Name: Key Reactions in Nuclear Astrophysics
Start: 2021-06-22T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2021-06-24T18:30:00+02:00
Location: ECT* - Trento

Tuesday 22 June
- Tue 22 Jun
- Wed 23 Jun
- 1
  
  Welcome and Introduction by the organizers
  
  Speakers: Mrs Aurora Tumino (Facoltà di Architettura e Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore” & INFN-LNS), Mr Carlos Bertulani (Department of Physics Texas A&M University-Commerce ), José Jordi (Technical University of Catalonia), Livius Trache (“Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear), Mr Roland Diehl (Max Planck Institut fiir extraterrestrische Physik)
- 14:40
  
  Welcome ECT* Director | Gert Aarts
- Astrophysical Environments
  
  Convener: Dr Spartà Roberta (LNS INFN, Catania, Italy)
  - 2
    
    Evolution and nucleosynthesis of massive stars
    
    Speaker: Alessandro Chieffi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica – IAPS, Rome, Italy)
  - 3
    
    He burning reactions in low mass stars
    
    Speaker: Scilla Degl’Innocenti (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Italy)
- Heavy-Ion Fusion Reactions
  
  Convener: Dr Heshani Jayatissa (Argonne National Laboratory)
  - 4
    
    Experimental results on 12C+12C fusion reaction with Stella
    
    Speaker: Sandrine Courtin (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Strasbourg, France)
  - 5
    
    Discussion
  - 16:35
    
    Break
  - 6
    
    Study of ion-ion fusion mechanisms at sub-barrier energies for nuclear astrophysics
    
    Speaker: Alexandra Spiridon (“Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear)
    
    Talk's Slides
- Heavy-Ion Fusion Reactions (2) & 12C(a,g)
  
  Convener: Dario Lattuada (Univerisità KORE di ENNA & INFN-LNS)
  - 7
    
    Indirect studies of key reactions in the nucleosynthesis of massive stars
    
    Speaker: Giuseppe Gabriele Rapisarda (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia «Ettore Majorana», Università degli Studi di Catania & INFN-INS, Catania, Italy)
  - 8
    
    Precision measurement of the 12C(a,g) reaction with gamma-beam and an O-TPC
    
    Speakers: Prof. Moshe Gai (University of Connecticut), Robin Smith (Sheffield Hallam University & University of Connecticut, USA)
    
    Talk's slide
  - 9
    
    Discussion
Wednesday 23 June
- Tue 22 Jun
- Wed 23 Jun
- The r Process
  
  Convener: Kelsey Lund (North Carolina State University)
  - 10
    
    Origin of r-process elements in the Universe
    
    Speaker: Taka Kajino (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan & Beihang University, Beijing, China)
  - 11
    
    Nuclear Physics Issues in r-Process Nucleosynthesis
    
    Speaker: Grant Mathews (Center for Astrophysics, Notre Dame University, Indiana)
- Astrophysical Sources
  
  Convener: Bharat Mishra (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud , via S. Sofia 62, 95123 Catania, ITALY)
  - 12
    
    Multi-messenger signals from explosive events
    
    Speaker: Carla Frohlich (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, North Carolina)
  - 13
    
    Discussion
  - 16:20
    
    Break
  - 14
    
    Nuclear physics uncertainties in r-process observables
    
    Speaker: Rebecca Surman (Dept. of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
- Aspects of Astrophysical Sources
  
  Convener: Luca Boccioli (University of Notre Dame)
  - 15
    
    Nucleosynthesis of heavy nuclei in core-collapse supernova neutrino-driven winds
    
    Speaker: Jorge Pereira (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, Michigan)
  - 16
    
    Sensitivity of the Observed Kilonova Signal to Nuclear Physics
    
    Speaker: Kelsey Lund (North Carolina State University)
    
    Talk's Slides
  - 17
    
    Discussion

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