Invited talks at conferences and workshops

• Nuclear Structure in the FRIB Era, 2024 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Oct 6 - 10, 2024, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

• In-flight RIB facilities and related instrumentation, Nucleus Nucleus Collision 2024 (NN2024), Aug 18 - 23 2024, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.

• Shell model meets in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy on both sides of the nuclear chart, Celebrating 75 Years of the Nuclear Shell Model and Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Jul 19 - 21 2024, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA.

• DREB2024 Keynote Experiment ... Or the wild things that happened in experimentation with direct reactions over the past 2 years, DREB2024, Jun 24 - 28 2024, Wiesbaden, Germany.

• Overview of RIB facilities in the Americas, EURORIB 2024, Jun 2 - 7 2024, Lommel, Belgium, remote.

• The science of FRIB: From the nuclear manybody challenge to the origin of the elements in the Universe, TESLA Technology Collaboration (TTC) Meeting, Dec 5 - 8 2023, Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA.

• Shell model meets in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy on both sides of the nuclear chart, Nuclear Tapas: The shell model as cornerstone of nuclear structure, Apr 27 - 28 2023, Centuro Cultural "La Corrala", Madrid, Spain.

• FRIB science with GRETINA at FRIB, APS April Meeting (in person), Apr 15 - 18 2023, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

• FRIB status and plans, ISOLDE Workshop, Nov 30 - Dec 2 2022, ISOLDE, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, remote.

• Nuclear Structure Research at NSCL, Celebration of 40 Years of NSCL Research, August 12 2022, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

• Overview of recent advances in experimental capabilities, 15^th International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, July 24 - 29 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, online.

• The science of FRIB: From the nuclear manybody challenge to the origin of the elements in the Universe, Nuclear Structure 2022, June 13 - 17 2022, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.

• Isomers in fast-beam in-flight experiments, FRIB TA Topical Program - Nuclear Isomers in the Era of FRIB, May 9 - 10 2022, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

• Nuclear Structure Studies at NSCL, 2^nd African Nuclear Physics Conference (ANPC), September 20 - 24 2021, South Africa, online.

• The science of FRIB: From the nuclear many-body challenge to the origin of the elements in the Universe, PRC and JPS-DNP Joint Symposium at the Fall JPS Meeting, September 17 2021, Japan, online.

• Hints of correlations beyond effective-interaction theory from HI-induced knockout, Third Workshop on Quantitative Challenges in EMC and SRC Research, March 22 - 26 2021, LNS and EIC Center at Jefferson Lab, online.

• In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of neutron-deficient nuclei - News from the proton-rich side, 2019 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, October 14 - 17 2019, Crystal City, Virginia, USA.

• Recent experimental studies of shell evolution in exotic nuclei, 21^th Colloque GANIL, September 9 - 13 2019, Strasbourg, France.

• Rare isotopes: Probing many-body physics and the origin of the elements, FRIB TA Topical Program - Hadronic electric dipole moments in the FRIB era, August 12 - 23 2019, FRIB, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• Evolution of Nuclear Structure in Exotic Nuclei, 27^th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2019), July 29 - August 2 2019, Glasgow, Scotland.

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast beams of rare isotopes, IV International Conference on Nuclear Structure and Dynamics (NSD2019), May 13 - 17 2019, Venice, Italy.

• Reduction of spectroscopic strength from HI-induced nucleon knockout reactions, 5^th Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the APS and The Physical Society of Japan, October 16 - 20 2018, Kona, Hawaii, USA.

• FRIB: Scientific opportunities and status, 6^th International Workshop on Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics (CNR^*18), September 24 - 28 2018, LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA.

• Recent Results from GRETINA, Nuclear Structure 2018, August 6 - 10 2018, NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• Heavy-ion induced knockout reactions - Overview, Direct reactions and nuclear structure: The need for a consistent theoretical treatment of structure and reactions, EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force, July 30 - August 4 2018, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.

• Nuclear Structure from Direct Reactions and Discovery of ⁶⁰Ca, Workshop on Nuclear structure and Reactions for the 2020s, July 2 - 6 2018, GANIL, Caen, France.

• Short-range correlations in nuclei, 13^th Conference on the Intersection of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP), May 29 - June 3 2018, Palm Springs, California, USA.

• News on the nuclear structure of neutron-rich nuclei at and beyond N=28, Ito International Research Center (IIRC) symposium, "Perspectives of the Physics of Nuclear Structure", Nov 1 - 4 2017, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nuclear Science at NSCL and prospects for FRIB, International School of Nuclear Physics, 39^th Course, Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro-, Particle- and Nuclear Physics, September 16 - 24 2017, Erice/Sicily, Italy

• Experimental studies of the continuum in nuclei, ECT* Workshop on "Open Quantum Systems: From atomic nuclei to ultracold atoms and quantum optics", July 10 - 14 2017, Trento, Italy.

