Divisional Meeting October 5-7, 2000

The main divisional meeting, held Thursday through Saturday, will consist of a plenary session, five other sessions of invited papers, and approximately 30 sessions of contributed papers. Overhead projectors and screens will be provided for all sessions. Slide projectors will be available for invited talks upon advance request. The Division will continue the precedent of DNP "town meetings" and meetings of major facility users groups.

Plenary Session

This year's plenary session is entitled: Future Directions in Nuclear Physics

Invited Sessions

The invited sessions are:

Electromagnetic Structure of the Nucleon
Matter in Extreme Conditions
70th Anniversary of the Neutrino
Structure of Hadrons and Nuclei
Contrasting Views of Nuclear Matter

Mini-Symposia

There will be three mini-symposia this year on:

Recent Application of Nuclear Structure Calculations (organizer Calvin Johnson) Recent Results with Radioactive Beams (organizer John Hardy) Correlations in Nuclei (organizers William Briscoe, Gerald Feldman and John Price)

Workshops

Three associated topical workshops will be held on Wednesday October 4, preceding the main meeting. These workshops run in parallel and are specifically aimed at graduate students or post-docs (or more mature physicists wanting to expand their horizons) wishing to learn about promising new frontiers in the field of nuclear physics. They are also intended to cover frontier areas in the science that may come to be discussed in terms of new opportunities in the upcoming NSAC Long-Range Plan. Registration for the workshops will begin on Tuesday October 3 from 3:00 to 6 p.m., and will resume on Wednesday October 4 at 7:30 a.m. (Registration for the main meeting may be accomplished at the same time.)

The first workshop, "Rare Isotope Accelerator Physics and Technologies," is being organized by John Schiffer of Argonne and Witek Nazarewicz of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge, and will run in parallel all day. This workshop is designed to discuss the physics that will become accessible with high-quality beams of short-lived nuclei in nuclear astrophysics, nuclear structure near the limits of stability, and in tests of fundamental interactions, with a facility envisioned by the 1996 NSAC Long-Range Plan and the 1999 NSAC ISOL task force. It will also discuss recent advances in the concept of this facility and its technologies.

Two related workshops are being organized by Dennis Skopik of Jefferson Lab and Charles Glashausser of Rutgers University. They will begin with a joint morning session, "Electromagnetic Physics at the Next Energy Frontier," which will be devoted to an overview of the physics issues that are important in different energy regimes, with a focus on the facilities that might address these questions. Two parallel afternoon sessions will be held in conjunction with this morning session. The first, " Physics with Greater than 10 GeV Electron and Photon Beams," will examine crucial physics issues in more detail, with presentations that advocate specific experiments designed to answer some of the key questions. The second afternoon session, "Detectors, Data Acquisition, and Data Analysis for Greater than 10 GeV Experiments," will consider experimental equipment required, including discussion of the long-range future of computers.

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