Nuclear Physics Seminar Archive

Nuclear Physics Seminar Archive

Spring 2025 | Fall 2024 | Summer 2024| Spring 2024| Autumn 2023 | Spring 2021 | Autumn 2020 | Spring 2020 | Autumn 2019 | Summer 2019 | Spring 2019 | Autumn 2018 | Spring 2018 | Autumn 2017 | Summer 2017 | Spring 2017 | Autumn 2016 | Spring 2016 | Autumn 2015 | Spring 2015 | Autumn 2014 | Spring 2014 | Autumn 2013 | Summer 2013 | Spring 2013 | Autumn 2012

 

Spring 2025

• Tuesday, March 25th

  • Title: Constraining the deconfinement phase transition properties at zero temperature with the fastest spinning millisecond pulsars
  • Speaker: Dr. Violetta Sagun, Senior Researcher in Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Southampton

• Friday, April 4th

  • Title: What the electroweak and QCD interaction can explain about the proton and vacuum structure?
  • Speaker: Dr. Zardo Becker

• Tuesday, April 15th

  • Title: Moat regimes in the phase diagram of QCD
  • Speaker: Rob Pisarski, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Fall 2024

• Tuesday, October 22

  • Title: Studying QCD in the structure of protons and nuclei
  • Speaker: Dr. Thomas Boettcher, Cincinnati University

• Friday, October 25

  • Title: MUSES – Assembling the puzzle of the nuclear phase diagram
  • Speaker: Dr. Johannes Jahan, University of Houston

• Tuesday, November 19

  • Title: Connecting Quarks to the Cosmos: The Role of Quark Masses
  • Speaker: Dr. Sanjay Reddy, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington

Summer 2024

• Wednesday, July 17

  • Title: Cold nuclear effects on azimuthal decorrelation in heavy-ion collisions
  • Speaker: Florian Cougoulic, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Spring 2024

• Monday, February 5

  • Fully Consistent NLO Calculation of Forward Single-Inclusive Hadron Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions
  • Yossathorn Tawabutr, University of Jyväskylä

• Monday, April 22

  • Hadronization studies at LHCb: jets and polarization
  • Dr. Cynthia Nunez, University of Michigan

Autumn 2023

• Monday, September 18

  • Polarization of Vector Mesons in Non-Equilibrium Hydrodynamics with Spin
  • Kayman Jhosef

• Monday, October 16

  • The Exclusive Photoproduction of a Photon-Meson Pair with Large Invariant Mass as a New Probe to Study GPDs
  • Saad Nabeebaccus, IJCLab, France

• Monday, October 23 (Room 2128)

  • Measuring QGP Temperature via Thermal Dielectrons at RHIC-STAR
  • Zhen Wang, Shangdong University

• Friday, October 27 (Room 2128)

  • Using Flow Observables from RHIC Beam Energy Scan II to Constrain the Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State
  • Agnieszka Sorenson, University of Washington, Seattle

• Friday, November 3

  • High-Energy Behavior of Quark Non-Local Operators: Implications for Lattice Calculations and Resummation Dynamics
  • Giovanni Chirilli, University of Regensburg, Germany

• Monday, November 6

  • Ab Initio Effective Potentials for Proton-Nucleus Elastic Scattering
  • Charlotte Elster, Ohio University

Spring 2021  - All Seminars Will Be Virtual
  

• Wednesday, March 31

  • Gravitational Laboratories for Nuclear Physics
  • Reed Essick, Perimeter Institute, Canada

• Wednesday, February 24

  • An Overview of Resurgence Theory and of Its Applications in Physics
  • Ovidiu Costin, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University

• Wednesday, February 17

  • What Are Cores of Neutron Stars Made Out Of?
  • Aleksi Kurkela, Stavanger University
     

•   Wednesday, March 10

  • Subatomic Smoke Rings: Polarization and Toroidal Vorticity in the QGP
  • Michael Lisa, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University

Autumn 2020  - All Seminars Will Be Virtual

• Wednesday, September 9

  • Hydrodynamic Generator in the Relaxation Time Approximation
  • Michael McNelis, The Ohio State University 

• Wednesday, September 23 @ 4:15pm

  • Towards a Unification of Gluon Distributions at Small and Moderate X
  • Yacine Mehtar-Tani, Brookhaven National Laboratory

• Wednesday, September 30 @ 4:15pm

  • Dynamics Near the Chiral Critical Point
  • Derek Teaney, Stony Brook University

