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======= Spring 2024 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM only on request.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2024-01-04 | // No Research Discussion// | Classes start 01/08| | |
| 2024-01-11 |  Thomas Baumann | MSU | Development work for the next generation neutron detector | 
| 2024-01-18 |  FRIB HR  |  | RA Interview| | 
| 2024-01-25 |  | | | |
| 2024-02-01 |  | | | | 
| 2024-02-08 |  | | | |
| 2024-02-15 | Jonathon Howard | MSU | High-Efficiency and Reliable Wide Range Operation of 2 K Helium Cryogenic Systems | Nusair Hasan |
| 2024-02-22 | Salvatore Di Carlo | MSU  | TBD  |  | 
| 2024-02-29 | //No Research Discussion// | Spring Break| |  | 
| 2024-03-07 | | | | | 
| 2024-03-14 | Patrick McGlynn | MSU | TBD | Chloë Hebborn |
| 2024-03-21 | Sivahami Uthayakumaar | MSU | TBD |  Artemis Spyrou | 
| 2024-03-28 | Abel Korinsky | MSU | Meet and Greet FRIB Artist in Residence Abel Korinsky | Ana Becerril Reyes |
| 2024-04-04 | Curtis Hunt| MSU | Studying Fission near 198Pb with AT-TPC at FRIB |  |
| 2024-04-11 | Alexander Rusu | CERN | TBD | Giordano Cerizza | 
| 2024-04-18 |  | | |  | 
| 2024-04-25 | Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic | TBD | MSU |  | 



======= Fall 2023 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM only on request.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2023-08-31 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2023-09-07 |  | | | 
| 2023-09-14 | Ante Ravlic | MSU | TBD | Witek Nazarewicz | 
| 2023-09-21 |  | | | |
| 2023-09-28 | Sk Mustak Ali | MSU | Measurement of (d,p) and (d,3He) reactions with 7Be in the context of 6,7Li anomalies| Remco Zegers | 
| 2023-10-05 | Lucian Scharenberg | CERN | VMM3a/SRS — high-rate scalable front-end electronics for MPGDs| Giordano Cerizza |
| 2023-10-12 | Nicholas Dahlen | MSU | Reactor Production of Promethium-147 | Alyssa Gaiser |
| 2023-10-19 | Rohit Kumar | MSU | Determination of the dense matter equation of state from nuclear experiments and neutron star observations | Betty Tsang, William Lynch | 
| 2023-10-26 | Caitlin McCormick | MSU | TBD | Kyle Brown | 
| 2023-11-02 | Aiden Boyer, Sebastian Miki-Silva | MSU | The FRIB-EDM3 Instrument: A Tool For Creating and Studying Radioactive Molecules for Tests of Fundamental Symmetries| Jaideep Singh| 
| 2023-11-09 | DNP Practice Talks: Tom-Erik Haugen-Improved Search for CP-Violation in Ortho-Positronium Decay-(Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic) ||| 
| 2023-11-16 | Samridhi Satija | MSU | TBD | Greg Severin | 
| 2023-11-23 | //No Research Discussion// | Thanksgiving | | |
| 2023-11-30 | Andrew Candia | MSU | Application of Mercury-203 for Radiotracing Mercury in Cuttlefish| Kathi Domnanich |
| 2023-12-07 | Bashir Sadeghi | MSU | Machine Learning-Assisted Data Analysis and Prediction| Kathi Domnanich | 
| 2023-12-14 | Michaela Bronstetter | MSU | Combination of DGA and LN Columns: A Versatile Option for Isotope Production and Purification at Oak Ridge National Laboratory| Alyssa Gaiser | 
| 2023-12-21 |  | | | | 


