Newsletter No. 93

DNP Newsletter No. 93

February 1993

TO: Members of the Division of Nuclear Physics, APS FROM: Virginia R. Brown, LLNL - Secretary-Treasurer, DNP • 1 Sept. 1993-Nominations for 1994 ACCOMPANYING THIS NEWSLETTER : Dissertation Award (See item 4). 12-15 APRIL APS MEETING, • 1 Sept. 1993-Nominations for 1994 WASHINGTON, DC Bonner Prize (See item 5). • 17 Sept. 1993-Last day for Asilomar • A listing of the Symposia of the DNP, "Special" Preregistration rates and the invited speakers, and titles of their last day for lodging reservations at talks. the Asilomar conference grounds. 20-23 OCTOBER DNP MEETING, ASILOMAR, CA • A nomination form for invited 1. RESULTS OF ELECTION: speakers. OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE • A pre-registration form which COMMITTEE FOR 1993. includes workshops and banquet. By the deadline date of 15 January • A housing form. 1993, 788 properly identified ballots were • Poster. received for the election of officers and members of the Executive Committee. The results of the election are as follows: Carl B. Dover was elected as Vice-Chair and 1993-94 Virginia R. Brown as Secretary-Treasurer DNP for one year terms. Susan J. Seestrom, Brian D. Serot, and Stephen J. Wallace were elected to two-year terms on the Executive

Future Deadlines Committee. The counting of the ballots • was supervised by Tellers Perry L. 1 April 1993 - APS Fellowship Anthony, Maurice B. Aufderheide, David Nominations (See item 10). Krofcheck, Mohammed Mustafa, Mark L. • 3 May 1993-Nomination forms for Robert, Craig Sangster, Betty Voelker, and invited speakers for the Asilomar Ellen Sturmer Fall Meeting. • 18 June 1993- Contributed Abstracts for the Asilomar Fall Meeting (See all of LLNL. The members of the 1993 item 9). Executive Committee are as follows: and Supersymmetries in Nuclear Physics" will Noemie Benczer-Koller, Rutgers present their Bonner Prize lectures at the University, Chair (1994) Spring APS Meeting in Session J1 at 11:00 Carl B. Dover, BNL, Vice-Chair (1994) a.m. on Wednesday in the North Salon Wick C. Haxton, Univ. of Washington, (see the accompanying list of DNP Past-Chair (1994) Symposia for details). The 1993 Bonner Virginia R. Brown, LLNL, Secretary- Prize Committee consists of R.J. Perry Treasurer (1994) (Chair), B. Balantekin (Vice-Chair), J. S. Gerald T. Garvey, LANL, Division Cizewski, F. S. Stephens, and P. Twin. Councillor (December, 1993) Stephen E. Koonin, Caltech, Division Councillor (December, 1995) 4. NOMINATIONS FOR 1994 TOM W. Lawrence S. Cardman, Univ. of Illinois BONNER PRIZE IN NUCLEAR (1994) PHYSICS Walter Henning, ANL (1994) This annual prize was established in Robert D. McKeown, Caltech (1994). 1964 as a memorial to Tom W. Bonner by his Susan J. Seestrom, LANL (1995) friends, students and associates. Previous Brian D. Serot, Indiana Univ. (1995) winners are: H. H. Barschall, R.J. Van de Stephen J. Wallace, Univ. of Maryland Graaff, C. C. Lauritsen, R. G. Herb, G. Breit, (1995) W. A. Fowler, M. Goldhaber, J. D. Anderson 2. COMMITTEES OF THE DNP and D. Robson, H. Feshbach, D. H. Wilkinson, C. S. Wu, J. P. Schiffer, S. T. The terms of some of the members of Butler and G. R. Satchler, S. Polikanov and V. the following DNP committees expire in M. Strutinsky, Roy Middelton and W. April 1993: Program, Fellowship, Haeberli, R. M. Diamond and F. S. Stephens, Nominating, Nuclear Science Resources, B. L. Cohen, G. E. Brown, C. D. Goodman, H. and "Physics News". Suggestions from the A. Enge, E. G. Adelberger, L. M. Bollinger, B. DNP membership for new members of Frois and I Sick, R. H. Davis, E. M. Henley, V. these committees for 1993 are welcome and W. Hughes, P. Twin, H. G. Blosser and R. E. should be sent to Noemie Benczer-Koller. Pollock, A. Arima and F. Iachello. Members of these committees for 1993 will be listed in the May newsletter. The purpose of this prize, which 3. 1993 BONNER PRIZE WINNERS currently consists of $5,000 and a certificate citing the recipient's contributions, is, "To Professor Akito Arima and Professor recognize and encourage outstanding experimental Francesco Iachello have been awarded the research in nuclear physics, including the 1993 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear development of a method, technique, or device that Physics. The citation reads as follows: significantly contributes in a general way to nuclear physics research". "For the development of the Interacting Boson Model, their Nominations are open to physicists recognition of the role of dynamical whose work in nuclear physics is primarily symmetries in nuclear structure, and for experimental, but a particularly outstanding the impact of their work on the entire piece of theoretical work will take field of algebraic modeling in nuclear precedence over experimental work. There physics." are no time limitations on when the work was performed. The prize shall ordinarily be Professor Arima with the title awarded to one person but a prize may be "Nuclear Collective Motion and the Role of shared among recipients when all the Nucleon Pairs" and Professor Iachello with recipients have contributed to the same the title "The Role of Dynamic Symmetries accomplishment(s). contribution to it as well as that of others. Nominations remain active for three A letter of support from the physicists who years. It is extremely helpful for the are familiar with the candidate and the committee to receive additional letters of research. To expedite the process, copies of support that detail the contributions of the the thesis should be made available for the nominee and the impact these contributions five Committee members. This have had on the field. It is also appropriate information is required and should be sent to submit material such as significant articles to Professor Noemie Benczer-Koller, that might help us evaluate the nominee's Department of Physics, Rutgers University, contribution. While general statements New Brunswick, NJ 08903. concerning the value of the nominee's work are important, we must have specific 6. NEW DNP FELLOWS information that allows us to determine what the nominee has contributed and how this The following DNP members are contribution has impacted the field. newly elected Fellows of the APS. The award certificates will be presented by the Send name of proposed candidate and DNP Chair, W. C. Haxton at the DNP supporting material before 1 September 1993 Business Meeting. (See item 8.) to: A. B. Balantekin, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, 1150 University Thomas Joseph Bowles Ave., Madison, WI 53706. Alan Leonard Goodman Christopher Robert Gould 5. 