Program for Nuclear Structure at the Limits ******************************************** SESSION I-A (Monday Morning) 8:45 Chairperson: R.M. Diamond D. Schwalm (Heidelberg) - "Spectroscopy In and Decay Out of the Second Well in Actinide Nuclei" G. Hackman (ANL) - "One-Step Decays from Superdeformed to Yrast States in 194Hg" F. Hannachi (Orsay) - "Single Step Links of the Superdeformed Band in 194Pb: A Measure of the Absolute Excitation Energy, Spin and Parity of the Superdeformed States" K. Hauschild (LLNL) - "Primary Transitions Between the Yrast Superdeformed Band and Low-Lying Normal Deformed States in 194Pb" MORNING BREAK (10:10) SESSION I-B (10:40) Chairperson: B. Haas C. Petrache (Padova/INFN) - "Decay Out of the Yrast and Excited Highly-Deformed Bands in the Even-Even Nucleus 134Nd" F. Lerma (Washington Univ.) - "Search for Linking Transitions in 143Eu" B. Herskind (NBI) - "Single-Step Link of the Superdeformed Band in 143Eu" T. Lauritsen (ANL) - "The Quasicontinuum of Gamma Rays Following the Decay of Superdeformed Bands in the Hg Region" A. Lopez-Martens (Orsay) - "First Measurment of the Degree of Fragmentation of the Decay-Out Cascade From the Superdeformed Yrast Band in 192Hg" END OF SESSION I (12:25) SESSION II-A (Monday Afternoon) 2:00 Chairperson: B. Herskind F. Stephens (LBL) - "Superdeformation Overview" L. Egido (Madrid) - "Microscopic Description of Nuclear Shapes" P. Twin (Liverpool) - "Superdeformation in 150Gd: Around the (Back)bend in Band 5" AFTERNOON BREAK (3:30) SESSION II-B (4:00) Chairperson: M. Deleplanque-Stephens C. Rigollet (Strasbourg) - "Microscopic Study of Superdeformation in the A=150 Mass Region" E. F. Moore (N.C. State) - "Lifetime Measurements and Identical SD Bands in the A=190 and A=150 Regions" D. Bazzacco (Legnaro) - "Transitional Quadrupole Moments for the SD Bands in 194Hg" L.H. Zhu (Padova/INFN) - "Change of Deformation at the Backbending in the Yrast Superdeformed Band of 144Gd" END OF SESSION II (5:30) SESSION III-A (Tuesday Morning) 8:30 Chairperson: S. Lunardi C. Baktash (ORNL) - "Superdeformation in the A=80 Region" Y. Sun (JIHIR) - "A Systematic Description of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in the Even-Even Mass-190 Region" F. Azaiez (Orsay) - "New Results on the Superdeformed 196Pb Nucleus: The Decay of the Excited Bands to the Yrast Band" T. Nakatsukasa (AECL) - "Microscopic Structure of High-Spin Vibrational States in Superdeformed Hg Nuclei" MORNING BREAK (10:15) SESSION III-B (10:45) Chairperson: L.L. Riedinger J. Dudek (Strasbourg) - "Selfconsistent Calculations for the Hyperdeformed Nuclei: Exotic Deformations in Excess of Hyper-elongation" L.M. Robledo (Madrid) - "How Close are Hyperdeformed States to the Scission Point" R. Krücken (LBL) - "Test of Delta I = 2 Staggering in the Superdeformed Bands of 194Hg" M. Riley (FSU) - "Delta I = 2 Energy Staggering in Normal Deformed Dysprosium Nuclei" END OF SESSION III (12:10) SESSION IV-A (Tuesday Afternoon) 2:00 Chairperson: N. Benczer-Koller R. Clark (LBL) - "Evidence for 'Magnetic Rotation': Lifetimes of States in the M1-Bands of 198,199Pb" G. Dracoulis (ANU, Canberra) - "Pairing reduction and configuration effects in the rotation and decay of multi-quasiparticle isomers in Ta and W nuclei" P. Walker (Surrey) - "Return of K-Selection at High Spin: Decay of Bandheads in 178W" Y. Shimizu (Kyushu) - "Direct Transitions from High-K Isomers to Low K Bands - Gamma Softness or Coriolis Coupling" AFTERNOON BREAK (3:45) SESSION IV-B (4:15) Chairperson: D. Cline W. Reviol (Univ. of TN) - "Tilted Axis Rotation in odd-odd 164Tm: Successes and Problems" V. Janzen (AECL) - "Properties of Rotational Bands at the Spin Limit in A~50, A~65 