 | D. Allan Bromley |
The future of nuclear physics will be explored in a symposium being held on campus Thursday and Friday, Dec. 8 and 9, in honor of D. Allan Bromley, a renowned nuclear physicist, former Sterling Professor of the Sciences at Yale, and former dean of Yale Engineering who died in February 2005.
The event will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday with a welcome by President Richard C. Levin and introductory remarks by Francesco Iachello, the J.W. Gibbs Professor of Physics and professor of chemistry. There will also be videotaped remarks from President George H.W. Bush. Bromley had served under Bush as the first assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Sessions throughout the morning will explore the topics "Science Policy: For Show or For Effect," "Technology Policy: From Bromley to 2005," "Allan Bromley, Civic Scientist" and "Science and Policy."
The titles of afternoon sessions are "Simplicity and Complexity in the Nuclear Many-Body System: A Perspective on Nuclear Structure Physics," "Precise Electro-Weak Studies: An Essential Component of the World-Wide Nuclear Physics Program," "Evidence for a Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC," "Quests in Nuclear Astrophysics" and "Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics."
The symposium session on the morning of December 8 will be held in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven. Those on the afternoon of December 8 and morning of December 9 will be in Davies Auditorium of Becton Center, 15 Prospect Street, New Haven.
Friday's events will begin at 9 a.m. and will explore the topics "Nuclei and Hadrons: Perspectives for Europe," "Future Paths of Low-Energy Nuclear Physics in the U.S.," "Future of Nuclear Physics in Japan," "Future of High-Energy Nuclear Physics in Europe" and "Future of High-Energy Nuclear Physics in the U.S." All events will take place in Davies Auditorium of Becton Center, 15 Prospect St.
All sessions are free and open to the public. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.eng.yale.edu/Bromley-Symposium.htm.
Bromley was founder and director of the A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale from 1963 to 1989. Considered the father of modern heavy ion science, he conducted studies on both the structure and dynamics of atomic nuclei. He was a leader in the national and international science and science policy communities, serving as chair of the National Academy of Science's Physics Survey and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the International Union of Pure of Applied Physics. President George H.W. Bush appointed him to the Cabinet-level rank of assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1989. He held those posts until 1993. He had also served as a member of the White House Science Council during the Reagan administration. Bromley's many awards included the 1988 National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor awarded by the United States.
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