1994 DISSERTATION AWARD IN Hans Herbert Gutbrod NUCLEAR PHYSICS Robert V. F. Janssens Joseph I. Kapsuta This biennial prize, which Ronald Martin Laszewski recognizes a recent Ph.D. in nuclear Nimai Chand Mukhopadhyay physics, was established in 1985 by J. Michael Nitschke members and friends of the Division of Gerald Alvin Peterson Nuclear Physics of the APS. Previous Robert Page Redwine winners are: B. Sherrill and W. J. Burger, Glenn Reid Young Thomas E. Cowan, Michael J. Musolf, and 7. FUTURE DNP FALL MEETINGS James Edward Koster. The present schedule for fall meetings Nature: The Award consists of $1,000 is as follows: and an allowance for travel to the annual Spring meeting of the Division of Nuclear 1993 October 20-23 Physics of the American Physical Society at Asilomar, CA which the award will be presented. 1994 October 26-29 Williamsburg, VA 1995 October 11-14 Rules and Eligibility: Nominations Bloomington, IN are open to any person who has received a Ph.D. degree in experimental or theoretical The dates include the Wednesday nuclear physics from a North American "workshops", which are held in conjunction university within the two-year period with the DNP fall meetings. Holding preceding the deadline. "workshops" at the DNP fall meetings has become a tradition which began with the Send before 1 September 1993 the 1986 Vancouver meeting. All meeting name of the proposed candidate, a attendees are welcome and encouraged to summary of up to four pages of the thesis come. It has been the intention of the DNP research, and a statement of his/her Executive Committees that these "workshops" should have broad appeal, with introductory pedagogical talks for the On Tuesday, 13 April, the meeting benefit of those who have come primarily will once again feature the Unity of Physics for the DNP meeting but want to take the Day, a series of plenary sessions that will opportunity to learn about a field of give you the opportunity to hear physics specialty of the local community. speakers outside of one's usual expertise. 8. SPRING APS MEETING, The Unity of Physics Day will begin with a WASHINGTON, D.C., 12-15 APRIL celebration of the 100th birthday of The 1993. Physical Review. At 10:30, Victor Weisskopf will speak on "The History of The Division of Nuclear Physics has Physical Review". At 11:15, the Forum on arranged six symposia of invited papers for History of Physics has organized a session the Spring meeting. In addition, five joint "Physicists and their Physical Review", with symposia with the Division of Particles and Abraham Pais, Henry Barschall, Jonathan Fields, the Division of Beams Physics, the Logan, David Lazarus, Robert Adair, W. Fundamental Constants Topical Group, the W. Havens, and the Current editor-in-chief, Few Body Systems & Multiparticle Benjamin Bederson. Dynamics Topical Group, and the Division of Astrophysics have been organized. The Also on Tuesday at 13:45, the Joint times locations and titles of these sessions APS/AAPT Unity Day session will begin along with the speakers and the titles of with the address "Broken Symmetries: their talks are listed at the end of this Physics and the APS" by the retiring APS newsletter. There are 19 DNP contributed president Ernest Henley, followed by a talk sessions for the Spring meeting. The from Eric Adelberger on "Investigating contributed abstracts were arranged into Gravi - Photons, Gravitational Binding sessions by: Noemie Benzcer-Koller Energy, and Dark Matter in a New Generation (Rutgers), Jolie Cizewski (Rutgers), Ronald of Eotvos Experiments". The 1993 Lilienfeld Ransome (Rutgers), and Larry Zamick Prize winner, David Schramm, will be next, (Rutgers). with his talk entitled "The Big Bang's Interface with Nuclear and Particle Physics." The Business Meeting of the DNP is The last speaker of the day will be the 1993 scheduled for 17:00, Wednesday, 14 April Oersted Medal winner, Hans Bethe. in the North Salon of the Ramada Renaissance Techworld Hotel following Session K1. The current agenda includes: 9. DNP FALL MEETING AT

ASILOMAR CONFERENCE A. Fellowship Awards CENTER IN PACIFIC GROVE, CA, B. 1993 Bonner Prize 20-23 OCTOBER 1993 Congratulations C. New Officers and Executive Committee The Annual Fall Meeting of the D. Invited Sessions for the DNP Division of Nuclear Physics will be held 21- Fall Meeting in Asilomar 23 October at the Asilomar Conference E. New Program Committee Center in Pacific Grove, California. The F. DNP Bylaws Asilomar Conference Center is a unit of the G. DNP Brochure California State Park System and occupies H. Budget Updates and Other 105 secluded acres of pines and dunes Matters; Reports and along the ocean's edge of the Monterey Discussions with DOE and Peninsula. Asilomar is noted for the NSF Representatives beauty of its natural setting -- its wind- I. Report from NSAC Chair twisted trees, the rolling, shifting dunes, and the mighty Pacific breakers beating against the shore. It is also close to other physics opportunities uncovered by these attractions of the Monterey Peninsula, such now mature devices, a new generation of as the 17-Mile Drive; Pt. Lobos; historical very large arrays (EUROGAM, points of interest in Monterey including GAMMASPHERE, and GASP) have been Fisherman's Wharf and Cannery Row (now designed and are under construction. The the home of the Monterey Aquarium); first phases of these new arrays are quaint shops; the Carmel Mission; Big Sur operating and producing exciting physics State Park; and the Butterfly Trees in results. This workshop will provide an Pacific Grove. introduction to the physics opportunities, the current physics problems under study, Meeting Program and a look to the future.

