Workshop: Nucleosynthesis away from stability
Oct 7-9, 2015 - Goethe University Frankfurt - Germany
Meeting Location:
FIAS lecture hall
Ruth-Moufang-Straße 1
60438 Frankfurt am Main
Dep. of Physics (FB 13), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Wednesday, Oct 7th

1. Session (11:00 - 13:00)

11:00 F. Herwig, R. Reifarth - Opening

11:30 René Reifarth - Cross section measurements far from stability

12:00 Yuri Litvinov - Application of Heavy Ion Storage Rings for Nucleosynthesis Studies

12:30 Aaron Couture - Studying Neutron Capture with Apollo

13:00 Lunch break

2. Session (15:00 - 17:00)

15:00 Christoph Langer - Constraining reaction rates using direct and indirect techniques at radioactive ion beam facilities

15:30 Tanja Heftrich - Opportunities of neutron activations

16:00 Marco Röder - Coulomb Dissociation of 20,21N towards thermonuclear reaction rates

16:30 Oliver Kirsebom - Efforts towards an experimental determination of the strength of the second-forbidden transition between the ground states of 20F and 20Ne


Thursday, Oct 8th

3. Session (9:00 - 10:30)

09:00 Jelena Vesic - Electron screening - still an open problem

09:30 Albino Perego - PUSH: a novel method to model CCSN explosions and nucleosynthesis in spherical symmetry

10:00 Julia Bliss - Nucleosynthesis of lighter heavy elements in neutrino-driven winds

10:30 Coffee break

4. Session (11:00 - 12:30)

11:00 Peter Hoppe - 26Al, 32Si, and 44Ti in presolar grains from supernovae

11:30 Alexander Heger - The Impact of helium reaction rates in stellar evolution

12:00 Chris Fryer - Modeling yields with a broad range of supernova paradigms

12:30 Lunch break

5. Session (14:30 - 16:00)

14:30 Fritz Röpke - SN Ia simulations

15:00 Benoit Cote - Using Statistical Tools in Galactic Chemical Evolution Models

15:30 Sara Bisterzo - GCE and solar s-process abundances: dependence on the 13C-pocket structure


Friday, Oct 9th

6. Session (9:00 - 10:30)

09:00 Nadia Tsoneva Larionova - Pygmy resonances and stellar nucleosynthesis

09:30 Nobuya Nishimura - Sensitivity study of nuclear reaction rates relevant to heavy element nucleosynthesis

10:00 Marco Pignatari - Carbon-rich presolar grains from core-collapse supernovae

10:30 Coffee break

7. Session (11:00 - 13:00)

11:00 Christian Ritter - The extended NuGrid stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis and yield data set

11:30 Falk Herwig - i-process nucleosynthesis in hydrodynamic stellar environments

12:00 Kathrin Göbel - s- and i-process sensitivity studies

12:30 F. Herwig, R. Reifarth - Discussion and Closing