---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) NAME AND HOME INSTITUTION OF TRAVELER (INCL. E-MAIL ADDRESS) Daniel Phillips, Ohio University, phillips@phy.ohiou.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) POSITION OF TRAVELER (FACULTY/STAFF/POSTDOC/STUDENT) Faculty ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) DATES OF TRAVEL July 7, 2014-August 1, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) INSTITUTIONS VISITED (LIST PLACES AND TIME SPENT THERE) TU, Darmstadt, July 8-July 11 (inclusive) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) SCIENTIFIC CONTACTS AND COLLABORATORS (INDICATE NATURE OF CONTACTS, LIKE "NEW COLLABORATION," "CONTINUING COLLABORATION," "USEFUL DISCUSSION," ETC.) Hans-Werner Hammer, continuing collaboration Thomas Aumann, useful discussion Achim Schwenk, useful discussion Robert Roth, useful discussion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) TOPICS DISCUSSED DURING VISIT Coulomb dissociation of halo nuclei; use of ab initio calculations in nuclear reaction theories; uncertainty quantification. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) IMPACT ON TRAVELER'S OR HOST'S RESEARCH (INCL. EXPECTED PUBLICATIONS) Hammer and I expect to complete at least one, possibly two, papers on Coulomb dissociation of halo nuclei. The first should be complete by the end of 2014. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) RELEVANCE TO JEFFERSON LAB OR GSI-FAIR (LIST RELEVANT PROGRAMS) This research is relevant to GSI-FAIR's continuing work on exotic nuclei. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) SUGGESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS (IF ANY) None. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) SUPPORT PROVIDED BY HOSTS (INDICATE TYPE AND EXTENT OF SUPPORT, NOT EXACT AMOUNTS) TU, Darmstadt paid my hotel bill in Darmstadt. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Please acknowledge support from the GAUSTEQ program in any publication benefiting from the results of your visit, by including the following text in your acknowledgments: "This work was supported partially through GAUSTEQ (Germany and U.S. Nuclear Theory Exchange Program for QCD Studies of Hadrons and Nuclei) under contract number DE-SC0006758." ----------------------------------------------------------------------