The meeting will consist of five A workshop on "Multifragmentation" sessions of invited papers, a plenary is being organized by D. Cebra (UC Davis), session, and approximately 20 sessions of G. Fai (KSU), C. K. Gelbke (MSU), J. contributed papers. Subcommittees of the Natowitz (TAMU), and H. G. Ritter (LBL). 1993 Program Committee will arrange two During the course of violent nucleus- sessions of invited papers on topics nucleus collisions, regions of hot, dense selected at the 12 April Washington nuclear matter are formed. A large body of Program Committee meeting. Two "voted" data from new 4 detectors is now sessions will be arranged by the Program available that is challenging existing Committee Chairman. The local committee reaction models. These detailed will arrange a session on a topic to be experimental studies have examined the announced in future communications. final states of the disassembly process Overhead projectors will be provided in which have been compared to microscopic each room; slide projectors will only be models that track the evolution of the available for invited papers (if requested in reaction through its collision stage. By advance). varying the model parameters, one can obtain insights about the equation of state Workshops of nuclear matter and the transition between the cold liquid-drop phase and a Prior to the Divisional Meeting, Fermi gas of unbound nucleons. Recent three workshops will be held on theoretical simulations have indicated the Wednesday, 20 October, also at the exciting possibility of forming exotic Asilomar Conference Center. The nuclear shapes (disks, donuts, bubbles) as workshops will run in parallel. A $25 transient structures in heavy-ion collisions. registration fee covers all three workshops. This workshop will present the latest Registration will begin on 19 October at experimental and theoretical studies as 15:00 - 21:00 hrs and continue at 8:00 hrs on well as the physics opportunities opened 20 October. Registration for the DNP up by this new generation of 4 detectors. meeting can also be accomplished at that time. A workshop on "Frontiers in Neutrino Physics" is being organized by K. A workshop on "Physics Lesko (LBL), S. J. Freedman (UCB), B. Opportunities with Large Ge Detector Arrays; Fujikawa (LBL), and A. Garcia (LBL). The Present and Future" is being organized by J. recently reported SAGE and GALLEX Becker (LLNL), M. Stephens (LBL) and J. neutrino fluxes, Kamioka's real-time Cizewski (Rutgers). During the last several observations of solar neutrinos, and the years, there has been an outpouring of first observations of neutrinos from a physics from the current generation of supernova have greatly increased the large Ge detector arrays. To follow up the nuclear physics community's interest in neutrino physics. The next generation of meal ticket to be able to eat in the Center's neutrino detectors is now under dining hall (except the banquet). These construction and will begin observations in tickets may be purchased from the the next few years. This workshop will Asilomar staff upon arrival at the address the Solar Neutrino Problem and symposium. possible solutions, emphasizing these new data and the capabilities of the new The package rates, (refer to enclosed detectors. We will also address the closely registration form), include lodging fees and related topics of accelerator and reactor meals (from dinner on Wednesday, 20 studies of neutrino oscillations, October through lunch on Sunday, 24 atmospheric neutrino anomalies, and October, including a banquet). The possible supernova neutrino signatures, additional amount for the workshop (the again emphasizing the next generation of night of 19 October) is also indicated. experiments. Accommodation fees at Asilomar are sold as a package. No refunds can be made for Registration and Accommodations early arrival or departure.

On-site registration for the meeting Requests for accommodations must will take place from 8:00 - 21:00 hrs on be received by 17 September 1993. Please Wednesday 20 October and from 8:00 - use the accompanying reservation form, noon on 21 October. The pre-registration returning it and your check (we are unable fees are $90 for DNP members, $170 for to accept charge cards) to APS/DNP 1993 non-DNP members, and $10 for retired and Conference Coordinator, Mail Stop 50F, unemployed members and students. The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, cost of the workshop is an additional fee of California 94720 USA. For additional $25. The cost of registration will increase information concerning accommodations after the preregistration date of 17 contact Mollie Field at the above address, September 1993. phone (510) 486-6387 or "[email protected]".

