A large share of its funding comes from the State of Tennessee through the Science Alliance Center of Excellence at the University of Tennessee. Full or partial support is provided to approximately 60 guests each year. During the last five years we have had visitors from 22 states and 19 foreign countries. A distribution of these guests is available.
Visits vary in length from a few days up to a full year.
Thirdly, guests to provide direction and support in the development of the accelerator facility and the experimental devices needed for the planned program have been included in recent years. Many specialized workshops related to the program at the Holifield Facility are sponsored by the Joint Institute. In addition about 15 International Conferences and Symposia have been sponsored over the 12-yr. history of the institute. Many of the symposia have been devoted to discussion of nuclear structure and models to characterize nuclei. Also, conferences related to new and emerging experimental developments in nuclear physics have been sponsored.