======= Spring 2023 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2023-01-05 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2023-01-12 | Giordano Cerizza  | MSU | DAQ at FRIB | Kei |
| 2023-01-19 | | | | | 
| 2023-01-26 | |  |  |  |
| 2023-02-02 |  | | || 
| 2023-02-09 | Dr. Simon and Peter | CENPA | TBD | Chris Wrede |
| 2023-02-16 | | | | |
| 2023-02-23 | Pierre Nzabanimana | MSU | TBD | Paul | 
| 2023-03-02 | Marco Cortesi  | MSU | Detecotor development at FRIB | Kei | 
| 2023-03-09 | // No Research Discussion // | Spring Break |  |  | 
| 2023-03-16 | Elizabeth Rubino | LLNL| career opportunities at LLNL | Pablo| 
| 2023-03-23 |  |   |  |  | 
| 2023-03-30 | Duncan Kroll | MSU | TBD | Peter Knudsen |
| 2023-04-06 | Sokhana Amar | MSU | TBD | Paul |
| 2023-04-13 | Scott Essenmacher | MSU | TBD | Severin, Gregory | 
| 2023-04-20 | Thomas Baumann | MSU  | TBD | Paul | 
| 2023-04-27 | Julie Butler | MSU  | TBD | Morten | 
| 2023-05-04 | Stephanie Brown |   | TBD | Zach |

===== Fall 2022 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST in person or via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2022-09-01 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2022-09-08 |  |  | |  |
| 2022-09-15 | Artemis Tsantiri | MSU | 1st committee meeting: Constraining the Astrophysical γ Process: Cross Section Measurement of the 82Kr(p,γ)83Rb Reaction in Inverse Kinematics | Artemis/Zoom | 
| 2022-09-22 | Xiaodong Tang | Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science | TBD | Fernando Montes |
| 2022-09-29 | Shelly Lesher| UW-La Cross | TBD | Artemis | 
| 2022-10-06 | Skyy Pineda | MSU | 4th year seminar: Mirror charge radii and nuclear EOS | Kei |
| 2022-10-13 | Eleanor Ronning | MSU | Literature seminar: | Sean |
| 2022-10-20 | DNP Practice talks: Adam Anthony, Sean Dziubinski, Rahul Jain, Daniel Puentes, Ellie Ronning, Xinyi Wang, Joshua Wylie, Caley Harris, Andrew Sanchez |||| 
| 2022-10-27 | //DNP meeting//  |  |  |  | 
| 2022-11-03 |  |  |  |  | 
| 2022-11-10 | Chloe Kleinfeldt | MSU | Literature seminar: | Greg | 
| 2022-11-17 | Jochen Ballof | MSU  | TBD | Jaideep |   
| 2022-11-24 | //Thanksgiving// ||||
| 2022-12-01 | |  |  |   |
| 2022-12-08 |  | |  |  | 
| 2022-12-15 |  |  |  |  | 



=== Spring 2022 =====

Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST via Zoom and optionally in room 1300. Connection information will be provided through email.
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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2022-01-13 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2022-01-20 |Cavan Maher | MSU | Development of the charge exchange Oslo method and its application to constrain reaction rates for nucleosynthesis of 92Nb| Zoom only |
| 2022-01-27 | //Nuclear Science Seminar//: RD in the Wednesday slot||||
| 2022-02-03 |  | |  | |
| 2022-02-10 | Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Dean Lee, Witek Nazarewicz|MSU | Artificial Intelligence and machine Learning in Nuclear Physics.|Hybrid - 1300 and zoom | 
| 2022-02-17 | Vlad Bodnar| MSU | tbd | Hybrid |
| 2022-02-24 | Taylor Whitehead | MSU | Prediction of (p,n) Charge-Exchange Reactions with Uncertainty Quantification| Hybrid - 1300 and Zoom|
| 2022-03-03 | Daniel Lay and Eric Flynn | MSU |A Nudged Elastic Band Approach to Nuclear Fission Pathways| Hybrid -1300 and Zoom| 
| 2022-03-10 | //No research Discussion// | (Spring break) || 
| 2022-03-17 | Simon Giraud | MSU |Stellar electron-capture rates: recent theoretical and experimental advances|Hybrid - 1300 and Zoom |
| 2022-03-24 Zoom ONLY| Ben Hall | MSU | Solving the Nuclear Pairing Model via the Variational Quantum Eigensolver | Zoom only | 
| 2022-03-31 Zoom ONLY | Curtis Hunt | MSU | tbd | | 
| 2022-04-07 |Pablo Giuliani |MSU | The Reduced Basis Method, an efficient and broadly applicable emulator for many-body physics|Hybrid - 1300 and Zoom | 
| 2022-04-14 | Jane Kim| MSU | "Neural Network Ansätze for Variational Monte Carlo". |1300 and Zoom |
| 2022-04-21 | Ben Hall | MSU | Solving the Nuclear Pairing Model via the Variational Quantum Eigensolver | | 
| 2022-04-28 | |  | | 
| 2021-05-05 | // No Research discussion// | (Final Exams)|||



