Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
9 April | Prakash | Introduction to Equation of State (EOS) |
16 April | Ting Lin | The Giant Monopole Resonance in the Sn Isotopes: Why is Tin so “Fluffy”?, U. Garg et al., Nucl. Phys. A788, 36c-43c (2007). |
23 April | Jerry Yang | Parity Violation in Astrophysics, C. J. Horowitz, arXiv:nucl-th/0410074v1 (2004). |
30 April | Kellen Murphy | Direct URCA process in neutron stars, James M. Lattimer, C. J. Pethick, Madappa Prakash, and Pawel Haensel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 2701 (1991). |
7 May | Moses Oginni | Synthesis of the isotopes of elements 118 and 116 in the 249Cf and 245Cm+48Ca fusion reactions, Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al., Phys. Rev. C 74, 044602 (2006); and Evidence for a long-lived superheavy nucleus with atomic mass number A=292 and atomic number Z=~122 in natural Th, A. Marinov, I. Rodushkin, D. Kolb, A. Pape, Y. Kashiv, R. Brandt, R.V. Gentry, H.W. Miller, arXiv:0804.3869v1 (2008). |
14 May | Gcina Mavimbela | LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves, Barry C. Barish and Rainer Weiss, Physics Today 52(10) 44 (1999). |
21 May | Chen Ji | Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors, B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 69, 082004 (2004). |
28 May | Daniel Sayre | Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis, B.D. Fields and S. Sarkar, The Reviews of Particle Physics (Particle Data Group, November 2007). |
4 June | Zach Heinen | Photodisintegration of deuterium and big bang nucleosynthesis, K. Y. Hara et al., Phys. Rev. D 68, 072001 (2003). |