

M. Sako (Kyoto): Charge Pion Production in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

11:10-11:30 am

V. Dexheimer (Gettysburg): A Novel Approach to Model Hybrid Stars

11:30-11:50 am

A. Sedrakian (Goethe Univ. Frankfurt): Light Clusters in Dilute Nuclear Matter

SESSION 7, 11:50 am, McConnell Hall Auditorium. Chair: Malgorzata Zielinska-Pfabe, Smith College

11:50 am

S. Yennello (TAMU): Future Perspective on Symmetry Energy Investigations

Lunch, McConnell Hall Foyer

Smith College, Northampton, MA, June 20, 2011

Time

Title of talk

2:00 pm

Status: US

Tsang

2:30 pm

Status: Japan

Murakami

3:00 pm

Chamber Design

McIntosh

3:30 pm

Detector design/ Field cage calculations

Lu Fei

4:00 pm

Coffee break

4:30 pm

TPC simulations

Isobe

5:00 pm

Electronics

Famiano/Taketani

5:40 pm

Technical questions and schedule of SAMURAI-TPC project

Bill Lynch

6:15 pm

Discussions

7:00 pm

Dinner