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2008 Annual Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics

Thursday–Sunday, October 23–26, 2008; Oakland, California

Session 1WA: Workshop: Quantifying the Character of the sQGP

Chair: Richard Seto, University of California, Riverside, and Huan Huang, University of California, Los Angeles
- Jewett Ballroom FGH

Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:30AM - 9:05AM	1WA.00001: Heavy Quarks and Quarkonia in Thermal ${\rm aAdS}_5$ Invited Speaker: Derek Teaney Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:05AM - 9:40AM	1WA.00002: Exploring the Lower Limits of Perfection Invited Speaker: William A. Zajc Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:40AM - 10:15AM	1WA.00003: Quantifying dynamical QCD plasma through jet energy loss Invited Speaker: Magdalena Djordjevic Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:15AM - 10:40AM	1WA.00004: COFFEE BREAK Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:40AM - 11:15AM	1WA.00005: Viscosity and heavy ion collisions Invited Speaker: Denes Molnar Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:15AM - 11:50AM	1WA.00006: Full jet-reconstruction in Au+Au collisions at RHIC Invited Speaker: Joern Putschke Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:50AM - 12:25PM	1WA.00007: What we may learn from a beam energy scan at RHIC Invited Speaker: Paul Sorensen Preview Abstract

Session 1WB: Workshop: From Quarks to the Cosmos with Petaflops: Large-Scale Computation in Nuclear Physics

Chair: Jutta Escher and Ron Solz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Jewett Ballroom ABC

Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:30AM - 9:05AM	1WB.00001: Petascale Architectures for Nuclear Physics Computation Invited Speaker: James Sexton Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:05AM - 9:40AM	1WB.00002: Recent Developments in Lattice QCD Invited Speaker: Martin Savage Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:40AM - 10:15AM	1WB.00003: Ab initio nuclear structure - advances and challenges Invited Speaker: James Vary Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:15AM - 10:40AM	1WB.00004: COFFEE BREAK Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:40AM - 11:15AM	1WB.00005: Computational perspectives in nuclear reactions Invited Speaker: Filomena Nunes Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:15AM - 11:50AM	1WB.00006: Computational Supernovae: Nuclear Astrophysics' Grand Challenge Invited Speaker: Adam Burrows Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:50AM - 12:25PM	1WB.00007: Opportunities for Nuclear Physics to benefit from Grid Computing Invited Speaker: Frank Wuerthwein Preview Abstract

Session 1WC: Workshop: Nuclear Physics Underground

Chair: Robert Svoboda, University of California, Davis, and Peggy McMahon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Simmons Ballroom

Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:30AM - 9:05AM	1WC.00001: Studying the Universe Underground Invited Speaker: Hitoshi Murayama Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:05AM - 9:40AM	1WC.00002: Recent results and prospects from neutrino oscillation experiments Invited Speaker: Milind Diwan Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:40AM - 10:15AM	1WC.00003: Review of double beta decay experiments Invited Speaker: Andrea Pocar Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:15AM - 10:40AM	1WC.00004: COFFEE BREAK Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:40AM - 11:15AM	1WC.00005: Direct Detection of Dark Matter Invited Speaker: Hanguo Wang Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:15AM - 11:50AM	1WC.00006: Nuclear Astrophysics at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory Invited Speaker: Heide Costantini Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:50AM - 12:25PM	1WC.00007: SNOLAB: Status and Scientific Program Invited Speaker: Tony Noble Preview Abstract