CHE-361 LECTURE COURSE SCHEDULE
NUCLEAR AND RADIOCHEMISTRY SUMMER SCHOOL - 2009

Date Time Activity Professor

Week One

Monday
June, 15 		2:30pm Lecture: Introduction (Ch 1)

  • Nuclear Chem - A Historical
        Perspective

  • Basic Concepts

  • Particle Physics Concepts
    		•  Prof. Paul Mantica
    Michigan State University
    Department of Chemistry
    Email:  Mantica@msu.edu
    Tuesday
    June, 16     		9:00am Radiation Safety Training (Location TBD) Prof. Paul Mantica
    1:30am Lecture: Nuclear Properties (Ch 2)

  • Nuclear masses
  • Nuclear moments
    • Wednesday
    June, 17     		8:30am Lecture: Theory of Alpha Decay (Ch 7)

  • Alpha Decay Energetics
  • Alpha Decay Theory
  • Proton Decay
    		•  Prof. Paul Mantica
    1:30pm Radiation Safety Training (Location TBD)
    Thursday
    June, 18     		8:30am Lecture: Beta and Gamma Decay
    Characteristics (Ch 8 & 9)

  • Beta Decay Energetics
  • Beta Decay Rates
  • Gamma Decay


    • Building Level Schemes     		Prof. Paul Mantica
    Friday
    June, 19     		8:30am Exam Review Prof. Paul Mantica
    10:00am Exam 1
    2:00pm  Special Topic Seminar:
    14C dating     		Dr. Garman Harbottle
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Chemistry Dept.
    Email:   garman@bnl.gov
    3:30pm Term Paper Discussion (after seminar)
    Week Two
    Monday
    June, 22     		9:00am Lecture: Decay Kinetics
    (Ch 3) Decay and Dating

  • Activities, and first order reactions
  • Consecutive decays, and special equilibrium conditions
  • Nuclear dating methods (U238, age of universe)
    		•  Prof. David Robertson
    University of Missouri, Columbia
    Department of Chemistry
    Email:  RobertsonJo@missouri.edu
    Tuesday
    June, 23     		8:30am Lecture: Interactions of Radiation with Matter
    (Ch 17) Charged Gammas

  • Homework review
  • Heavy ion interactions with matter
  • Electron interactions with matter
  • Electromagnetic interactions with matter
    		•  Prof. David Robertson
    1:30am Trip to SBU for ID’s and Library Research
    Wednesday
    June, 24     		8:30am Lecture: IRM Day 2 (Ch 17) Neutron

  • Homework review
  • Neutron interactions with matter
  • Radiation and health
    		•  Prof. David Robertson
    Thursday
    June, 25     		8:30am Lecture: Radiation Detectors (Ch 18) Instrumentation

  • Homework review
  • Radiation detectors I
  • Radiation detectors II
  • Imaging methods
    		•  Prof. David Robertson
    Friday
    June, 26

    		 8:30am Review Prof. David Robertson
    9:30am Exam 2 Dr. Steve Musolino
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Email:  Musolino@bnl.gov
    3:00am Special topic Seminar: TBA

    Term Paper Final Selection
    Week Three
    Monday
    June, 29    		 8:30am Lecture: Atomic Structure 1

  • Simple models
  • Fermi gas model
  • Nucleon-nucleon interactions
  • NN systems, structure of the deuteron, NN isobaric spin multiplets, symmetries
    		•  Prof. Jiangyong Jia
    SUNY Stony Brook
    Department of Chemistry
    Phone: (631) 632-7905
    Email: jjia@bnl.gov
    Tuesday
    June, 30     		8:30am Lecture: Atomic Structure 2

  • Nuclear shells, LS interactions, simple predictions
  • Nuclear harmonic oscillator, Deformed oscillator, Nillson
  • Pairing interactions
    		•  Prof. Jiangyong Jia
    Wednesday
    July, 1     		8:30am Lecture: Formalisms – Transformation and Symmetries

  • Symmetry operations
  • Spherical tensors
  • Applications of angular momentum transfer
    		•  Prof. Jiangyong Jia
    Thursday
    July, 2     		8:30am Lecture: Collective models of the nucleus

  • Rotational model
  • Nuclear vibrations
  • Giant resonances
    		• Prof. Jiangyong Jia
    2:00pm RHIC TOUR
    Friday
    July, 3    		 8:30am Exam Review
    9:30am Exam 3
    Week Four
    Monday
    July, 6     		9:00am Isotopes in the Environment:
    Instrumentation Developments

  • ICP Mass Spectrometry
  • Neutron-gamma prompt spectroscopy
    		•  Prof. Mike Ketterer
    N. Arizona University
    Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Email: Michael.Ketterer@nau.edu

    Dr. Lucian Wielopolski
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Division of Environmental Sciences
    Email: lwielo@bnl.gov
    4:00am Term Paper Outline Due
    Tuesday
    July, 7     		9:00am Morning session: use of radiotracers to study environmental process Prof. Huan Feng
    Montclair State University
    Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
    Email: fengh@montclair.edu

