Hirschegg 2017 - Program

Afternoon 17 h - 21 h: Registration and Reception at the Darmstädter Haus

09:15 - 09:30	Organizers Welcome

09:30 - 12:00	Morning Session (chair: Thomas Neff)
09:30 - 10:10	James Lattimer (Stony Brook) Properties of Neutron Stars From Radio, X-Ray and Gravitational Radiation

10:10 - 10:40	Break/Refreshments

10:40 - 11:20	Sanjay Reddy (Seattle) Nuclear and particle physics aspects of neutron star mergers.
11:20 - 12:00	Andreas Bauswein (Heidelberg) Equation of state constraints from postmerger gravitational-wave emission


16:30 - 17:00	Refreshments


17:00 - 19:10	Afternoon Session (chair: Tobias Fischer)

17:00 - 17:40	Gail McLaughlin (Raleigh) Matter Neutrino Resonance in Compact Object Mergers
17:40 - 18:10	Hannah Yasin (Darmstadt) Neutrino pair annihilation above neutron star merger remnants
18:10 - 18:40	Niels-Uwe Bastian (Wroclaw) Towards a unified quark-hadron equation of state for neutron stars, supernovae and heavy-ion collisions
18:40 - 19:10	Matthias Hanauske (Frankfurt) How to verify the quark-gluon plasma with gravitational-wave detectors

09:00 - 12:10	Morning Session (chair: Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo)

9:00 - 9:40	Bangalore Sathyaprakash (University Park) Understanding the nuclear equation of state from gravitational wave observations
9:40 - 10:20	Stephan Rosswog (Stockholm) Compact binary mergers: what else apart from gravitational waves?

10:20 - 10:50	Break/Refreshments

10:50 - 11:30	Leyla Atar (Darmstadt) Quasi-free one proton knockout reactions along the oxygen isotopic chain
11:30 - 12:10	Stefan Typel (Darmstadt) From nuclei to stars with a relativistic density functional


16:30 - 17:00	Refreshments


17:00 - 19:20	Afternoon Session (chair: Hans Feldmeier)

17:00 - 17:40	Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) Nuclear masses and the site of r-process nucleosynthesis
17:40 - 18:20	Meng-Ru Wu (Copenhagen) r-process nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers
18:20 - 18:50	Marius Eichler (Darmstadt) The Role of Fission on Neutron Star Mergers and its Impact on the r-Process Peaks
18:50 - 19:20	Samuel Andrea Giuliani (Darmstadt) Impact of fission on r-process nucleosynthesis within the energy density functional theory

09:00 - 12:00	Morning Session (chair: Robert Roth)

09:00 - 09:40	Klaus Blaum (Heidelberg) Precision mass measurements for nuclear astrophysics and neutrino physics studies
09:40 - 10:20	Shunji Nishimura (Wako) Experimental beta-decay rates of r-process nuclei

10:20 - 10:50	Break/Refreshments

10:50 - 11:30	Jonathan Engel (Chapel Hill) Calculating beta Decay for the r Process
11:30 - 12:00	Takaharu Otsuka (Tokyo) Quantum Self Organization and its implications in atomic nuclei


16:30 - 17:00	Refreshments


17:00 - 19:20	Afternoon Session (chair: Gail McLaughlin)
17:00 - 17:40	Paulo Freire (Bonn) Neutron star mass measurements and tests of the nature of gravitational waves
17:40 - 18:20	Jennifer Barnes (Berkeley) The effect of r-process nucleosynthesis on kilonova observables
18:20 - 18:50	Ryan Wollaeger (Los Alamos) Realistic macronova models with detailed elemental opacities and thermalized r-process heating
18:50 - 19:20	Federico Guercilena (Frankfurt) Entropy limited hydrodynamics: a novel approach to relativistic hydrodynamics


20:00	Conference Dinner

09:00 - 11:50	Morning Session (chair: Camilla Hansen)

09:00 - 09:40	Anna Frebel (Cambridge) Observing the signature of a single prolific r-process event in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy
09:40 - 10:20	Tsvi Piran (Jerusalem) Compact Binary Mergers as sources of Heavy r-process Nucleosynthesis

10:20 - 10:50	Break/Refreshments

10:50 - 11:20	Terese Hansen (Pasadena) r-Process-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way Halo and its Satellites
11:20 - 11:50	Taka Kajino (Tokyo) A new model of Galactic chemo-dynamical evolution to solve the mystery of r-process origin: Neutron star mergers vs. supernovae


16:30 - 17:00	Refreshments


16:45 - 17:15	Anna Frebel/Stephan Rosswog Discussion Session
17:15 - 19:05	Afternoon Session (chair: Bengt Friman)

17:15 - 17:55	Kai Hebeler (Darmstadt) Equation of state constraints from nuclear physics and observation
17:55 - 18:35	Nicolas Chamel (Brussels) Structure and properties of neutron-star crusts with Brussels-Montreal nuclear energy density functionals
18:35 - 19:05	Svenja Kim Greif (Darmstadt) Constraining the radius of neutron stars through the moment of inertia

09:00 - 12:00	Morning Session (chair: Anna Frebel)

09:00 - 09:40	Camilla Hansen (Copenhagen) Mapping the r-process using stellar observations
09:40 - 10:10	Arus Harutyunyan (Frankfurt) Electrical conductivity of a warm neutron star crust in magnetic fields

10:10 - 10:40	Break/Refreshments

10:40 - 11:10	Andreas Koch (Lancaster) Peculiar abundance patterns in Galactic bulge stars


16:30 - 17:00	Refreshments


17:00 - 18:30	Afternoon Session (chair: Jörn Knoll)

17:00 - 17:30	Nils Paar (Zagreb) Discerning the symmetry energy and neutron star properties from nuclear collective excitations
17:30 - 18:00	Horst Lenske (Giessen) Nuclear Pygmy Modes as Doorways to Nucleosynthesis
18:00 - 18:30	Yusuke Tanimura (Darmstadt) Microscopic phase-space exploration of nuclear fission


20:30 -	Glühwein-Party