Theory Seminar Graduate Coffee Discussions take place at **11:00 AM** via Zoom (ID: [[zoom>976 2602 8072|976 2602 8072]], Passcode ''48824'').

Faculties will prepare graduate students for the next Nuclear Theory Seminar. 
All graduate students are invited to attend.

For inquiries, please contact Xilin Zhang: [[zhangx@frib.msu.edu]]

=== Spring 2024 ===

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^ Date       ^ Seminar Speaker      ^ Lecturer ^ Notes ^
|02/15 | Jeannie Rangel | Jeannie Rangel  | Preparation for the talk "Fusion reaction in collisions of weakly bound nuclei with heavy targets" on 02/20. Notice this coffee discussion is scheduled on Thurday, 2PM |
|02/27 | Andrea Porro| Ante Ravlic |  Preparation for the talk "Ab Initio Description of Monopole Resonances in Light and Medium Mass Nuclei" on 03/07. |
| 03/12 | Michael D. Higgins | Xilin Zhang | Preparation for the talk "An adiabatic hyperspherical approach to few-body systems in the nuclear sector" on 03/19. |
| 04/09 | Alexandra Semposki | Pablo Giuliani and Sudhanva Lalit | Preparation for the talk "From chiral EFT to perturbative QCD: a Bayesian model mixing approach to symmetric nuclear matter" on 04/16 |
| 04/23 | James Watson  | Jacob Watkins | Preparation for the talk "Quantum Algorithms for Simulating Nuclear Effective Field Theories" on 04/30 |


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=== Fall 2023 ===

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^ Date       ^ Seminar Speaker      ^ Lecturer ^ Notes ^
|09/07 | Nobuo Hinohara | Nobuo Hinohara  | Preparation for the talk "Nuclear pairing and related phenomena in nuclear dynamics" by Nobuo Hinohara on 09/12. Notice this coffee discussion is scheduled on Thurday, 10AM |
|09/19| Jhilam Sadhukhan |Eric Flynn and Sylvester Agbemava  | Preparation for the talk "Toward large-scale calculation of nuclear fission process" by Jhilam Sadhukhan on 10/3|
|10/10| Zidu Lin | Sudhanva Lalit   | Preparation for the talk "Indication of Sharp and Strong Phase-Transitions from NICER Observations" by Zidu Lin on 10/17|
|11/7| Emiko Hiyama |Joshua Wylie| Preparation for the talk "Structure of multi-neutron systems" by Emiko Hiyama on 11/14|
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=== Spring 2023 ===

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^ Date       ^ Seminar Speaker      ^ Lecturer ^ Notes ^
|01/17| Mark Caprio | Morten Hjorth-Jensen  | Preparation for the talk "Seize the moment (or radius): What to do when your (long-range) observables don't converge?" by Mark Caprio on 01/24|
|01/31| Katharine Hunt| Jacob Watkins | Preparation for the talk "Bell inequalities, Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequalities, and qubit entropy: Explorations with noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers" on 02/07|
|02/20| Ronen Weiss | Scott Bogner | Preparation for the talk "Short-range expansion for the nuclear many-body problem" on 02/21|
|03/14| Alessandro Lovato | Jane Kim  | Preparation for the talk "Variational learning quantum wave functions" on 03/21|
|04/24| Jacek Dobaczewski | Kyle Godbey  | Preview for the talk "Nuclear DFT electromagnetic moments in heavy deformed open-shell odd nuclei" on 05/02|
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