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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