• Wednesday, October 14 @ 4:15pm

  • Probing the initial State of Heavy-ion Collisions with pT-dependent Flow Fluctuations
  • Matthew Luzum, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Wednesday, October 21 @ 4:15 PM

  • Relativistic Navier-Stokes Equations
  • Pavel Kovtun, University of Victoria

• Wednesday, October 28 @ 4:15pm

  • The Ideal Fluid Limit With Polarization
  • Giorgio Torrieri, Campinas State University, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• Wednesday, November 18 @ 4:15pm

  • Search for the QCD Critical Point Both In and Out of Equilibrium
  • Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

• Wednesday, November 25 @ 4:15pm

  • Three-body Dynamics for Lattice QCD and Experiment
  • Michael Döring, George Washington University

• Wednesday, December 16 @ 4:15pm

  • Quark and Gluon quasi-PDFs at low-x
  • Giovanni A. Chirilli, Universität Regensburg

Spring 2020
 

• Wednesday, January 22 

  • Galactic Forensics - Utilizing Stellar Debris to Investigate Explosive Nucleosynthesis
  • Wei Jia Ong, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

•  Monday, January 27 @ 3:30pm

  • Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
  • Prithwish Tribedy, Brookhaven National Lab (BNL)

• Wednesday, January 29 @ 3pm

  • Intensity Interferometry and Collectivity in Small Systems
  • Christopher Plumberg, Lund University

•  Wednesday, February 5 @ 2:30pm

  • Probing Extreme Electromagnetic Fields with the Breit-Wheeler Process
  • Daniel Brandenberg, STAR collaboration, BNL/CFNS

• Wednesday, February 12

  • Uncovering the Origin of the Elements Through Total Absorption Spectroscopy
  • Stephanie Lyons, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Monday, February 17 @ 3:30pm in 4138 PRB

  • Generalized Luscher Method: An Avenue for AB Initio Calculation of Low-energy Nuclear Scattering and Reactions
  • Xilin Zhang, The Ohio State University

• Wednesday, February 26

  • Mapping the Transverse Structure of Protons
  • Caroline Riedl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Autumn 2019
 

• Wednesday, September 11 in M2035 PRB

  • Exact Solutions and Attractors for Higher-Order Dissipative Hydrodynamics for Bjorken Flow
  • Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, The Ohio State University

• Wednesday, September 25 

  • A Helicity Analogue of the JIMWLK Evolution
  • Florian Cougoulic, The Ohio State University

• Wednesday, October 9 

  • Nuclear Physics of Dark Matter Direct Detection
  • Martin Hofericheter,  University of Washington

• Wednesday, October 23 in M2035 PRB

  • Extracting Hadron's Partonic Structure from Lattice QCD Calculations
  • Jianwei Qiu, Jefferson Lab

• Special mini lecture series - 10/28 -10/31 in 1080 PRB, 11/1 in 4138 PRB (see webpage for times)

  • Relativistic Fluid Dynamics Out of Equilibrium
  • Paul Romatschke, University of Colorado 

• Wednesday, November 20

  • Computation of Deeply Inelastic Scattering Structure Functions on a Hybrid Quantum Computer
  • Andrey Tarasov, The Ohio State University

Summer 2019

•  Tuesday, July 2 at 11:00am in M2035 PRB

  • Resummation of Boson-Jet Correlation at Hadron Coliders
  • Bin Wu, CERN

Spring 2019

• Wednesday, January 30 @ 3:30pm in M2035

  • Dynamical Modeling of Relativistic Heavy-ion Collision: Correlations from Flows and Beyond
  • Chun Shen, Wayne State University  

• Wednesday, February 6 @ 3:30pm in M2035

  • Multi-dimensional Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD with Large-Momentum Effective Theory
  • Yong Zhao, MIT

• Wednesday, February 13 @ 3:30pm in M2035

  • Birdtracking and a Mysterious Symmetry of the Soft Annomalous Deimension Matrix
  • Florian Cougoulic, The Ohio State University

• Wednesday, February 20 @ 3:00pm

  • "Light-cone PDF's from Lattice QCD"
  • Martha Constantinou, Temple University

• Wednesday, March 6 @ 2:30pm

  • "Quantum Computing and Subatomic Physics: State of the Art, Challenges and Prospects"
  • Pavel Lougovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Wednesday, March 27 @ 3:00pm

  • "Lattice Simulations of Nuclear Structure and Thermodynamics"
  • Dean Lee,  Michigan State University

