======= Spring 2025 =======
**Organizer = Kathi Domnanich [[domnanic@frib.msu.edu]]**
Research Discussions are generally held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM on request. However, there is an exception on January 24 2025, when the Research Discussion is scheduled for Friday 11:00 am.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2025-01-09 | // No Research Discussion// | Classes start 01/13/25 |||
| 2025-01-16 | Artemis Spyrou | MSU | Enhanced production of 60Fe in massive stars| Kathi Domnanich |
| 2025-01-24 | Jose Blanco | MSU | TBD | Greg Severin |
| 2025-01-30 | Mejdi Mogannam | MSU | TBD | Sean Liddick |
| 2025-02-06 | Kyle Beyer | MSU | TBD | Filomena Nunes |
| 2025-02-13 | Iulia Harca | MSU | Low-pressure gaseous proportional counters: technologies, challenges and applications| Marco Cortesi |
| 2025-02-20 | Vlad Bodnar | MSU | TBD | Greg Severin |
| 2025-02-27 | Ante Ravlic | MSU | Weak decays in superheavy nuclei | Witek Nazarewicz |
| 2025-03-06 | Jaideep Singh | Status and Plans for Developing an Electrospray Ionization Source for Producing Radioactive Molecular Ions| MSU | Kathi Domnanich |
| 2025-03-13 | Ellie Ronning | MSU | TBD | Sean Liddick |
| 2025-03-20 | | | | |
| 2025-03-27 | Chirag Vyas | MSU | TBD | Kathi Domnanich |
| 2025-04-03 | Grigor Sargsyan | MSU | TBD | |
| 2025-04-10 | Ron Mickens | external| Carolyn Parker and Chrystine Shack: Atomic Women | Pawel Danielewicz |
| 2025-04-17 | Patrick McGlynn | MSU | TBD | Chloe Hebborn, Filomena Nunes |
| 2025-04-24 | | | | |
======= Fall 2024 =======
**Organizer = Kathi Domnanich [[domnanic@frib.msu.edu]]**
Research Discussions are generally held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM only on request.
However, this semester includes some exceptions, so please review the schedule below carefully.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2024-08-29 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2024-09-05 | Jorge Pereira | MSU | TBD | |
| 2024-09-12 | Pablo Giuliani, Kyle Godbey, Jaideep Taggart Singh | FRIB | [[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7wtzqsuydudpnlkrg2bxq/2024-09-12-other-Research-Discussion-ChatGPT-Discussion-PB-KG-JTS.pdf?rlkey=1mf2nyes1evjfeip6vcns9wyk&dl=0|ChatGPT & Research]] | Pablo Giuliani |
| 2024-09-19 | DNP Practice Talks ||||
| 2024-09-26 | Shinsuke Ota | RCNP Osaka University | Development and standardization of scalable streaming data acquisition and processing system in Japan| Giordano Cerizza |
| 2024-10-03 | Jessica Berkmann | MSU | TBD | Sean Liddick |
| 2024-10-10 | Samuel Brown | MSU | TBD | Kyle Brown |
| 2024-10-17 | Jordan Cory | MSU | TBD | Kyle Brown |
| 2024-10-24 | Deepika Davuluri | MSU | TBD | Kathi Domnanich |
| 2024-10-31 | Samridhi Satija | LANL| Towards optimized recovery and purification of proton accelerator-produced 225Ac | Kathi Domnanich |
| 2024-11-05 | Emily Gordon | MSU | TBD, additional Literature Seminar| Alyssa Gaiser |
| 2024-11-07 | Rajarshi Pal Chowdhury | MSU | Machine Learning in Accelerator Shielding: Application using Convolutional Neural Networks| Tom Ginter |
| 2024-11-15 | Aiden Boyer, Nicholas Nusgart | MSU | TBD | Jaideep Singh |
| 2024-11-21 | Gerard Flores | MSU | TBD | Kyle Brown |
| 2024-11-28 | //No Research Discussion// | Thanksgiving | | |
| 2024-12-05 | | | | |
| 2024-12-12 | Haley Lightfoot | MSU | TBD | Alyssa Gaiser |
| 2024-12-19 | Chloe Kleinfeldt | MSU | TBD | Greg Severin |
======= Spring 2024 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM only on request.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2024-01-04 | // No Research Discussion// | Classes start 01/08| | |
