Nuclear Astrophysics
Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Washington
List of possible talk topics
Advice on student presentations
Final Schedule and some ideas
Student Talk List
December 1 (Tuesday) 5:00-6:00 Chair: Chris Laws
1. Miles Smith
#10 What is Borexino...?
2. Zoe Leinhardt
#27 Describe neutron star glitches.
3. Carsten Mueller
#36 What is the relationship between the baryon-to-photon
ratio and the amount of visible matter we see?
4. John Armstrong
#8 Tell us about the theory of helioseismology...
December 3 (Thursday) 5:00-6:00 Chair: Zoe Leinhardt
1. Frank Froemel
#38 What is the evidence for a central black hole in our galaxy?
2. Andreas Diehl
#21 Tell us about observations of gamma ray bursts.
3. Chris Laws
#6 What is an axion and how does it arise in particle physics?
4. Vandana Desai
#41 How are light curves of supernovae measured?
December 4 (Friday) 5:00-6:00 Chair: Andreas Ipp
1. C. D. Hoyle
#30 Tell us about pion and kaon condensation in a neutron star.
2. Cheng-Pang Liu
#40 Tell us about the cooling of neutron stars.
3. Sean Matt
#7 Describe how helioseismology measurements are made...
4. Pieter Mumm
#5 Describe stellar cooling limits on axions, neutrino
magnetic moments, Dirac neutrinos, etc.
5. Armin Rest
#34 Dark matter, machos, and gravitational lensing
December 8 (Tuesday) 5:00-6:00 Chair: C. D. Hoyle
1. Justin Cobbs
#18 Tell us about gamma rays observed from Orion...
2. Darren Reed
#13 Tell us about the cosmic background neutrinos and why...
3. Rory Barnes
#22 Tell us about theories of the origins of gamma ray bursts.
4. Ben Williams
#28 What progress has been made observationally in understanding
the properties of neutron stars...
December 10 (Thursday) 5:00-6:00 Chair: Pieter Mumm
1. Andreas Ipp
#19 Tell us about the measurements of r-process metals in
very old metal poor stars...
2. Nicolas Reinschmidt
#44 Describe processes by which neutrino pairs can be produced
by stars.
3. Volker Haas
#42 What is a pulsar?
4. Beth Willman
#29 What theory goes in to understanding the equation of state
of nuclear matter in a neutron star?
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