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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


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