| 2024-01-11 | Thomas Baumann | MSU | Development work for the next generation neutron detector |
| 2024-01-18 | FRIB HR | | RA Interview| |
| 2024-01-25 | | | | |
| 2024-02-01 | | | | |
| 2024-02-08 | | | | |
| 2024-02-15 | Jonathon Howard | MSU | High-Efficiency and Reliable Wide Range Operation of 2 K Helium Cryogenic Systems | Nusair Hasan |
| 2024-02-22 | Salvatore Di Carlo | MSU | TBD | |
| 2024-02-29 | //No Research Discussion// | Spring Break| | |
| 2024-03-07 | | | | |
| 2024-03-14 | Patrick McGlynn | MSU | TBD | Chloë Hebborn |
| 2024-03-21 | Sivahami Uthayakumaar | MSU | TBD | Artemis Spyrou |
| 2024-03-28 | Abel Korinsky | MSU | Meet and Greet FRIB Artist in Residence Abel Korinsky | Ana Becerril Reyes |
| 2024-04-04 | Curtis Hunt| MSU | Studying Fission near 198Pb with AT-TPC at FRIB | |
| 2024-04-11 | Alexander Rusu | CERN | TBD | Giordano Cerizza |
| 2024-04-18 | | | | |
| 2024-04-25 | Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic | TBD | MSU | |
======= Fall 2023 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM only on request.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2023-08-31 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2023-09-07 | | | |
| 2023-09-14 | Ante Ravlic | MSU | TBD | Witek Nazarewicz |
| 2023-09-21 | | | | |
| 2023-09-28 | Sk Mustak Ali | MSU | Measurement of (d,p) and (d,3He) reactions with 7Be in the context of 6,7Li anomalies| Remco Zegers |
| 2023-10-05 | Lucian Scharenberg | CERN | VMM3a/SRS — high-rate scalable front-end electronics for MPGDs| Giordano Cerizza |
| 2023-10-12 | Nicholas Dahlen | MSU | Reactor Production of Promethium-147 | Alyssa Gaiser |
| 2023-10-19 | Rohit Kumar | MSU | Determination of the dense matter equation of state from nuclear experiments and neutron star observations | Betty Tsang, William Lynch |
| 2023-10-26 | Caitlin McCormick | MSU | TBD | Kyle Brown |
| 2023-11-02 | Aiden Boyer, Sebastian Miki-Silva | MSU | The FRIB-EDM3 Instrument: A Tool For Creating and Studying Radioactive Molecules for Tests of Fundamental Symmetries| Jaideep Singh|
| 2023-11-09 | DNP Practice Talks: Tom-Erik Haugen-Improved Search for CP-Violation in Ortho-Positronium Decay-(Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic) |||
| 2023-11-16 | Samridhi Satija | MSU | TBD | Greg Severin |
| 2023-11-23 | //No Research Discussion// | Thanksgiving | | |
| 2023-11-30 | Andrew Candia | MSU | Application of Mercury-203 for Radiotracing Mercury in Cuttlefish| Kathi Domnanich |
| 2023-12-07 | Bashir Sadeghi | MSU | Machine Learning-Assisted Data Analysis and Prediction| Kathi Domnanich |
| 2023-12-14 | Michaela Bronstetter | MSU | Combination of DGA and LN Columns: A Versatile Option for Isotope Production and Purification at Oak Ridge National Laboratory| Alyssa Gaiser |
| 2023-12-21 | | | | |
======= Spring 2023 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2023-01-05 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2023-01-12 | Giordano Cerizza | MSU | DAQ at FRIB | Kei |
| 2023-01-19 | | | | |
| 2023-01-26 | | | | |
| 2023-02-02 | | | ||
| 2023-02-09 | Dr. Simon and Peter | CENPA | TBD | Chris Wrede |
| 2023-02-16 | | | | |
| 2023-02-23 | Pierre Nzabanimana | MSU | TBD | Paul |
| 2023-03-02 | Marco Cortesi | MSU | Detecotor development at FRIB | Kei |
| 2023-03-09 | // No Research Discussion // | Spring Break | | |
| 2023-03-16 | Elizabeth Rubino | LLNL| career opportunities at LLNL | Pablo|
| 2023-03-23 | | | | |
| 2023-03-30 | Duncan Kroll | MSU | TBD | Peter Knudsen |
| 2023-04-06 | Sokhana Amar | MSU | TBD | Paul |
| 2023-04-13 | Scott Essenmacher | MSU | TBD | Severin, Gregory |
| 2023-04-20 | Thomas Baumann | MSU | TBD | Paul |
| 2023-04-27 | Julie Butler | MSU | TBD | Morten |
