Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2018
Volume 63, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, April 14–17, 2018; Columbus, Ohio
Session U05: DNP Prize SessionInvited Session Prize/Award
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Sponsoring Units: DNP Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: A123-125 |
Monday, April 16, 2018 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
U05.00001: The Value of Undergraduate Research Participation in Physics, and in National DNP Meetings via the Conference Experience for Undergraduates Invited Speaker: W.F. Rogers I will share some thoughts and observations on the important value of undergraduate research participation in physics, and the critical role it plays in equipping and motivating undergraduate students for a career in physics or related field. I have been privileged to mentor approximately 40 undergraduate students in my 30 year career, a significant fraction of whom have gone on to pursue advanced STEM degrees, including several physics PhDs. I will highlight some of our successes in the MoNA collaboration, involving undergraduate students in cutting-edge research on neutron-rich exotic nuclei, based at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. In 1998 I designed the Conference Experience for Undergraduates (CEU) in the Division of Nuclear Physics, and organized it for 18 consecutive years before handing it off to new leadership in fall 2016. To date approximately 2000 students have participated in the program, and data point to the positive impact this experience has had on students through the years. The recent 20$^{th}$ anniversary CEU was held at the fall 2017 DNP meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, where the conference plenary session was organized around success of the CEU program, in which three of the four speakers were CEU alums. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, April 16, 2018 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
U05.00002: Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics Talk: The quest for Quark-Gluon Plasma Invited Speaker: Edward Shuryak The first half of the talk reviews historical evolution of the physics of
heavy ion collisions and the main theoretical and experimental findings.
The three periods of it are: (i) the pre-RHIC, 1970's-2000; (ii) the RHIC era,
2000-2010; and (iii) the current one, in which all four LHC detectors joined it.
The second half is a brief summary of theory of strongly coupled QGP,
including a number of studies using the AdS/CFT duality and the electric-magnetic
duality. The former ``holographic" approach use mapping of the strongly coupled gauge theory
to weakly coupled (super)gravity in higher dimensional space-time. The
latter emphasizes that the growth of the gauge ``electric" coupling $
\alpha_s(T)$ as $T$ is lowered implies, via Dirac condition, a decrease
in the magnetic coupling. QGP is described as a dual plasma, containing both
``electric" quasiparticles, quarks and gluons, and magnetic monopoles.
The role of monopoles is growing at lower $T$ and, at $T |
Monday, April 16, 2018 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
U05.00003: Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Talk: Hunting the Rarest Isotopes. Invited Speaker: Bradley Sherrill Nuclear physics attempts to accurately model and predict the properties of atomic nuclei based on underlying QCD and QED interactions. The goal is to develop sufficiently predictive models so that key nuclear properties and nuclear reaction rates can be calculated rather than having to rely on measurement. Predictive power would have a major impact on astrophysics, on the study of fundamental symmetries, and on applications of nuclear physics in energy, for example. The talk will describe the design and operation of some of the experimental devices, primarily the S800 spectrograph and A1900 fragment separator at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, used to produce and study rare isotopes. Rare isotopes are key to reaching the goal of a comprehensive and predictive model of nuclei. With the completion of FRIB, many of the key rare isotopes will be available for the first time. The talk will present an outline the future scientific program with this facility. [Preview Abstract] |
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