Space, limited to about 600 Special Events participants, has been reserved at Asilomar and is in both "historic" and "deluxe" A welcoming reception is planned accommodations. Single accommodations for Wednesday evening, 20 October. A (one person per room) at Asilomar are banquet at Asilomar Conference Center is extremely limited. Special requests may be planned for Thursday evening, 21 October. made by contacting Mollie Field in the An evening visit to the Monterey Conference Coordination Group at LBL. Aquarium is planned for Friday, 22 Every effort will be made to accommodate October. No formal Companion's Program these requests. For those individuals is planned during the meeting but unable to acquire single accommodations information about sights in the Monterey at Asilomar, off-site housing is available at area will be available. nearby hotels. Please contact Mollie Field (510) 486-6386 for a current listing of these Deadlines and Rules for Submitting hotels. Abstracts

A facility day-user's fee of $35 per In order to provide sufficient time for day will be charged to those participants printing abstracts in the Bulletin the deadline staying off site. This fee allows access to all for contributed abstracts is 18 June 1993. meeting and recreational facilities and Abstracts should conform to the format entrance to the banquet. Those choosing to specified in the enclosed instructions, and stay off-site must purchase an Asilomar should be sent, in triplicate, to the Secretary- Treasurer of the Division of Nuclear Physics: them announced in the September Bulletin, Dr. V. R. Brown, Lawrence Livermore it will be necessary to notify Mollie Field of National Laboratory, Box 808, L-288, the Conference Coordination Group or G. Bldg.181, Livermore, CA 94550. For express Wozniak, of the Local Committee, by June mail services such as Federal Express or 25, 1993. Emery, use 7000 East Avenue in the address in place of Box 808. Please do NOT send 10. NOMINATIONS FOR APS abstracts to the APS Headquarters. Abstracts FELLOWSHIP received by Dr. Brown after the deadline cannot be included in the program. The procedure for the election of a Member to Fellowship is outlined in the Unfortunately, we are unable to accept Membership Directory of the APS under abstracts sent by fax or via electronic mail "Constitution and Bylaws." A nomination such as bitnet; abstracts sent C.O.D. cannot be form, which cites the principal accepted. If more than one contributed paper contributions of the candidates to physics, is submitted with the same first author, should be prepared and signed by two please indicate which abstract should be members of the society. The total number assigned to the regular program; all except of members who could be elected to one will be assigned to the supplementary Fellowship in a given year is one half of program. All instructions and requests one percent of the total APS membership. regarding an abstract should appear at the bottom of the abstract itself. The DNP deadline is normally 1 April. Nomination forms are available There have been complaints that an from Mrs. Maximilla Cassell (The increasing number of contributed abstracts American Physical Society, 335 East 45th are not being presented and that no Street, New York, NY 10017). Completed notification is being given. If you or a forms should be returned to Dr. N. R. colleague are unable to present your paper, Werthamer at the same address. please inform the Secretary-Treasurer in advance. The 1993 DNP Fellowship Committee is comprised of G. M. Crawley (Chair), E. J. Moniz, and V. E. Viola. The Fellowship Local Committee Committee reviews the nominations for APS fellowship referred to the DNP and Further details on the meeting and recommends a slate of candidates which is the final program will be given in forwarded to the DNP Executive subsequent newsletters and in the May and Committee and then to APS Council for September issues of the APS News. approval. Members of the local organizing committee are G. J. Wozniak (Chair), LBL, J. A. Becker, It is particularly important for LLNL, V. R. Brown, LLNL, D. Cebra, UC. nominators to ensure that the cases which Davis, K. T. Lesko, LBL, and M. Nitschke, they prepare for the Fellowship Committee LBL. are well documented. In addition to that requested on the nomination form, User Group Meetings at Asilomar information such as lists of invited talks, awards, professional activities, committee It is anticipated that many groups services, and participation in organization will wish to hold User Group meetings of conferences is very helpful. Inclusion of during the Fall meeting at Asilomar. In a complete publication list is highly order to schedule them so as to prevent recommended. conflicts with other activities and to have The DNP has adopted the following construction; in FY93 the intended sum for Fellowship Criteria Guidelines. To be construction is $20M, although the final chosen as a Fellow, an APS member should amount is not decided at this writing. The have a record of excellence in research that $4M increment for FY93 is being taken has been sustained over several years, and from Physics. have done at least one major, original work that has influenced his/her specialty in a In addition, there are also mandatory significant way. redirects of about $5.5M of Physics Division monies into the FCCSET areas. The list of APS Fellows (by APS However, the Division has a number of subunit) elected in a given year is programs which properly belong under the published in the March issue of APS News. FCCSET umbrella, and can be identified as The names of newly elected DNP Fellows such, greatly lessening this impact. are published in the February newsletter Nonetheless, after accounting for various and the awards are presented at the DNP mandatory reserve funds that will be Business meeting of the Spring APS withheld by the Division Director Robert meeting. Eisenstein, the