National Nuclear Physics Summer School - Past Schools

2017 XXIX: University of Colorado, Boulder

July 9-22, 2017
Edward Kinney, James Nagle, Dennis Perepelitsa, Paul Romatschke

• Frithjof Karsch: Lattice QCD
• Derek Teaney: String Theory & QCD
• Ulrich Heinz: Relativistic Heavy Ion Theory
• William Zajc: Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiment
• Paul Reimer: Hadron Partonic Structure
• Tomasz Skwarnicki: Hadron Spectroscopy
• Filomena Nunesi: Nuclear Structure
• Sanjay Reddy: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Rik Yoshida: EIC Program
• Baha Balantekin: Neutrino Physics
• Cynthia Keppel: Jefferson Lab Program
• Krishna Kumar: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
• David Hertzog: Fundamental Symmetries
• Suzanne Lapi: Nuclear Medicine

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2016 XXVIII: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

July 18-29, 2016
W. Detmold, J. Formaggio, E. Luc, R. Milner, G. Roland, M. Williams

• Elke-Caroline Aschenauer: Accelerators and Detectors
• Michael Williams: Data Analysis
• Lindley Winslow: Double Beta Decay
• Abhay Deshpande: Electron-Ion Collider
• Vincenzo Cirigliano: Fundamental Symmetries
• Matthew Shepherd: Hadronic Spectroscopy
• Jianwei Qiu: Hadronic Structure
• Jamie Nagle, Wilke van der Schee: Hot Dense Nuclear Matter
• Sinead Ryan: Lattice QCD
• Cecilia Lunardini (Neutrino Theory),
• Janet Conrad, Joe Formaggio (Neutrino Experiment): Neutrinos and Dark Matter
• Andrew Steiner: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Stefano Gandolfi: Nuclear Structure

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2015 XXVII: Granlibakken Resort, Lake Tahoe, CA

June 15-25, 2015
Dan Cebra, Cynthia Green, Erich Ormand, Ron Soltz, Mark Stoyer, Bob Svoboda, Mani Tripathi

• A. Baha Balantekin: Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinios - Theory
• Jeff Blackmon: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Carl Brune: Nuclear Science in High Energy Density Plasmas
• Heather Crawford: Low-Energy Nuclear Experiments
• David Dean: Computational Science
• Morten Hjorth-Jensen: Lectures on Nuclear Structure Theory and Reactions
• Barbara Jacak: Energy Loss and Opacity in the Quark Gluon
• Walter Loveland: The Quest for Superheavy Elements
• Augusto Macchiavelli: Gamma-Ray Tracking
• Naomi Makins: Nuclear Physics in Four Quadrants
• Gail McLaughlin: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Greg Mitchell: Nuclear Physics and Medical Imaging
• Scott Pratt: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions and the Quark Gluon Plasma
• Martin Savage: Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics
• Ron Soltz: Nuclear Security in the 21st Century
• Michael Thoennessen: The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
• Feng Yuan: Hadron Physics and QCD (Theory)

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2014 XXVI: William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

June 9 - 20, 2014
Wouter Deconinck, Kostas Orginos, David Armstrong, Todd Averett, Roger Carlini, Carl Carlson, Keith Griffioen, Robert McKeown, Michael Pennington, Charles Perdrisat, David Richards, André Walker-Loud

• Christian Weiss: Strong Interaction Physics with an Electron Ion Collider
• Brian Tiburzi: Effective Field Theories
• Josh Erlich: Dualities and QCD
• Witek Nazarewicz: Nuclear Structure
• Andrea Shindler: Lattice QCD
• Kate Scholberg: Neutrinos
• Krishna Kumar: Fundamental Symmetries
• Krishna Rajagopal: QCD in Extreme Conditions
• Tim Chupp: Neutrons
• Cynthia Keppel: Medical Application of Nuclear Physics
• Mark Dalton: Meson Spectroscopy with GlueX

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2013 XXV: Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York

July 15 - 26, 2013
Abhay Deshpande, Joanna Kiryluk, Péter Petreczky, Anne Sickles, Paul Sorensen, Derek Teaney, Raju Venugopalan, Michael Zingale

• Barbara Badelek: Experimental Hadronic Physics
• Silas Beane: Non-Perturbative QCD
• Edward Brown: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Richard Casten: Nuclear Structure and Reactions
• Brian Cole: Experimental Heavy-Ions
• John Cowan: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Sangyong Jeon: Theoretical Heavy-Ions
• David Kawall: Fundamental Symmetries
• Daniela Leitner: Accelerator Physics
• Kate Scholberg: Neutrino Physics
• Marco Stratmann: Perturbative QCD
• James Vary: Nuclear Structure Theory
• Alexei Bazavov: Lattice QCD at Non-Zero Temperature and Density
• Dave Brown: National Nuclear Data Center
• Yuri Kovchegov: Gluon Saturation and Small-x Physics
• Curtis Meyer: Advances in Hadron Spectroscopy
• Mark Sakitt: Nuclear Proliferation
• John Thomas: Cold Atoms

