Astrophysics Luncheon
When: 12:00 noon, first Thursday of each month Where: Conference Room A, Argonne Cafeteria (Bldg 213) Organizers:
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Here is our schedule:
2008 |
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January 3 | Joe Bernstein (HEP) | Probing the Depths: Relativistic, Hydrodynamic Simulations and X-ray Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae SPECIAL LOCATION - BUILDING 203, ROOM R-150 |
February 7 | Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab) | COUPP: Searching for Dark Matter with Bubble Chambers |
March 6 | Emil Tripa (MSD) | Measurements of Solar Wind Composition in GENESIS Mission Returned Samples |
April 3 | Casey Meakin (U of C) | Delayed surface detonation models of thermonuclear supernovae: hydrodynamics and nucleosynthesis SPECIAL LOCATION - BUILDING 203, ROOM R-150 |
May 1 | Steve Kuhlmann (HEP) | Dark Energy Survey |
June 6 | Catherine Deibel (PHY and Michigan State University) |
Galactic Nucleosynthesis of 26Al |
July 3 | No astro lunch | Independence Day |
August 7 | Ivo Seitenzahl (U of C) | Initiation of Detonations and Energetics of Type Ia Supernovae |
September 4 | Kim Knight (Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry) | Trace element compositions from pre-solar grains: Understanding the record of stellar conditions preserved in SiC grains using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence |
2007 |
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January 4 | Dragan Huterer (U of C, KICP) | Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy in the Universe |
February 1 | Ken Nollett (PHY) | The cosmological context of nuclear astrophysics |
March 1 | Dean Townsley (U of C) | Flame Evolution During the Deflagration of a White Dwarf in a Type Ia Supernova |
April 5 | Steve Kuhlmann (HEP) | Calibration of the Air Fluorescence Measurement of Cosmic Rays |
May 3 | Darek Seweryniak (PHY) | Studies of explosive stellar environments using GAMMASPHERE |
June 7 | Deirdre Horan (HEP) | VERITAS -- History, Status and First Results |
July 5 | Hye Young Lee (PHY) | Recent Experiments on Nuclear Astrophysics at University of Notre Dame: Measurements related to the p-process, the r-process, and more |
August 2 | Amanda Karakas (Australian National University and PHY) | Nucleosynthesis in low- and intermediate-mass stars |
September 7 | No Seminar | |
October 4 | Khalil Farouqi (U of C) | Modern r-process calculations - from the static waiting point approximation to dynamical network calculations |
November 1 | No astro lunch - special HEP seminar at 11:00 | "Recent Auger Results" - Aaron Chou (NYU) - 362 auditorium |
December 6 | Carla Fröhlich (U of C) | Nucleosynthesis in the Explosion of Massive Stars SPECIAL LOCATION - BUILDING 203, ROOM R-150 |
2006 |
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January 5 | Alan Calder (U of C) | Type Ia Supernova Explosions: Deflagration to Detonation |
February 2 | Nicolas Dauphas (U of C) | Galactic chemical evolution and extinct/extant radiochronometers |
March 2 | Julia Barzyk (U of C and MSD) | Measurement of the isotopic compositions of six elements in individual presolar SiC grains |
April 6 | No lunch because of... | 3rd Argonne/MSU/INT/JINA RIA Theory Workshop |
May 4 | Bob Wagner (HEP) | The Track Imaging Cerenkov Experiment (TrICE) Telescope at Argonne |
June 1 | Xiaodong Tang (PHY) | A New Measurement of the E1 Component of the 12C(α,γ)16O Reaction |
July 6 | Fang Peng (U of C) | Sedimentation and Type I X-ray bursts |
August 3 | Hal Spinka (HEP) | Detection of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Using Radar |
September 7 | Jonathan Levine (Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry) | Lunar, Planetary, and Solar Science from Glass Impact Spherules |
October 5 | Tom Dombeck (University of Hawaii) | Pan-STARRS: A Time Survey of the Northern Sky |
November 2 | No Seminar | |
December 7 | Mike Savina (MSD) | STARDUST: NASA's comet dust return mission |
2005 |
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January 6 | Andy Davis (U of C) | Nuclear astrophysics and the Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry |
February 3 | Irshad Ahmad (PHY) | Precise measurement of long half-lives for astrophysics and geochemistry |
March 3 | Dean Townsley (U of C) | Characterizing and Understanding Accreting White Dwarf Stars |
April 7 | Toru Yada (Academica Sinica and MSD) | Silicate Stardust in Antarctic Micrometeorites |
May 5 | Paolo Privitera (University of Rome) | Fluorescence detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays |
June 2 | Jason Tumlinson (U of C) | Near-Field Cosmology, or, What The Galaxy Can Teach Us About the First Stars |
July 7 | Mike Papka (MCS) | Visualization Experiences from the Flash Center |
August 4 | Andy Davis (U of C) | A Progress Report on the Genesis Mission to Sample the Sun |
September 1 | Ernst Rehm (PHY) | The origin of carbon and oxygen in the universe (an experimentalist's point of view) |
October 6 | Prashanth Jaikumar (PHY) | Quark stars: Astrophysics at the highest densities |
November 3 | Elizabeth Hays (HEP and U of C) | Recent Results in TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy |
December 1 | Kaori Otsuki (U of C) | Astrophysical site for the r-process |
2004 |
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April 1 | Organizational meeting | organizers (or proxies) describe their research |
May 6 | Rich Talaga (HEP) | The Auger Observatory and Argonne |
June 3 | Ken Nollett (PHY) | Big bang nucleosynthesis, with and (mostly) without weird stuff |
July 1 | Jason Clark (PHY, Manitoba) | "Stellar" measurements along the astrophysical rp-process path |
August 5 | Michael Paul (Racah Institute) | Deep sea astronomy? |
September 2 | Michael Savina (MSD) | Hands-on astrophysics: stardust in the lab |
October 7 | Jim Truran (PHY and UofC) | Nuclear physics of Type Ia supernovae |
November 4 | Art Champagne (North Carolina and TUNL) | 14N(p,gamma)15O and the age of the Galaxy |
December 2 | Karen Byrum (HEP) | Astro-particle physics: new initiatives at Argonne |
There has been tremendous growth in interest in astrophysics at Argonne over last several years, and this effort spans several divisions. Examples of current research include:
- studies of presolar grains recovered from meteorites in MSD
- HEP division participation in the Dark Energy Survey
- measurements of nuclear masses, reaction rates, level widths, decay rates in PHY
- theoretical studies of reaction properties of nuclei in PHY
- theoretical work on properties of neutron star and strange star matter in PHY
- constraints on dark matter in HEP
- HEP efforts relating to Pierre Auger cosmic ray observatory
- work on the VERITAS telescope for gamma-ray astronomy in HEP
- efforts in nova and supernova simulation involving MCS
The purpose of these talks is get people together from across Argonne who are working in these and related areas, and encourage communication. We learn about relations between our research efforts, educate each other, and keep each other up to date on the latest news.
The format is informal, conducted over lunch, with a half-hour to one-hour presentation each time. Most speakers are from Argonne or the University of Chicago, but we also have talks from visitors to the lab and university. So as not to add much to the seminar load, meetings are held monthly, on the first Thursday of each month.