====== Fall 2021 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2021-09-02 | // No Research Discussion// | (first week of classes)|||
| 2021-09-09 | Avik Sarkar | MSU | Self-learning emulators and eigenvector continuation| Zoom |
| 2021-09-16 | Kyle Godbey | MSU | Bayesian analysis of heavy-ion fusion in TDDFT | Zoom| 
| 2021-09-22 WEDNESDAY 4:10 pm|  | |  | Zoom|
| 2021-09-23 | //Nuclear Science Seminar//: RD in the Wednesday slot|||| 
| 2021-09-30 | DNP practice talks||||
| 2021-10-06 WEDNESDAY 4:10 pm | Christian Drischler | MSU | Efficient emulators for two-body scattering observables based on eigenvector continuation|Zoom|
| 2021-10-07 | //Nuclear Science Seminar//: RD in the Wednesday slot||||
| 2021-10-14 | // DNP// |||| 
| 2021-10-21 | Jaideep Singh  | MSU | Who was Professor Thelma Irene Arnette (1920-2017)? |Zoom | 
| 2021-10-28 | Hannah Berg | MSU | Nuclear properties of the 71,72,74Co isotopes via β decay| | 
| 2021-11-04 | Jose Blanco | MSU | TBD | Zoom| 
| 2021-11-11 | | | | | 
| 2021-11-18 | | | | | 
| 2021-11-25 | //Thanksgiving// ||||
| 2021-12-02 | Kenneth Haak| MSU | "Production of neutron rich isotopes near N=126"| 
|2021-12-09 | Greg Severin| MSU | | | 
|2021-12-16 | Adam  Hartley| MSU | Extrapolating Nuclear Structure Observables Using Neural Networks| | 


====== Spring 2021 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2021-01-14 | // No Seminar // | (first week of classes)|||
| 2021-01-21 | Pablo Giuliani Posada | NSCL | TBD | |
| 2021-01-28 | // Nuclear Science Seminar // ||||
| 2021-02-04 | Tommy Tsang | NSCL | Highlight in Progress: Machine Learning Algorithms | |
| 2021-02-11 | Ruchi Mahajan| NSCL | Study of the dynamics of fusion-fission reactions using neutron multiplicity as a probe | |
| 2021-02-18 | //No Seminar// | | | |
| 2021-02-25 | Kyle Godbey | NSCL | Modern Many-body Approaches to Nuclear Dynamics | |
| 2021-03-04 | // No Seminar // ||||
| 2021-03-11 | Iulia-Maria Harca | NSCL | Fission modes in heavy ion induced fission near the interaction barrier | |
| 2021-03-18 | Sara Ayoub Miskovich | NSCL | Commissioning of the Separator for Capture Reactions in Astrophysics | |
| 2021-03-25 | Rohit Kumar | NSCL | How different fragment identification techniques can influence results of fragmentation | |
| 2021-04-01 | Taylor Whitehead | NSCL | Microscopic Global Optical Potentials for Rare Isotope Reactions | |
| 2021-04-08 |  // APS Practice Talks //  ||||
|11:00 am | Jason Surbrook | NSCL | Search for novel decay modes using 11Be at NSCL: an update | |
|11:12 am | Giovanni Pederiva | NSCL | Machine Learning Algorithms for faster determination of Lattice QCD Hadron Correlators | |
|11:24 am | Tong Li | NSCL | Nucleon localization function in rotating nuclei | |
|11:36 am | Matthew Rizik | NSCL | Lattice Renormalization of the Quark Chromoelectric Dipole Moment with the Gradient Flow | |
|11:48 am | Adam Anthony | NSCL | Fission in the neutron-deficient Pb region | |
|12:00 pm | Chun Yuen Tsang | NSCL | Impact of the neutron-star deformability on equation of state parameters | |
|12:12 pm | Joseph Wieske | NSCL | Particle Identification and Contamination in RIBs | |
|12:24 pm | Fanurs Teh | NSCL | Value-Assigned Pulse Shape Discrimination for Neutron Detectors | |
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| 2021-04-15 | Julie Butler | NSCL | Coupled Cluster theory applied to infinite matter | |
| 2021-04-22 | Erin White and Keara Hayes | NSCL | Highlights in Progress: Calibrating the Brightness of Individual Atoms for the Single Atom Microscope Project | |
| 2021-04-29 | // No Seminar// | (Final Exams)|||

