12-14 March 2018
TIFR, Mumbai
Asia/Kolkata timezone
FIG 2018

Scientific Programme

12 -14 March 2018

  • Inaugural Session
    12 March 2018 9:30 - 9:50 Welcome Address 9:50 - 10:30 First spectroscopy of 40Mg P. Fallon (LBNL)
  • Tea
    10:30 - 11:00
  • Session 1
    11:00 - 11:30 Lifetime measurements for sensitive tests of nuclear models in the collective regime Bo. Cederwall (KTH) 11:30 - 12:00 Probing the structure of isotopically identified fission fragments@VAMOS A. Navin (GANIL) 12:00 - 12:30 Systematics of Band Termination at High-Spin in N~90 Nuclei: How Robust and Pure Are These Special States? M. Riley (FSU) 12:30 - 13:00 Seniority and Generalized Seniority: How far can we stretch these quantum numbers? A.K. Jain (IITR)
  • Lunch
    13:00 - 14:00
  • Session 2
    14:00 - 14:30 Evolution of collectivity and symmetry in nuclei S. Muralithar (IUAC) 14:30 - 15:00 Fission Fragment Spectroscopy: Challenges and opportunities D.C. Biswas (BARC) 15:00 - 15:30 Probing nuclei near shell closure using alpha beam S. Bhattacharya(VECC) 15:30 - 16:00 Nuclear symmetries: critical observation through measurement of short lifetimes P. Das (IIT BombaY) 16:00 - 16:20 High Spin Spectroscopy: Microscopic Theory and Perspectives C.R. Praharaj (IOPB)
  • Poster Session
    16:20 - 19:00
  • Session 3
    13 March 2018 9:00 - 9:30 Isomers from multi-nucleon hole configurations near doubly-magic 208Pb S. Tandel (CEBS) 9:30 - 10:00 Nuclear structure studies in the vicinity of shell closure S. Sihotra (PU)
  • Tea Session
    10:00 - 10:15
  • Session 4
    10:15 - 10:45 FAIR and NUSTAR - Status and opportunities J. Gerl (FAIR/GSI) 10:45 - 11:15 Nuclear structure studies with brilliant gamma beams at ELI-NP D.L. Balabanski (ELINP) 11:15 - 11:45 CAGRA Project at RCNP, Osaka University E. Ideguchi (RCNP) 11:45 - 12:15 Nuclear physics studies at the Legnaro National Laboratories F. Recchia (Univ. Padova) 12:15 - 12:45 Beta-delayed neutron emitters and advances in fast neutron spectroscopy P. Chowdhury (UM Lowell) 12:45 - 13:00 Short presentation
  • Lunch
    13:00 - 14:00
  • Parallel Session 1 (Venue AG 66)
    14:00 - 14:15 Alternating parity bands in 216Fr A.Y. Deo (IITR) 14:15 - 14:30 Multiple facets of level structure in a shape-transitional nucleus S. Mukhopadhyay (BARC) 14:30 - 14:45 Investigation of the level structure of 29Al at high spin A. Chakraborty (Visva Bharati) 14:45 - 15:00 Exploring nature of collectivity in Lu nuclei with mass A ~165 via lifetime measurements S. Chamoli (DU)
  • Parallel Session 2 (AG69)
    14:00 - 14:15 Energy Dependent Spin Distribution Measurements in 16O+159Tb System B.P. Singh (AMU) 14;15 - 14:30 Investigation of fragment capture reaction mechanism involving weakly bound 7Li S. Pandit (BARC) 14:30 - 14:45 Proton capture cross section measurements at astrophysical relevant energies T. Trivedi (GG Univ) 14:45 - 15:00 Ancillary detectors for gamma spectroscopy A. Jhingan (IUAC) 15:00 - 15:15 Study of cross-talk in a planar HPGe strip detector C.S. Palshetkar (TIFR)
  • Tea
    15:15 - 15:30
  • Session 5
    15:30 - 16:00 Systematic study of fission fragment de-excitation depending on compound system and excitation energy Andreas OBERSTEDT (ELI-NP) 16:00 - 16:30 Measurement of gamma rays from both hadronic and electromagnetic decay of giant resonance of 12C and 16O M. Sakuda (Okayama Univ) 16:30 - 17:00 Search for Double Beta Decay in 94Zr V. Nanal (TIFR) 17:00 - 17:30 Nuclear Deformation and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay: A case study of 76Ge D. AYANGEAKAA (US NA)
  • Poster Session
    17:30 - 19:00
  • Session 6
    14 March 9:00 - 9:30 Of Signals, Shapes and Shells: Nuclear Structure Studies at the Consortium S. S. GHUGRE (IUC-CSR-KC) 9:30 - 10:00 Detector requirements and simulation for HISPEC/DESPEC experiments at Super-FRS S. Saha (GSI)
  • Tea
    10:00 - 10:15
  • Session 7
    10:15 - 10:45 Wobbling Motion in A130 Nuclei U. Garg (NDU) 10:45 - 11:15 Shape evolution in neutron-rich Zr nuclei P. Singh (CEA) 11:15 - 11:45 Consistent description of shell gaps and deformed states around 16O and 40Ca Yutaka UTSUNO 11:45 - 12:15 Studies of extremely deformed nuclei near 40Ca Piotr BEDNARCZYK (Krakow) 12:15 - 12:45 Ab initio shell-model study of nuclear observables P.C. Srivastava (IITR) 12:45 - 13: 00 Short presentation
  • Lunch
    13:00 - 14:00
  • Session 8
    14:00 - 14:30 Reinforce in low and intermediate states of the beta stable Ba and Xe nuclei near N=82 shell closure S. Kumar (DU) 14:30 - 15:00 Evidence of gamma-instability in 124Te H.P. Sharma (BHU) 15:00 - 15:30 An overview of recent experiments at VECC-INGA array A. Goswami (SINP) 15:30 - 15:40 Concluding Remark
  • Tea
    15:40 - 16:00
  • NSF Colloquium
    16:00 - 17:00 Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and the Ever-Fascinating World of the Atomic Nucleus M. Riley(FSU)