Assistant Director for MPS William Harris, and by Director Walter 11. BUDGET UPDATE FROM THE Massey, the FY93 budget for base NUCLEAR SCIENCE RESOURCES programs could be as low as $117M, an COMMITTEE, G. CRAWLEY and effective decrease of around 15%. L.L. RIEDINGER This is a far worse situation at the NSF The FY93 appropriations bills than was envisaged only a year ago by the affecting nuclear physics in both the Schiffer panel and makes the reviews Department of Energy and the National currently underway of the NSF Nuclear Science Foundation were passed and Programs, both by NSAC and internally, all signed into law on October of 1992. Since the more critical. In fact, bad as the then, there has been much activity in the situation seems now, it could get even National Science Foundation on how to worse. As indicated above, the present NSF distribute the funds to programs, in light of budget plan assumes that LIGO capital the fact that the research part of the spending will increase from $16M (FY92) to appropriated budget decreased by 0.7%. $20M in FY93. However, the current While the final word on the NSF internal budget language from Congress actually budget distribution is not known, the news mandates that LIGO spend $38M in FY93. for the Physics Division looks grim. Last If the extra $18M increase really is year's budget (FY92) for the Physics required, and is taken entirely from the Division was $138M and the current Physics Division, then the impact on allocation for FY93 is down about $10M to Physics Division programs would be $128M. The $10M decrease in the Physics disastrous. Negotiations with Congress are budget will provide a $4M increment in underway attempting to avoid this. The capital expenditures on LIGO (the Laser situation for FY94 is completely unknown. Interferometer Gravitional Observatory) You might find this information useful in and $6M for FCCSET initiatives (e.g. discussions of the situation with your Advanced Materials, High Performance Congresspersons and/or Senators. Computing, etc.) in other parts of the NSF. Officially, LIGO is not funded from the Concerning the Department of Physics Division, residing instead in the Energy, the broad budgetary picture is the "Facilities" budget line in the Mathematics same as when the legislation was passed in and Physical Science (MPS) Directorate. In October, as discussed in the last DNP FY92, $16M was provided for LIGO newsletter. Most of the guessing occurs about the anticipated FY94 request. The PHYSICS, E. MONIZ (NSAC budget proposal of the Bush administration CHAIR) has been on hold until the Clinton administration can make its input. The Physics Division of the National President Clinton's State-of-the-Union Science Foundation is faced both with a address on February 17 should give some substantial funding reduction from FY92 broad budgetary priorities, but the details levels and with Congressionally directed will not be available perhaps until late initiatives to be supported out of the March. Key questions to be answered then reduced budget. This was discussed at the include how the SSC might impact the October NSAC meeting in Santa Fe. other programs in DOE General Science Although the Division's budget is not yet (nuclear and high energy physics), whether completely settled, reductions in nuclear LAMPF and accompanying funds will be physics funding of approximately 10%, moved back into the Office of Energy quite possibly more, are likely. Such a Research (OER) from Defense Programs, prospect is substantially worse than the and of course the general level of support worst-case scenario (flat as-spent dollars) for nuclear physics. which the NSAC Subcommittee on Implementation of the Long Range Plan One positive action of the new (the Schiffer subcommittee) considered just administration seems to be the one year ago. In line with the appointment of Dr. John Gibbons as the recommendations of that Subcommittee, new Director of the Office of Science and and in view of the current and perhaps Technology Policy and as the President's continuing budget squeeze, the Physics Science Advisor. The speed of this Division is forced to re-examine the appointment and the assignment of structure of its commitment in nuclear Gibbons to the National Economic Council physics. The eight university laboratories (a first for a Science Advisor) bode well for supported by NSF are being reviewed by a the emphasis of the new administration on special emphasis panel chaired by Walter science and technology. Gibbons is a Henning (ANL). The large national user physicist who worked at Oak Ridge facilities at Indiana and Michigan State, National Laboratory and then the IUCF and NSCL respectively, receive 44% University of Tennessee before going to of the NSF Nuclear Physics budget and Washington to head the Congress' Office of serve very large user communities, Technology Assessment for the last thirteen including DOE sponsored users and years. Everyone anticipates a close working foreign scientists. Consequently, relationship between Gibbons and Vice reductions at these laboratories would President Gore. The makeup of the OSTP automatically impact the broad community team is unclear at this time, although it is and should be considered by NSAC. This expected that two OTA people will move resulted in the following charge, issued on there. November 16, 1992:

