Nuclear Astrophysics Senimars at Notre Dame, Spring 2015

Nuclear Astrophysics Seminars at Notre Dame

Spring 2015

Topic	Date	Speaker
Investigation of transitional rare earth nuclei using light ion reactions: Nuclear Structure and Surrogates	January 19	Prof. Cornelius Beausang University of Richmond
Stellar Neutron Sources and s-Process in Massive Stars	January 26	Rashi Talwar University of Notre Dame
Low energy nuclear physics research at LLNL	February 3	Dr. Jason Burke Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Measurement of the plasma astrophysical S factor for the ³He(d, p)⁴He reaction in exploding molecular clusters	February 9	Dr. Marina Barbui Texas A&M University
Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies Relevant to Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay	February 16	Dr. Benjamin Crider NSCL/MSU
Study of fission dynamics and nuclear viscosity using particle emission as a probe	February 23	Dr. Yogesh Gupta University of Notre Dame
Proton-capture reactions in thermonuclear supernovae and the p process	February 26	Dr. Kerstin Sonnabend Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Beta decay of deformed nuclei with the proton-neutron finite amplitude method	March 2	Thomas Shafer University of North Carolina
*Spring Break*	March 9
Jet Modification and the Question of Quark Gluon Plasma in Small Collision Systems	March 16	Prof. Justin Frantz Ohio University
Optically Probing Nuclei Trapped in Cryogenic Solids: Opportunities for Nuclear Physics	March 30	Prof. Jaideep Singh NSCL/MSU
*Easter Break*	April 6
The TITAN facility at TRIUMF: precision experiments with ion traps	April 13	Dr. Ania Kwiatkowski TRIUMF, Canada
Covariant density functional theory: the journey across three-dimensional nuclear landscape	April 20	Prof. Anatoli Afanasjev Mississippi State University
The photonuclear cross section of Boron-10 from the No Core Shell Model	April 27	Dr. Michael Kruse Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Shell model nuclear level densities and applications in nuclear astrophysics	May 4	Prof. Mihai Horoi Central Michigan University
Experimental measurement of ¹⁶O+¹²C fusion at stellar energies	May 11	Xiao Fang University of Notre Dame
Electromagnetic processes in few-nucleon systems with the Chiral Effective Field Theory	May 18	Dr. Dagmara Rozpedzik Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
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