The International Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics in Heavy-Ion Reactions (IWND2012) was held in Shenzhen, China, Dec. 17 – 19th, 2012. This is the 3rd edition of this series workshop. The 1st one was held in Beijing, 2007 and the 2nd was in Shanghai, 2009. The purpose of the series workshop is to exchange information with international and domestic experts on nuclear dynamics and to focus on some current hot topics in this field. More than 80 physicists from 30 institutions participated in 2012 workshop and 42 of them gave talks which covered a large variety of hot topics, including nuclear reaction dynamics and isospin effected in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate and high energies, the equation of state of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter and many-body approaches, especially the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy and the structure of neutron stars, the phase transition of strongly interacting matter, especially the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition and the QCD deconfinement transition from hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma, and reaction mechanism for synthesis of superheavy elements. These talks demonstrated that significant progress had been made in recent years both experimentally and theoretically while there were still a number of questions remaining open in the field. Furthermore, active and fruitful discussions were made on the experimental opportunities in some large-scale scientific facilities and possible international collaborations in these areas.
We thank all the speakers and participants for their valuable talks and lively discussions. We are grateful to the International Advisory Committee and the Local Organizing Committee of the workshop for their valuable opinions and suggestions. We would like to express our deepest appreciation to Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beijing Normal University, Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (CCAST), Peking University and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for their financial support. Also, this workshop was supported by the Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA). Finally, our special thanks are to the staffs and students of Shenzhen University and Heavy-Ion Reaction Group at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics for their tireless assistance and wonderful service during the conference.
Yu-Gang Ma, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chair
Liw-Wen Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Co-chair
Feng-Shou Zhang, Beijing Normal University, Co-chair
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
International Advisory Committee
B. Borderie | (IPN, Orsay, France) |
B. A. Li | (Texas A&M -Commerce, USA) |
J. B. Natowitz | (Texas A&M, USA) |
H. Sakurai | (RIKEN, Japan) |
W. Q. Shen | (SINAP, China & NSFC) |
M.B. Tsang | (MSU, USA) |
G. Q. Xiao | (IMP, China) |
Y. L. Ye | (Peking U., China & ANPhA) |
W. L. Zhan | (CAS, China) |
H. Q. Zhang | (CIAE, China) |
Local Organizing Committee (China)
Yu-Gang Ma (Chairman) | Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, CAS |
Lie-Wen Chen (Co-Chairman) | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Feng-Shou Zhang(Co-Chairman) | Beijing Normal University |
De-Qing Fang (Secretary) | Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, CAS |
Chen Zhong (Coordinator) | Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, CAS |
Feng Liu | Central China Normal University |
Wei-Ping Liu | China Institute of Atomic Energy |
Zhong-Zhou Ren | Nanjing University |
Jian-Song Wang | Institute of Modern Physics, CAS |
Zhi-Gang Xiao | Tsinghua University |
Fu-Rong Xu | Peking University |
Qun Wang | University of Science and Technology of China |
Nan Wang | Shenzhen University |
Hui-Bin Sun | Shenzhen University |