====== Fall 2020 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am EST via ZOOM. Connection information will be provided through email.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2020-09-03 | // No Seminar // | (first week of classes)|||
| 2020-09-10 | Nathan Watwood | NSCL | Possible Enhancements to Fusion Cross Sections in Neutron-Rich Heavy Ion Reactions | TBA |
| 2020-09-17 |  // Nuclear Science Seminar//  |||| 
| | Javier Menéndez | University of Barcelona | From nuclear structure to weak decays: towards first principles calculations in medium-mass to heavy nuclei  | Giuliani |
| 2020-09-24 | Katie Childers  | NSCL | Working towards a validation of the β-Oslo Method; an indirect method for constraining neutron-capture reaction cross sections | TBA |
| 2020-10-01 | Jeremy Lantis | NSCL | TBA | TBA |
| 2020-10-08 | Paige Abel| NSCL | Isotope Harvesting for the Production of a 47Ca/47Sc Generator | TBA |
| 2020-10-15 |  // DNP Practice Talks //  ||||
|10:00 am | John Ash |  | | |
| 10:15 am| Dayah Chrisman | | | |
| 10:30 am| Mara Grinder | | | |
| 10:45 am| Rahul Jain | | | |
| 11:00 am| Jeremy Lantis | | | |
| 11:15 am| Aaron Magilligan | | | |
| 11:30 am| Skyy Pineda | | | |
| 11:45 am| Robert Powel | | | |
| 12:00 pm| Avik Sarkar | | | |
| 12:15 pm| Kirby Hermansen | | | |
| 12:30 pm| Tamas Budner | | | |
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| 2020-10-22 | Mejdi Mogannam | NSCL | Superallowed Alpha Decay to Doubly Magic 100Sn | TBA |
| 2020-10-29 | // No Seminar // | (DNP Meeting)|||
| 2020-11-05 | // No Seminar // | (DOE OPA)|||
| 2020-11-12 | Samuel Giuliani | NSCL |  | Nazarewicz |
| 2020-11-19 |  // Nuclear Science Seminar//  |||| 
| | Ruben de Groote and Jacek Dobaczewski | University of Jyväskylä/University of Warsaw | The magnetic octupole moment in 45Sc  | Nazarewicz |
| 2020-11-26 | // No Seminar // | (Thanksgiving)|||
| 2020-12-03 | Samridhi Satija | NSCL | Managing long-lived Spallation Products through Radiochemical Separation and Analysis | TBA |
| 2020-12-10 | Scott Essenmacher | NSCL | Zr Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements and Target Considerations | TBA |
| 2020-12-17 | // No Seminar// | (Final Exams)|||
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====== Spring 2020 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 in the NSCL Lecture Hall.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2020-01-09 (first week of classes)|      // No Seminar //             ||||
| 2020-01-16                        | Wolfgang Mittig      | NSCL |  Do the X17 boson and a new fifth force exist? |      |
| 2020-01-23                        | Chi-En Teh     | NSCL   | Neutron Detection with Large Area Neutron Array (LANA) at NSCL | Betty Tsang      |
| 2020-01-30                        |     // Highlight in Progress//             ||||
|                                   | Jaspreet Randhawa   | NSCL   | Direct measurement of 22Mg(alpha,p)25Al  and implications for X-ray burst model-observation comparisons  | Wolfgang Mittig |
| 2020-02-06                        | Vladimir Zelevinski    | NSCL | Quantum and Classical chaos in nuclei |      |
| 2020-02-13                        | Craig Reingold | University of Notre Dame | Indirect Measurement Techniques for Nuclear Astrophysics: Making Impossible Measurements (Slightly) Less Impossible | Artemis Spyrou |
| 2020-02-20                        | Simon Giraud | NSCL            | Study of core-collapse supernovae : new experimental constrains on the nuclear physics inputs | Remco Zegers |
| 2020-02-27                        | Giovanni Pederiva                     | NSCL  | Machine Learning for Lattice QCD Correlators              | Andrea Shindler     |
| 2020-03-05                        |     // Spring Break//             ||||
| 2020-03-12                        | Katharina Domnanich | NSCL     | The formation of radiolysis products during isotope harvesting with a flowing water target              | Gregory Severin     |
| 2020-03-19                        | Vojtech Kejzlar   | NSCL (C) | Statistical aspects of nuclear mass models  | Witek Nazarewicz     |
| 2020-03-26                        | Omokuyani Udiani  | NSCL (P) | Infinite Matter Equation of State and Optical Potentials from the IMSRG | Scott Bogner |
| 2020-04-02                        | Jane Kim | NSCL (R) | Solving the many-body problem with artificial neural networks  | Morten Hjorth-Jensen   |
| 2020-04-09                        | Thomas Baumann       | NSCL (R)          | Next generation neutron detector |      |
| 2020-04-16                        |     // Highlight in Progress//             ||||
|                         | Andrea Richard  | NSCL (P) | Constraining Neutron-Capture Cross Sections for i-process nuclei 102,103Mo |Sean Liddick |
|                         | Herlik Wibowo  | Western Michigan (C) | Relativistic Nuclear Response Theory at Finite Temperature |Elena Litvinova |
|                         | Cade Dembski | NSCL (R)| A.I. for nuclear physics: student hackathon | Artemis Spyrou |
| 2020-04-23                        | Katie Childers | NSCL (P) | Validating the beta-Oslo method: An indirect method for constraining neutron-capture cross sections | Sean Liddick |
|                         | Vojtech Kejzlar | NSCL (R) | Statistical aspects of nuclear mass models | Witek Nazarewicz |
| 2020-04-30                        |     // Final Exam//             ||||