| 2023-05-04 | Stephanie Brown | | TBD | Zach |
====== Fall 2022 ========
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2022-09-01 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2022-09-08 | | | | |
| 2022-09-15 | Artemis Tsantiri | MSU | 1st committee meeting: Constraining the Astrophysical γ Process: Cross Section Measurement of the 82Kr(p,γ)83Rb Reaction in Inverse Kinematics | Artemis/Zoom |
| 2022-09-22 | Xiaodong Tang | Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science | TBD | Fernando Montes |
| 2022-09-29 | Shelly Lesher| UW-La Cross | TBD | Artemis |
| 2022-10-06 | Skyy Pineda | MSU | 4th year seminar: Mirror charge radii and nuclear EOS | Kei |
| 2022-10-13 | Eleanor Ronning | MSU | Literature seminar: | Sean |
| 2022-10-20 | DNP Practice talks: Adam Anthony, Sean Dziubinski, Rahul Jain, Daniel Puentes, Ellie Ronning, Xinyi Wang, Joshua Wylie, Caley Harris, Andrew Sanchez ||||
| 2022-10-27 | //DNP meeting// | | | |
| 2022-11-03 | | | | |
| 2022-11-10 | Chloe Kleinfeldt | MSU | Literature seminar: | Greg |
| 2022-11-17 | Jochen Ballof | MSU | TBD | Jaideep |
| 2022-11-24 | //Thanksgiving// ||||
| 2022-12-01 | | | | |
| 2022-12-08 | | | | |
| 2022-12-15 | | | | |
=== Spring 2022 =====
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST via Zoom and optionally in room 1300. Connection information will be provided through email.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2022-01-13 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2022-01-20 |Cavan Maher | MSU | Development of the charge exchange Oslo method and its application to constrain reaction rates for nucleosynthesis of 92Nb| Zoom only |
| 2022-01-27 | //Nuclear Science Seminar//: RD in the Wednesday slot||||
| 2022-02-03 | | | | |
| 2022-02-10 | Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Dean Lee, Witek Nazarewicz|MSU | Artificial Intelligence and machine Learning in Nuclear Physics.|Hybrid - 1300 and zoom |
| 2022-02-17 | Vlad Bodnar| MSU | tbd | Hybrid |
| 2022-02-24 | Taylor Whitehead | MSU | Prediction of (p,n) Charge-Exchange Reactions with Uncertainty Quantification| Hybrid - 1300 and Zoom|
| 2022-03-03 | Daniel Lay and Eric Flynn | MSU |A Nudged Elastic Band Approach to Nuclear Fission Pathways| Hybrid -1300 and Zoom|
| 2022-03-10 | //No research Discussion// | (Spring break) ||
| 2022-03-17 | Simon Giraud | MSU |Stellar electron-capture rates: recent theoretical and experimental advances|Hybrid - 1300 and Zoom |
| 2022-03-24 Zoom ONLY| Ben Hall | MSU | Solving the Nuclear Pairing Model via the Variational Quantum Eigensolver | Zoom only |
| 2022-03-31 Zoom ONLY | Curtis Hunt | MSU | tbd | |
| 2022-04-07 |Pablo Giuliani |MSU | The Reduced Basis Method, an efficient and broadly applicable emulator for many-body physics|Hybrid - 1300 and Zoom |
| 2022-04-14 | Jane Kim| MSU | "Neural Network Ansätze for Variational Monte Carlo". |1300 and Zoom |
| 2022-04-21 | Ben Hall | MSU | Solving the Nuclear Pairing Model via the Variational Quantum Eigensolver | |
| 2022-04-28 | | | |
| 2021-05-05 | // No Research discussion// | (Final Exams)|||
====== Fall 2021 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2021-09-02 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2021-09-09 | Avik Sarkar | MSU | Self-learning emulators and eigenvector continuation| Zoom |
| 2021-09-16 | Kyle Godbey | MSU | Bayesian analysis of heavy-ion fusion in TDDFT | Zoom|
| 2021-09-22 WEDNESDAY 4:10 pm| | | | Zoom|
| 2021-09-23 | //Nuclear Science Seminar//: RD in the Wednesday slot||||
| 2021-09-30 | DNP practice talks||||
| 2021-10-06 WEDNESDAY 4:10 pm | Christian Drischler | MSU | Efficient emulators for two-body scattering observables based on eigenvector continuation|Zoom|