Concerning crucial agency positions, "Under scenarios of 5% and 10% it is reported in the APS What's New that reductions in the total actual year NSF director Walter Massey will leave for a funding going towards operations post at the University of California, and and research at IUCF and that DOE OER director Will Happer will be MSU/NSCL in FY93, with little staying. likelihood for real growth in the near term, how should the cutbacks 12. NSAC SUBCOMMITTEE ON NSF- at one or both of these labs be SPONSORED NATIONAL USER structured so that the highest FACILITIES FOR NUCLEAR priority scientific objectives are realized and that the future comment at the meeting are asked to scientific opportunities are contact John Lightbody, Program Director maximized? Consideration should for Nuclear Physics at the NSF. be given to the short and long term impact of such cutbacks on the 13. INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR availability of facilities for (i) THEORY, WICK C. HAXTON research on hadronic and heavy ion nuclear physics, nationwide and The Institute for Nuclear Theory worldwide, (ii) research in related programs for 1993 are either closed or applied and cross-disciplinary nearly closed to new applicants. If you are activities, and (iii) the training of interested in attending any of the young scientists." following, please contact the program organizers as soon as possible. To help structure its response to the charge, NSAC has established a Nuclear Physics in Atoms and Molecules: Subcommittee chaired by Bob Redwine Feb. 15-May 28 (MIT). Other members include D. Organizers: Hagerman (LANL), R. McGrath (Stony Eugen Merzbacher "ulysse@unc" Brook), B. Mueller (Duke), R. Tribble Jim Friar "friar@lampf" (Texas A&M), S. Wallace (Maryland), and Berndt Müller G. Young (ORNL). The principal criterion "[email protected]" is preservation and advancement of the Phenomenology and Lattice QCD: June 21- highest priority science and of future Sept. 3 scientific opportunity, viewed in a national Organizers: and indeed international context. Education of outstanding young scientists Stephen Sharpe "[email protected] will be an important consideration, as will ashington.edu" be accelerator physics and applied research Gregory Kilcup programs. The research activities of both "[email protected] in-house and external user groups will be io-state.edu" evaluated. Finally, the Subcommittee will John Negele recommend on the distribution of funding "[email protected] reductions at the two user laboratories. Of " course, the final budget for IUCF and NSCL will be set by the Foundation after [There will be a summer school, co-sponsored optimization of the funding of different by the University of Washington, in conjunction with this program, June 21-July 2. nuclear physics program elements (user Students and young researchers interested in labs, university labs, single investigators attending should apply to the organizers by and small groups) and of funding in March 1.] different physics subfields. Preliminary reports indicate the enormous difficulty Large Amplitude Collective Motion: Oct. facing the Subcommittee, NSAC and the 4- Dec. 17 Foundation, since both laboratories have Organizers: very strong scientific programs, novel Aurel Bulgac "bulgac@msunscl" capabilities, commendable user support, George Bertsch and significant cost-sharing. "[email protected] ashington.edu" The Subcommittee will present its The INT's National Advisory findings to NSAC at a February 26 meeting Committee met in August to help select to be held at NSF. Those members of the programs for 1994, which are listed below. community wishing to make public Early applications to the 1994 Organizers 1993 Prices: In what follows the price are encouraged. for U.S.A. is before the slash; the price for “Other Countries, including Canada” Solar Neutrinos and Neutrino follows the slash. Volumes 12–41 are Astrophysics: Feb. 22-May 31 $55/$60 retail and $39/$42 for DNP Organizers: members. Volume 42 (available Dec. 1992) Baha Balantekin will be $59/$64 retail and $42/$45 for DNP "[email protected]" members. Eugene Beier "[email protected]" Other Annual Reviews are also available. Payment (Payable to the [The program will include workshops on the solar model (co-organized with John Bahcall) Division of Nuclear Physics–APS) must and on dark matter detection (co-organized accompany your order and must be in U.S. with the Berkeley Center for Particle funds. California orders must add Astrophysics)]. applicable sales tax. Since 1 January 1991, all orders shipped to Canada require the Applications of Chaos in Many-Body addition of a 7% General Sales Tax. Quantum Physics: June 13-Sept. 2 Organizers: 15. FUTURE CONFERENCES Steve Tomsovic "[email protected] Organizers of future conferences shington.edu" should contact the DNP Secretary- Eric Heller Treasurer if they wish their conferences "[email protected]. listed in DNP newsletters. washington.edu" Hans Weidenmüller "[email protected] "Future Directions in Particle and t" Nuclear Physics at Multi-GeV Hadron Beam Facilities" to be held 4-6 March 1993 Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter: Sept. 12- at Brookhaven National Laboratory. This Dec. 10 is a follow-up to the one-day workshop Organizers: held in Santa Fe on 13 Oct. 1992. [For Jorgen Randrup "[email protected]" further information contact Elaine George Bertsch Zukowski, Conference Secretariat, Bldg. "[email protected]. 510 F, Brookhaven National Laboratory, washington.edu" Upton, NY 11973, phone: (516) 282-3866, Ulrich Mosel fax: (516) 282-5820, bitnet: "henp@bnldag", "[email protected] "hepnet: bnldag::henp", internet: .uni-giessen.de" "[email protected]"].

14. ANNUAL REVIEWS OF NUCLEAR "Second International Workshop on AND PARTICLE SCIENCE Time Reversal Invariance and Parity The Division has continued the Violation in Neutron Scattering and agreement with Annual Reviews, Inc., Reactions" to be held 4-7 May 1993 at which will enable DNP members to obtain Dubna, Russia, and jointly sponsored by copies of the "Annual Review of Nuclear and TUNL, LANL and JINR. [For further Particle Science" at a 30% discount when information contact Yu. B Popov at Dubna purchased through the DNP Secretary- ([email protected]), or C.R.Gould Treasurer, Virginia R. Brown, Lawrence at TUNL, bitnet: gould@tunl or J.D.Bowman Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box at LANL bitnet: bowman@lampf]. 808, L-288, Livermore, CA 94550.

