Program for Nuclear Structure at the Limits 
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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. Krcken (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 (Jyvskyl) - "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"