Nuclear Lunch: Fall 2023

The Ohio University lunchtime nuclear seminar meets weekly, 11:50-12:45 Wednesdays in Gordy Hall, room 209. We will discuss interesting papers in nuclear physics and related fields. All graduate students and postdocs interested in nuclear physics are welcome to attend. The talks will start at 11:50 sharp.

The lead coordinator for Nuclear lunch this semester is faculty member Daniel Phillips. Other coordinators are Carl Brune, Chaden Djalali, Christian Drischler, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, and Paul King.

Schedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic / Paper(s)
30 August	Daniel Phillips	Organizational Meeting
6 September	Joseph Derkin	Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the galactic plane R. Abbasi et al., IceCube collaboration, Science 380, 1388 Faculty Advisor: Christian Drischler
13 September	Joseph Foy	Discussion of questions from previous week.
20 September	Ryan Conaway	The impact of (n,γ) reaction rate uncertainties of unstable isotopes on the i-process nucleosynthesis of the elements from Ba to W P. A. Dennissenkov, F. Herwig, G. Perdikakis, and H. Schatz, MNRAS 503, 3913 Faculty Advisor: Charlotte Elster
27 September	Austin Rambo	Discussion of questions from previous week.
4 October	Sijan Regmi	Ab initio predictions link the neutron skin of 208Pb to nuclear forces B. Hu et al., Nature Physics 18, 1196 Faculty Advisor: Daniel Phillips
11 October	Alexandra Semposki	Discussion of questions from previous week.
18 October	Nisha Singh	Demonstration of momentum cooling to enhance the potential of cancer treatment with proton therapy V. Maradia, D. Meer, R. Dölling, D. C. Weber, A. J. Lomax and S. Psoroulas, Nature Physics (2023) Faculty Advisor: Paul King
25 October	Mike Jeswald	Discussion of questions from previous week.
1 November	Bradley McClung	Constraining neutron-star matter with microscopic and macroscopic collisions S. Huth et al., Nature 606, 276 Faculty Advisor: Justin Frantz
8 November	Bikash Chauhan	Discussion of questions from previous week.
15 November	Abhinav Giri	The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background G. Agazie et al., NanoGRAV collaboration, ApJL 951, L8 Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune
22 November	No meeting	Thanksgiving Break
29 November	Chirag Rathi	Discussion of questions from previous week.
6 December	Andrius Burnelis	Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 Faculty Advisor: Chaden Djalali

Background Information

Remember that your presentation should be less than 12 slides long. The purpose of this rule is not to overly constrain you -- it's to give you a better idea of what we expect. We do not expect your talk to be the last word on the subject or a polished seminar. Your presentation is meant to raise some of the key issues, and, ideally, to initiate discussion. If you do not understand something in the paper, say so, or write down your question. We will collect the written questions, and discuss the issues raised as a group. Feel free to contact the course organizers if you have any organizational questions.
A challenge to speakers generally is to relate your topic to the 2015 NSAC Long Range Plan.

Administrative Details

A couple of administrative notes for Ohio University Physics and Astronomy graduate students:

If you are an upper-level graduate student in Nuclear physics you should sign up for this activity. You do this by registering for 8501. Since 8501 is a variable credit class you should register for two credit hours of it (=1 for Wednesday lunch-time and 1 for Tuesday at 4 pm). If you give a talk or moderate this semester you will receive a grade of A for those two credits of 8501.
If you are a first-year graduate student and you want to come to these meetings you should register for 8501 (Nuclear Seminar). If you do this you are not required to attend the regular Tuesday afternoon research seminar---although you are, of course, very welcome if you choose to come on Tuesdays at 4 pm. In consequence first years should sign up for only one credit hour of 8501. Regular attendance on Wednesdays at lunchtime will lead to you receiving a CR for that 1 credit hour.

If you have any questions about any of this please feel free to contact a faculty coordinator.

Previous Nuclear Lunches

Fall 2022		Spring 2023
Fall 2021		Spring 2022
Fall 2020		Spring 2021
Fall 2019		Spring 2020
Fall 2018		Spring 2019
Fall 2017		Spring 2018
Fall 2016		Spring 2017
Fall 2015		Spring 2016
Fall 2014		Spring 2015
Fall 2013		Spring 2014
Fall 2012		Spring 2013
Fall 2011	Winter 2012		Spring 2012
Fall 2010	Winter 2011		Spring 2011
Fall 2009	Winter 2010		Spring 2010
Fall 2008	Winter 2009		Spring 2009
Fall 2007	Winter 2008		Spring 2008
Fall 2006	Winter 2007		Spring 2007
Fall 2005	Winter 2006		Spring 2006
Fall 2004	Winter 2005		Spring 2005
Fall 2003	Winter 2004		Spring 2004
Fall 2002	Winter 2003		Spring 2003