| 2021-10-07 | //Nuclear Science Seminar//: RD in the Wednesday slot||||
| 2021-10-14 | // DNP// ||||
| 2021-10-21 | Jaideep Singh | MSU | Who was Professor Thelma Irene Arnette (1920-2017)? |Zoom |
| 2021-10-28 | Hannah Berg | MSU | Nuclear properties of the 71,72,74Co isotopes via β decay| |
| 2021-11-04 | Jose Blanco | MSU | TBD | Zoom|
| 2021-11-11 | | | | |
| 2021-11-18 | | | | |
| 2021-11-25 | //Thanksgiving// ||||
| 2021-12-02 | Kenneth Haak| MSU | "Production of neutron rich isotopes near N=126"|
|2021-12-09 | Greg Severin| MSU | | |
|2021-12-16 | Adam Hartley| MSU | Extrapolating Nuclear Structure Observables Using Neural Networks| |
====== Spring 2021 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2021-01-14 | // No Seminar // | (first week of classes)|||
| 2021-01-21 | Pablo Giuliani Posada | NSCL | TBD | |
| 2021-01-28 | // Nuclear Science Seminar // ||||
| 2021-02-04 | Tommy Tsang | NSCL | Highlight in Progress: Machine Learning Algorithms | |
| 2021-02-11 | Ruchi Mahajan| NSCL | Study of the dynamics of fusion-fission reactions using neutron multiplicity as a probe | |
| 2021-02-18 | //No Seminar// | | | |
| 2021-02-25 | Kyle Godbey | NSCL | Modern Many-body Approaches to Nuclear Dynamics | |
| 2021-03-04 | // No Seminar // ||||
| 2021-03-11 | Iulia-Maria Harca | NSCL | Fission modes in heavy ion induced fission near the interaction barrier | |
| 2021-03-18 | Sara Ayoub Miskovich | NSCL | Commissioning of the Separator for Capture Reactions in Astrophysics | |
| 2021-03-25 | Rohit Kumar | NSCL | How different fragment identification techniques can influence results of fragmentation | |
| 2021-04-01 | Taylor Whitehead | NSCL | Microscopic Global Optical Potentials for Rare Isotope Reactions | |
| 2021-04-08 | // APS Practice Talks // ||||
|11:00 am | Jason Surbrook | NSCL | Search for novel decay modes using 11Be at NSCL: an update | |
|11:12 am | Giovanni Pederiva | NSCL | Machine Learning Algorithms for faster determination of Lattice QCD Hadron Correlators | |
|11:24 am | Tong Li | NSCL | Nucleon localization function in rotating nuclei | |
|11:36 am | Matthew Rizik | NSCL | Lattice Renormalization of the Quark Chromoelectric Dipole Moment with the Gradient Flow | |
|11:48 am | Adam Anthony | NSCL | Fission in the neutron-deficient Pb region | |
|12:00 pm | Chun Yuen Tsang | NSCL | Impact of the neutron-star deformability on equation of state parameters | |
|12:12 pm | Joseph Wieske | NSCL | Particle Identification and Contamination in RIBs | |
|12:24 pm | Fanurs Teh | NSCL | Value-Assigned Pulse Shape Discrimination for Neutron Detectors | |
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| 2021-04-15 | Julie Butler | NSCL | Coupled Cluster theory applied to infinite matter | |
| 2021-04-22 | Erin White and Keara Hayes | NSCL | Highlights in Progress: Calibrating the Brightness of Individual Atoms for the Single Atom Microscope Project | |
| 2021-04-29 | // No Seminar// | (Final Exams)|||
====== Fall 2020 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2020-09-03 | // No Seminar // | (first week of classes)|||
| 2020-09-10 | Nathan Watwood | NSCL | Possible Enhancements to Fusion Cross Sections in Neutron-Rich Heavy Ion Reactions | TBA |
| 2020-09-17 | // Nuclear Science Seminar// ||||
| | Javier Menéndez | University of Barcelona | From nuclear structure to weak decays: towards first principles calculations in medium-mass to heavy nuclei | Giuliani |
| 2020-09-24 | Katie Childers | NSCL | Working towards a validation of the β-Oslo Method; an indirect method for constraining neutron-capture reaction cross sections | TBA |