"The International Workshop on Weniger Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-6507, Polarized Ion Sources and Polarized Gas phone (503) 737-1697, fax - 1683, e-mail: Targets" to be held 23-27 May 1993, at the "[email protected]"]. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. [For further information "Gordon Research Conference on contact: Prof. L.W. Anderson or Prof. W. QCD in Nuclear Physics" to be held July Haeberli, Department of Physics, 26-30, 1993, at the Tilton School, Tilton, University of Wisconsin, 1150 University New Hampshire. [For further information Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, contact R. D. McKeown, 106-38 Kellogg, phone: (608) 262-6555/8962, fax: (608) 262- Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, phone: (818) 3598, email: bitnet%madspin@wiscnuc.]. 356-4316, fax: (818) 564-8708, bitnet: "bmck@caltech."]. "Third International Conference on Radioactive Nuclear Beams" to be held 24- "The Gordon Conference on Dynamics 27 May 1993, at Michigan State University. of Simple Systems in Chemistry and [For further information contact: David J. Physics" to be held August 16-20, 1993 at Morrissey, National Superconducting Proctor Academy in Andover, New Cyclotron Lab, Michigan State University, Hampshire. This interdisciplinary meeting East Lansing, Michigan 48824, phone: is of interest to few-nucleon and few- (517) 355-9554, fax: (517) 353-5967, internet: electron physicists, quantum chemists, and "[email protected]" or bitnet: others interested in systems with relatively "morrissey@msunscl"]. few dynamical degrees of freedom. [For further information contact: J. L. Friar, Los "8th Annual Hampton University Alamos National Lab., Chairman. e-mail: Graduate Studies-HUGS AT CEBAF" to be "[email protected]", R. S. Berry, Univ. of held May 26-June 12, 1993, at the Chicago, V-Chairman, e-mail: Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator "[email protected]" or the Gordon Facility, Hampton University, Hampton, Research Conferences Secretariat]. Virginia. [For further information contact: Dr. Michael Frank, Chair, Local Organizing "Gull Lake Nuclear Physics Committee, Dept. of Physics, Hampton Conference on Giant Resonances" to be Univ., Hampton, Virginia 23668, phone: held 17-21 August 1993, in Gull Lake, (804) 249-7369 or 727-5938, bitnet: Michigan. [For further information contact: "[email protected]"]. Michael Thoennessen, National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab., Michigan "Gordon Research Conference on State Univ., East Lansing, MI 48824, phone: Nuclear Chemistry" to be held July 5-9 (517) 355-7549, fax: (517) 353-5967, internet: 1993, at Colby-Sawyer College, New "[email protected]" or bitnet: Londen, New Hampshire. [For further "thoennessen@msunscl."]. information contact R.V.F. Janssens, Physics, Div., Argonne National "8th International Symposium, on Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, phone: Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and (708) 252-3663), fax: (708) 252-6210, bitnet: Related Topics," to be held 20-24 "janssens@anlphy"]. September 1993, in Fribourg, Switzerland. [For further information contact: J. Kern, "6th Annual Summer School in Physics Department University, CH-1700 Nuclear Physics Research" to be held 11-24 Fribourg, Switzerland, phone: July 1993, at Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, (41) (37) 826233, fax: (41) (37) 826519, B. Müller and R. Roberson, Organizers. bitnet: "kern@cfruni52."]. [For further information contact Philip J. Siemens, OSU Physics Department, 301 "The Fifth Conference on the APS MEETING -- WASHINGTON, DC Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics" to be held May 31 to June 6, 1994 12-15 April 1993 at the Stouffer Vinoy Resort, St. Petersburg, FL. The Conference will focus on the SYMPOSIA OF THE DNP common areas of interest of current Particle Ramada Renaissance Techworld Hotel and Nuclear Physics including Theory and Experiment, Facilities and Technology, and 8:00 Monday, North Salon. (DNP). A1. will emphasize the Physics in the Energy APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR Region of 1 to 200 GeV. [For further PHYSICS, G. M. Crawley, presiding. information contact Elly Driessen, Conf. J. Davis (LLNL), "Accelerator Mass Secretary, TRIUMF, 4004 Westbrook Mall, Spectrometry: Applications in Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada, phone: Biomedicine, Geochemistry and (604) 222-1047, fax: (604) 222-1074, telex: Industry". (0)-4508503, bitnet: "driessen@triumfcl", L. Grodzins (MIT), "Nuclear Techniques for internet: "[email protected]", decnet: Detecting Contraband". "45397::driessen"]. R. Weinstein (IBPD, Univ. of Houston), "High Field Permanent Magnets Made of High Temperature Superconductor". J. Slater (Loma Linda Univ. Medical Center), "Exploiting the Superior Absorption Characteristics of Protons for Treating Human Disease".

11:00 Monday, North Salon (Few-Body Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics Topical Group/DNP). B1. LIGHT NUCLEI: STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS, R. B. Wiringa, presiding. W. Glockle (Univ. of Bochum), "Three Nucleon Scattering". B. Berman (George Washington Univ.), "Pion Scattering from Very Light Nuclei". V. R. Pandharipande (Univ. of Illinois), "Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Light Nuclei". I. Sick (University of Basel), "Electromagnetic Form Factors of Light Nuclei". J. Tjon (Univ. of Utrecht), "Inelastic Electron Scattering in Few Nucleon Systems".

