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Fall 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.

Date Speaker Institution Title Host / Room Change
2025-08-28 No Research Discussion First week of the semester
2025-09-04 Jaideep Singh, Pablo Giuliani MSU Chat GPT & Generative AI discussion Kathi Domnanich
2025-09-11
2025-09-18
2025-09-25 Ibrahim Abdurrahman MSU TBD Filomena Nunes
2025-10-02 DNP Practice Talks
2025-10-09 Trenton Vogt MSU TBD Alyssa Gaiser
2025-10-16 Victoria Zerbach MSU TBD Kyle Brown
2025-10-23 Cade Dembski Notre Dame TBD Artemis Spyrou
2025-10-30 Katie Austin MSU TBD Greg Severin
2025-11-06 Ferris Bissen MSU TBD Kathi Domnanich
2025-11-13 Yatish Kumar Esnet TBD Giordano Cerizza
2025-11-20 Rachel Goike MSU TBD Kathi Domnanich
2025-11-27 No Research Discussion Thanksgiving
2025-12-04 Julia Kraft MSU TBD Alyssa Gaiser
2025-12-11 Louis Wagner MSU SECAR development update Kathi Domnanich
2025-12-18 Aiden Boyer, Maggie Tseng MSU Searching For The Parity Doublet Of Pa-229 Using Two Complementary Techniques At FRIB Jaideep Singh

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 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 NazarewiczMSU 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 advancesHybrid - 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 physicsHybrid - 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 continuationZoom
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
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