Seminars and Lectures

Electromagnetic structure of light nuclei from-EFT

Saori Pastore, Argonne National Lab
Tuesday, January 10, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room
Please note the special location.

Starting the New Year: FRIB Overview

Donna Donovan, MSU FRIB
Wednesday, January 11, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The "perfectly" fluid Quark-Gluon Plasma: from RHIC to LHC

Julia Velkowska, Vanderbilt
Wednesday, January 11, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

“Chemistry of the Heaviest Elements”

Scott Suchyta, NSCL
Thursday, January 12, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special location.

Relativistic many-body models: spectral properties of exotic nuclei

Elena Litvinova, GSI
Wednesday, January 18, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Measuring the Magnetic Moment of ⁵⁷Cu Using In-Gas-Cell Laser Spectroscopy

Anthony Schneider, NSCL
Thursday, January 19, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

From Concept to Market: Commercialization of Academic Research

Ray DeVito, MSU Technologies
Thursday, January 19, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Response to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Emergency

David Bowman, NNSA/DOE
Wednesday, January 25, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Recent Results in Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay

Nicole Larson, NSCL
Thursday, January 26, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Cancelled

Pavel Denisenkov, University of Victoria, Canada
Thursday, January 26, 12:30 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at the Intensity Frontier

Carl Bromberg, MSU Physics & Astronomy
Thursday, January 26, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Nuclear Reactions in the Crusts of Accreting Neutron Stars

Kit Yu (Rita) Lau, MSU NSCL
Monday, January 30, 2:30 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Microscopic description of weakly-bound/unbound nuclei

Jimmy Rotureau, Chalmers University
Tuesday, January 31, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Status of the Re-Accelerator Project

Georgios Perdikakis, MSU NSCL
Wednesday, February 1, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Making sense of scheme-dependent observables

Dick Furnstahl, Ohio State University
Wednesday, February 1, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

First observation of ground state di-neutron decay: 16Be

Artemis Spyrou, NSCL
Thursday, February 2, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

MicroTCA Based Low Level RF System at SLAC

Zheqiao Geng, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Monday, February 6, 2:30 PM -
West Conference Room

Three nucleon forces and the structure of exotic nuclei

Jason Holt, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Tuesday, February 7, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

New Searches for the Neutron EDM

Brad Fillipone, Caltech
Wednesday, February 8, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Evolution of structure in exotic nuclei and its symmetry, - from lifetime measurements at NSCL

Hironori Iwasaki, NSCL
Thursday, February 9, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Current-Perpenduclar-to-Plane (CPP) Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) Studies at MSU

Jack Bass, MSU
Thursday, February 9, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

The European Spallation Source & the Challenge of Designing Its Cryomodules.

Wolfgang Hees, The European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden
Monday, February 13, 1:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special time and location.

A Many-Body Approach to Nuclear Structure

Alexandros Gezerlis, University of Washington
Tuesday, February 14, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Title to be announced

John Novak, MSU - NSCL
Tuesday, February 14, 4:00 PM -
Nuclear Conference Room

Study of Particle Ratio Fluctuations and Charge Balance Functions at RHIC

Hui Wang, MSU NSCL
Wednesday, February 15, 10:30 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Lead Radius Experiment and Neutron Rich Matter

C. J. Horowitz, Indiana University and MSU
Wednesday, February 15, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Competitiveness through Systematic Mentoring: The Model of the Timbuktu Academy

Diola Bagayoko, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge
Thursday, February 16, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Putting on Blurry Glasses: Nuclei and Nuclear Matter at Low Resolution

Scott Bogner, MSU NSCL
Thursday, February 16, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Critical reactions in the Neutrino=p-Process

Carla Froehlich, North Carolina State University
Wednesday, February 22, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Testing formalisms for deuteron induced reactions

Neelam Upadhyay, NSCL
Thursday, February 23, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

America's Climate Choices: Reflections on Assessing the State of the Science

Thomas Dietz, MSU
Thursday, February 23, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

PROGRESS WITH ISAC LOW INTENSITY DIAGNOSTICS Abstract

Victor Verzilov, TRIUMF
Wednesday, February 29, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

LEBIT Phase II: Developments and Recent Mass Measurements

Matt Redshaw, NSCL
Thursday, March 1, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Nucleosynthesis beyond iron in core-collapse supernovae and the r-process

Almudena Arcones, GSI Darmstadt
Monday, March 5, 12:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

It's a Trap! (Tricks we play on ions at the LEBIT facility)

Ryan Ringle, MSU NSCL
Wednesday, March 7, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Title: Evolution of shell structure in neutron-rich isotopes

Morten Hjorth-Jensen, NSCL, University of Oslo
Thursday, March 15, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Large Binocular Telescope - A New Era in Ground-Based Astronomy and Technological Innovation

Richard Green, Mount Graham International Observatory
Thursday, March 15, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Searching for the origin of the non-perturbative sea of the proton

Donald Geesaman , Argonne National Laboratory
Friday, March 16, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special time and location.