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Notes: C-Cancel, P-Postponed, R-Remote (zoom credentials will be provided)

====== Fall 2019 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 in the NSCL Lecture Hall.

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^    Date                           ^ Speaker              ^ Institution   ^ Title         ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2019-08-29 (first week of classes)| No Seminar           |               | NSF Site Visit|      |
| 2019-09-05                        | Gregory Severin      | NSCL          | Results from Harvesting Experiments at NSCL          |      |
| 2019-09-12                        | Ben Hall             | NSCL          | Collective Neutrino Oscillations on a Quantum Computer | Hjorth-Jensen     |
| 2019-09-19                        |     // Highlight in Progress//             ||||
|                                   | Kellen McGee         | NSCL          | Doubling FRIB energy: First test results of a new superconducting medium-beta accelerating cavity              | Ostroumov    |
|                                   | Aldric Revel         | NSCL          | Extending the South Shore of the Island of Inversion to 28F | Iwasaki |
| 2019-09-26                        | Remco Zegers         | NSCL          | Constraining electron-capture rates in core-collapse supernovae through charge-exchange reactions |      |
| 2019-10-03                        |     // DNP Practice Talks //               ||||
|                             11:00 | John Ash       | NSCL           | High-spin States and Cross-shell Excitations in 46Ca | |
|                             11:15 | Jeremy Lantis       | NSCL           | Electron Population Manipulation of Transition Metal Isotopes in an RFQ Ion Trap | |
|                             11:30 | Mara Grinder       | NSCL           | Precision Lifetime Measurements of Excited States in 38Si | |
|                             11:45 | Robert Elder       | NSCL           | Probing Large Collectivity in Mg-32 with a Recoil-distance Lifetime Measurement| |
|                             12:00 | Katie Childers       | NSCL           | Constraining the cross section of 82Se(n,g)83Se to validate the beta-Oslo method| |
|                             12:15 | Robert Powel       | NSCL           | Precise Calibration of Laser Frequency for determination Sc Charge Radii| |
|                             12:30 | Jaclyn Schmitt       | NSCL           | Probing Spin-Isospin Excitations in Proton-Rich Nuclei via the (p,n) Reaction| |
| 2019-10-10                        | Brad Sherrill         | NSCL           | NSCL users webinar  |  |
| 2019-10-17                        |     // DNP //                ||||
| 2019-10-24                        | Wolfgang Mittig      | NSCL           | Dark matter research in nuclear physics  |    |
| 2019-10-31                        | Shumpei Noji         | NSCL           | Conceptual design of the HRS  |  |
| 2019-11-07                        | Skyy Pineda          | NSCL    | New Measurement of the 1S-3S Transition Frequency of Hydrogen: Contribution to the Proton Charge Radius Puzzle | Minamisono     |
| 2019-11-14                        | No Seminar          |         | DoE/OPA         |      |
| 2019-11-21                        |     // Highlight in Progress //            ||||
|                                   | Julie Butler         | NSCL            |Deep Learning and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem | Hjorth-Jensen|
| 2019-11-28                        |     // Thanksgiving //      ||||
| 2019-12-05 (last week of classes) | FRIB theory fellow |         |               | Nunes |

