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Program

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)