IOP Groups
Sponsored Meetings
2007
Next generation Isomers Workshop
This IOP sponsored workshop was attached to the 2007 IOP Annual Conference. It took place on the 2 April 2007. The day is summarised in this report.
2006
Cosoner's House (16 May 2006)
The aim of the 2006 meeting was "To share visions of the future to form a common aim". The meeting was attended by 27 delegates which represented all of the nuclear groups in the UK. Given recent announcements an extra slot was added for discussion of where nuclear physics should be placed in the new Research Council structure. There was also much discussion about the recent approach from the German government for funding for FAIR and how this would be answered and by whom.
Dave Warner symposium (8 February 2006)
Daresbury laboratory hosted a one-day symposium on 8 February in honour of Professor Dave Warner who passed away suddenly in June last year. The symposium celebrated Dave’s life and work, highlighting his enormous contribution to nuclear physics, to the UK and overseas nuclear physics communities and to CCLRC. The symposium was attended by over 100 delegates, including Dave’s family, Lin, Jenny and Stephen. To start the proceedings, Colin Whitehouse and John Simpson reviewed Dave’s role in the laboratory from his first arrival in 1986 when he joined the experimental group at the Nuclear Structure Facility to his final position as head of the surface and nuclear division. Hans Boerner (ILL), Rick Casten (Yale), Mike Bentley (York) and Piet Van Isacker (Ganil) then presented the many scientific highlights from their long collaborations with Dave. Recently, much of Dave’s time has been spent spearheading the UK interest in radioactive beam facilities and the final talks, presented by Hans Geissel and Syndey Gales, covered the exciting opportunities for nuclear science from the new FAIR and SPIRAL facilities in Germany and France, respectively. Participants in the symposium experienced the full range of emotions, from sadness to celebration, but the most lasting memory is that Dave Warner was a brilliant experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist. He has left a strong legacy to the nuclear physics community.
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