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2012 XXIV: St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico

July 9 - 20, 2012
Joe Carlson, Vincenzo Cirigliano, Ivan Vitev

• Tom Hemmick: QCD and Heavy Ion Physics
• Berndt Mueller: QCD and Heavy Ion Physics
• Zein-Eddine Meziani: Hadron Structure and Spin Physics
• Jamal Jalilian-Marian: Hadron Structure and Spin Physics
• Hendrick Schatz: Nuclear Structure and Reactions
• Dick Furnstahl: Nuclear Structure and Reactions
• Chuck Horowitz: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Tod Strohmayer: Nuclear Astrophysics
• George Fuller: Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos
• Barry Holstein: Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos
• Peter Petreczky: Lattice Gauge Theory Methods for Nuclear Physics
• Silas Beane: Lattice Gauge Theory Methods for Nuclear Physics
• Anna Hayes: The National Ignition Facility
• Suzanne Lapi: Medical Applications of Nuclear Physics
• Martin Zwierlein: Cold Atom Experiments
• Sanjay Reddy: Unraveling the Neutron Star Interior: Prospects and Challenges

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2011 XXIII: Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

June 20 - July 1, 2011
Calvin Howell, Paul Huffman, John Wilkerson

• Scott Bogner: Nuclear Structure
• Kate Jones: Nuclear Structure
• Christian Iliadis: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Gail McLaughlin: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Peter Jacobs: Exploring Hot Dense Matter at RHIC and LHC
• Olga Evdokimov: Exploring Hot Dense Matter at RHIC and LHC
• Robert Tribble: Fundamental Symmetries
• Jeffrey Nico: Fundamental Symmetries
• Naomi Makins: Hadron Structure
• Assumpta Parreno: Hadron Structure
• Boris Kayser: Neutrinos
• Joseph Formaggio: Neutrinos

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2010 XXII: TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada

21 June - 2 July
Achim Schwenk, Alejandro Garcia, Dana Giasson, Sandi Miller

• Lars Bildsten: The nuclear physics and astrophysics of exploding stars
• Jeff Blackmon: Astrophysical reactions in the laboratory
• Helen Caines: Quarks and gluons under extreme conditions
• Dam Son: Strongly-coupled theories and universal aspects
• Achim Richter: The physics of nuclei - some selected examples
• Sonia Bacca: Halo nuclei: theory and experiment
• Geoff Grinyer: High-precision nuclear structure experiment
• Xiangdong Ji: Hadron structure: lattice QCD and effective field theory
• Haiyan Gao: Frontiers in hadron structure
• Petr Vogel: Neutrinos and nuclei
• Mark Chen: Underground neutrino physics
• Krishna Kumar: Low energy tests of the electroweak theory and its symmetries with leptons, nucleons and nuclei
• Vincenzo Cirigliano: Effective field theories beyond the standard model

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2009 XXI: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

28 June - 10 July
Hendrik Schatz, Wolfgang Bauer, Shari Conroy, Michael Thoennessen

• Betsy Beise: Hadron Physics
• Alexandra Gade: Nuclear Structure
• Bob McKeown: Neutrinos
• Frank Timmes: Nuclear Astrophysics
• Bill Zajc: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
• Hermann Wolter: Nuclear Reactions
• Timothy Chupp: Fundamental Symmetries
• John Hardy: Fundamental Symmetries
• David Morrissey: Nuclear Instrumentation
• Witek Nazarewicz: Nuclear Structure Theory
• Derek Teaney: QCD Theory
• Michael Wiescher: Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments
• Sherry Yennello: Nuclear Reactions Experiments

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2008 XX: The George Washington University, Washington D.C.

15 June - 27 June
Harald Griesshammer, Allena Opper

• David Richards: Lattice QCD
• Harald Griesshammer: Effective Field Theory in Few Nucleon Systems
• Xiangdong Ji: Nucleon Structure, Baryon Resonances, and Meson Resonances
• Thomas Schaefer: Hot Dense Nuclear Matter
• Baha Balantekin and Art Champagne: Nuclear Astrophysics and Neutrinos
• Susan Gardner: Fundamental Symmetry Tests and Precision Measurements
• Thomas Papenbrock: Physics of Nuclei

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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