14:30 Monday, North Salon (DPB/DNP). C1. NEW NUCLEAR PHYSICS ACCELERATOR INITIATIVES, J. Garrett, presiding. L. S. Cardman (Univ. of Illinois/CEBAF), "The CEBAF Accelerator and Its Physics Program". J. Hangst (Aarhus Univ.), "Laser Cooling of A. Arima (Tokyo Univ.), 1993 TOM W. Stored Ion Beams". BONNER PRIZE LECTURE: "Nuclear J. A. Nolen, Jr. (ANL), "Relative Merits of Collective Motion and the Role of Projectile Fragmentation and ISOL Nucleon Pairs". Methods for Producing Radioactive F. Iachello (Yale Univ.), 1993 TOM W. Beams". BONNER PRIZE LECTURE: "The Role D. K. Olsen (ORNL), "The Oak Ridge of Dynamic Symmetries and Radioactive Ion Beam Facility". Supersymmetries in Nuclear Physics". R. F. Casten (BNL), "Nuclear Physics E. Ormand (Calif. Institute of Tech.), Opportunities with Radioactive Beams". "Monte Carlo Methods for the Shell Model". 8:00 Tuesday, North Salon (DPF/DNP). J. Ginocchio (LANL), "The Fractional E1. TOPICS IN NUCLEAR AND Quantum Hall Effect and the Spherical PARTICLE PHYSICS, D. Geesaman, Shell Model". presiding. B. Zeitnitz (Karlsruhe), "The KARMEN 14:30 Wednesday, North Salon (DNP). K1. Neutrino Results". NUCLEAR MEASUREMENTS OF G. A. Miller (Univ. of Wash.), "Color ASTROPHYSICAL IMPACT, A. Transparency". Champagne, presiding. C. Taylor (Case Western Reserve Univ.), M. Gai (Yale Univ.), "Helium Burning and "Disoriented Chiral Condensates". the Death of Massive Stars from the V. Hughes (Yale Univ.), "Spin-Dependent Beta-Delayed Alpha-Particle Emission Structure Function of the Deuteron of 16N". from Polarized Muon-Deep Inelastic L. Buchmann (TRIUMF), "The Beta- Scattering". Delayed Alpha-Decay of 16N and the 12C(,)16O Cross Section at Low 8:00 Wednesday, North Salon (DNP). I1. Energies". NUCLEONS AND NUCLEI: PROBES T. Delbar (Universite Catholique de OF WEAK TO STRONG Louvain), "Nuclear Astrophysics INTERACTIONS, R. Eisenstein, Studies with Radioactive Beams at presiding. Louvain-la-Neuve". D. Wright (TRIUMF), "Measurement of the M.B. Aufderheide (LLNL), "Weak Induced Pseudoscalar Coupling Interactions in Nuclei in Pre-Supernova Constant from the Rate of Radiative Evolution". Muon Capture in Hydrogen". R. G. E. Timmermans (LANL), "Physics of 17:00 Wednesday, North Salon - DNP the Antiproton-Proton System". BUSINESS MEETING N. Isgur (CEBAF), "Heavy Quark Symmetry of the Strong Interaction". 19:30 Wednesday, North Salon (DNP). L1. H. Sorge (LANL), "Production and DENSE MATTER AND THE Signature of Extremely Dense Baryon EQUATION OF STATE, J. Stachel, Matter Produced with the Au Beam at presiding. the AGS". K. Gelbke (MSU), "Multifragment Disintegrations of Expanding Nuclear 11:00 Wednesday, North Salon (DNP). J1. Systems". 1993 BONNER PRIZE LECTURE: R. Madey (Kent State Univ.), "Can STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS IN Neutrons from Nucleus-Nucleus NUCLEAR AND CONDENSED Collisions" Probe the Nuclear Matter MATTER PHYSICS, W. Haxton, Equation-of-State"? presiding. N. Herrmann (KPI), "Collective Flow in NEUTRINO PHYSICS, W. Haxton, Central Heavy Ion Collisions at presiding. Relativistic Energies". J. J. Bonn (Universitat Mainz), "Improved P. Braun-Munzinger (SUNY Stony Brook), Limit on the Electron Neutrino Rest "Physics with Au+Au at Mass from Tritium Beta Decay". Ultrarelativistic Energies". R. Van Dyck (Univ. of Wash.), "High Precision Penning Trap Measurements 8:00 Thursday, North Salon (DNP). M1. of Light Ion Masses". OPEN QUESTIONS IN NUCLEAR R. E. Lanou (Brown Univ.), "Particle STRUCTURE PHYSICS, J. A. Detection by Evaporation from Cizewski, presiding. Superfluid Helium". J. P. Draayer (Lousiana State Univ.), R. Frosch (Paul Scherrer Inst.), "A New "Microscopic Models of Collective Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Phenomena in Deformed Nuclei". Mass". A. Aprahamian (Univ. of Notre Dame), "Multi-Phonon Vibrations in Deformed 14:30 Thursday, South Salon (DAP/(DNP). Nuclei". O3. INFORMATION FROM THE J. Billowes (Univ. of Manchester), INTERIORS OF STARS, G. J. "Influence of Shape on Alignment Mathews, presiding. Characteristics in the A=80 Region". T. Brown (NCAR), "Seismology of the Sun: R. G. Henry (ANL), "Onset of Collectivity Results and Prospects". in Tellurium Nuclei". D. E. Winget (Univ. of Texas Austin), "Inside the White Dwarf Stars". 11:00 Thursday, North Salon (Fundamental J. R. Wilson (LLNL), "The Supernova Constants Topical Group/(DNP). N1. Explosion Process". PRECISION TECHNIQUES IN G. M. Fuller (UC-San Diego), "Probing Properties of Massive Neutrinos with Supernova Nucleosynthesis".