National Nuclear Physics Summer School

University Of Washington, Seattle WA

Investigators

Abstract

The National Nuclear Physics Summer School (NNPSS) brings together leading researchers to lecture on their specialties to advanced graduate students and post-doctoral research associates in experimental and theoretical nuclear physics. The overall goal of the NNPSS is to provide students with a reference frame for defining critical problems of nuclear physics and the most useful methods of analysis of the problems. The intent is to broaden the students' appreciation for and interest in the field of nuclear physics, while also strengthening them technically. In bringing students togther from different parts of nuclear physics, the NNPSS also plays an important role in building a nuclear-physics community, i.e. the school often is the first opportunity for young researchers to interact across subfields and to network with their peers. The NNPSS is organized and hosted each year by leading nuclear physicists at major universities and national laboratories. The site of the NNPSS is moved each year so that on average participating students travel similar distances over the lifetime of the schools. The NNPSS is governed by a national steering committee, appointed by the Executive Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society. The Principal Investigators work with the steering committee and with the organizers to facilitate the annual schools.