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====== Spring 2019 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 in the NSCL Lecture Hall.

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^    Date    ^ Speaker          ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2019-01-10 (first week of classes) |      |         |               |      |
| 2019-01-17  |  Rebecca Lewis  |   NSCL        |  Neutron capture cross sections for weak r-process environments             | Sean Liddick     |
| 2019-01-24  |  Luke Roberts   |   NSCL        | The Births and Deaths of Neutron Starts: Neutrinos, dense matter, and the r-process              |  Filomena Nunes    |
| <del>2019-01-31</del>  |   Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic       |   NSCL        |  The experiment of next week: e17006 (*)            | cancelled due to modified University operations     |
|   |   Moshe Friedman       |   NSCL        |  Beta-delayed Charged Particle Measurements for Studies of Novae and X-ray Bursts             | cancelled  |
| 2019-02-07  |   Ben Loseth    |   NSCL      | Current status of the Single Atom Microscope, a prototype detector for optically imaging the products of rare nuclear reactions              |      |
| 2019-02-14  |  Terri Poxon-Pearson              |  NSCL        | Update on CHEX: A tool for exploring charge-exchange reaction theory              | Filomena Nunes     |
| 2019-02-21  |   Andrew Miller             |  NSCL        |  Charge radii of neutron-deficient calcium isotopes             | Kei Minamisono     |
| 2019-02-28  |  //HiP - Highlights in Progress//   (Rob Elder, Mark Spieker)            ||||
|              | Rob Elder              |  NSCL          |   Reaction and lifetime studies of 32Mg through 2-proton knockout             |          |
|              | Mark Spieker               |   NSCL         | One-proton and one-neutron knockout reactions from N=Z=28 56Ni to the A=55 mirror pair 55Co and 55Ni               |          |
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| 2019-03-07  |    Spring Break                                 ||||
| 2019-03-14  |  Jaspreet Randhawa      |  NSCL       |   Nuclear astrophysics with active-target time projection chamber            |   Wolfgang Mittig   |
| 2019-03-21  |  Matt Rizik        |  NSCL     |    Renormalization of CP-violating Operators in Perturbative QCD Using the Yang-Mills Gradient Flow     |     Andrea Shindler       |
| 2019-03-28  |    //APS April meeting practice talks//                ||||
|     10:00 |Xingze Mao | NSCL | Complex-energy description of open molecular and nuclear systems  | |
|     10:15 |Jason Surbrook | NSCL | Search for novel decay modes using 11Be | |
|     10:30 |Daniel Rhodes | NSCL | Sub-Barrier Coulomb excitation of 106Cd with the JANUS setup at ReA3  | |
|     10:45 |Ben Loseth  | NSCL | Assembly and development of the prototype Single Atom Microscope  | |
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| 2019-04-04  |   //HiP - Highlights in Progress//     (Andrea Shindler)         ||||
|             |   Andrea Shindler  |  NSCL  | Nucleon Electric Dipole Moment Results from Lattice QCD using Gradient Flow  | Dean Lee  |
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| 2019-04-11  |  Roy Ready     |  NSCL       | Towards a more sensitive measurement of the permanent electric dipole moment of Radium-225            |  Rm.1300, Jaideep Singh    |
| 2019-04-18  |  Moshe Friedman              | NSCL         |    Beta-delayed Charged Particle Measurements for Studies of Novae and X-ray Bursts                 |  Chris Wrede    |
| <del>2019-04-25 (last week of classes)</del>  |    C. Jeff Martoff            |  Temple University        | HUNTER - Laser-trapped radioactive atom facility and sterile neutrino search              | cancelled       |
(*) Short presentation for on-going experiments


