Dear Colleague:
We are organizing the Second International Symposium on Nuclear Symmetry
Energy, NuSYM11. The Symposium will be held from June 17 till June
20, 2011 at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. We have chosen
this time because the Gordon
Conference on Nuclear Chemistry ends in the morning of
June 17 and we hope that many of you will be able to extend your stay
in New England. Transportation from the GRC site (New London, NH)
and Smith College will be arranged by the organizers.
Northampton is a typical, very pretty, college town
located about 100 miles south of New London. It is a vibrant cultural
and educational center located in the heart of Pioneer Valley with
about 30,000 students in the Five College Consortium composed of Smith
College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College. Hampshire College
and the largest campus of the University of Massachusetts located
at Amherst.
We plan to discuss recent progress and new challenges
in the topics discussed at RIKEN during the NuSYM10 Symposium and
specifically:
* Advances in the area of nuclear equation of state;
* Theoretical and experimental developments pertinent to determining
the equation of state of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter;
* Symmetry energy information coming from nuclear reactions, nuclear
structure, masses and collective modes;
* Effects of symmetry energy in astrophysics.
Invitation letters may be provided upon request for
the NuSYM11 participants who need a US visa.
The International Advisory Committee is composed
of:
Lie-Wen Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Maria Colonna (INFN, Catania)
Francesca Gulminelli (LPC Caen)
Tadaaki Isobe (RIKEN)
Bao-An Li (Texas A&M University-Commerce)
Akira Ono (Tohoku University)
Hiroyoshi Sakurai (RIKEN)
Massimo Di Toro (INFN, Catania)
Wolfgang Trautmann (GSI)
The Local Organizing Committee is composed of:
Pawel Danielewicz (MSU)
Michael Famiano (WMU)
Umesh Garg (Notre Dame)
William Lynch (MSU)
Betty Tsang (MSU)
Sherry Yennello (Texas A&M)
Malgorzata Zielinska-Pfabe (Smith College)
In a couple of weeks from now we will start a website
for the Symposium and will be able to send you more information. If
you are interested in NuSYM11, please send an e-mail to the Symposium
e-mail address NuSYM11@smith.edu
and we will provide you with the web page address and with email updates
on NuSYM11.
We would like to ask you to circulate this information
among your colleagues. We will be obliged for any suggestions concerning
the program and the speakers.
With best regards from the Organizing Committee