Frontiers 2007 Conference on Nuclear Astrophysics August 19th - 21st @ University of Notre Dame McKenna Hall

Program & Talks

Date/Time	Speaker	Institute	Topic
August 19
17:00-20:00	Registration ( McKenna Hall ) - Map -                   |   Campus Map
19:00-22:00	Reception with hors d'oeuvres ( Morris Inn - Irish courtyard ) - Map -
August 20
Session A1	Chair
8:45-9:00	welcome
9:00-9:35	Alexander Heger	LANL	X-Ray Bursts
9:35-9:50	Andrew Steiner	MSU	The Neutron Star Crust: The Impact of the Nuclear Physics on LMXBs and SGRs
9:50-10:05	Sanjib Gupta	LANL	3D simulations of H/He burning in X-ray Bursts
10:05-10:20	David Chamulak	MSU	Electron captures reactions in simmering white dwarfs
10:20-10:50	Coffee Break
Session A2	Chair
10:50-11:05	Sam Austin	MSU	The rates for helium burning reactions and nucleosynthesis in SNII
11:05-11:20	Andrija Matic	KVI	High precision (p,t) reactions to determine 18Ne(alpha,p)21Na reaction rate
11:20-11:35	Masahiro Notani	ANL	Astrophysically important 26Si states studied with the (d,t) reaction
11:35-11:50	Nidhi R. Patel	CSM / ANL	Experiments to Further the Understanding of the Triple-Alpha Process in Hot Astrophysical Scenarios
11:50-12:05	David Kahl	McMaster University	On the Waiting Point at A=30 in X-ray Bursts: 30S(alpha,p)33Cl with CRIB
12:05-12:20	Yang Sun	U Notre Dame	Shell model method for Gamow-Teller transitions in deformed nuclei
12:20-13:40	Lunch
Session B1	Chair
13:40-14:15	Anna Frebel	U Texas	The oldest stars in the Galaxy
14:15-14:30	Timothy C. Beers	MSU	The Most Metal-Poor Stars from SDSS/SEGUE and Follow-Up Observations
14:30-14:45	Daniela Carollo	INAF / MSU	The Dichotomy of the Galactic Halo of the Milky Way
14:45-15:00	Grant Mathews	U Notre Dame	Frontiers of Nuclear Astrophyscis
15:00-15:15	Julie Krugler	MSU	Beryllium Abundances in Solar Mass Stars
15:15-15:30	Hasan Yuksel	OSU	Positron Annihilations at the Galactic Center
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
Session B2	Chair
16:00-16:35	Karl-Ludwig Kratz	U Mainz	Recent r-process calculations
16:35-16:50	Khalil Farouqi	U Chicago	The r-process nucleosynthesis
16:50-17:05	Kaori Otsuki	MSU	Astrophysical conditions for r-processes
17:05-17:20	Milan Matos	MSU	TOF Mass Measurements: Status and Future (or When the Masses of the R-Process Nuclides will be Measured?) (ppt)
17:20-17:35	Alfredo Estrade	MSU	New mass measurements of neutron rich nuclides at the NSCL
17:35-18:00	Coffee Break
Session C	Chair
18:00-18:15	Richard Cyburt	MSU	The JINA Reaclib Database
18:15-18:30	Tao Li	U Notre Dame	Isotopic dependence of the giant monopole resonance in the even-A 112-124Sn isotopes and the asymmetry term in nuclear incompressibility
18:30-18:45	G. Wesley Hitt	MSU	Probing Gamow-Teller Strengths with the (t,3He) Charge-Exchange Reaction at 100 MeV/u
18:45-19:00	Yoav Kashiv	UChicago/UND	Measurement of the 36Cl production cross sections in X-wind irradiation models
19:00-21:00	Dinner
August 21
Session D1	Chair
9:00-9:35	Dmitry Yakovlev	Ioffe Institute	Pycnonuclear reactions in dense stellar matter
9:35-9:50	Georgios Magkotsios	U Notre Dame	Ti44 and Ni56 from Core-Collapse Supernovae
9:50-10:05	Christian D. Ott	U Arizona	Core-Collapse Supernova Theory: General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, and Multi-D Neutrino Transport
10:05-10:20	Suzanne Parete-Koon	U Tennessee	The QSE-Reduced Network for Silicon Burning
10:20-10:50	Coffee Break
Session D2	Chair
10:50-11:05	Qiu-he Peng	Nanjing U	New Proposal of Explosion Mechanism for Core Collapsed Supernova
11:05-11:20	Ching-Tsai Lee	U Tennessee	Tracer Particles for Supernova Models
11:20-11:35	Ivo Rolf Seitenzahl	U Chicago	Nucleosynthesis in Type Ia Supernovae
11:35-11:50	Annalia Palumbo	U Notre Dame	a-elastic scattering on p-nuclei for the improvement of the a-optical model potential
11:50-12:05	Mark Baird	U Tennessee	The Impact of the Equation of State in Core Collapse Supernovae
12:05-12:20	Dinshaw Balsara	U Notre Dame	Understanding the Disk-Star Boundary Layer in Unmagnetized Accreting Systems
12:20-13:40	Lunch
Session E1	Chair
13:40-14:15	Barry Davids	TRIUMF	Recent Radioactive Beam Experiments in Nuclear Astrophysics
14:15-14:30	Hye Young Lee	ANL	12B(n,g)13B measurement via (d,p) transfer reaction
14:30-14:45	Ana Becerril	MSU	Results of the Commissioning Run of the RF Fragment Separator at the NSCL
14:45-15:00	Manoel Couder	U Notre Dame	A Recoil Separator at Notre Dame for radiative capture studies
15:00-15:15	Michael Paul	Hebrew U	Detection of p-process 146Sm nuclide by accelerator mass spectrometry
15:15-15:30	Ushasi Datta Pramanik	Saha Institute	Indirect measurement of Capture cross-sections of unstable nuclei which are important in astrophysical scenario
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
Session E2	Chair
16:00-16:15	Claudio Ugalde	UNC	Extrapolating astrophysical S-factors with the R-matrix theory. Am I doing it right?
16:15-16:30	Marco La Cognata	INFN/UCatania	Fluorine production in AGB stars: the role of (p,a) reactions
16:30-16:45	Maria Lugaro	U Utrecht	Two key reactions in AGB stars: 18F(a,p)21Ne and 26Al(p,g)27Si
16:45-17:00	Amanda Karakas	ANL/UC/ANU	The s-process in intermediate-mass AGB stars
17:00-17:15	Kyungyuk Chae	U Tennessee	Searching for resonances in the unbound 6Be nucleus
17:15-17:30	KAMAL CHHAYA	GSC, India	Importance of Li8 in formation of heavy elements - An astrophysical interest

Updated: July 31, 2007