Talks for the ECT* workshop are in subdirectories according to the day they were presented.  August 3 monday is day one and Friday Aug. 7 is day 5.  Please see the schedule below.


The Lead Radius Experiment and Neutron Rich Matter in Astrophysics and in the Laboratory

ECT*, Trento, Italy
Schedule as of July22, 2009: 

All talks are 25 minutes in length plus 10 min. for discussion.
Where listed, the topics are just suggestions of the organizers.


Monday Aug. 3

Morning: Introduction (Chair: Horowitz)
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-9:50 K. Kumar, Overview parity violating electron scattering
9:50-10:25 I. Sick, Measuring neutron densities with parity violation
10:25-10:55 Coffee
10:55-11:30 P. Souder, Experimental Challenges in Parity-Violating Electron Scattering 
11:30-12:05 A. Brown, Neutron densities and nuclear structure

Afternoon: Symmetry Energy (Chair: Blaschke)
14:00-14:35 P. Danielewicz, Symmetry energy in nuclei
14:35-15:10 B. Lynch, Equation of state and symmetry E from HI collisions
15:10-15:40 Coffee
15:40-16:15 Bao-An Li, Measuring symmetry E at high densities
16:15-16:50 A. Bracco, Exp. giant resonances
16:50-17:20 Discussion: What are our strategic goals? (Leader: Rutledge)


Tuesday Aug. 4

Morning: Nuclear Structure I (Chair: Alex Brown)
9:00-9:35 M. Bender, ÒGround-state correlations from fluctuations in collective degrees of freedom and their impact on the neutron densityÓ
9:35-10:10 K. Blaum, "Precision measurements of nuclear ground state properties for nuclear structure studies"
10:10-10:40 Coffee
10:40-11:15 N. Van Giai, "Charge-exchange excitations and the r_n - r_p issue in relativistic RPA"
11:15-11:50 O. Moreno, Isospin mixing and PV e scattering
11:50-12:25 N. Chamel, "Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mass models and the description of neutron star crust"

Afternoon: Astrophysics I (Chair: Ed Brown)
14:00-14:35 J. Lattimer, Neutron star masses and radii
14:35-15:10 R. Rutledge, Measuring neutron star radii
15:10-15:40 Coffee
15:40-16:15 D. Blaschke, Quark matter in neutron stars
16:15-16:50 M. Baldo, Nuclear and neutron matter EOS
16:50-17:20 Discussion: Neutron rich matter in astrophysics (Leader: Lattimer)




The Lead Radius Experiment schedule continued

Wednesday Aug. 5

Morning: Atomic Parity Nonconservation (PNC)
9:00-9:35 V. Flambaum, Atomic PNC
9:35-10:10 K. Tsigutkin, PNC in Yb
10:10-10:40 Coffee
10:40-11:15 G. Gwinner, PNC in Fr
11:15-11:50 L. Wansbeek, PNC in Ra+
11:50-12:25 L. Diepernik, Neutron densities for atomic PNC

Afternoon: Free


Thursday Aug. 6

Morning: Astrophysics II (Chair: Lattimer)
9:00-9:35 B. Owen, Gravity waves and neutron rich matter
9:35-10:10 I. Jones, Neutron star oscillations and neutron rich matter
10:10-10:40 Coffee
10:40-11:15 E. Brown, Neutron star cooling
11:15-11:50 A. Steiner, Symmetry energy and NS shear modes
11:50-12:20 Discussion: The way forward---how to make progress on neutron rich matter with astrophysical observations? (Leader: Rutledge)

Afternoon: Electron scattering (Chair: de Jager)
14:00-14:35 B. Krusche, Neutron radii from photo-pion production
14:35-15:10 G. Urciuoli, The PREX experiment
15:10-15:40 Coffee
15:40-16:15 R. Michaels, Extracting the physics context from the PREX experiment
16:15-16:50 M. Gorshteyn, Radiative corrections
16:50-17:30 Discussion: Plans for PREX physics analysis (Leaders: Souder, Kumar, Michaels)


Friday: Aug. 7

Morning: Nuclear structure II (Chair: Reinhard)
9:00-9:35 P. Ring "Isovector properties of covariant DFT's and their influence on static and dynamic properties of neutron distributions." 
9:35-10:10 L. Robledo "Nuclear matter inspired Energy density functional for finite nuclei: the BCP case"
10:10-10:40 Coffee
10:40-11:15 M. Stoitsov "Towards Ab Initio Nuclear Energy Density Functional"
11:15-11:50 P. Moller ÒCharge and neutron radii and densities in the macroscopic-microscopic approach: what predictive power?Ó 

14:00-15:00 Afternoon: Final discussion/ summary (Leader: Horowitz)
15:00 Conference ends