• Wednesday, April 3 @ 3:30pm

  • "Entrophy Production and Thermal Fluctuations in Relativistic Dissipative Hydrodynamics"
  • Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, The Ohio State University

Autumn 2018

• Monday, September 24 @ 10:30am in M2035

  • Effective Theory for Collective Nuclei
  • Toño Coello Pérez, UT Darmstadt 
     

Spring 2018

• Thursday, February 15

  • Nuclear Matter from Chrial Effective Field Theory
  • Christian Drischler, University of California, Berkeley

• Thursday, March 29

  • Correlations, Fluctuations and the QCD Phase Diagram
  • Volker Koch, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Thursday, April 5

  • Probing Transverse Momentum Broadening in Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Feng Yuan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Thursday, April 19

  • Perturbative Calculation of Holonomy Potential at Finite Temperature Beyond One Loop
  • Vladimir Skokov, RIKEN BNL Research Center

Autumn 2017

• Thursday, September 7

  • Looking for the Transition from Classical Fields to the Boltzmann Equation in Perturbation
                Theory
  • Bin Wu, The Ohio State University

• Thursday, October 26

  • New Effects in Hydrodynamics Induced by Quantum Anomaly
  • Yi Yin, MIT

Summer 2017  

• Monday, June 5

  • Third-order Viscous Corrections to Entropy Four-current and Relativistic Hydrodynamics
  • Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, Tata Insitute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Spring 2017

• Tuesday, January 17

  • Applications of Chiral Nuclear Forces up to N3LO to Nuclear Matter and Neutron Stars
  • Christian Drischler (Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt
                & ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI-GSI)

• Monday, February 20

  • Jet Quenching in Heavy-Ion Collisons
  • Guang-You Qin (Central China Normal University) 

• Monday, March 20

  • Hybrid Approach to Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at the RHIC BES Energies
  • Chun Shen (Brookhaven National Lab) 

• Monday, April 17

  • The Electro-Magnetic Probes in A+A and e+A Collisions
  • Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Lab)   

• Monday, April 24

  • Quantitative Study of Chiral Magnetic Effect from Anomolous-Viscous Hydro Dynamics
  • Shuzhe Shi (Indiana University, Bloomington) 

 Autumn 2016

• Monday, October 17 @ 1:30pm

  • New Opportunities with Solar Neutrinos
  • Shirley Li, The Ohio State University

• Monday, October 24 @ 12:30pm           

  • Universal Relations Between Nongaussian Fluctuations in Heavy-ion Collisions
  • Jiunn-Wei Chen, National Taiwan University/MIT
  • Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

• Thursday, October 27 @ 11:30am in 2128 PRB

  • Baryogenesis After Sakharov and the Proton & Durteron EDM Searches at Storage Rings
  • Nikolai N. Nikolaev, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Faculty host: Sabine Jeschonnek

• Monday, December 5 @ 1:30pm place in 2015 PRB

  • Divergence of the Gradient Expansion in Relativistic Fluids
  • Jorge Noronha, Univeristy of Sao Paulo
  • Faculty host: Urlich Heinz

Spring 2016

• Monday, March 7 @ 1:30pm in 1080 PRB - Smith Seminar Room

  • What is the Bulk Viscosity of QCD Matter?
  • Gabriel Denicol, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

• Monday, March 21 @ 1:30pm in 1080 PRB - Smith Seminar Room

  • Three-Body Systems with Short-Range Interactions
  • Jared Vanasse,  Ohio University
  • Faculty host: Richard Furnstahl

• Monday, March 28 @ 1:30pm in 1080 PRB - Smith Seminar Room

  • Critical Dynamics and Search for QCD Critical Point
  • Yi Yin, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Facutly host: Richard Furnstahl

• Monday, April 18 @ 3pm in 4138 PRB

  • Searches for Neutrino-less Double Beta-Decay: a Decade of Discovery Ahead at the ton-scale?
  • David Nygren, UT Arlington
  • Faculty host: Harris Kagan

• Thursday, May 12 @ 11:00am in 1080 PRB (Smith Seminar room)

  • Recent Insights on Anisotropic Hydrodynamics
  • Leonardo Tinti (Jan Kochanowski University)
  • Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz      

• Thursday, June 16 @ 2:00pm in 4138 PRB

  • On Wave Turbulence in Non-Abelian Plasmas
  • Yacine Mehtar-Tani, INT Seattle
  • Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

• Thursday June 30 @ 2:00pm in 4138 PRB

  • Leading Log Resummation in High-Energy Parton Production in QCD Matter
  • Bin Wu, The Ohio State University

