2015 National Nuclear Physics Summer School (NNPSS)

The 2015 National Nuclear Physics Summer School will be held at the Granlibakken Resort, Lake Tahoe, CA from June 15-25. The school is for nuclear physics graduate students and post-docs within a few years of receiving their Ph.D. degrees. For more information on the NNPSS history and objectives see this web page .

Topics

Nuclear Reactions
Nuclear and Hadronic Structure
Nuclear Astrophysics
Heavy Ions
Fundamental Symmetries
Lattice QCD

Special Topics

Nuclear Security
Nuclear Medicine
Detectors, Super Heavy Elements
Nuclear Physics at NIF
Computational Nuclear Physics

Topics

Nuclear Reactions
Nuclear and Hadronic Structure
Nuclear Astrophysics
Heavy Ions
Fundamental Symmetries
Lattice QCD

Special Topics

Nuclear Security
Nuclear Medicine
Detectors, Super Heavy Elements
Nuclear Physics at NIF
Computational Nuclear Physics

Lecturers

B. Balantekin (Univ. of Wisconsin)
J. Blackmon (Louisiana State Univ.)
H. Crawford (Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab)
D. Dean (Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab)
D. Dwyer (Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab)
M. Hjorth-Jensen (MSU, Univ. of Oslo)
B. Jacak (UC Berkeley)
W. Loveland (Oregon State Univ.)
A. Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab)
N. Makins (Univ. of Illinois)
G. McLaughlin (North Carolina State Univ.)
G. Mitchell (UC Davis)
S. Pratt (Michigan State Univ.)
M. Savage (Univ. of Washington)
B. Sadoulet (UC Berkeley)
R. Soltz (LLNL)
M. Thoennessen (Michigan State Univ.)
F. Yuan (Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab)

Granlibakken Resort is situated on the edge of Lake Tahoe and provides an outdoor mountain setting conducive to informal discussion.

Organizers

Dan Cebra (UCD/NSSC)
Cynthia Green (LLNL)
Erich Ormand (LLNL)
Ron Soltz (LLNL, chair)

Mark Stoyer (LLNL)
Bob Svoboda (UCD/NSSC)
Mani Tripathi (UCD/NSSC, co-chair)

The NNPSS is administered by the INT and the 2015 school will be hosted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UC Davis, and the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium led by UC Berkeley.