Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
August 20-22, 2005
Frontiers 2005
Program - Preliminary (last update August 19, 2005 1:38 pm)
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Saturday, August 20
19:00     Reception with hors d'ouvres    
Sunday, August 21
8:45 Welcome
Session chair: Ed Brown
9:00 9:35 0:35 Tod Strohmayer GSFC Thermonuclear Bursts: Current Challenges and Opportunities
9:35 9:50 0:15 Nevin Weinberg KITP Exposing the Nuclear Burning Ashes of Radius Expansion Type I X-ray Bursts
9:50 10:05 0:15 Louis Jisonna Northwestern U. Breakout from the hot-CNO cycle via the 18Ne(a,p)21Na reaction
10:05 10:20 0:15 Fang Peng U. Chicago The Effect of Sedimentation on The Ignition of X-ray Bursts
 
10:20 10:50 0:30 Coffee      
 
Session chair: Brad Sherrill
10:50 11:05 0:15 Anthony Piro UCSB Burst Oscillations and Nonradial Modes on Neutron Stars
11:05 11:20 0:15 Aldo Bonasera LNS/INFN Dynamics of Fusion at Astrophysical Energies
11:20 11:35 0:15 Sanjib Gupta MSU Multizone models of neutron star crusts
11:35 11:50 0:15 Mary Beard U. Notre Dame Reaction rate calculations in dense stellar matter
11:50 12:05 0:15 Andreas Woehr U. Notre Dame Search for isomers along the rp-process path
12:05 12:20 0:15 Phil Chang UCSB Nuclear Evolution of Neutron Star Envelopes
     
12:25 14:00 1:35 Lunch      
 
Session chair: Bill Walters
14:00 14:35 0:35 Alex Brown MSU Challenges in nuclear structure theory for astrophysics
14:35 14:50 0:15 Dean Townsley U. Chicago The Conditions of Classical Nova Nucleosynthesis
14:50 15:05 0:15 Ken Nollett ANL Quantum Monte Carlo as a tool for astrophysics
15:05 15:20 0:15 Jacob Fisker U. Notre Dame Numerical simulations of the spreading of accreted matter on white dwarfs
15:20 15:35 0:15 Jonathan Pearson McMaster U. 25Al Elastic Scattering Experiment at RIKEN
15:35 15:50 0:15 Wanpeng Tan U. Notre Dame Lifetimes of astrophysically important states in 19Ne
15:50 16:20 0:30 Coffee      
Session chair: Michael Wiescher
16:20 16:55 0:35 Jeff Blackmon ORNL Laboratory Measurements at the Frontier
16:55 17:10 0:15 Richard Cyburt TRIUMF Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Solar Neutrinos:  Finding Concordance in Nuclear Astrophysics
17:10 17:25 0:15 Xiaodong Tang ANL Measurement of the beta-delayed alpha spectrum of 16N with a new   technique
17:25 17:40 0:15 Mashario Notani MSU/ANL beta-delayed alpha-decay of 16N --- beam production and background measurement
17:40 17:55 0:15 Elizabeth Strandberg U. Notre Dame Nucleosynthesis of Mg Isotopes in AGB Stars
19:00     Dinner      
Monday, August 22
Session chair: Karl-Ludwig Kratz
9:00 9:35 0:35 Chris Sneden U. Texas Early Galactic r-Process Nucleosynthesis: an Observational Update
9:35 9:50 0:15 Khalil Farouqi U. Mainz r-process network calculations in the SN II high-entropy wind scenario
9:50 10:05 0:15 Fernando Montes MSU beta decay measurements of r-process nuclei
10:05 10:20 0:15 Alexander Lisetzky MSU Beta decay and structure of exotic nuclei near  78Ni
 
10:20 10:50 0:30 Coffee      
 
Session chair: Ernst Rehm
10:50 11:05 0:15 Tim Beers MSU TBA  
11:05 11:20 0:15 Milan Matos MSU Mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei with the storage ring ESR at GSI
11:20 11:35 0:15 Jorge Pereira MSU Beta decay properties of r-process nuclei in the region around 137Sb
11:35 11:50 0:15 Kaori Otsuki U. Chicago Neutron-capture elements in M15
11:50 12:05 0:15 Hye Young Lee U. Notre Dame 18F(a,p)21Ne reaction: Is it a neutron source for r-process in supernovae?
12:05 12:20 0:15 Sivarani Thirupathi MSU Carbon enhanced stars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
     
12:05 14:00 1:55 Lunch      
 
Session chair: Sam Austin
14:00 14:35 0:35 Chris Fryer LANL TBA
14:35 14:50 0:15 Ivo Seitenzahl U. Chicago NSE calculations for type 1a supernova simulations
14:50 15:05 0:15 Meredith Howard Ohio State U. CEX and the City:  Charge Exchange Experiments using (t,3He) at the NSCL
15:05 15:20 0:15 Arthur Cole MSU Measurement of 58Co Gamow-Teller Strength via (t,3He)
 
15:20 15:50 0:30 coffee      
 
Session chair: Sam Austin
15:50 16:05 0:15 Bill Lynch MSU Investigating Dense Matter Relevant to Supernovae and Neutron Stars
16:05 16:20 0:15 Sebastian Mueller TH Darmstadt Coloumb breakup of Mo-Isotopes at the GSI/LAND setup.
16:20 16:35 0:15 Annalia Palumbo U. Notre Dame TBA
16:35 16:50 0:15 Yang Sun U. Notre Dame Shell Model for heavy, deformed nuclei