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Nuclear Theory Seminars are usually held Tuesdays @ 11:00 am Eastern Time via Zoom (ID: 967 5086 5323, Passcode 48824) unless noted otherwise.

Fall 2024

Date Speaker Title Institution Topics Notes
09/17 Guillaume Hupin Towards Nuclear Reactions Essential for A Comprehensive Hindsight of the universe IJCLab Nuclear astrophysics, ab initio reactions
10/01 Kristina Launey Ab initio optical potentials and alpha clustering from the symmetry-adapted no-core shell-model framework Louisiana State University Ab initio modeling, symmetry-adapted approaches
10/15 Sofia Karampagia Shell Model Nuclear Level Densities and their Application to Astrophysics Grand Valley State University Nuclear level densities, collectivity, shell model
10/25 (3pm) Avik Sarkar Ab initio lattice Monte Carlo simulations of quantum many-body systems Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich Nuclear lattice simulations At 3PM
10/29 Che-Ming Ko Transport model based on inputs from chiral effective field theory Texas A&M Heavy-ion collisions
11/12 Weijie Du Nuclear many-body structure and dynamics on quantum computers Iowa State University Quantum algorithms for nuclear physics
12/3 Kyle Godbey Reaction Dynamics In Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory FRIB Fission, TDHF

Spring 2024

Date Speaker Title Institution Topics Notes
01/23 Huey-Wen Lin Probing the heart of matter with supercomputers MSU QCD: ab initio in-person, notice the time is 4 pm!
02/06 Seth Jacobson A review of the isotopic dichotomy of the Solar System MSU Interdisciplinary: planetary science and NP in person
02/20 Jeannie Rangel Fusion reaction in collisions of weakly bound nuclei with heavy targets State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nuclear continuum: phenomenology in-person, visiting theory group
03/07 Andrea Porro Ab Initio Description of Monopole Resonances in Light and Medium Mass Nuclei Darmstadt, Tech. U. Nuclear bound states and continuum: ab initio in-person, notice the special date!
03/19 Michael Higgins An adiabatic hyperspherical approach to few-body systems in the nuclear sector Purdue University Nuclear continuum: ab initio in-person
04/02 close to the APS april meeting 4/3-4/6
04/16 Alexandra Semposki From chiral EFT to perturbative QCD: a Bayesian model mixing approach to symmetric nuclear matter Ohio University Interdisciplinary: statistics and NP in-person
04/30 James Watson Quantum Algorithms for Simulating Nuclear Effective Field Theories University of Maryland Nuclear bound states and continuum: ab initio and quantum computing in-person
06/25 Yoshida Sota NuclearToolkit.jl and Surrogate Models for In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group Utsunomiya University, Japan Nuclear bound states: ab initio and machine learning in-person, visiting theory group
07/16 Simin Wang Exotic Decays in Open Quantum Systems Fudan University Nuclear continuum in-person