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CNRP Talks

A selection of talks given by some members of the CNRP is presented here. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list!

Contents: Dr. Jim Al-khalili · Dr. Wilton Catford · Dr. Paddy Regan · Dr. Paul Sellin · Prof. Ian Thompson · Dr. Natalia Timofeyuk · Dr. Qiang Zhao

• Exploring the Nuclear Halo (Birmingham, Apr 2000)
• Structure and Reactions of Halo Nuclei: an entangled approach (ENAM2001, Finland, July 2001)
• Quantum Computing (an introduction) (Departmental Seminar, Nov 2001)
• The neutron halo: a new toy for theorists (CNRP Seminar, Oct 2002)

• The `How and Why' of nucleon transfer reactions with radioactive beams (XXXV Zakopane School, Poland, Sept 2000)
• V Radioactive Beams Conference RNB5 (RNB5 Conference, Divonne, April 2000)
• Opportunities Using Gamma-Ray Arrays with Radioactive Beams
• High Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Radioactive Beam

• Isomer Studies as Probes of Nuclear Structure in Heavy, Neutron-Rich Nuclei (Varna, Bulgaria, Sept. 2001)
• Exotic Isomer Spectroscopy (Bergen, April 2001)
• New High-Spin Physics Opportunities in Stable and Neutron Rich Nuclei Using Binary Collisions (Workshop on Nuclear Structure Physics Near the Coulomb Barrier, Yale, June 2001)
• New Isomers from Fast Fragmentation Reactions (Gordon Conference on Nuclear Chemistry, June 2001)
• Digital Isomer Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Fragmentation Reactions (TMR User Meeting, Liverpool, Sep 2001)
• Prospects for (isomer) studies above Z=82, N=126 (Workshop on Shape Mixing, Ghent, Dec 2001)
• From Doubly Magic ²⁰⁸Pb to the Doubly Mid-Shell ¹⁷⁰Dy (Nuclear Structure Conference, Wyoming, May 2002)

• Digital pulse shape discrimination applied to capture-gated neutron detectors (Neutron workshop June 16th 2003)
• Ion Beam Induced Charge imaging of charge transport in bulk 4H-SiC and epitaxial GaN detectors (CERN RD50 workshop May 18-21st 2003)
• Time-Resolved Ion Beam Induced Charge Imaging at the Surrey Microbeam (Surrey Ion Beam Users Workshop - Guildford March 2003)
• Recent advances in compound semiconductor radiation detectors (PSD6 - Leicester September 9-13th 2002)
• Charge transport in partially depleted epitaxial GaAs detectors (4th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors - Amsterdam September 9-12th 2002)
• Optical and Electrical Characterisation of Defects and Charge Transport in CdZnTe radiation detectors (9th European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors - Schloss Elmau June 23-27th 2002)
• Intra-crystallite charge transport in CVD diamond radiation sensors (Diamond 2001- Budapest September 28-30th 2001)
• Performance of Indium Phosphide radiation detectors (3rd International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors - Sardinia September 23-27th 2001)
• Characterisation of CdZnTe for radiation imaging applications (3rd International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors - Sardinia September 23-27th 2001)
• New materials for semiconductor radiation detectors (Workshop on Radiation Hard Detectors - CERN 28-30th November 2001)

• Halo Physics (RNB5 Conference, Divonne, April 2000)
• Multistep Coulomb & Nuclear Breakup of Halo Nuclei (NS2000 conference, MSU, Michigan, 15-19 Aug 2000)
• Calculating Cluster Structures in A=6 Nuclei (FBE2000 conference, Evora, Portugal, 11-16 Sept 2000)
• What does the Wave Function Describe? (Departmental Seminar, 1 Nov 2000)
• The Halo at the Centre of the Atom (Inaugural Lecture, 23 May 2001)
• Pairing in & near the Continuum (ECT* talk, Trento, Italy, 7 June 2002)

• Shell model approach to construction of hyperspherical basis for identical particles and its applications to light nuclei (IOP02 conference, Brighton, Apr 2002)

• Vector meson photoproduction in the quark model (NSTAR2001 conference, Mainz, Mar 2001)
• Study omega and phi photoproduction in the nucleon isotopic channels (EMI2001 conference, Osaka, Dec 2001)