Seminars and Lectures

ReA3 LINAC Commissioning: What We Accomplished

Walter Wittmer, MSU NSCL/FRIB
Wednesday, January 2, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Towards Weak Interaction Studies in Francium

Luis Orozco, University of Maryland
Wednesday, January 9, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Azimuthal Anisotropy of Photon Production in Heavy-ion Collisions

Vladimir Skokov, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
Tuesday, January 15, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

SPIRAL1: From R&D to the Commissioning of a Radioactive Ion Beam Production System

Antonio Villari, Pantechnik
Wednesday, January 16, 11:00 AM -
1221A Conference Room

The Radius of Neutron Stars

Robert Rutledge, McGill University
Wednesday, January 16, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

SAMURAI TPC: Device to Constrain the Symmetry Energy at Supra-Saturation Densities

Rebecca Shane, MSU NSCL
Thursday, January 17, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

"Application of the Complex Scaling Method to Solve Multiparticle Scattering Problems"

Rimantas Lazauskas, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
Tuesday, January 22, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Brownian Shape Evolution in Nuclear Fission

Jorgen Randrup, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Wednesday, January 23, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Measurement of the Fission Probabilities of Exotic Nuclei

Zbigniew Chajecki, MSU NSCL
Thursday, January 24, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

New Measurement of the Antiproton Magnetic Moment and Antihydrogen Trapped in Its Ground State

Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
Thursday, January 24, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

The New Physics Search: Nuclear and Hadron Decays vs. the LHC

Martin González-Alonso, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, January 29, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Theory of Nuclear Fission

Nicolas Schunck, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Wednesday, January 30, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Recent β-decay Studies of 100Sn

Kortney Cooper, MSU - NSCL/Chemistry
Thursday, January 31, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Ultrasound Tomography for Breast Cancer Detection: A Convergence of Physics, Mathematics and Venture Capital for Societal Benefit

Neb Duric, Wayne State University
Thursday, January 31, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Investigation of Resonant Recombination Processes on Highly Charged Silicon in an EBIT

Thomas Baumann, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Friday, February 1, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Silver and Palladium; Ancient Stars Tell the Story about a Second r-Process

Camilla Hansen, Landessternwarte Heidelberg
Monday, February 4, 12:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Non-Locality in the Similarity Renormalization Group

Kyle Wendt, Ohio State University
Tuesday, February 5, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Neutrinos and the Origin of the Elements

Yong-Zhong Qian, University of Minnesota
Tuesday, February 5, 1:45 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Experiments to Predict the Composition of Nova Shrapnel

Chris Wrede, MSU NSCL
Wednesday, February 6, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Exotic Nuclei Studied with Light-Ion Induced Reactions in Storage Rings

Nassar Kalantar, KVI, State University of Groningen
Thursday, February 7, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Sleuthing Red Giants in Globular Clusters

Andrea Dupree, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Thursday, February 7, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Superconducting Cavity Cryomodule Development at ANL: Future Plans and Current Examples

Zach Conway, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Monday, February 11, 10:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Hadronic Parity Violation in Effective Field Theory

Matthias Schindler, University of South Carolina
Tuesday, February 12, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

X-Ray Spectroscopy and Radiation Modeling: Current Status and Potential Application to Nuclear Physics Experiments

Igor Golovkin, Prism Computational Sciences, Inc.
Wednesday, February 13, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

α‐decay of Excited States in 12C

Juan Manfredi, MSU NSCL
Thursday, February 14, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Clusters, Lensing, and Supernovae with the Hubble Space Telescope (CLASH) Project, or Around the World with Hubble, 625 Times

Megan Donahue, MSU P&A
Thursday, February 14, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Structure and Reactions Far from the Valley of Stability

Nicolas Michel, MSU NSCL/iCER
Tuesday, February 19, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Nuclear Astrophysics at DRAGON

Ulrike Hager, Colorado School of Mines
Wednesday, February 20, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

On the Use of Charged-Particle Auxiliary Detectors with Gamma-Ray Spectrometers: Past, Present, and Future

Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Thursday, February 21, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Protein Folding, Misfolding, and Aggregation Observed Directly using Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy

Michael Woodside, University of Alberta, NINT/NRC
Thursday, February 21, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Probing the Nuclear Symmetry Energy with Heavy Ion Collisions

Daniel Coupland, MSU NSCL
Monday, February 25, 10:30 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

A Paradigm Shift in Type Ia Supernova Progenitor Scenarios

Ken Shen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Monday, February 25, 12:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Chiral Dynamics and Light Nuclei: Recent Advances and Open Challenges

Evgeny Epelbaum, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Tuesday, February 26, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Neutron-Rich Nuclei at the Heavy Frontier

Partha Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Wednesday, February 27, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Quantifying the Limits of the (d, p) Reaction Theories

Neelam Upadhyay, MSU NSCL
Thursday, February 28, 9:30 AM -
4129 Conference Room

Off-Line Production of Singly-Charged, Transition-Metal Beams and Subsequent Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Neutral, Stable ⁵⁵Mn and ⁵⁶Fe

Andrew Klose, MSU NSCL/Chemistry
Thursday, February 28, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Progress in Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei with Non-Local Potentials

Joel Lynn, Arizona State University
Thursday, February 28, 1:30 PM -
3129 Conference Room

Understanding Neutron Stars from the Outside In

Andrew Cumming, McGill University
Thursday, February 28, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Dense Matter

Andre da Silva Schneider, Indiana University
Friday, March 1, 10:00 AM -
Nuclear Conference Room

MCNPX-PoliMi Variance Reduction Techniques for Neutron Scintillation Detector Response

Shikha Prasad, University of Michigan
Monday, March 4, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Cryogenics and SRF Cryomodule Development in KEK

Kenji Hosoyama, KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Tuesday, March 5, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Better Cavities Thru Metallurgy

Chris Compton, MSU NSCL/FRIB
Wednesday, March 6, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

A Talk in Two Parts: I. Gamma Rays from Novae & II. New Discoveries about the Hoyle State

Oliver Kirsebom, TRIUMF
Monday, March 11, 12:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Covariant Density Functional Theory: from Single-Particle to Collective Degrees of Freedom

Anatoli Afanasjev, Mississippi State University
Tuesday, March 12, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

First Results on the Weak Charge of the Proton - and a Search for Physics beyond the Standard Model

Allena Opper, George Washington University
Wednesday, March 13, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Teaching 21st Century Tools: Using Physics Education Research to Investigate Student Use of Computational Modeling

Marcos (Danny) Caballero, University of Colorado
Thursday, March 14, 9:30 AM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Bulk Nuclear Properties from Pion Yield

Jun Hong, MSU - NSCL/Physics
Thursday, March 14, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Interactions of Nanomaterial's with the Immune System, an Overview

Peter Hoet, Leuven
Thursday, March 14, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Numerical Simulation of Quench Propagation in LTS and YBCO 2G Conductors and Coils

Philippe Masson, University of Houston
Friday, March 15, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Shape Phase Transitions in Exotic Nuclei AND Nuclear Forces and Nuclear Weak Processes

Suzuki, Toshio Otsuka, Takaharu AND, University of Tokyo, RIKEN & MSU P&A AND Nihon University (Tokyo)
Friday, March 15, 1:00 PM -
1221A Conference Room

Living on the Edge of Stability, the Limits of the Nuclear Landscape

Morten Hjorth-Jensen, MSU NSCL & University of Oslo
Tuesday, March 19, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Breakup Reaction Experiments at the New-Generation RI Beam Facility RIBF at RIKEN

Takashi Nakamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Wednesday, March 20, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The SAMURAI Facility at RIBF

Takashi Nakamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Thursday, March 21, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

New Results in Nuclear Astrophysics Simulations

Falk Herwig, University of Victoria
Monday, March 25, 12:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Photonuclear Reactions: Isotope Production and Other Applications

Valeriia Starovoitova, Idaho State University
Wednesday, March 27, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Investigation of Ion Injection into the NSCL Charge-Breeder Electron Beam Ion Trap

Kritsada Kittimanapun, MSU NSCL/Physics
Thursday, March 28, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Spin and Spin Polarization Effects in Molecule-Based Electron and Energy Transfer

James McCusker, MSU Chemistry
Thursday, March 28, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Optimization of Chiral Forces

Andreas Ekstrom, MSU NSCL/Oslo University, Norway
Tuesday, April 2, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

NSCL/FRIB Laboratory – the Big Picture

Konrad Gelbke, MSU NSCL/FRIB
Wednesday, April 3, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Studying Fundamental Interactions in 6He

Alejandro Garcia, University of Washington
Wednesday, April 3, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Talk 1 - Offline Ion Source Developments for the BECOLA Facility at NSCL, Talk 2 - SAMURAI Time-Projection Chamber: A Device for Constraining the Symmetry Energy

Rebecca Shane Andrew Klose, MSU NSCL
Thursday, April 4, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Keeping Up: CHESS Bootstraps to 3rd Generation Performance & Inexpensive, Reliable Sealing of Large UHV Enclosures Utilizing a Progressively-Deformed Wire

James Savino, Cornell University
Thursday, April 4, 2:30 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Emergent States of Complex Quantum Matter: Past Present and Future

J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell University & Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
Thursday, April 4, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Talk 1 - RCB Stars and the DD Merger Scenario, Talk 2 - Sub Chandrasekhar He Detonation Models for SNIa, and Talk 3 - Determining Dominant Factors in the Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Spheroi

Truran Group ,
Monday, April 8, 12:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Development of the Single-Ion Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer for Rare Isotopes

Samuel Novario, MSU NSCL/Physics
Monday, April 8, 2:00 PM -
3129 Conference Room

Low-Energy Electro-Weak Reactions in Nuclei

Doron Gazit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tuesday, April 9, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Status of GANIL/SPIRAL2

Marek Lewitowicz Hervé Savajols, GANIL
Thursday, April 11, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Future of Accelerator R&D

Stuart Henderson, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)
Thursday, April 11, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Exploring the Intensity Frontier at Fermilab

Eric Prebys, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)
Friday, April 12, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Weak Decay Properties from QRPA Calculations with Realistic Forces

Dong-Liang Fang, MSU NSCL
Tuesday, April 16, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Investigation of the Triple-Alpha Reaction in a Full Three-Body Approach

Ngoc Bich Nguyen, MSU NSCL/Physics
Thursday, April 18, 10:00 AM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Storage Ring Measurement of the Proton Electric Dipole Moment

Richard Talman, Cornell University
Thursday, April 18, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

First Results from NuSTAR

Daniel Stern, JPL/Caltech
Thursday, April 18, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

The Beta-Delayed Proton and Gamma Decay of 27P for Nuclear Astrophysics

Ellen McCleskey, Texas A&M University
Monday, April 22, 12:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Advances in Coupled-Cluster Computations of Medium Mass and Neutron Rich Nuclei

Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Tuesday, April 23, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

A Study of 67,68Ni (Z=28) using One- and Two Neutron Transfer Reactions

Piet Van Duppen, University of Leuven, Belgium
Wednesday, April 24, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Record Surface Fields in QWR Cavities and Its Impact on World Trends in Heavy-Ion Superconducting Accelerators

Zachary Conway, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Thursday, April 25, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Scattering Processes in Atomic Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology

Gavriil Shchedrin, MSU NSCL/Physics
Thursday, April 25, 1:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics for High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

Joshua Vredevoogd, MSU NSCL/Physics
Thursday, April 25, 1:00 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 4270

Shape Coexistence in Exotic Atomic Nuclei

Piet Van Duppen, University of Leuven, Belgium
Thursday, April 25, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Recent Progress on Detector Technologies in Physics Experiments

Jun Miyamoto, Louisiana State University (LSU)
Tuesday, April 30, 10:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)

Oliver Kester, GSI Helmholtz Centre & Goethe-University
Tuesday, April 30, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Development of the "Ion Surfing" Method for Thermal Ion Transport in Buffer Gas

Amanda Gehring, MSU NSCL/Chemistry
Tuesday, April 30, 3:00 PM -
NSCL Seminar Room

New Insights into Neutron-Rich Nuclei from the 252Cf Spontaneous Fission and Development of ORISS

Shaohua Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Wednesday, May 1, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

A New Spectrometer for Fast Beams at FRIB

Remco Zegers, MSU NSCL
Wednesday, May 1, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Atoms for Innovation

Bryan Tomlin, Dow Chemical
Wednesday, May 1, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

PHY983 Nuclear Astrophysics Symposium

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Thursday, May 2, 9:30 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Lifetime Measurement of 19C and a Novel Plunger Method

Kenneth Whitmore, MSU NSCL/Physics
Friday, May 3, 9:15 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

PHY983 Nuclear Astrophysics Symposium

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Friday, May 3, 9:30 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Superdeformation and Alpha - Cluster Structure in 35Cl

Abijit Bisol, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (Kolkata, India)
Friday, May 3, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Beam Steering of the Superconducting Quarter-Wave Resonators at ReA3

Carla Benatti, MSU NSCL/Physics
Thursday, May 9, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

FLUKA Simulation of the Radiation Environment on the Surface of Mars

Jeremy Northum, Texas A&M University
Thursday, May 9, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Nuclear Physics Research and Facilities at Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Guoqing Xiao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Friday, May 10, 10:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Parallel and Distributed Computing in Scientific Applications

Victor Bazterra, University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday, May 10, 10:00 AM -
Nuclear Conference Room

Review and Prospect of CAS-DOE Collaboration in Energy Sciences

Minghua Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Friday, May 10, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Determination of the Energy Gap Between the sd-pf Neutron Shells in 250

Michael Jones, MSU NSCL/Physics
Wednesday, May 15, 2:00 PM -
1221A Conference Room

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