Program
Program for the 2012 meeting
| Sunday 5th August | |
| Registration Open | |
| Aboriginal Welcome to the Land Ceremony |
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| Opening | |
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Introductory overview of “Nuclei in the Cosmos” |
Michael Wiescher (60', invited) |
| Digital Re-typesetting and Re-publication of Al Cameron's seminal 1957 Chalk River Report | Daid Kahl |
| Welcome Reception | |
| Monday 6th August | |
| Registration | |
| Session 1. Nuclear reaction rates and stellar abundances I Chair : George Dracoulis |
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| Underground experiments and their impact on stellar modelling | Gianluca Imbriani (30', invited) |
| Evolution and nucleosynthesis of low-mass stars | Richard Stancliffe (30', invited) |
| A surprise in 6Li(p,gamma)7Be reaction at low energies | Jianjun He |
| Exploring mechanisms inhibiting nuclear fusion | Maurits Evers |
| The first determination of the 14N/15N ratios in Galactic AGB carbon stars | Ruben Pedro Hedros |
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The Fluorine destruction in stars: first experimental study of the19F(p,alpha_0 ) 16O reaction at astrophysical energies |
Marco La Cognata |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 2. Nuclear reaction rates and stellar abundances II Chair: Iris Dillmann |
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| The triple alpha reaction | Edward Brown (20', invited) |
| Nuclear astrophysics in hot dense dynamic plasmas | Dennis McNabb (20', invited) |
| Rotational Mixing and Light Element Depletion in the Era of Asteroseismology |
Marc Pinsonneault |
| New experimental results for the triple-alpha reaction | Hans Fynbo |
| Metallicities in Stars - what solar neutrinos can do |
Kai Zuber |
| Lunch including 1-hour informal session on "Online Support 1 - Inputs for Astrophysics" |
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| JINA | Richard Cyburt |
| KADONIS | Iris Dillmann |
| STARLIB | Anne Sallaska |
| JINA R-Matrix Projects | Richard deBoer |
| MESA/NuGrid Physics Package | Marco Pignatari |
| Session 3. Nuclear reaction rates and stellar abundances III Chair: Shigeru Kibono |
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| Unable to attend |
Frank Strieder (20', invited) |
| Pre-supernova evolution and nucleosynthesis of massive stars | Raphael Hirschi (30', invited) |
| Direct and indirect techniques for reaction rate measurements | Alison Laird (20', invited) |
| New indirect study of the 12C(?,?)16O reaction via the 12C(7Li,t)16O transfer reaction |
Fairouz Hammache |
| Measuring radiative capture rates at DRAGON | Ulrike Hager |
| Metallicities in Stars - what solar neutrinos can do | Kai Zuber |
| Probing electron captures on 56 Ni: A new technique to extract Gamow-Teller strengths of unstable nuclei |
George Perdikakis |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 4. The s process I Chair: Amanda Karakas |
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| The s process in AGB stars and in massive stars | Marco Pignatari (30', invited) |
| On a physical model for the formation of the neutron source for s-processing | Sara Palmerini |
| The s-process in globular cluster M22: hints for higher-mass polluters |
Ian Roederer |
| Poster viewing with drinks | Odd Nubmered |
| Tuesday 7th August |
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| Session 5. The s process II Chair: Maurizio Busso |
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| Neutron sources and neutron poisons in the s process | Joachim Goerres (20', invited) |
| Neutron-induced reactions for the s process, and the case of Fe and Ni isotopes | Claudia Lederer (25', invited) |
| New Insights from Observations of Trans-Iron Elements in Planetary Nebulae: AGB Nucleosynthesis and Initial Stellar Composition | Harriet Dinerstein |
| New 90,91,92,93,94,96Zr neutron capture cross-sections | Giuseppe Tagliente |
| First Experimental Constraint on the 59 Fe(n,gamma)60Fe Reaction via Coulomb Dissociation | Ethan Uberseder |
| One minute poster presentations | |
| Coffee Break |
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| Session 6. Nuclear properties for astrophysics Chair: Ani Aprahamian |
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| Nuclear masses for astrophysics | Klaus Blaum (30', invited) |
| Storage ring mass and lifetime spectrometry for nuclear astrophysics |
Yuri Litinov |
| Beta-decay half-lives and delayed neutron emission of r-process nucleiin the vicinity of 78Ni | Miguel Magurga-Flores |
| Recent mass measurements for the r process at JYFLTRAP | Anu Kankainen |
| The resonances of 18Ne seen through proton decay |
Lidia Ferreira |
| Lunch including 1 - hour informal session on "Online Support 2 - Tools for Astrophysics" | |
| SAGA: Stellar Abundances for Galatic Archeology | Takuma Suda |
| SSPP: SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline | Tim Beers |
| INSPECT: Interactive NLTE Spectroscopy | Karin Lind |
| WEBNUCLEO.org | Brad Meyer |
| MESA/NuGrid | Pavel Denisenkov |
| Session 7. High density matter Chair: Andrew Melatos |
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| The theory of high density matter | Jirina Stone (30', invited) |
| Constraints from observation of massive neutron star to properties of quark matter in quark and hybrid stars | Irina Sagert (20', invited) |
| Is the neutron star's inner crust unique? |
Edward Brown |
| Nuclear processes in the crust of accreting neutron stars | Hendrik Schatz |
| Implications for compact stars of soft nuclear equation-of-state from heavy-ion data | Laura Tolos |
| Coffee Break |
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| Session 8. Novae and XRB I Chair: Alexander Heger |
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| Nucleosynthesis in classical novae and X-ray bursts | Anuj Parikh (30', invited) |
| Constraints on neutron star mass and radius from X-ray bursts | Andrew Steiner (20', invited) |
