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  National Nuclear Physics Summer School

  2008  XX: The George Washington University, Washington D.C. (15 June - 27 June):   Harald Griesshammer, Allena Opper

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  2007  XIX: The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (8 July - 21 July):   Winston Roberts, Volker Credé, Vivian Fong

  • Ian Thompson: Physics of Nuclei
  • Jeff Blackmon Nuclear Astrophysics
  • Brad Filippone: Nuclear Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
  • Peter Steinberg RHIC Physics
  • Achim Schwenk: Effective Field Theorties Applied to Nuclear Systems
  • Abhay Despande: RHIC Spin
  • Christia Weiss: The Physics of the 12 GeV Upgrade at JLAB
  • Stuart Freedman: Neutrino Physics
  • Ingo Wiedenhover: Nuclear Exotica
  • Jozef Dudek: The Hadron Spectrum
  • Alexander Volya: Nuclei at Mesoscopic Systems
  • Boris Kayser: Neutrino Physics - A Theorist's Perspective
  • Adam Burrows: Supernova Theory and Nuclear Astrophysics
  • Alan Nathan: Proposal Preparation Workshop

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  2006  XVIII: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (23 July - 5 August):   Adam Szczepaniak, Steve Vigdor

  • Stan Brodsky: QCD Phenomenology and Nucleon Structure
  • David Dean: Forefronts in Nuclear Structure
  • Brad Filippone: Nuclear Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
  • Joseph Formaggio: Neutrinos and Underground Science
  • James Nagle: The Physics of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Madappa Prakash: Nuclear and Particle Physics in the Cosmos
  • Naomi Makins: Hadron spin and Flavor Structure
  • Curtis Meyer: Forefront Issues in Meson Spectroscopy
  • John Negele: Lattice QCD
  • Chen-Yu Liu: Ultra Cold Neutrons

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  2005  XVII: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California (6 June - 17 June):   Paulo Bedaque, Paul Vetter

  • David Bowman: Fundamental Symmetries
  • Steve Elliott: Neutrinos
  • Jon Engel: Nuclear Structure
  • Tom Hemmick: Relativistic heavy Ion Collisions
  • David Kaplan: Effective Theories
  • Kostas Orginos: Lattice QCD
  • Jim Truran: Stellar Nucleosynthesis

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  2004  XVI: College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine (13 June - 25 June): Barry Holstein, Dmitri Kharzeev

  • Stuart Freedman: Neutrino physics
  • Dick Furnstahl: Fermion many-body systems
  • Daniel Phillips: Effective theory methods
  • Mark Pitt: Electroweak physics
  • Krishna Rajagopal: Phases of QCD matter
  • Gunther Roland: The physics of relativistic heavy ion collisions
  • Mike Snow:Neutron physics
  • John Beacom:Topics in nuclear astrophysics
  • Mike Ramsey-Musolf:Topics in electroweak physics

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  2003 XV: University of Tennessee, Knoxville (15 June - 27 June): Jeff Blackmon & David Dean

  • Peter Parker: Nuclear astrophysics
  • Erich Ormand: Nuclear structure
  • Raju Venugopalan: High energy nuclear physics in the collider era
  • Eric Swanson: Structure of hadrons
  • Alejandro Garcia: Weak interactions in the nucleus
  • Gail McLaughlin: Neutrino physics

  2002 XIV: St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico (28 July - 10 August): J. Ginocchio & J. Carlson

  • William Louis: Neutrino Physics
  • Aneesh Manohar: QCD and its Symmetries
  • Thomas Schaefer: High Density QCD
  • Joseph Carlson: Microscopic Nuclear Physics
  • Guy Savard: Physics for a Rare Isotope Accelerator

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  2001 XIII: College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine (12 June - 22 June): Barry Holstein & Larry McLerran

  • Xiangdong Ji: Probing the Nucleon Structure in High Energy Scattering
  • John Wilkerson: Neutrino Physics
  • Ubirajara van Kolck: Effective Field Theories and Nuclear Structure
  • Carleton DeTar: Lattice QCD: From the Basics to RHIC
  • Barbara Jacak: Exploring the Superdense Matter at RHIC
  • Thomas Schaefer: QCD and Matter Under Extreme Conditions

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  2000 XII: University of California, Santa Cruz (3 July - 14 July): Wick Haxton & Larry McLerran

  • Donald Geesaman: Electromagnetic Probes of Nucleon and Nuclear Structure
  • John Harris: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
  • Morten Hjorth-Jensen: Nuclear Structure from Nuclei to Neutron Stars
  • Alfred Mueller: QCD in High Energy Nuclear Physics
  • Yong-Zhong Qian: Neutrinos and the Origin of the Elements: from the Big Bang to Supernovae
  • Michael Ramsey-Musolf: Weak Interactions in Atoms and Nuclei: The Standard Model and Beyond

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  1999 XI: University of California, San Diego (28 June - 9 July): George Fuller

