Seminars and Lectures

Determination of the Equation of State of Asymmetric Nuclear Matter

Suwat Tangwancharoen, MSU NSCL
Thursday, August 9, 10:00 AM -
1221B Conference Room

Searching for the Origins of Fluorine: A Measurement of the 19F(t, 3He) Reaction

Amanda Prinke, MSU NSCL
Tuesday, August 28, 10:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

To Higgs or not to Higgs? That is one of the questions.

John Ellis, CERN
Thursday, August 30, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Requirements Based Management

Thomas Glasmacher, MSU FRIB
Wednesday, September 5, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Discovery of Non-Zero θ13 at Daya Bay

Wei Wang, College of William and Mary
Wednesday, September 5, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Neutrino Mass and Oscillations: an 8217 Experimental View

Eric Zimmerman, University of Colorado
Thursday, September 6, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Effective Field Theories for Weakly-bound Systems

Lucas Platter, Argonne National Laboratory
Tuesday, September 11, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Open questions related to shell evolution and nuclear forces: selected benchmarking experiments from GANIL

Olivier Sorlin, GANIL
Wednesday, September 12, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Generating, Measuring and Using Attosecond Pulses

Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa
Thursday, September 13, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Do we understand collective properties of atomic nuclei from first principles?

K. D. Launey, Louisiana State University - CANCELLED
Tuesday, September 18, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Pairing and Shell Gaps

Alex Brown, NSCL
Wednesday, September 19, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Track Formation and Sputtering Materials: Experiments as a Guide to Develop the Inelastic Thermal Spike Model

Marcel Toulemonde, CIMAP-GANIL
Thursday, September 20, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Federal Science and Technology Policy

Gerald Blazey, Office of Science & Technology Policy
Monday, September 24, 4:10 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Viewing the Chemical Evolution of the Quark Gluon Plasma

Scott Pratt, NSCL
Tuesday, September 25, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Fast two-nucleon removal: probing nuclear structure and interactions

Jeff Tostevin, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Wednesday, September 26, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Summary of NAS Report: Assuring a Future US-Based Nuclear and Radiochemistry Expertise

Paul Mantica, MSU - NSCL/Chemistry
Thursday, September 27, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

FRIB Extreme Materials Challenges

Georg Bollen, MSU - NSCL/FRIB
Thursday, September 27, 12:00 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Super Earths and Life

Dave Latham, Harvard University
Thursday, September 27, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

In Medium Similarity Renormalization Group Studies of Nuclear Matter

Titus Morris, MSU - NSCL
Friday, September 28, 10:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

"The Gamow Shell Model as a tool for ab-initio nuclear structure calculations"

Georgios Papadimitriou, University of Arizona
Tuesday, October 2, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Isotope Harvesting Experiments: Can Multiple FRIB Users be Accommodated at Once?

Dave Morrissey, MSU - NSCL
Wednesday, October 3, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

"Three nucleon forces: From neutron-rich nuclei to neutron stars"

Achim Schwenk, TU Darmstadt and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI
Wednesday, October 3, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Ion Surfing Transport Method for Beam Thermalization Devices

Mandie Gehring, MSU - NSCL/Chemistry
Thursday, October 4, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Physics of Information

Chris Adami, MSU - Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Cns
Thursday, October 4, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

"Fundamental studies with pions and muons"

Dr Dinko Pocanic, University of Virginia
Wednesday, October 10, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

SLAC TTF3 Coupler Processing and Coupler Capabilities

Jeff Tice, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Thursday, October 11, 10:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

ANASEN: Recent Results and Future Directions

Grigory Rogachev, MSU - NSCL/Florida State University
Thursday, October 11, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Recent Developments and Emerging Directions in Spintronics

Albert Fert, CNRS Paris
Thursday, October 11, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Precision Alignment of Multipoles on Girders for NSLS-II

Dr. Animesh Jain, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Monday, October 15, 10:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Title to be announced

DNP Practice Talks ,
Wednesday, October 17, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special time.

Title to be announced

DNP Practice Talks ,
Thursday, October 18, 10:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special time.

Conduction Cooling Superconducting Solenoid Systems for Muon Beam Lines in Japan

Toru Ogitsu, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Thursday, October 18, 3:00 PM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Infalling Groups and Galaxy Evolution in the IMACS Cluster Building Survey

Alan Dressler, Carnegie Institute for Science
Thursday, October 18, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Jefferson Lab Science: Today and Tomorrow

Bob McKeown, Jefferson Laboratory
Friday, October 19, 2:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special time.

Ab-initio Green's function calculations of open-shell nuclei

Vittorio Soma, Darmstadt, Germany
Tuesday, October 23, 3:00 PM -
NSCL Seminar Room
Please note the special time.

More Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University
Thursday, October 25, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

nn versus np two-nucleon correlations and fast two-nucleon removal

Jeff Tostevin, NSCL/University of Surrey
Tuesday, October 30, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Superheavy nuclei at high spin: shell energy, fission barrier & single-particle spectrum

Teng Lek Khoo, Argonne National Laboratory
Wednesday, October 31, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Exploring Halo Nuclei with the Ratio Method

Filomena Nunes, MSU - NSCL/Physics and Astronomy
Thursday, November 1, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

The Spin-Isospin Response of Nuclei and Applications in Astro- and Neutrino-Physics

Remco Zegers, MSU - NSCL
Thursday, November 1, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group for Finite Nuclei

Heiko Hergert, The Ohio State University
Tuesday, November 6, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Systems Engineering for a Better FRIB

Dan Stout, MSU - FRIB
Wednesday, November 7, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Low-Energy Level Structures of Neutron-Rich Co, Fe, and Mn Nuclei Near N = 40

Sean Liddick, MSU - NSCL/Chemistry
Thursday, November 8, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Loops, Trees and New Physics at the LHC

Lance Dixon, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Thursday, November 8, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Exotic nuclear structure and origin of the heavy nuclei in covariant density functional theory

Jie Meng, Peking University
Tuesday, November 13, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall
Please note the special location.

"Transport properties of cool dense matter and observable aspects of neutron star evolution"

Sanjay Reddy, INT - University of Washington
Tuesday, November 13, 1:30 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400
Please note the special time and location.

"A Celebration of Women in Astronomy"

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford
Wednesday, November 14, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Isomeric Yields Measured for High-Spin States Populated in Projectile Fragmentation of Uranium

Michael Bowry, University of Surrey
Thursday, November 15, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Tracking Changes in the Nuclear Structure with Fast Beams of Rare Isotopes

Alexandra Gade, MSU - NSCL
Thursday, November 15, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Feasibility Test of Exotic Particle Searches in the Decay of Trapped Rubidium Isomers

Tao Kong, University of British Columbia
Saturday, November 17, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Uncertainty quantification in the Importance-truncated No-Core Shell Model

Michael Kruse, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tuesday, November 27, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Transfer Reaction Studies Using the SHARC and TIGRESS Arrays

Duane Smalley, Colorado School of Mines
Tuesday, November 27, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Synthetic Paths to the Heaviest Elements

Walter Loveland, Oregon State University
Wednesday, November 28, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

"2007-2020 Nuclei and Astrophysics

David Jarvis Dean, ORNL
Wednesday, November 28, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1415

Precision Measurements in Beta Decay with Polarized Low Energy Beams

Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic, NSCL
Thursday, November 29, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Resisting Resistance:Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance with Small Molecules

Gerry Wright, McMaster University
Friday, November 30, 11:30 AM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Single Top T-Channel Cross Section Measurements at ATLAS

Bradley Schoenrock,
Friday, November 30, 12:00 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 3239

Electron Interactions and THz studies in a Single-walled Carbon nanotube and in Graphene.

Daniel Prober, Yale University
Monday, December 3, 4:10 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Fingerprints of dynamical correlations in nuclear spectra

Elena Litvinova, NSCL
Tuesday, December 4, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Heavy superpartners without too much fine tuning in gauge mediation.

Takemichi Okui, Florida State University
Tuesday, December 4, 1:45 PM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 1400

Nuclear Science for the People: The Many Faces of NSCL Outreach

Zach Constan, MSU - NSCL
Wednesday, December 5, 12:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Studies of the α; p-process waiting points in X-Ray Bursts using Radioactive Ion Beams at ATLAS

Catherine Deibel, Louisiana State University
Wednesday, December 5, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Density Dependence of the Symmetry Energy with Light Clusters

Michael Youngs, MSU - NSCL/Physics and Astronomy
Thursday, December 6, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

In Honor of N. Anantaraman - Charge Exchange: Past, Present, and Future

Sam Austin & Remco Zegers, MSU - NSCL
Friday, December 7, 3:00 PM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Recent Controversial Results Regarding the Hoyle State Decay

Christopher Prokop, NSCL
Thursday, December 13, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Three-Nucleon Forces and Exotic Nuclei

Jason Holt, TU - Darmstadt
Thursday, December 13, 4:00 PM -
NSCL Seminar Room

Feasibility test of exotic particle searches in the decay of trapped rubidium isomers

Tao Kong, University of British Columbia
Monday, December 17, 11:00 AM -
NSCL Lecture Hall

Nuclear Structure: Going Beyond Standard Methods

Jennifer Ranae Glick, MSU NSCL/Physics
Wednesday, December 19, 10:00 AM -
Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 4270

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