• Rare Isotopes: Probing many-body physics and the origin of the elements, Fifth Conference on Nuclei and Mesoscopic Systems, March 06 - 10 2017, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• Recent accomplishments in nuclear structure research with rare isotopes and future challenges, Sixth international conference on fission and properties of neutron-rich nuclei, November 06 - 12 2016, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

• Nuclear structure at N = 29: The structure of ⁴⁷Ar and first spectroscopy of ⁴⁵S, 26^th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2016), September 11 - 16 2016, Adelaide, Australia.

• The FRIB project and prospects for gamma-ray spectroscopy, NUSPIN 2016 Workshop of the Nuclear Spectroscopy Instrumentation Network and AGATA Physics Workshop, June 27 - July 1 2016, San Servolo, Venice, Italy.

• Nuclear Science prospects with FRIB, 2016 JLab Users Group Meeting, June 20-22 2016, Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia, USA

• Radioactive beam experiments and exotic isotopes, 614^th Heraeus Seminar on Few-Body Physics, April 18-20 2016, Physics Center, Bad Honnef, Germany

• In-beam γ-ray spectroscpy at NSCL/MSU, Physics with fragment separators - 25^th anniversary of RIKEN Projectile Fragment Separator (RIPS25), December 6-7 2015, Shonan Village Center, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan.

• Nuclear Spectroscopy with fast beams of rare isotopes, Szymanski Prize award lecture at the 34^th Mazurian Lake Conference on Physics, September 6-13 2015, Piaski, Poland.

• Hosting GRETINA at NSCL for science campaigns beyond 2016, GRETINA Users Workshop, August 22 2015, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• In-beam γ-ray spectroscopy with fast beams of rare isotopes, PvB 80 - Three generations, Symposium in honor of Peter von Brentano, May 28 2015, Institut fuer Kernphysik, Koeln, Germany.

• Science opportunities at FRIB with fast beams of rare isotopes, Workshop for Scientific Collaboration in Nuclear Science, May 14-15 2015, FRIB, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams ...or puzzles in the region around N=28 from ⁴⁸Ca over ⁴⁶Ar to ⁴²Si, International Collaborations on Nuclear Theory (ICNT): Theory for open-shell nuclei near the limits of stability, May 11-29 2015, NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• Nuclear structure studies with fast beams at NSCL ... or the Si isotopic chain revisited, Progress in nuclear shell-model calculations in CNS-RIKEN collaboration, November 26-28 2014, RIKEN Wako Campus, Japan.

• The GRETINA science campaign at NSCL, EGAN 2014, June 23-26 2014, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany.

• The FRIB benchmarks and the science case for GRETA, GRETA/GRETINA Advisory Committee and User Executive Committee Meeting on the Future of GRETA, June 10-11 2014, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA.

• In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy with GRETINA at NSCL, Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science (ARIS 2014), June 1-6 2014, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nuclear structure studies far East and out West on the nuclear chart, 11^th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics Shell Model and Nuclear Structure: Achievements of the past two decades in honor of Aldo Covello, May 12-16 2014, Ischia, Italy.

• Nuclear structure around N=40 from in-beam spectroscopy at NSCL, Workshop on "The structure of ⁶⁸Ni: Current knowledge and open questions", April 22-23 2014, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

• Quadrupole collectivity in neutron-deficient Sn isotopes, APS April meeting, April 5-8 2014, Savannah, Georgia, USA.

• The GRETINA science campaign at MSU, 2^nd Topical Workshop on Modern Aspects in Nuclear Structure, February 19 - 22 2014, Bormio, Italy.

• The GRETINA science campaign at NSCL and FRIB update, ISOLDE workshop, November 25 - 27 2013, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Science opportunities with GRETA at FRIB, Low-energy Community Meeting, August 23 - 24 2013, NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• Single-particle strengths, spectroscopic factors and effective single-particle energies from experiment, ECT* Workshop on "Nuclear Structure and Astrophysical Applications", July 08 - 12 2013, Trento, Italy.

• Proposed second science campaign at NSCL, "Workshop on the future of GRETINA", March 01 - 02 2013, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA.

• In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy with fast exotic beams, "Fourth international conference on fission and properties of neutron-rich nuclei", November 04 - 10 2012, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams ... or news on N=28 from recent NSCL measurements, International Symposium on Exotic Nuclear Structure from Nucleons (ENSFN 2012 - In honor of Takaharu Otsuka), October 10 - 12 2012, Koshiba Hall, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nuclear science with rare-isotope beams - the neutron dripline, US-Korea Conference on Science (UKC 2012), Technology and Entrepreneurship, August 8 - 11 2012, Los Angeles, California, USA.

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams, Nobel Symposium NS152 - Physics with radioactive beams, June 10 - 15 2012, Goeteborg, Sweden.

• Nuclei at the limits of stability, 11^th Conference on the Intersection of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP), May 28 - June 3 2012, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams, Annual UK Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Meeting, April 2 - 4 2012, Brighton, UK.

• Nuclear structure from reactions with fragmentation beams, 14^th Symposium on Capture Gamma-ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics (CGS14), August 28 - September 2 2011, University of Guleph, Guelph, Canada.