    Prof. Laodong Guo
    University of Southern Mississippi
    Department of Marine Science
    Email: guo@iarc.uaf.edu

    2:00pm Afternoon session: remediation of radioactive contaminants Prof. Lynn Francesconi
    Hunter College
    Department of Chemistry
    Email: lfrances@hunter.cuny.edu

    Dr. A. J. Francis
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Environmental Science Division
    Email: ajfrancis@bnl.gov
    Wednesday
    July, 8     		9:00am Topics on Medical Isotope Production Dr. Len Mansner
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Medical Department
    Email: lmausner@bnl.gov

    Dr. David Schlyer
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Medical Department
    Email: schlyer@bnl.gov
    11:00am BLIP Tour
    Thursday
    July, 9     		9:00am Basics in Radiochemistry

  • Radiofluorination using 18F
  • Radiochemistry using radiometals
  • Radiochemistry using 11C
  • Labeling of nanoparticles
    		•  Prof. Mike Kilbourn
    U. Michigan

    Prof. Paul Benny
    Washington State University
    Email: bennyp@wsu.edu

    Dr. J. Hooker
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Email: hooker@bnl.gov

    Dr. Dimitri Medvedev
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Email: dmedvede@bnl.gov

    Dr. Paul Vaska
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Email: Vaska@bnl.gov
    2:00pm Medical Imaging Instrumentation
    Friday
    July, 10     		8:00 Field Trip to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Dr. John Huhm (host)
    Week Five
    Monday
    July, 13     		8:30am Lecture: Mechanics and Models of Nuclear Reactions (Ch 10)

  • Models of nuclear scattering
  • Energetics: Kinematics, Q, thresholds and barriers
  • Properties: Potential scattering, trajectories, cross sections and   conservation
  • Other scattering: Rutherford, elastic
  • The compound nucleus
  • Photonuclear reactions
  • Characteristics of heavy-ion reactions:
    Coulombic excitation, transfer reactions, fusion and fission
  • High energy reactions: Spallation/fragmentation, quark - gluon plasma
    		•  Prof. Paul Karol
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Department of Chemistry
    Email:pk03@andrew.cmu.edu
    Tuesday
    July, 14     		8:30am Lecture: Fission Processes (Ch 11)

  • Probability
  • Product distributions
  • Excitation energy of products
  • Dynamic properties of products
    		•  Paul Karol
    2:00pm Special Topics Seminar:
    Using radioisotopes in plant science         		Dr. Richard Ferrieri
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Medical Department
    Email:rferrieri@bnl.gov
    Wednesday
    July, 15     		8:30am Lecture: Nuclear Reactions in Nature (Ch 12)

  • Stellar
  • Atmospheric
  • Oklo
    		•  Paul Karol
    1:00pm Field Trip to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    Thursday
    July, 16     		8:30am Lecture: Reactors and Accelerators (Ch 14)

  • Fission
  • Fusion
  • Linear
  • Cyclotrons
  • Synchrotrons
    		•  Paul Karol
    3:00pm Special Topics Seminar:
    Nucleosynthesis         		Dr. Mingfang Yeh
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Chemistry Department
    Email:yeh@bnl.gov
    Friday
    July, 17     		8:30am Review
    		 Paul Karol
    10:00am Exam 4
    2:00pm Special topics Seminars:
    Solar Neutrinos and stories about the Manhattan Project


    Term Papers Due by end of day!!
    		 Dr. Dick Hahn
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Chemistry Department
    Email:hahn1@bnl.gov

    Dr. Gerhart Friedlander
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Chemistry Department
    Email:gfriedlander@msn.com
    Week Six
    Monday
    July 20     		8:30am Lecture: Reactor chemistry

  • Reactor chemistry
  • Nuclear fuel cycle
  • Actinide Chemistry
    		•  Prof. Ken Czerwinski
    University of Nevada
    Las Vegas Department of Chemistry
    Phone: 702-895-0501
    Email: czerwin2@unlv.nevada.edu
    2:00pm Special Topics Workshop:
    Applying to Graduate School         		Jolie Cizewski
    Rutgers University
    Dean of Graduate Studies
    Email: Cizewski@physics.rutgers.edu
    Tuesday
    July, 21     		8:30am Lecture:

  • Waste processing
    		•  Ken Czerwinski
    2:00pm Tour of NSLS Environmental Beamlines Dr. Jeff Fitts
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Environmental Science Division
    Email: fitts@bnl.gov
    Wednesday
    July, 22     		8:30am Lecture:

  • Open Topic-students pick
    		•  Ken Czerwinski
    Thursday
    July, 23     		8:30am Student Presentations - BLDG 490
    (Large Conference Room)    		  
    Friday
    July, 24     		8:30am Career and Educational Opportunities Symposium - BLDG 490 Various Speakers


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