| 2020-10-01 | Jeremy Lantis | NSCL | TBA | TBA |
| 2020-10-08 | Paige Abel| NSCL | Isotope Harvesting for the Production of a 47Ca/47Sc Generator | TBA |
| 2020-10-15 | // DNP Practice Talks // ||||
|10:00 am | John Ash | | | |
| 10:15 am| Dayah Chrisman | | | |
| 10:30 am| Mara Grinder | | | |
| 10:45 am| Rahul Jain | | | |
| 11:00 am| Jeremy Lantis | | | |
| 11:15 am| Aaron Magilligan | | | |
| 11:30 am| Skyy Pineda | | | |
| 11:45 am| Robert Powel | | | |
| 12:00 pm| Avik Sarkar | | | |
| 12:15 pm| Kirby Hermansen | | | |
| 12:30 pm| Tamas Budner | | | |
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| 2020-10-22 | Mejdi Mogannam | NSCL | Superallowed Alpha Decay to Doubly Magic 100Sn | TBA |
| 2020-10-29 | // No Seminar // | (DNP Meeting)|||
| 2020-11-05 | // No Seminar // | (DOE OPA)|||
| 2020-11-12 | Samuel Giuliani | NSCL | | Nazarewicz |
| 2020-11-19 | // Nuclear Science Seminar// ||||
| | Ruben de Groote and Jacek Dobaczewski | University of Jyväskylä/University of Warsaw | The magnetic octupole moment in 45Sc | Nazarewicz |
| 2020-11-26 | // No Seminar // | (Thanksgiving)|||
| 2020-12-03 | Samridhi Satija | NSCL | Managing long-lived Spallation Products through Radiochemical Separation and Analysis | TBA |
| 2020-12-10 | Scott Essenmacher | NSCL | Zr Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements and Target Considerations | TBA |
| 2020-12-17 | // No Seminar// | (Final Exams)|||
====== Spring 2020 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 in the NSCL Lecture Hall.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2020-01-09 (first week of classes)| // No Seminar // ||||
| 2020-01-16 | Wolfgang Mittig | NSCL | Do the X17 boson and a new fifth force exist? | |
| 2020-01-23 | Chi-En Teh | NSCL | Neutron Detection with Large Area Neutron Array (LANA) at NSCL | Betty Tsang |
| 2020-01-30 | // Highlight in Progress// ||||
| | Jaspreet Randhawa | NSCL | Direct measurement of 22Mg(alpha,p)25Al and implications for X-ray burst model-observation comparisons | Wolfgang Mittig |
| 2020-02-06 | Vladimir Zelevinski | NSCL | Quantum and Classical chaos in nuclei | |
| 2020-02-13 | Craig Reingold | University of Notre Dame | Indirect Measurement Techniques for Nuclear Astrophysics: Making Impossible Measurements (Slightly) Less Impossible | Artemis Spyrou |
| 2020-02-20 | Simon Giraud | NSCL | Study of core-collapse supernovae : new experimental constrains on the nuclear physics inputs | Remco Zegers |
| 2020-02-27 | Giovanni Pederiva | NSCL | Machine Learning for Lattice QCD Correlators | Andrea Shindler |
| 2020-03-05 | // Spring Break// ||||
| 2020-03-12 | Katharina Domnanich | NSCL | The formation of radiolysis products during isotope harvesting with a flowing water target | Gregory Severin |
| 2020-03-19 | Vojtech Kejzlar | NSCL (C) | Statistical aspects of nuclear mass models | Witek Nazarewicz |
| 2020-03-26 | Omokuyani Udiani | NSCL (P) | Infinite Matter Equation of State and Optical Potentials from the IMSRG | Scott Bogner |
| 2020-04-02 | Jane Kim | NSCL (R) | Solving the many-body problem with artificial neural networks | Morten Hjorth-Jensen |
| 2020-04-09 | Thomas Baumann | NSCL (R) | Next generation neutron detector | |
| 2020-04-16 | // Highlight in Progress// ||||
| | Andrea Richard | NSCL (P) | Constraining Neutron-Capture Cross Sections for i-process nuclei 102,103Mo |Sean Liddick |
| | Herlik Wibowo | Western Michigan (C) | Relativistic Nuclear Response Theory at Finite Temperature |Elena Litvinova |
| | Cade Dembski | NSCL (R)| A.I. for nuclear physics: student hackathon | Artemis Spyrou |
| 2020-04-23 | Katie Childers | NSCL (P) | Validating the beta-Oslo method: An indirect method for constraining neutron-capture cross sections | Sean Liddick |