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====== Fall 2018 =======
Research Discussions are held on Thursdays at 11:00 in the NSCL Lecture Hall.

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^    Date    ^ Speaker          ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host / Room Change ^ 
| 2018-08-30 |   Jaideep Singh    | NSCL | EDM searches in the FRIB era    |   |
| 2018-09-06 |   Barak Schmookler | MIT   | Isospin dependence of the EMC effect and short range correlations   | Alexandra Gade   | 
| 2018-09-13 |   Jun Chen | NSCL   | Experimental Nuclear Structure Data Evaluation and Visualization Tools for ENSDF database |    |
| 2018-09-20 |   Mark Spieker | NSCL   | High-resolution (p,t) study of low-spin states in <sup>240</sup>Pu: Octupole excitation, alpha clustering, and other structure features  |    | 
| 2018-09-27 |  //HiP - Highlights in Progress//   (Tommy Tsang, Linda Hlophe)       |||| 
|            |  Tommy Tsang | NSCL | Neutron star properties from gravitation wave and nuclear physics constraints| |
|            |  Linda Hlophe | NSCL | Few-body universality in the deuteron-alpha system | |
| 2018-10-04 |   Stephanie Lyons  | NSCL   | Total Absorption Sepctroscopy of <sup>69,71</sup>Co Beta-Decay | Rm.1300   | 
| 2018-10-11 |    //DNP Practice Talks//   ||| Rm.1300 | 
|  9:30   | Jeremy Lantis | NSCL | Development of Optical Pumping Technique for Determination of Charge Radii and Nuclear Moments for Fe and Zr isotopes | |
|  9:45   | Andrew Miller | NSCL | Charge radii of neutron-deficient 36,37,38Ca             | |
|    10:00     | Katherine Childers | NSCL | Constraining the cross section of 82Se(n, γ)83Se to validate the β-Oslo method           | |
|    10:15     | Rebecca Lewis | NSCL | Experimentally constrained 70Ni(n,γ)71Ni cross section            | |
|    10:30     | Alicia Palmisano | NSCL | Cross Section Measurements of 84Kr(p,γ)85Rb            | |
|    10:45     | Lisa Carpenter | NSCL | Cluster Structure and Three-Body Decay of 14C          | |
|    11:00     | John Ash | NSCL | Nuclear Spectroscopy of 44,46Ca with Fusion Reactions Induced by Reaccelerated Rare-isotope Beams             | |
|    11:15     | Robert Elder | NSCL | Reaction and lifetime studies of 32Mg through 2-proton knockout      | |
|    11:30     | Dayah Chrisman | NSCL | Neutron Unbound States in the Island of Inversion             | |
|    11:45     | Daniel Votaw | NSCL | Measurement of 9He ground and excited states           | |
| 2018-10-18 |  Bingshui Gao | NSCL | Constraining electron-capture rates near N~50 via the (t,<sup>3</sup>He) charge-exchange reaction| Rm.1300, Remco Zegers |
| 2018-10-25 |          //DNP//              ||||         
| 2018-11-01 |  Kosho Minomo  | NSCL   | Investigation of bare and effective interactions via direct nuclear reactions   | Scott Bogner   |
| 2018-11-08 |    //DOE-OPA//  ||| (no seminar) |
| 2018-11-15 |  Jiangming Yao  | NSCL   |  Computing low-lying states of deformed nuclei with chiral NN+3N interactions  | Heiko Hergert    | 
| 2018-11-22 |     //Thanksgiving//             |||| 
| 2018-11-29 |  //HiP - Highlights in Progress// (Fry Fang - Spin Group, Bingnan Lu - Lee Group )         ||||  
|            |    Fry Fang  | NSCL | Progress Towards the Single Atom Microscope - Growing Thin Films of Noble Gases of SAM   | |
|            |    Bingnan Lu          | NSCL |  Ab initio nuclear thermodynamics  | |
| 2018-12-06 (last week of classes) | Special seminar | | (FRIB theory alliance fellow candidate talk)  | |
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 ====== Spring 2018 ======