• Friday August 5 @ 10:00am in 1080 PRB

  • A New Hadron Transport Approach for Heavy-ion Collisons
  • Jan Staudenmaier, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

Autumn 2015

• Monday, October 19 @ 1:30pm in 4138PRB

  • Effective Field Theory Approach to Collective Motion in Atomic Nuclei
  • Eduardo Coello Perez, University of Tennessee
  • Faculty host:  Richard Furnstahl

• Monday, October 26 @ 1:30pm in 4138PRB

  • Quasiparticle Equation of State for Anisotropic Hydrodynamics
  • Mohammad Nopoush, Kent State University
  • Faculty host:  Ulrich Heinz

• Monday, November 9 @ 1:30pm in 2128PRB

  • Ab Initio Emergence of Rotation in Light Nuclei
  • Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame
  • Faculty Host:  Richard Furnstahl 

• Monday, November 23 @ 1:30pm in 4138PRB

  • pQCD Thermodynamics with Massive Quarks
  • Thorben Graf, Goethe-University Frankfurt
  • Faculty Host:  Ulrich Heinz

• Monday, November 30 @ 1:30pm in 4138PRB

  • Exploring the Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Media with Dilepton Tomography
  • Gojko Vujanovic, The Ohio State University
  • Faculty Host:  Ulrich Heinz
            

Spring 2015

• Thursday, March 5 @ 10:00am

  • MUSIC with Diffusion - Recent Developments for BES Program
  • Chun Shen, McGill University
  • Faculty Host:  Ulrich  Heinz

• Thursday, March 20 @ 10:30am - Smith Seminar Room

  • Hydrodynamic Transport Coefficients for the Non-Conformal Quark-Gluon Plasma 
             from Holography
  • Jorge Noronha, San Paola University, Brazil
  • Faculty Host:  Ulrich Heinz

• Thursday, March 26 @ 10:00am

  • Nonzero Initial State Flow, Granularity, and it's Effects on Flow Harmonics
  • Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Columbia University
  • Faculty Host:  Ulrich Heinz   

• Thursday, April 23 @ 10:00am

  • Small-x Physics in Quarkonium Production at LHC
  • Beatriz Gay Ducati, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Glegre, Brazil
  • Faculty Host:  Yuri Kovchgov 

• Thursday, April 30 @ 10:00am

  • Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Beyond
  • Michael Heller (Perimeter Institute/National Centre for Nuclear Research)
  • Facutly Host:  Ulrich Heinz

• Thursday, May 28 @ 10:00am

  • An Effective Theory for Light Lattice Nuclei
  • Johannes Kirscher (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • Faculty Host:  Richard Furnstahl

• Monday, June 8 @ 3:00pm

  • Weak and Strong Coupling Energy Loss at RHIC and LHC
  • Will Horowitz, University of Cape Town
  • Faculty Host: Yuri Kovchegov

Autumn 2014
 

• Thursday, September 11 @ 10:00am

  • Probing the Properties of QCD with Atomic Nueclei: Theoretical Aspect
  • Yuri Kovchegov (The Ohio State University)

• Thursday, October 16, 2014 In M2015 PRB - CANCELLED

  • Radiative Corrections To Jet Quenching In Dense and Dilute Media
  • Fabio Dominguez (CEA Saclay - France)

• Thursday, October 30, 2014

  • Gravitational Collions and the Quark-Gluon Plasm
  • Wilke van der Schee (Utrecht University - The Netherlands)
  • Faculty host:  Ulrich Heinz

• Tuesday November 4, 2014 @ 1:00PM in M2035 PRB

  • Statistical Error Analysis of NN Interactions
  • Rodrigo Navarro Perez (University of Granada)
  • Faculty host:  Richard Furnstahl

• Thursday, November 6, 2014 @ 10:30am 

  • Next-Generation Muon g-2
  • David Hertzog (University of Washington)
  • Faculty host:  Richard Furnstahl

• Wednesday, November 19, 2014 @ 1:45pm 1080 PRB (Smith Seminar Room)

  • There and Back Again:  The Tale of Jet Production and Modification in pp,pA and
    AA Collisionsat RHIC and LHC
  • Rosi Reed (Wayne State)
  • Faculty host:  Michael Lisa

• Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - CANCELLED

  • TBD
  • Javier Albacete (University of Granada, Spain)

• Thursday, December 4, 2014

  • Studying the Validity of Viscous Hydrodynamics With a New Exact Solution of the
    Bolzmann Equation
  • Mauricio Martinez-Guerrero (The Ohio State University)