| | Vojtech Kejzlar | NSCL (R) | Statistical aspects of nuclear mass models | Witek Nazarewicz |
| 2020-04-30 | // Final Exam// ||||
Notes: C-Cancel, P-Postponed, R-Remote (zoom credentials will be provided)
====== Fall 2019 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 in the NSCL Lecture Hall.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2019-08-29 (first week of classes)| No Seminar | | NSF Site Visit| |
| 2019-09-05 | Gregory Severin | NSCL | Results from Harvesting Experiments at NSCL | |
| 2019-09-12 | Ben Hall | NSCL | Collective Neutrino Oscillations on a Quantum Computer | Hjorth-Jensen |
| 2019-09-19 | // Highlight in Progress// ||||
| | Kellen McGee | NSCL | Doubling FRIB energy: First test results of a new superconducting medium-beta accelerating cavity | Ostroumov |
| | Aldric Revel | NSCL | Extending the South Shore of the Island of Inversion to 28F | Iwasaki |
| 2019-09-26 | Remco Zegers | NSCL | Constraining electron-capture rates in core-collapse supernovae through charge-exchange reactions | |
| 2019-10-03 | // DNP Practice Talks // ||||
| 11:00 | John Ash | NSCL | High-spin States and Cross-shell Excitations in 46Ca | |
| 11:15 | Jeremy Lantis | NSCL | Electron Population Manipulation of Transition Metal Isotopes in an RFQ Ion Trap | |
| 11:30 | Mara Grinder | NSCL | Precision Lifetime Measurements of Excited States in 38Si | |
| 11:45 | Robert Elder | NSCL | Probing Large Collectivity in Mg-32 with a Recoil-distance Lifetime Measurement| |
| 12:00 | Katie Childers | NSCL | Constraining the cross section of 82Se(n,g)83Se to validate the beta-Oslo method| |
| 12:15 | Robert Powel | NSCL | Precise Calibration of Laser Frequency for determination Sc Charge Radii| |
| 12:30 | Jaclyn Schmitt | NSCL | Probing Spin-Isospin Excitations in Proton-Rich Nuclei via the (p,n) Reaction| |
| 2019-10-10 | Brad Sherrill | NSCL | NSCL users webinar | |
| 2019-10-17 | // DNP // ||||
| 2019-10-24 | Wolfgang Mittig | NSCL | Dark matter research in nuclear physics | |
| 2019-10-31 | Shumpei Noji | NSCL | Conceptual design of the HRS | |
| 2019-11-07 | Skyy Pineda | NSCL | New Measurement of the 1S-3S Transition Frequency of Hydrogen: Contribution to the Proton Charge Radius Puzzle | Minamisono |
| 2019-11-14 | No Seminar | | DoE/OPA | |
| 2019-11-21 | // Highlight in Progress // ||||
| | Julie Butler | NSCL |Deep Learning and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem | Hjorth-Jensen|
| 2019-11-28 | // Thanksgiving // ||||
| 2019-12-05 (last week of classes) | FRIB theory fellow | | | Nunes |
====== Spring 2019 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 in the NSCL Lecture Hall.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2019-01-10 (first week of classes) | | | | |
| 2019-01-17 | Rebecca Lewis | NSCL | Neutron capture cross sections for weak r-process environments | Sean Liddick |
| 2019-01-24 | Luke Roberts | NSCL | The Births and Deaths of Neutron Starts: Neutrinos, dense matter, and the r-process | Filomena Nunes |
| 2019-01-31 | Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic | NSCL | The experiment of next week: e17006 (*) | cancelled due to modified University operations |
| | Moshe Friedman | NSCL | Beta-delayed Charged Particle Measurements for Studies of Novae and X-ray Bursts | cancelled |
| 2019-02-07 | Ben Loseth | NSCL | Current status of the Single Atom Microscope, a prototype detector for optically imaging the products of rare nuclear reactions | |
| 2019-02-14 | Terri Poxon-Pearson | NSCL | Update on CHEX: A tool for exploring charge-exchange reaction theory | Filomena Nunes |
