In the Surrey tradition, we are running this theoretical Mini-school at Surrey to coincide with and take 

advantage of the final visit of Ian Thompson (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) under the 

auspices of an STFC Visiting Researcher Grant. The Mini-school will take place from lunchtime on 

Wednesday 7th January through lunchtime on Friday 9th January and will give an opportunity for UK 

PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to gain an exposure to the theoretical underpinnings of 

reaction methodologies relevant to astrophysical measurements and provide interactions with 

theorists.

Mini-school schedule and links to lecture presentation files:  

Timetable and locations can be found here. The School lectures will take place in room 35AC04

(that is Room 35 on Floor 04 of Building AC ). A campus map can be found here which shows the

location of the AC building in the central academic buildings area. If you arrive early, the coffee room

in the Physics Department is Room 30BB03. If you need assistance then please call Cristobel in the

Physics office on 01483 686800.

Wednesday January 7th: 13.30 – 17.00

13.30 - 15.00 and 15.30 - 17.00: Lectures, (Room: 35AC04)

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee/Discussions

 Topics covered:
 1) Potential models, bound and continuum states (Tostevin, Surrey)

 2) R-matrix methods I (Descouvemont, ULB Belgium)
 

17.00 - 17.30   Topical application, (Room: 35AC04)

 Ed Simpson (Surrey): R-matrix applied to simultaneous data sets

Thursday January 8th: 9.00 – 12.30

9.00 - 10.30 and 11.00 - 12.30: Lectures, (Room: 35AC04)

10.30 - 11.00, Coffee/Discussion

Topics covered:
3) R-matrix methods II (Desouvemont, ULB Belgium)
4) Radiative capture (Timofeyuk, Surrey)
 

13.30 - 15.00 and 15.30 - 17.00: Lectures, (Room: 35AC04)

15.00-15.30 Coffee/Discussions

Topics covered:

5) Distorted wave theories (Thompson, LLNL)

6) Role of breakup in transfer reactions (Johnson, Surrey)

17.00 - 18.00  Topical applications:  (Room: 35AC04)

Wilton Catford (Surrey): What do experimentalists doing transfer really want from friendly theorists?

Natasha Timofeyuk (Surrey): Combined method to extract spectroscopic factors from transfer reactions

19.30 Gathering for curry in Guildford (Delegates support themselves)

Friday January 9th: 9.30 – 13.00

9.30 - 11.00 and 11.30 - 13.00: Lectures, (Room: 35AC04)
11.00 - 11.30, Coffee/Discussion

Topics covered:
7) Fusion reactions (Thompson, LLNL)

8) Breakup and knockout reactions (Tostevin, Surrey)

13.00  Sandwich lunch and end of school (Physics, Room 30BB03)

Local Organizers:

Natasha Timofeyuk      (Room 15BB03)
Jeff Tostevin                 (Room 09BB03)

Physics Office:             (Cristobel Soares-Smith, Room 06BB03)

A list of participants can be found here.

Participation and lodgings:
Anyone wishing to participate, please make your own accommodation arrangements in Guildford. This link 

http://www.guildford.gov.uk/GuildfordWeb/Tourism/WhereStay/

shows contact details for many possibilities. 

* Guildford Travelodge

* Guildford YMCA

* Premier Travel Inn

We will start at 13.30 on the Wednesday to enable most people to travel to Guildford on the day.

Updated 12 January 2009