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^    Date    ^       Speaker      ^ Institution ^ Title ^ Host ^ 
| 2018-01-18 |  Gregory Potel  |  FRIB  |   A novel and universal polarization phenomenon  |    | 
| 2018-01-25 |   Sherry J. Yennello   \\  (Women and Minorities Lecture Series)  |  Texas A&M  |  Toward inclusive excellence in nuclear science  |  | 
| 2018-02-01 |    |    |  |  | 
| 2018-02-08 |   Augusto Macchiavelli  |  LBL  |  Spectroscopic Factors in the Islands of Inversion à la Nilsson   |  Dirk Weisshaar  | 
| 2018-02-15 |    |    |  Cancelled   |     |
| 2018-02-22 |  Tenzin Ragba  |  FRIB  |  Upgrades for an Improved Measurement of the Permanent EDM of Ra-225  |  Jaideep Singh  | 
| 2018-03-01 |  Highlight in Progress   |||| 
|   |   Simin Wang   |   FRIB   |   Study on two-proton radioactivity with Gamow Coupled-Channel approach   |   Witek Nazarewicz   |
| 2018-03-08 |     Spring Break   |||| 
| 2018-03-15 |    |    |  |    | 
| 2018-03-22 |   Larry Weinstein   |  ODU  |  From Nuclear Structure to Nucleon Structure  | Jaideep Singh | 
| 2018-03-29 |    APS April Meeting  Practice  Talks   |||| 
|   |  Lisa Carpenter   |   FRIB    |  Cluster Structure and Three-Body Decay in 14C  |  |
|   |  Sara Ayoub   |   FRIB    |  SECAR: The Separator for Capture Reactions in Astrophysics  |  |
|   |  Rachel Titus   |   FRIB    |  Impact of electron-captures on nuclei near N=50 on core-collapse supernovae  |  |
|   |  Steven A. Fromm   |   FRIB    |  Improving the Optical Trapping Efficiency in the 225Ra Electric Dipole Moment Experiment via Monte Carlo Simulation  |  Jaideep Singh  |
|   |  Brent Glassman  |  FRIB  |  β-delayed γ decay of 20Mg and the 19Ne(p,γ)20Na breakout reaction in Type I X-ray bursts  |  Christopher Wrede  |
|   |  Justin Lietz  |   FRIB    |  Computational Developments for Coupled Cluster Theory With Triples and Three-Body Forces  |    |
|   |  Hao Lin  |  FRIB  |  New Development on Modelling Fluctuations and Fragmentation in Heavy-Ion Collisions  |  |
| 2018-04-05 |    Highlight in Progress   |||| 
|   |  Alex Brown   |   FRIB    |  Microscopic calculations of nuclear level  \\  densities with the Lanczos method  |  |
|   |  Vladimir Zelevinsky   |   FRIB    |   Constant temperature model of the level density and attempts to understand its physical meaning  |  |
| 2018-04-12 |  Denise Caldwell  |   NSF   |  The National Science Foundation: What we do and what it’s like to work there  |    | 
| 2018-04-19 |  Ben Loseth  |  NSCL  |  |  Jaideep Singh  | 
| 2018-04-25 (WEDNESDAY!!) |  Morten Hjorth-Jensen  |  FRIB/UiO  |  Solving many-body problems with machine learning approaches  |    | 
| 2018-05-03 |  Mallory K. Smith  |  FRIB  |  |    | 
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