XXXV Symposium on Nuclear Physics
Authors: Padilla-Rodal E , Bijker R 
Published: September 2012

The XXXV Symposium on Nuclear Physics was held at Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc, Morelos, Mexico from January 3–6 2012.

Conceived in 1978 as a small meeting, over the years and thanks to the efforts of various organizing committees, the symposium has become a well known international conference on nuclear physics. To the best of our knowledge, the Mexican Symposium on Nuclear Physics represents the conference series with longest tradition in Latin America and one of the longest-running annual nuclear physics conferences in the world.

The Symposium brings together leading scientists from all around the world, working in the fields of nuclear structure, nuclear reactions, physics with radioactive ion beams, hadronic physics, nuclear astrophysics, neutron physics and relativistic heavy-ion physics. Its main goal is to provide a relaxed environment where the exchange of ideas, discussion of new results and consolidation of scientific collaboration are encouraged.

To celebrate the 35th edition of the symposium 53 colleagues attended from diverse countries including: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia and USA. We were happy to have the active participation of Eli F Aguilera, Eduardo Andrade, Octavio Castaños, Alfonso Mondragón, Stuart Pittel and Andrés Sandoval who also participated in the first edition of the Symposium back in 1978. We were joined by old friends of Cocoyoc (Stuart Pittel, Osvaldo Civitarese, Piet Van Isacker, Jerry Draayer and Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri) as well as several first time visitors that we hope will come back to this scientific meeting in the forthcoming years.

The scientific program consisted of 33 invited talks, proposed by the international advisory committee, which nicely covered the topics of the Symposium giving a balanced perspective between the experimental and the theoretical work that is currently underway in each line of research. Fifteen posters complemented the scientific sessions giving the opportunity for Mexican students to present their current research and interact with the visiting scientists.

The present volume contains 21 research articles based on invited talks presented at the symposium. We cannot thank enough to all the authors for their enthusiastic contribution, to the anonymous referees for the time they devoted to the review process, which helped us to maintain the high standard of the Conference Proceedings. Finally we would like to thank the International Advisory Committee and the Sponsoring Organizations that made this event possible.

E Padilla-Rodal and R Bijker
Editors

International Advisory Committee
Osvaldo Civitarese, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Jerry P Draayer, Louisiana State University, USA
Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Paulo Gomes, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Piet Van Isacker, GANIL, France
James J Kolata, University of Notre Dame, USA
Reiner Krücken, TRIUMF, Canada
Jorge López, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Stuart Pittel, University of Delaware, USA
W Michael Snow, Indiana University, USA
Adam Szczepaniak, Indiana University, USA
Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame, USA

Organizing Committee
Elizabeth Padilla-Rodal (Chair), Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico
Roelof Bijker, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico

Sponsoring Organizations
División de Física Nuclear, SMF
Dirección General de Asuntos de Personal Académico, UNAM
Centro Latino-Americano de Física
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM
Instituto de Física, UNAM
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares