Graduate study in Nuclear Theory at the NSCL-MSU

at Michigan State University

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Come visit us and we will give you some answers!
Contact any member of our group or our secretary Shari Conroy conroy@nscl.msu.edu

The background for this page is the chart of nuclei. The nuclei that have been observed in experiments are indicated by dark blue for those whose mass is rather precisely measured to light blue for those whose mass is not as precise. The nuclei in red are observed to lie outside the drip-lines where the ground state can rapidly decay by the emission of protons or neutrons. The nuclei in green are those that are predicted by nuclear models to lie inside the drip-lines but have not yet been observed in experiment.

This is a picture of a nova-type explosion for a stellar object called V838 Mon. Hubble has taken pictures of this explosion over a period of two years. Click on the picture to link to an American Scientist article that shows the explosion over time and discusses the puzzle of its origin. The nuclei that we observe on the earth have their origins in such explosive events.

Wolfgang Bauer

… works on computer models of nuclear collisions and applies the same techniques to the simulations of supernova explosions, studies the nuclear fragmentation phase transition

B. Alex Brown

… develops the Shell Model as the premier tool to investigate fundamental interactions and nuclear properties, and applies this tool to predict astrophysical reactions of rare nuclear isotopes

Pawel Danielewicz

… studies the dynamics of heavy ion reactions, collective motion, and many body effects with the goal to understand the equation of state and other properties of dense matter

Thomas Duguet

...develops microscopic many-body models to characterize the effective
nucleon-nucleon force in exotic nuclei and nuclear matter

Filomena Nunes

… explores direct reactions of rare isotopes produced in nuclear reactions and collaborates with experimenters to find clues on the role of these rare isotopes in the evolution of the universe

Scott Pratt

… analyses the space-time evolution of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, looks for the change of the properties of elementary particles in the medium, and collaborates with experimenters to find evidence for the Quark-Gluon Plasma phase transition

Vladimir Zelevinsky

… studies quantum chaos and its manifestation in nuclei, collective motion in many-body systems, and their interrelation to properties of mesoscopic systems

Wolfgang Bauer … works on computer models of nuclear collisions and applies the same techniques to the simulations of supernova explosions, studies the nuclear fragmentation phase transition	B. Alex Brown … develops the Shell Model as the premier tool to investigate fundamental interactions and nuclear properties, and applies this tool to predict astrophysical reactions of rare nuclear isotopes	Pawel Danielewicz … studies the dynamics of heavy ion reactions, collective motion, and many body effects with the goal to understand the equation of state and other properties of dense matter	Thomas Duguet ...develops microscopic many-body models to characterize the effective nucleon-nucleon force in exotic nuclei and nuclear matter	Filomena Nunes … explores direct reactions of rare isotopes produced in nuclear reactions and collaborates with experimenters to find clues on the role of these rare isotopes in the evolution of the universe	Scott Pratt … analyses the space-time evolution of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, looks for the change of the properties of elementary particles in the medium, and collaborates with experimenters to find evidence for the Quark-Gluon Plasma phase transition	Vladimir Zelevinsky … studies quantum chaos and its manifestation in nuclei, collective motion in many-body systems, and their interrelation to properties of mesoscopic systems