| 2019-02-21 | Andrew Miller | NSCL | Charge radii of neutron-deficient calcium isotopes | Kei Minamisono |
| 2019-02-28 | //HiP - Highlights in Progress// (Rob Elder, Mark Spieker) ||||
| | Rob Elder | NSCL | Reaction and lifetime studies of 32Mg through 2-proton knockout | |
| | Mark Spieker | NSCL | One-proton and one-neutron knockout reactions from N=Z=28 56Ni to the A=55 mirror pair 55Co and 55Ni | |
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| 2019-03-07 | Spring Break ||||
| 2019-03-14 | Jaspreet Randhawa | NSCL | Nuclear astrophysics with active-target time projection chamber | Wolfgang Mittig |
| 2019-03-21 | Matt Rizik | NSCL | Renormalization of CP-violating Operators in Perturbative QCD Using the Yang-Mills Gradient Flow | Andrea Shindler |
| 2019-03-28 | //APS April meeting practice talks// ||||
| 10:00 |Xingze Mao | NSCL | Complex-energy description of open molecular and nuclear systems | |
| 10:15 |Jason Surbrook | NSCL | Search for novel decay modes using 11Be | |
| 10:30 |Daniel Rhodes | NSCL | Sub-Barrier Coulomb excitation of 106Cd with the JANUS setup at ReA3 | |
| 10:45 |Ben Loseth | NSCL | Assembly and development of the prototype Single Atom Microscope | |
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| 2019-04-04 | //HiP - Highlights in Progress// (Andrea Shindler) ||||
| | Andrea Shindler | NSCL | Nucleon Electric Dipole Moment Results from Lattice QCD using Gradient Flow | Dean Lee |
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| 2019-04-11 | Roy Ready | NSCL | Towards a more sensitive measurement of the permanent electric dipole moment of Radium-225 | Rm.1300, Jaideep Singh |
| 2019-04-18 | Moshe Friedman | NSCL | Beta-delayed Charged Particle Measurements for Studies of Novae and X-ray Bursts | Chris Wrede |
| 2019-04-25 (last week of classes) | C. Jeff Martoff | Temple University | HUNTER - Laser-trapped radioactive atom facility and sterile neutrino search | cancelled |
(*) Short presentation for on-going experiments
====== Fall 2018 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 in the NSCL Lecture Hall.
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^
| 2018-08-30 | Jaideep Singh | NSCL | EDM searches in the FRIB era | |
| 2018-09-06 | Barak Schmookler | MIT | Isospin dependence of the EMC effect and short range correlations | Alexandra Gade |
| 2018-09-13 | Jun Chen | NSCL | Experimental Nuclear Structure Data Evaluation and Visualization Tools for ENSDF database | |
| 2018-09-20 | Mark Spieker | NSCL | High-resolution (p,t) study of low-spin states in 240Pu: Octupole excitation, alpha clustering, and other structure features | |
| 2018-09-27 | //HiP - Highlights in Progress// (Tommy Tsang, Linda Hlophe) ||||
| | Tommy Tsang | NSCL | Neutron star properties from gravitation wave and nuclear physics constraints| |
| | Linda Hlophe | NSCL | Few-body universality in the deuteron-alpha system | |
| 2018-10-04 | Stephanie Lyons | NSCL | Total Absorption Sepctroscopy of 69,71Co Beta-Decay | Rm.1300 |
| 2018-10-11 | //DNP Practice Talks// ||| Rm.1300 |
| 9:30 | Jeremy Lantis | NSCL | Development of Optical Pumping Technique for Determination of Charge Radii and Nuclear Moments for Fe and Zr isotopes | |
| 9:45 | Andrew Miller | NSCL | Charge radii of neutron-deficient 36,37,38Ca | |
| 10:00 | Katherine Childers | NSCL | Constraining the cross section of 82Se(n, γ)83Se to validate the β-Oslo method | |
| 10:15 | Rebecca Lewis | NSCL | Experimentally constrained 70Ni(n,γ)71Ni cross section | |
| 10:30 | Alicia Palmisano | NSCL | Cross Section Measurements of 84Kr(p,γ)85Rb | |
| 10:45 | Lisa Carpenter | NSCL | Cluster Structure and Three-Body Decay of 14C | |