and A~110 Nuclei" G. Lane (Stony Brook) - "Excited States in 110Sb and 111Te: Intruders and Smooth Termination" I. Ragnarsson (Lund) - "Rotational Bands Terminating at Maximum Spin in the Valence Space" END OF SESSION IV (5:45) SESSION V-A (Wednesday Morning) 8:30 Chairperson: D.G. Sarantities I.Y. Lee (LBL) - "Status of Development of the Gamma Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA)" F. Beck - "Status of Euroball" J. Garrett (ORNL) - "Near Term Prospects for Radioactive Beams at ORNL" MORNING BREAK (10:00) SESSION V-B (10:30) Chairperson: U. Garg T. Kishida (RIKEN) - "High Spin Isomer Beam Line at RIKEN" C.E. Svensson (McMaster) - "High Spin Spectroscopy Near the N=Z Line: Channel Selection and Excitation Energy Systematics" G. Viesti (Padova) - "Alpha Particles in Coincidence with the Superdeformed Band in 150Tb" M. Devlin (Washington Univ.) - "The Micoball and Gammasphere: Research Highlights and Future Promise" END OF SESSION V (12:10) SESSION VI-A (Thursday Morning) 8:30 Chairperson: W. Nazarewicz G. Hansen (MSU) - "Overview of Nuclei Far From Stability" C. Davids (ANL) - "Proton Radioactivity - A Look at Nuclear Structure Beyond the Proton Drip Line" D.J. Dean (ORNL) - "Shell Model Monte Carlo Calculations Near N=Z" MORNING BREAK (10:30) SESSION VI-B (11:00) Chairperson: M. Thoennessen W. Satula (Warsaw/JIHR) - "Isospin Projected Model with Generalized Pairing Interaction in Application to Rotating Nuclei" M. Lipoglavsek (Uppsala) - "In-Beam Studies of 98,99Cd and 102Sn" D. Seweryniak (ANL) - "First In-Beam Observation of Excited States in 156Hf Using the Recoil-Decay Tagging Method" I. Hamamoto (Lund) - "Collective Properties of Drip-Line Nuclei" END OF SESSION VI SESSION VII-A (Thursday Afternoon) 2:00 Chairperson: A. Baxter S. Hofmann (GSI) - "Discovery of Element 112" N.V. Antonenko (Dubna) - "Synthesis of Superheavy Elements and Dinuclear-System Concept of Compound-Nucleus Formation" S. Mizutori (JIHIR/ORNL) - "High Spin States in Neutron-Rich Nuclei" AFTERNOON BREAK (3:25) SESSION VII-B (3:55) Chairperson: J. Cizewski J. Meng (Munich) - "Relativistic Hartree Bogolyubov Description for Nuclei Near the Drip Line" R.Broda (Cracow) - "New High Spin States and Isomers in the 208Pb and 207 Pb Nuclei" C.T. Zhang (Purdue) - "Yrast Spectroscopy Around Doubly Magic 132Sn" A. Vitturi (Padova/INFN) - "Strength Distributions in the Multipole Response of Weakly-Bound Neutron-Rich Nuclei: Origin of the Low-Lying Component and Its Excitation in Heavy-Ion Collisions" END OF SESSION VII (5:35) SESSION VIII-A (Friday Morning) 8:00 Chairperson: D. Ward J. Durell (Manchester) - "The Nuclear Structure of Neutron-Rich Isotopes with Z from 40-44" J. Cocks (Liverpool) - "Spectroscopy of Reflection-Asymmetric Nuclei Using Multi-Nucleon Transfer Reactions" T. Glasmacher (MSU) - "Deformation in the Neutron Rich Sulfur Isotopes 40S and 42S" MORNING BREAK (9:50) SESSION VIII-B (10:20) Chairperson: D. Fossan D. Radford (AECL) - "Identical Gamma-Vibrational Bands in 165Ho" C.Y. Wu (Rochester) - "Fragmentation of Two-Phonon Gamma Vibration Strength in Deformed Nuclei" W. Younes (Rutgers) - "Onset of Deformation in Polonium Nuclei" R. Julin (Jyväskylä) - "Recent Studies of Heavy Nuclei Far From Stability at JYFL" END OF SESSION VIII (12:00) SESSION IX (Friday Afternoon) 2:00 Chairperson: J. Waddington G. Hagemann (NBI) - "A Multitude of Rotational Bands in 163Er and Their Mutual Interaction" M. Matsuo (Kyoto) - "Shell Model for Warm Rotating Nuclei" A. Bracco (Milano) - "Possible Concervation of K-Quantum Number in Excited Rotating Nuclei" V. Zelevinsky (MSU) - "Nuclear Structure at the Limits of Resolution: Looking through Individual Wave Functions"