| Nova Framework: A New Tool For Modeling of Nova Outbursts and Nucleosynthesis |
Pavel Denissenkov |
| Observations of X-ray burst |
Duncan Galloway |
| Poster viewing |
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| Wednesday 8th August |
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| Session 9. Novae and XRB II Chair: Jolie Cizewski |
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| Observations and models of X-ray bursts | Laurens Keek (20', invited) |
| Flame Spread Mechanisms in Type I Bursts | Yuri Cavecchi |
| Radioactive Ion Beam studies of alaphap process waiting points in X-Ray Bursts | Catherine Deibel |
| X-ray bursts Sensitivities |
Richard Cyburt |
| One minute poster presentations | |
| Coffee Break |
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| Session 10. SNIa and the p process I Chair: TBC |
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| Overview of SNIa | Friedrich Roepke (30', invited) |
| The p process in SNIa | Wolfgang Hillebrandt (20', invited) |
| Cross section measurements via X-ray counting for ? process studies | Gabor Kiss |
| On Determining the Metallicity of Individual SNIa Progenitors | Soma De |
| One minute poster presentations | |
| Group Photo | |
| Packed Lunch and Group Excursions |
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| Thursday 9th August | |
| Session 11. SNIa and the p process II Chair: Chiaki Kobayashi |
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| Experiments for the astrophysical p process | Gyorgy Gyurky (30', invited)td> |
| Shorter half-life of p-process 146Sm measured and 146Sm/142Nd chronology of Solar System | Michael Paul |
| Astrophysical reaction rates shape proton-rich, explosive nucleosynthesis | Thomas Rauscher |
| Sub-Chandrasekhar models for Type Ia supernovae and astrophysical transients |
Michael Fink |
| One minute poster presentations | |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 12. Core collapse SN, mergers and the r process I Chair: Karlheinz Langanke |
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| Core-collapse explosion models | Adam Burrows (30', invited) |
| Weak interactions in astrophysics | Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo (20', invited) |
| Gravitational waves and black hole and neutron star formation in core collapse supernovae | Christian Ott (25', invited) |
| Highly r-Process Enhanced Stars: New Perspectives on Old Stars | Timothy Beers |
| Meaurement of the Astrophysically Important 40Ca(alpha,gamma)44Ti Reaction | Daniel Robertson |
| Lunch | |
| Session 13. Core collapse SN, mergers and the r process II Chair: Richard Boyd |
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| The obstacles of the r process, the nuclear requirements, and the still missing convincing sites | Almudena Arcones (30', invited) |
| Modelling the inspiral and merger of binary neutron stars |
Luciano Rezzolla (30', invited) |
| Evolution of Very Massive Stars and Type Ic Supernovae | Takashi Yoshida |
| r-Process in Jet Ejecta of Magnetorotational Core Collapse Supernovae | Friedrich Thielemann |
| Nucleosynthesis from Black-Hole Accretion Disks: Neutrino Flavor Transformation |
Gail McLaughlin |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 14. Core collapse SN, mergers and the r process III Chair: Chris Sneden |
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| A systematic experimental study of r-process nuclei | Shunji Nishimura (30', invited) |
| Observations of SN light curves and implications for nucleosynthesis | Daniel Kasen (20', invited) |
| The synthesis of light n-capture elements at low metallicity |
Carla Frohlich |
| The second r-process | Camilla Hansen |
| Nucleosynthesis in Hypernovae and Other Unusual Supernovae, compared with the Abundance Patterns of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars | Ken'ichi Nomoto |
| Observationally determined abundances in Core Collapse SNe and dust | John Danziger |
| Conference Dinner | |
| Friday 10th August | |
| Session 15. The early universe Chair: Jennifer Johnson |
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| Observational evidence for the first stars and constraints on stellar models | Wako Aoki (30', invited) |
| Nuclear aspects of Big Bang nucleosynthesis | Taka Kajino (20', invited) |
| Near-pristine gas at high redshifts: a window on early nucleosynthesis | Max Pettini (30', invited) |
| Chemical Yields and Structural/Nucleosynthetic Evolution of Ultra Metal-poor Low-mass Stars |
Simon Campbell |
| The two cosmological Li problems : 6Li and 7Li abundances inmetal-poor halo star | Karen Lind |
| Influence of the variation of fundamental constants on the primordial nucleosynthesis | Alain Coc |
| LUNA data on the 2H(a,y)6Li reaction and Big Bang nucleosynthesis | Carlo Gustavino |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 16. Galaxy evolution Chair: Francesca Matteucci |
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| Astroarcheology | Ken Freeman (30', invited) |
| Galactic chemical evolution | Gabriele Cescutti (20', invited) |
| Abundances in globular clusters | David Yong (20', invited) |
| The Galactic Terrestrial Zone |
Brad Gibson |
| Timescales for Chemical Evolution: Ages with a New Technique | Courtney Epstein |
| Lunch | |
| Speech | Brian Schmidt (30', invited) |
| Poster Prizes | |
| Session 17. Radioactivity and meteorites Chair: Kujeet Marhas |
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| Radioactivity in the Universe | Roland Diehl (20', invited) |
| The early solar system | Meenakshi "Mini" Wadhwa (20', invited) |
| Lessons from stardust grains | Larry Nittler (20', invited) |
| Nucleosynthetic signatures in meteoritic materials | Maria Schonbachler (20', invited) |
| On the origin of high-density presolar graphite grain |
Ernst Zinner |
| Ni isotope systematics in chondrules from unequilibrated chondrites toconstraint 60Fe in the early Solar system | Ritesh Mishra |
| NICXIII & farewell till then! | |
The LOC is deeply grateful to Richard Cyburt for leading the organisation of the lunchtime sessions.