Nuclear Lunch: Fall 2020
This is an archive of the Fall 2020 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here.
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 26 August | Z. Meisel | Organizational Meeting |
| September 2 | I. Alnamlah | Taming nuclear complexity with a committee of multilayer neural networks Lasseri et al., Phys. Rev Lett. 124 162502 (2020). Faculty Advisor: J. Frantz |
| September 9 | M. Poudel | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| September 16 | J. Murphy | Observation of structure in the J/Ψ-pair mass spectrum LHCb Collaboration, CERN Tech. Rep. CERN-EP-2020-115 (2020). Faculty Advisor: K. Hicks |
| September 23 | U. Shrestha | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| September 30 | S. Subedi | First direct experimental evidence of CNO neutrinos BOREXINO Collaboration, arXiv:2006.15115 (2020). Faculty Advisor: C. Brune |
| October 7 | K. Brandenburg | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 14 | J. Derkin | PIXE analysis of synthetic turf Vineyard et al., Envir. Ecol. Res. 6 60 (2018) and Another pathway for firefighter exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: firefighter textiles Peaslee et al., Envir. Sci. Tech. Lett. 7 594 (2020). Faculty Advisor: Z. Meisel |
| October 21 | Y. Jones-Alberty | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 28 | DNP Meeting | |
| November 4 | G. Hamad | Probing neutron-hidden neutron transitions with the MURMUR experiment Stasser et al., arXiv:2007.11335 (2020). Faculty Advisor: D. Phillips |
| November 11 | Veterans Day | |
| November 18 | J. Warren | Discussion of questions from previous session. |
| November 25 | Thanksgiving | |
| December 2 | R. Radloff | Nobel Prize in Physics Faculty Advisor: P. King |
| December 9 | Final Exams |
The lead coordinators for Nuclear lunch this semester were faculty members Zach Meisel and Madappa Prakash. Other coordinators were Carl Brune, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, Ken Hicks, Paul King, Daniel Phillips, and Julie Roche.