  • A. Baha Balantekin:Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos: Phenomenology and Experiment
  • Brad Filippone:Probing the Nucleon at CEBAF
  • Wick Haxton:Neutrino and Exotic Particle Properties and their Importance in Big Bang and Stellar Nucleosynthesis
  • Elizabeth Jenkins:Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory
  • Steve Koonin:The Shell Model: From the Mean Field to Monte Carlo
  • Achim Richter:Elementary Excitation Modes of the Nucleus and Chaos in Nuclei and Billiards
  • Thomas Schäfer:RHIC and QCD at Finite Density and Temperature

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  1998 X: Gull Lake, MI (26 July - 8 August): Wolfgang Bauer & Alex Brown

  • George Fuller:Neutrinos and Nuclear Astrophysics
  • Gregers Hansen:Radioactive Beam Physics
  • Roy Holt:CEBAF Physics
  • Volker Koch:Chiral Symmetry
  • Scott Pratt:Phenomenology of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

  1997 IX: New Haven, CT (4-15 August): Rick Casten

  • Donald Geesaman: Nucleon Structure
  • John Harris: Relativistic Heavy Ions
  • Bradley Meyer: Nuclear Astrophysics
  • Witek Nazarewicz: Nuclear Structure at High Spin
  • Witek Nazarewicz: Nuclear Physics with Radioactive Beams (Theory)
  • Bradley Sherril: Nuclear Physics with Radioactive Beams (Experiment)
  • David Warner: Nuclear Structure at Low Spin

  1996 VIII: Pack Forest, WA (10-21 June): George Bertsch

  • Arthur Champagne: Nuclear Astrophysics
  • David Dean: The Shell Model
  • Robert Janssens: Spectroscopy of Deformed Nuclei
  • Ruprecht Machleidt: Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction
  • Berndt Müller: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

  1995 VII: Seattle, WA (18-30 June): Wick Haxton

  • Gerry Brown: Neutron Stars and Kaon Condensation
  • Stuart Freedman: Parity Violation in Atoms and Nuclei (Experiment)
  • David Kaplan: Effective Field Theories
  • Boris Kayser: Tests of CP Nonconservation
  • Joe Ginocchio: Symmetries in Nuclear Structure Physics
  • Michael Musolf: Parity Violation in Atoms and Nuclei (Theory)
  • Ismael Zahed: Chiral Symmetry in Hadronic Physics

  1993 VI: Raleigh, NC (11-24 July): Berndt Müller & Russel Roberson

  • Jerzy Dudek: High Spin States and Superdeformed Nuclei
  • James Friar: Nuclear Few-Body Systems
  • Johanna Stachel: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Dirk Walecka: Electron Scattering
  • John Wilkerson: Weak Interactions in Nuclear Physics
    • Cheung Ji: Light Cone Quantum Field Theory (Guest lecture)
    • Roxanne Springer: Effective Theories of Hadronic Interactions (Guest lecture)

  1992 V: Corvallis, OR (5-18 July): Steve Vigdor

  • Tom Bowles: Neutrino Masses and Mixing
  • John Millener: Hypernuclear Physics
  • Bob McKeown: Spin Effects in Electromagnetic Interactions
  • Brian Serot: Relativistic Nuclear Many-Body Theory
  • Phil Siemens: Matter Above a Trillion Kelvin

  1991 IV: Madison, WI (17-28 June): Baha Balantekin

  • Eric Adelberger: Low Energy Frontier & Nuclear Astrophysics
  • Barry Holstein: Weak Interactions in Nuclei
  • Franco Iachello: Topics in Nuclear Structure Physics
  • Joe Kapusta: Finite-Temperature Field Theory in Nuclear Physics
  • Bill Zajc: Phenomenology of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

  1990 III: Santa Cruz, CA (5-17 August): Wick Haxton & Jørgen Randrup

  • Baha Balantekin: The Use of Symmetry Principles in Nuclear Physics
  • Stan Brodsky: Nuclear Quantum Chromodynamics
  • George Fuller: The Nuclear Physics of the Big Bang
  • Shoji Nagamiya: High Energy Heavy Ion Experiments
  • John Negele: The Structure of Hadrons
    • Gerry Brown: Meson Effective Masses and Heavy Ion Physics (Guest lecture)

  1989 II: Gull Lake, MI (31 July - 11 August): James Vary

  • Dirk Walecka: Quantum Field Theory of Hadrons
  • James Friar: Few-Body Nuclear Systems - Theory and Experiment
  • Steve Koonin: Nuclear Many-Body Theory
  • Teng-Lek Khoo: High-Spin Physics
  • Eric Adelberger: Fundamental Measurements in Nuclei

  1988 I: Corvallis, OR (27 June - 8 July): Phil Siemens

  • Jerry Cooperstein: Nuclear Astrophysics of Supernovae
  • Bill Donnelly: Electroweak Interactions of Nuclei at Multi-GeV Energies
  • Jochen Heisenberg: Measurements of Nuclei with Multi-GeV Electrons
  • Bill Lynch:Current Experiments of Fragmentation of Nuclei in Fermi-Velocity Collisions
  • Miklos Gyulassy: Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions and Phase Transitions of Matter Above 1012 K
  Updated Sept. 11, 2008