The organizers feel that many of the discussion leaders have been spending too much time preparing formal presentations and in particular making too many slides -- thus leaving less time for discussion. We are thus instituting a firm rule: NO MORE THAN 12 SLIDES ARE PERMITTED. The purpose of this rule is not to overly constrain you -- it's to give you a better idea of what we expect. We do not expect your talk to be the last word on the subject or a polished seminar. Your presentation is meant to raise some of the key issues, and, ideally, to initiate discussion. If you do not understand something in the paper, say so, and we will talk about it as a group. Feel free to contact the course organizers if you have any questions.

Nuclear lunch will be coordinated this quarter by faculty members Prakash, Carl Brune, Ken Hicks, Paul King, Daniel Phillips, Prakash, Julie Roche, Andreas Schiller and possibly others TBA.

• Measurement of the GMR in the Unstable ⁵⁶Ni Nucleus using the Active Target Maya, C. Monrozeau et al., Nucl. Phys. A788, 182c-187c (2007).
• What can we learn from recent non-relativistic mean field calculations ?, G. Colo, P.F. Bortignon, S. Fracasso, and N. Van Giai, Nucl. Phys. A788, 173c-181c (2007).
• Parity violating measurements of neutron densities, C. J. Horowitz, S. J. Pollock, P. A. Souder, and R. Michaels, Phys. Rev. C 63, 025501 (2001).
• Cooling of neutron stars, C. J. Pethick, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 1133 (1992).
• Elements 116 and 118 Are Discovered, Physics New Update Number 797 #1, October 16, 2006 by Phil Schewe, Ben Stein, and Davide Castelvecchi.
• Laser interferometry for the detection of gravitational waves, Jim Hough and Sheila Rowan, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7 S257-S264 (2005).
• Gravitational Waves from Compact Bodies, Kip S. Thorne, arXiv:gr-qc/9506084v1 (1995).
• Caltech LIGO website
• The Cosmological Baryon Density from the Deuterium-to-Hydrogen Ratio in QSO Absorption Systems: D/H toward Q1243+3047, David Kirkman, David Tytler, Nao Suzuki,John M. O’Meara and Dan Lubin, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 149, 1–28 (2003).

A couple of administrative notes for Ohio University Physics and Astronomy graduate students:

• If you are an upper-level graduate student in Nuclear physics you should sign up for this activity. You do this by registering for 897A. Since 897A is a variable credit class you should register for two credit hours of it (=1 for Wednesday lunch-time and 1 for Tuesday at 4 pm). If you give a talk this quarter you will receive a grade of A for those two credits of 897A.
• If you are a first-year graduate student and you want to come to these meetings you should register for 897A (Nuclear Seminar). If you do this you are not required to attend the regular Tuesday afternoon research seminar---although you are, of course, very welcome if you choose to come on Tuesdays at 4 pm. In consequence first years should sign up for only one credit hour of 897A. Regular attendance on Wednesdays at lunchtime will lead to you receiving a CR for that 1 credit hour.