Stellar carbon astration: past, present, and future investigations of 12C(α,γ)16O

Claudio Ugalde, University of Chicago, Argonne National Lab
Monday, March 19, 12:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Development of 2G HTS Coils and Solenoids

Yuko Shiroyanagi, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Monday, March 19, 3:00 PM -
NSCL Seminar Room
Please note the special time.

In-medium similarity renormalization group for doubly-closed and open-shell nuclei

Koshiroh Tsukiyama, University of Tokyo
Tuesday, March 20, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

DAEdALUS: A novel approach to the search for CP violation in the neutrino sector

Janet Conrad, MIT
Wednesday, March 21, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Testing elementary quantum mechanics with nuclear beta decay

Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic, NSCL
Thursday, March 22, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Fugitive Boson: Higgs Hunting at Particle Colliders

Wade Fisher, MSU Physics & Astronomy
Thursday, March 22, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

New Concepts in Radiation Detection Relevant for Research and Security

Kai Vetter, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Wednesday, March 28, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Cosmology without Cosmic Variance

Gary Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 29, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Welcoming and Respecting a Diverse Work Environment

Michael Thoennessen, MSU NSCL
Wednesday, April 4, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD

Martin Savage, University of Washington
Wednesday, April 4, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Density Dependence of the Symmetry Energy with Emitted Protons and Neutrons

Daniel Coupland, NSCL
Thursday, April 5, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Chaos and statistical relaxation in quantum systems of interacting particles

Felix Izrailev, University of Puebla, Mexico
Tuesday, April 10, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Title to be announced

TBD ,
Wednesday, April 11, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Production Cross Sections of Very Neutron-Rich Nuclei

Thomas Baumann, NSCL
Thursday, April 12, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Effective Field Theory on the Lattice: Ab Initio Calculations of Nuclei and Many-Body Systems

Dean Lee, North Carolina State University
Thursday, April 12, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Mean-field and particle-vibration coupling calculations: application to the nuclear Gamow-Teller transitions

Gianluca Colo, Milan/INFN
Tuesday, April 17, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Alpha particle condensation in nuclear systems

Peter Schuck, Institut de Physique Nucleaire Orsay, France
Tuesday, April 17, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special time.

The Structure of Super-Heavy Atomic Nuclei

Roderick Clark, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Wednesday, April 18, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Road to the AT-TPC

Tan Ahn, NSCL
Thursday, April 19, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Synchronization in Physical Networks: Chaos, Communication and Chimeras in the Laboratory

Rajarshi Roy, University of Maryland - College Park
Thursday, April 19, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Parallel and Perpendicular Momentum Distributions in Projectile Fragmentation Reactions

Krista Meierbachtol, NSCL/MSU
Monday, April 23, 1:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Usage of Scintillating Screen Monitors at Hadron Accelerators

Beata Walasek-Hohne, GSI, Darmstadt
Monday, April 23, 3:00 PM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Toward a model-independent approach to nuclear structure

Thomas Papenbrock, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Lab
Tuesday, April 24, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Separation of Trivalent Lanthanides from the Minor Actinides

Dale Ensor, Tennessee Technological University
Wednesday, April 25, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special location.

A Physics Department’s Role in Addressing National Crises in Physics Education

Valerie Otero, University of Colorado - Boulder
Thursday, April 26, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

What Can We Learn about Nucleosynthesis in ReA3?

Fernando Montes, MSU NSCL
Wednesday, May 2, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

A New Spectroscopic Tool by the Radioactive-Isotope-Beam Induced Exothermic Charge-Exchange Reaction

Shumpei Noji, NSCL
Thursday, May 3, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Radiative Beta Decay for Studies of CP Violation

Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
Wednesday, May 9, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Fusion reactions with radioactive ion beams

Zach Kohley, NSCL
Thursday, May 10, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Rare Earth Peak: An Overlooked r-Process Diagnostic

Matthew Mumpower, North Carolina State University
Tuesday, May 15, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

For additional information or to arrange a seminar please contact Hendrik Schatz.