| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| September 6 | P. King | Organizational Meeting |
| September 14 | B. Acharya | Hoyle state of Carbon-12 "Ab Initio Calculation of the Hoyle State", E. Epelbaum, H. Krebs, D. Lee, and Ulf-G. Meißner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 192501 (2011). Viewpoint: "The carbon challenge", M. Hjorth-Jensen, Physics 4, 38 (2011). Faculty adviser: D. Phillips |
| September 21 | N. Riveli | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| September 28 | D. Divaratne | Dark matter (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle search) "Search for an Annual Modulation in a P-type Point Contact Germanium Dark Matter Detector", C.E. Aalseth et al. (CoGeNT Collaboration), arXiv:1106.0650. Faculty adviser: C. Brune |
| October 5 | C. Ji | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 12 | H. Attanayake | Neutrino oscillation
"Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-Produced Off-Axis Muon Neutrino Beam", K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 041801 (2011). Viewpoint: "A new neutrino oscillation", S.J. Parke, Physics 4, 57 (2011). Faculty adviser: J. Roche |
| October 19 | C. Parker | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 26 | A. Orazbayev | Effect of nuclear shape on scattering "The interaction of aligned 7Li with 58Ni", Z. Moroz et al., Nucl. Phys. A 381, 294-316 (1982). The speaker will be focusing on the "shape model" and experimental results, basically covering the first three sections of the paper. Faculty adviser: C. Elster |
| November 2 | A. P. Ramirez | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| November 9 | B. Muccioli | The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was divided, one half awarded to Saul Perlmutter, the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". Information for the Public and Scientific Background are available from the Nobel Prize website. Faculty adviser: |
| November 16 | Organizational meeting for the Winter Nuclear Lunch Yes, this is during finals week. If you have a time conflict, please email your ideas for the Winter Nuclear Lunch to J. Roche. Faculty adviser: J. Roche |