International Workshop "Shapes and Dynamics of Atomic Nuclei: Contemporary Aspects" (SDANCA-15), 8-10 October 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

Programme
(to see the abstract please click the title; for the presentation click "SLIDES")

Wednesday, 7-th of October

16:00 - 19:00 Registration (Hotel of BAS - Lobby)
19:00 - 22:00 Dinner

Thursday, 8-th of October

07:30 - 09:25 Breakfast

Morning sessions

09:30 - 09:50 Opening: Aims and Motivation (Introductory words by N. Minkov (SLIDES), P. M. Walker, D. Bonatsos)
Session T1 Chair: N. Minkov
09:50 - 10:10 Peter Ring: "Density Functional Theory of Nuclear Shape Transitions", SLIDES
10:15 - 10:35 Georgios Lalazissis: "Description of Shape Transitions in Superheavy Nuclei within Covariant Density Functional Theory", SLIDES
10:40 - 11:00 Yang Sun: "Coexisting Shapes and Shape-Phase Transition in Shell Models", SLIDES
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee
Session T2 Chair: G. Lalazissis
11:35 - 11:55 Kosuke Nomura: "Microscopic and Algebraic Theory for Complex Nuclear Shapes and Dynamics", SLIDES
12:00 - 12:20 Paul Stevenson: "Shapes and Dynamics from the Skyrme Time-dependent Density Functional Approach ", SLIDES
12:25 - 12:45 Philippe Quentin: "Fission Barriers of Odd-Neutron Heavy Nuclei", SLIDES
12:50 - 13:20 Discussion (Convenor: P. Ring)

13:20 Lunch

Afternoon sessions

Session T3 Chair: Y. Sun
15:00 - 15:20 Dimiter Balabanski: "Nuclear Structure Studies at ELI-NP", SLIDES
15:25 - 15:45 Phil Walker: "High-K Isomers and the Role of β6 Deformation", SLIDES
15:50 - 16:10 Furong Xu: "Nuclear Collective Rotations of Excited Configurations", SLIDES
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee
Session T4 Chair: A. Georgieva
16:45 - 17:05 Adriana Pálffy: "Nuclear Isomers in Intense Electromagnetic Fields", SLIDES
17:10 - 17:30 Hervé Molique: "Improving the Predictive Power of Nuclear Mean Fields from Two-Body Interactions", SLIDES
17:35 - 17:55 Makito Oi: "Comparison of Various HFB Overlap Formulae", SLIDES
18:00 - 18:30 Discussion (Convenor: P. Quentin)

18:30 Dinner

Friday, 9-th of October

07:30 - 09:25 Breakfast

Morning sessions

Session F1 Chair: P. Stevenson
09:30 - 09:50 Richard Casten: "Tests of Partial Dynamical Symmetries and their Implications", SLIDES
09:55 - 10:15 Amiram Leviatan: "Partial Dynamical Symmetry in Odd-Mass Nuclei", SLIDES
10:20 - 10:40 Filip Kondev: "Spectroscopy of Neutron-Deficient Nuclei Near the Z=82 Shell Closure", SLIDES
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee, WORKSHOP PHOTO
Session F2 Chair: F. Kondev
11:15 - 11:35 Feng Pan: "Exact Solutions of the Extended Pairing Interactions in Bose and Fermi Many-Body Systems", SLIDES
11:40 - 12:00 R.Burcu Cakirli: "Correlations in Structure among Observables and Enhanced Proton-Neutron Interactions", SLIDES
12:05 - 12:25 Dennis Bonatsos: "Proton-Neutron Pairs in Heavy Deformed Nuclei", SLIDES
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion (Convenor: R. F. Casten)

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon sessions

Session F3 Chair: A. Leviatan
15:00 - 15:20 Yu Zhang: "The Emergent Euclidian Dynamical Symmetry in Nuclear Shape Phase Transitions", SLIDES
15:25 - 15:45 Gabriela Thiamova: "Algebraic Collective Model and its Applications", SLIDES
15:50 - 16:10 Nikolay Minkov: "Modeling the Shape: Some Contemporary Approaches to Quadrupole-Octupole Deformations in Atomic Nuclei", SLIDES
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee
Session F4 Chair: F. R. Xu
16:45 - 17:05 Gurgen Adamian: "Origin of Termination of Negative-Parity Bands", SLIDES
17:10 - 17:30 Dimitrios Petrellis: "Various Aspects of the Deformation Dependent Mass Model of Nuclear Structure", SLIDES
17:35 - 18:05 Discussion (Convenor: D. Bonatsos)

19:00 - 23:00 Official Dinner

Saturday, 10-th of October

07:30 - 09:25 Breakfast

Morning sessions

Session S1 Chair: R.B. Cakirli
09:30 - 09:50 Andrzej Góźdź: "Shapes and Symmetries of Nuclei", SLIDES
09:55 - 10:15 Radu Budaca: "Interplay of γ-rigid and γ-stable Collective Motion in Neutron Rich Rare Earth Nuclei", SLIDES
10:20 - 10:40 Petrica Buganu: "Quadrupole Shape Phase Transitions in the γ-rigid Regime", SLIDES
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee
Session S2 Chair: F. Pan
11:15 - 11:35 V.K.B. Kota: "Algebraic Models for Structure of Heavy N=Z Nuclei", SLIDES
11:40 - 12:00 Kalin Drumev: "Extended Microscopic Theory for the N~Z Nuclei"
12:05 - 12:25 Ana Georgieva: "Systematic Evaluation of the Nuclear Binding Energies in the Valence Shells", SLIDES
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion (Convenor: A. Góźdź)

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon sessions

Session S3 Chair: V.K.B. Kota
15:00 - 15:20 Vladimir Garistov: "On E0 Transitions in Even-Even Nuclei", SLIDES
15:25 - 15:45 Pavel Petkov: "Clustering as a Possible Origin of Deformation in 32S", SLIDES
15:50 - 16:10 Sorin Pascu: "Importance of Lifetime Measurements for the Nuclear Structure and Current Experimental Techniques" SLIDES
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee
Session S4 Chair: P. Petkov
16:45 - 17:05 Stanimir Kisyov: "In-beam Fast-Timing Measurements in Transitional and Triaxially Deformed Ru Isotopes", SLIDES
17:10 - 17:30 Stefan Lalkovski: "Construction of the UK DESPEC Array for Fast-Timing Measurements", SLIDES
17:35 - 18:15 Concluding Discussion: Ideas and Perspectives (Convenor: P. M. Walker, SLIDES )
18:15 - 18:20 Closing (SLIDES)

18:30 Dinner

Sunday, 11-th of October

07:30 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 12:00 Departure