Spring 2014

• Thursday, Jan 23

  • "Universal turbulent attractor in a highly occupied non-Abelian plasma"
  • Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

• Thursday, Jan 30

  • Bulk Viscosity Effects in Event-By-Event Relativistic Hydrodynamics
  • Jacquelyn Noronha (Sao Paulo University)

• Thursday, Feb 6

  • Exact Analytical Solutions of Second-Order Conformal Hydrodynamics
  • Jorge Noronha (Sao Paulo University)

• Thursday, Feb 20

  • "Exact solutions of kinetic equation in the relaxation time approximation"
  • Radoslaw Ryblewski (Kent State University)

• Monday, April 7

  • "Isotropization in Heavy-Ion Collisions at High Energy"
  • Francois Gelis (Saclay)
  • Joint Nuclear and High Energy seminar, 2:30pm PRB 4138

• Thursday, April 10

  • "Mode-by-mode fluid dynamics for relativistic heavy ion collisions"
  • Stefan Floerchinger (CERN)

• Friday, April 25, 2:00pm, 4138 PRB

  • "Universal Turbulent Attractor in a Highly Occupied Non-Abelian Plasma"
  • Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

• Friday, July 18

  • "New formulation of leading-order anisotropic hydrodynamics"
  • Leonardo Tinti (Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, Keilce, Poland)
  • **Friday, July 18th, 10:30am, Smith Seminar Room (1080 PRB)**

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Autumn 2013

• Thursday, September 12

  • "Chiral Nuclear Forces for Exotic Nuclei and Fundamental Symmetries"
  • Jason Holt (TU DArmstadt/EMMI)

• Monday, September 16 - combined HEPT and Nuclear Seminar - 2:30 PM - 4138  PRB

  • "Chiral symmetry breaking on light-like planes"
  • Silas Beane (University of Washington)

• Thursday, September 26

  • "Non-Locality in the Similarity Renormalization Group"
  • Kyle Wendt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

•  Thursday, October 3, 2013

  • "Angular correlations (ridge) in two-particle production rates at the LHC"
  • Michael Lublinsky (Ben Gurion University, Israel)

• Thursday, October 17

  • "Recent flow results from ATLAS"
  • Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook University)

•  Friday, October 25

  • "The Regge  Limit for Green Functions in Conformal Field Theory"
  • Guido Festuccia (Niels Bohr Institute)
  • SPECIAL LOCATION:  M2035 Physics Research Building

• Tuesday, November 12

  • "Longitudinal thermalization via the Chromo-Weibel instability"
  • Maximilian Attems (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)

•  Thursday, November 14

  • "Imaging the proton with multi-particle correlations at the LHC"
  • Kevin Dusling (Physics Review Letters)

• Thursday, November 21

  • "Saturation and collectivity in proton-nucleus collisions at LHC "
  • Vladimir Skokov (Western Michigan University)

Summer 2013

• Thursday, May 23

  • "Everything flows at the LHC? The Ridges in pp, pA and AA"
  • Wei Li (Rice University)

• Thursday, June 6

  • Search for the H-dibaryon with STAR
  • Neha Shah (UCLA)

• Thursday July 25

  • "Flow in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan"
  • Alex Schmah (LBL)

Spring 2013

• Thursday, February 7

  • Spin Phenomena in Elastic Scattering of 6He and 8He off Protons
  • Charlotte Elster (Ohio University)

• Thursday, February 28

  • Regge Model for Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering and Applications to Final State Interactions
  • William Ford (Old Dominion University)

• Monday, March 4

  • Optimization of chiral NN and 3N forces  - NEW TIME:  1:00 PM
  • Andreas Ekstrom (University of Oslo and NSCL/Michigan State University)

• Thursday, March 7

  • Anisotropic Hydodynamics
  • Mike Strickland (Kent State University)

• Thursday, March 14

  • Spring Break

• Monday, March 18

  • TBA
  • Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University)

• Thursday, March 28

  • New Perspectives in QCD: Light-Front Holography and the Principle of Macimum Conformality
  • Stan Brodsky (SLAC)

Autumn 2012

•  Thursday, October 18

  • A condensed matter approach to dynamic systems at the micrometer and femtometer scales: A Tale of Two Programs
  • Mike Lisa (OSU)

• Thursday, November 1

  • Unfolding initial conditions and medium properties of Heavy Ion collisions
  • Chanaka De Silva (University of Houston)

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