• Nucleon knockout experiments, 7^th ANL/INT/JINA/MSU annual FRIB workshop on "Interfaces between nuclear reactions and structure", August 8 - 12 2011, Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT), University of Washington, Washington, USA.

• Nuclear structure and reactions, IX Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, July 18 - 22 2011, Escuela Politecnica Nacional, La Floresta, Quito, Ecuador.

• Testing ab-initio structure calculations with knockout reactions on light p-shell nuclei, ECT* Workshop on "Continuum and correlations in light nuclei", June 6 - 10 2011, Trento, Italy.

• Shell evolution towards N=40 in Cr and Fe nuclei, Waltzing to the nuclear limits - A symposium in honor of Lee Riedinger, February 25 - 27 2011, Sea Pines Resort, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA.

• In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy towards the drip lines, International Nuclear Physics conference (INPC 2010), July 4 - 9 2010, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

• Probing the evolution of shell structure with in-beam spectroscopy, EFES-NSCL workshop on "Perspectives on the modern shell model and related experimental topics", February 4 - 6 2010, East Lansing, MI, USA.

• In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy towards the nucleon drip lines, 3rd Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the APS and The Physical Society of Japan, October 13 - 17 2009, Kona, Hawaii, USA.

• In-beam spectroscopy at the intersection of nuclear structure and reactions, ECT* Workshop on "Confrontation and Convergence in Nuclear Theory", July 27 - 31, 2009, Trento, Italy.

• Nuclear structure and reaction studies toward the driplines, Gordon Research Conference on Nuclear Chemistry 2009, June 21 - 24 2009, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, USA.

• At the intersection of nuclear structure and reactions, 8th Conference on Radioactive Nuclear Beams (RNB8), May 26-30 2009, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

• Experiments in the proximity of the nucleon driplines, International Symposium on Heavy Ion Physics 2008, November 17-20 2008, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany.

• Experiments on knockout of deeply bound nucleons using Be targets, "1st international workshop on quasi-free scattering with radioactive ion beams" (QFS-RB 08), ECT*, April 7 - 11 2008, Trento, Italy.

• Nucleon-knockout reactions and intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation experiments with the S800 spectrograph, TORIJIN-EFES-NSCL joint workshop on "Future prospects for spectroscopy and direct reactions", February 26 - 28 2008, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• In-beam nuclear spectroscopy at the NSCL, International workshop XXXVI on "Gross properties of nuclei and nuclear excitations - Modern aspects in nuclear structure and reactions", January 13 - 19 2008, Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria.

• In-beam gamma-spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei at NSCL, "Fourth international conference on fission and properties of neutron-rich nuclei", November 11 - 17 2007, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

• Nuclear structure studies with fast exotic beams, ECT* workshop on "Advanced Many-body Methods for Nuclear Structure", July 2 - 6 2007, Trento, Italy.

• Evolution of nuclear structure in the vicinity of the Island of Inversion, Symposium to celebrate the contributions of John A. Becker to "Excellence in Basic and Applied Science", EBANS07, June 25 - 26 2007, Monterey, California, USA.

• Nuclear structure studies with fast exotic beams, Canadian Association of Physicists Annual Congress, June 17 - 20 2007, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.

• Evolution of shell structure near the neutron dripline, ECT* workshop on "Experiment-Theory Intersections in Modern Nuclear Structure", April 23 - 27 2007, Trento, Italy.

• Nuclear structure studies with fast exotic beams, 2006 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, October 25 - 28 2006, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

• Coulomb excitation of fast exotic beams, 19th International Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, CAARI2006, August 20-25 2006, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

• Nuclear structure studies in the vicinity of N=28, Nuclear Structure 2006, July 24 - 28 2006, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams, Pacifichem 2005, December 15 - 20 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

• Wavefunction-spectroscopy with rare isotope beams, 2005 2nd Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the APS and The Physical Society of Japan, Haw05, September 18 - 22 2005, Maui, Hawaii, USA.

• Intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation at the NSCL, NSCL's User Workshop 2005, August 18-20 2005, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• What are the physical occupancies of single-particle orbits?, Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams, DREB2005, June 22 - 25 2005, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams, International Symposium on Correlation Dynamics in Nuclei - on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Configuration Mixing Theory of Arima and Horie, CDN05, January 31 - February 4 2005, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan [published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 20 (2005) 95].

• Spectroscopic factors in exotic nuclei, The Fourth International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses, ENAM'04, September 12-16 2004, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA [published in: Eur. Phys. J. A direct (2005)].

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams, XXXIX Zakopane School of Physics, International Symposium, Atomic nuclei at extreme values of temperature, spin and isospin, August 31 - September 5 2004, Zakopane, Poland.
• One-neutron knockout on proton rich nuclei, NSCL's User Workshop 2003, September 27-28 2003, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

• Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams, Gordon Research Conference 2003, June 15-20 2003, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, USA.

• Kernspektroskopie im schnellen exotischen Strahl, Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft 2003, March 17-21 2003, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.