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We are pleased to announce the 17th UK Nuclear Physics Postgraduate Summer School will be held at the University of Bristol between 27th August and 6th September 2013. The meeting will be held in Wills Hall at the University of Bristol.

The School Scope and Topics

The UK postgraduate nuclear physics summer school offers PhD students the unique opportunity to be taught by, and interact with, the very best international researchers in all areas of nuclear physics. This intense, two-week residential school forms the cornerstone of the students wider knowledge of nuclear physics, including the chance to present their own research to both contemporaries and established experts. The school is held every two years for students in their first or second year of PhD study.

School Timetable

The final timetable for the school can be found here. Download the timetable.
The school photo from week 1 can be found here: Download the week 1 photo. From week 2 download the week 2 photo.

Tuesday 27th August 2013
Session start 9.00am
Welcome
Nuclear Theory 1
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy: An Introduction
Nuclear Structure from Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy
Andy Boston
Kris Heyde (Ghent)
Mark Riley (FSU)
Eddie Paul (Liverpool)
Wednesday 28th August 2013
Selected Exotic Phenomena in Nuclei via Gamma-Ray Studies
Low-spin nuclear structure
Nuclear Theory 2
Mark Riley (FSU)
Eddie Paul (Liverpool)
Kris Heyde (Ghent)
Thursday 29th August 2013
Electromagnetic Transitions
Nuclear Theory 3
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy: The Textbook Example of 158Er
Eddie Paul (Liverpool)
Kris Heyde (Ghent)
Mark Riley (FSU)
Friday 30th August 2013
Nuclear Theory 4
Experimental Techniques
The Future: Gamma-Ray Tracking and the New Facilities
Kris Heyde (Ghent)
Eddie Paul (Liverpool)
Mark Riley (FSU)
Saturday 31st August 2013
Free Day
Sunday 1st September 2013
Relativistic Heavy-ion Physics I
Environmental Applications I
Relativistic Heavy-ion Physics II
Lee Barnby (Birmingham)
Iain Darby (IAEA)
Lee Barnby (Birmingham)
Monday 2nd September 2013
Environmental Applications II
Relativistic Heavy-ion Physics III
Nuclear Energy Roadmap
Iain Darby (IAEA)
Lee Barnby (Birmingham)
David Ross (NNL)
Tuesday 3rd September 2013
Free Day
Wednesday 4th September 2013
Applications of Nuclear Physics I
Nuclear Power 2
Hadron Physics I
David Parker (Birmingham)
Richard Taylor (NNL)
Bjoern Seitz (Glasgow)
Thursday 5th September 2013
Hadron Physics II
Applications of Nuclear Physics II
Hadron Physics III
Bjoern Seitz (Glasgow)
David Parker (Birmingham)
Bjoern Seitz (Glasgow)
Friday 6th September 2013
Applications of Nuclear Physics III
Environmental Applications III + IV
David Parker (Birmingham)
Iain Darby (IAEA)


School resources and supporting notes

Additional notes and documents for the lecture courses
Kris Heyde:
The Atomic Nucleus: a Bound System of Interacting Nucleons
Unveiling the many facets of the atomic nucleus: from Rutherford to exotic nuclei
Mark Riley:
The fascinating nuclear structure world of Erbium-158
Nuclear Gamma Spectroscopy and the Gamma-Spheres
From Ge(Li) detectors to gamma-ray tracking arrays 50 years of gamma spectroscopy with germanium detectors
The back-bending video
The FRIB Rap
The periodic table animation courtesy Sean Liddick (NSCL)
Gamma-ray animations, courtesy Dave Campbell

School funding

The School is funded by The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Registration

Participants are invited to register using the registration form available on the web site from 25th April to 5th July 2013. There will be no fee payable for STFC funded research students. Non STFC funded students including self funding students and those supported by other research councils such as EPSRC will need to pay a fee to attend the school. All lecture notes, board, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner is included in the fee for thr school. The end of School dinner is also included.

History of the School...

The 16th Postgraduate Summer School is the latest in the series of UK Postgraduate Nuclear Physics Summer Schools which have run biennially for the past 30 years. The venues of the recent Summer Schools in this series are listed below along with the Directors of the School.

2011 - University of St Andrews (M. Aliotta & J. F. Smith)
2009 - University of Leicester (D. T. Joss & C. Wheldon)
2007 - Northumbria University (P. Campbell & D. Watts)
2005 - University College Chester (D. G. Jenkins & P. Stevenson)
2003 - University of St Andrews (R. D. Herzberg & D. Cullen)
2001 - Bangor (North Wales) (R. D. Page & J. Al-khalili)
1999 - University of Durham (S. J. Freeman & D. G. Ireland)
1997 - University of Nottingham (M. Freer & J. Simpson)
1995 - Bangor (North Wales) (A. M. Bruce & J. S. Lilley)
1993 - University of St Andrews (J. Billowes & S. Watt)
1991 - University of Surrey
1989 - University of York (P. A. Butler & J. C. McGeorge)
1987 - University of York
1985 - University of St Andrews (P. J. Nolan)
1983 - University of St Andrews 1981 - University of Manchester (M. Irvine)
 
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