| 11:00 | John Ash | NSCL | Nuclear Spectroscopy of 44,46Ca with Fusion Reactions Induced by Reaccelerated Rare-isotope Beams | |
| 11:15 | Robert Elder | NSCL | Reaction and lifetime studies of 32Mg through 2-proton knockout | |
| 11:30 | Dayah Chrisman | NSCL | Neutron Unbound States in the Island of Inversion | |
| 11:45 | Daniel Votaw | NSCL | Measurement of 9He ground and excited states | |
| 2018-10-18 | Bingshui Gao | NSCL | Constraining electron-capture rates near N~50 via the (t,3He) charge-exchange reaction| Rm.1300, Remco Zegers |
| 2018-10-25 | //DNP// ||||
| 2018-11-01 | Kosho Minomo | NSCL | Investigation of bare and effective interactions via direct nuclear reactions | Scott Bogner |
| 2018-11-08 | //DOE-OPA// ||| (no seminar) |
| 2018-11-15 | Jiangming Yao | NSCL | Computing low-lying states of deformed nuclei with chiral NN+3N interactions | Heiko Hergert |
| 2018-11-22 | //Thanksgiving// ||||
| 2018-11-29 | //HiP - Highlights in Progress// (Fry Fang - Spin Group, Bingnan Lu - Lee Group ) ||||
| | Fry Fang | NSCL | Progress Towards the Single Atom Microscope - Growing Thin Films of Noble Gases of SAM | |
| | Bingnan Lu | NSCL | Ab initio nuclear thermodynamics | |
| 2018-12-06 (last week of classes) | Special seminar | | (FRIB theory alliance fellow candidate talk) | |
====== Spring 2018 ======
^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host ^
| 2018-01-18 | Gregory Potel | FRIB | A novel and universal polarization phenomenon | |
| 2018-01-25 | Sherry J. Yennello \\ (Women and Minorities Lecture Series) | Texas A&M | Toward inclusive excellence in nuclear science | |
| 2018-02-01 | | | | |
| 2018-02-08 | Augusto Macchiavelli | LBL | Spectroscopic Factors in the Islands of Inversion à la Nilsson | Dirk Weisshaar |
| 2018-02-15 | | | Cancelled | |
| 2018-02-22 | Tenzin Ragba | FRIB | Upgrades for an Improved Measurement of the Permanent EDM of Ra-225 | Jaideep Singh |
| 2018-03-01 | Highlight in Progress ||||
| | Simin Wang | FRIB | Study on two-proton radioactivity with Gamow Coupled-Channel approach | Witek Nazarewicz |
| 2018-03-08 | Spring Break ||||
| 2018-03-15 | | | | |
| 2018-03-22 | Larry Weinstein | ODU | From Nuclear Structure to Nucleon Structure | Jaideep Singh |
| 2018-03-29 | APS April Meeting Practice Talks ||||
| | Lisa Carpenter | FRIB | Cluster Structure and Three-Body Decay in 14C | |
| | Sara Ayoub | FRIB | SECAR: The Separator for Capture Reactions in Astrophysics | |
| | Rachel Titus | FRIB | Impact of electron-captures on nuclei near N=50 on core-collapse supernovae | |
| | Steven A. Fromm | FRIB | Improving the Optical Trapping Efficiency in the 225Ra Electric Dipole Moment Experiment via Monte Carlo Simulation | Jaideep Singh |
| | Brent Glassman | FRIB | β-delayed γ decay of 20Mg and the 19Ne(p,γ)20Na breakout reaction in Type I X-ray bursts | Christopher Wrede |
| | Justin Lietz | FRIB | Computational Developments for Coupled Cluster Theory With Triples and Three-Body Forces | |
| | Hao Lin | FRIB | New Development on Modelling Fluctuations and Fragmentation in Heavy-Ion Collisions | |
| 2018-04-05 | Highlight in Progress ||||
| | Alex Brown | FRIB | Microscopic calculations of nuclear level \\ densities with the Lanczos method | |
| | Vladimir Zelevinsky | FRIB | Constant temperature model of the level density and attempts to understand its physical meaning | |
| 2018-04-12 | Denise Caldwell | NSF | The National Science Foundation: What we do and what it’s like to work there | |
| 2018-04-19 | Ben Loseth | NSCL | | Jaideep Singh |
| 2018-04-25 (WEDNESDAY!!) | Morten Hjorth-Jensen | FRIB/UiO | Solving many-body problems with machine learning approaches | |
| 2018-05-03 | Mallory K. Smith | FRIB | | |