The lectures take place in 2 separate rooms in Riddick Hall (2401 Stinson Drive):
before 12:30pm in Room 451 , after 12:30pm in Room 301
Sunday, July 15
4:30pm-6:30pm: Welcome reception
Monday, July 16
8:30am: breakfast (assortment bagels, fruit, oatmeal, yogurt, juice, coffee & tea)
9:00am: Physics department overview
Paul Huffman (NC State University, USA)
9:10am: Overview of neutron properties
Brad Filippone (California Institute of Technology, USA)
10:25am: break (assortment of coffee, granola bars, apples, bananas, nuts, cookies, pretzels)
10:45am: Neutron scattering theory and ultracold neutrons
Bob Golub (NC State University, USA)
12:00pm: lunch (sandwich bar)
1:00pm: Neutron optics and novel devices
Stefan Baessler (University of Virginia, USA)
2:15pm: Break (assortment of coffee, granola bars, apples, bananas, nuts, cookies, pretzels)
2:30pm: Polarized neutrons
Hirohiko Shimizu (Nagoya University, Japan)
3:45pm: break (mainly drinks + some snacks out)
4:00pm: Neutron interferometry
Fred Wietfeldt (Tulane University, USA)
5:15pm: Leave for dinner at David's and Dumplings restaurant (10 min walk)
Tuesday, July 17
8:30am: breakfast (catered)
9:00am: Neutron sources: accelerators, reactors, moderators, ultracold neutron sources
Takeyasu Ito (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
10:15am: break
10:45am: Electric dipole moment: theory for experimentalists on the physics of atomic and nuclear EDMs
Stephanie Roccia (Centre de Sciences Nucléaire et de Sciences de la Matière, France)
12:00pm: lunch (catered pizza, dessert, salad)
1:00pm: Neutron electric dipole moment: experimental overview
Kent Leung (NC State University, USA)
2:15pm: break (assortment of coffee, granola bars, apples, bananas, nuts, cookies, pretzels)
2:30pm Other physics we can do with EDM apparatuses or neutrons in general
Beatrice Franke (TRIUMF, Canada)
3:45pm: break (mainly drinks + some snacks out)
4:00pm: Semi-leptonic weak interactions
John Hardy (Texas A&M, USA)
5:15pm: student poster session 1
6:00pm: catered dinner (BBQ, salad)
Wednesday, July 18
8:30am: breakfast
9:00am: Neutron beam decay experiments
Shannon Hoogerheide (National Institute Standards & Technology, USA)
10:15am: break
10:45am: Ultracold neutron bottle lifetime experiments
Steven Clayton (Los Alamos National Lab, USA)
12:00pm: lunch (boxed lunch)
1:00pm: leave for Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab visit (High Intensity Gamma-Ray Source, Tandem accelerator, 35 min drive)
5:00pm: return to accommodation
5:30pm: leave for baseball game excursion (dinner there, 30 min drive)
Thursday, July 19
8:30am: breakfast (catered)
9am: Neutron decay correlations
Brad Plaster (University of Kentucky, USA)
10:15am: break (assortment of coffee, granola bars, apples, bananas, nuts, cookies, pretzels)
10:45am: Neutron simulations: overview of MCNP, McStas & Co, and UCN spin tracking codes
Geza Zsigmond (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)
12:00pm: lunch (Chipotle taco bar)
1:00pm: Hadronic weak interactions
Jason Fry (University of Virginia, USA)
2:15pm: PULSTAR reactor tour (5 min walk)
4:30pm: Student poster session 2
6:00pm: dinner (catered Mediterranean buffet)
Friday, July 20
8:30am: breakfast (donuts, coffee, tea)
9:00am: Neutron spin rotation & other T-reversal searches
Mike Snow (Indiana University, USA)
10:15am: break (assortment of coffee, granola bars, apples, bananas, nuts, cookies, pretzels)
10:30am: Beyond the Standard Model overview with ultralight axion theory
Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky, USA)
12:15pm: lunch (salad bar)
1:15pm: Gravity & short-range interactions
Hartmut Abele (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
2:30pm: break (assortment of coffee, granola bars, apples, bananas, nuts, cookies, pretzels)
2:45pm: Exotic neutron transformations
Leah Broussard (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA)
4:00pm: happy hour (Hillsborough St)
6:00pm: casual eat out dinner (Hillsborough St area)