CeNAM 2025: Conference Schedule
Junior Meeting – Day 1
| Time | Event |
| 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Coffee and Registration |
| 8:30 am – 8:45 am | Welcome Michael Jeswald and Chirag Rathi |
| 8:45 am – 9:15 am | Nuclear Theory Overview Alexandra Semposki |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am | Contributed Talk Jose Daniel Trujillo Suarez SiRop Implementations: The Alpha Process, Mass Models, and Sensitivity Analysis |
| 9:30 am – 9:45 am | Contributed Talk Bibek Gautam Collapsar Nucleosynthesis |
| 9:45 am – 10:00 am | Contributed Talk Ante Ravlic Self-consistent microscopic calculations for electron captures on nuclei in core-collapse supernovae |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am – 11:15 am | Professional Development – Public Engagement Shelley Lesher |
| 11:15 am – 12:00 pm | Professional Development – Policy Advocacy Callie Pruett Schwaber |
| 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Observational Astronomy Overview John Dixon |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | Contributed Talk Rahul Jain Indirect measurements of neutron capture cross-sections on heavy elements |
| 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Contributed Talk Anirban Dutta Detection prospects of ɣ-rays from Type Ia supernovae with COSI: Can we distinguish between explosion scenarios? |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Contributed Talk Kaitlin Webber Abundance Analysis of the Turranburra and Willka Yaku Stellar Streams |
| 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm | Contributed Talk Chun Huang Cracking Neutron Star Mysteries with CompactObject package: Bayesian Equation-of-State Inference and Model-Independent Constraints |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Faculty Career Panel Camilla Hansen, Mathieu Renzo, Adam Fritsch, Jaspreet Randhawa |
Junior Meeting – Day 2
| 8:15 am – 8:45 am | Coffee and Registration |
| 8:45 am – 9:15 am | Nuclear Experiment Overview Eleanor Ronning |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am | Contributed Talk Nisha Singh Constraining Astrophysical Reaction Rates with Neutron and Charged-Particle Spectroscopy |
| 9:30 am – 9:45 am | Contributed Talk Mackenzie Smith Commisioning the Separator for Capture Reactions (SECAR) for Proton Capture Reactions |
| 9:45 am – 10:00 am | Contributed Talk Maruf Abubakar Nuclear Reactions to Decode Gamma-Ray Observations from Core Collapse Supernovae (CCSNe) |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am – 11:15 am | Professional Development – Outreach Mark Lucas and Jen Parsons |
| 11:15 am – 12:00 pm | Professional Development – Grant Writing Hee-Jong Seo and Jaspreet Randhawa |
| 12:00 – 2:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Computational Astrophysics Overview Praneet Pathak |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | Contributed Talk Guruprasad Yagadevan Modeling the Galactic Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies IC~10 and IC~1613: Unique r-Process Laboratories? |
| 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Contributed Talk Chirag Rathi Weaving the Nuclear Tapestry to Probe the Cosmos: A Database-Driven Approach to Nuclear Level Densities. |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Contributed Talk Benjamin Wellons Constructing a calibration standard for photoneutron measurements using extracted cross sections of the giant-dipole resonance response in the heavy nucleus 169Tm |
| 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm | Contributed Talk Jane Kim Modeling neutron-star crusts with neural-network quantum states |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | National Lab and Industry Career Panel Maria Anastasiou, Erika Holmbeck, Fry Fang, Kirby Hermansan |
| 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Assemble & Walk to the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory |
| 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm | Optional tour of the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory |
Main Meeting – Day 1
| 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Coffee and Registration |
| 8:30 am – 8:45 am | Welcome Andrea Richard |
| 8:45 am – 9:15 am | Invited Talk Ágnes Mócsy From Quarks to Cinematic Spark |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am | Contributed Talk Sudhanva Lalit Star Log-extended eMulation: a method for efficient computation of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations |
| 9:30 am – 9:45 am | Contributed Talk Nan Liu Presolar Grains as Probes of Type II Supernova Nucleosynthesis |
| 9:45 am – 10:00 am | Contributed Talk Irin Sultana Sensitivity of Nuclear Reaction Rates in X-ray Burst Models |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Invited Talk Maria Anastasiou Measuring neutron-induced fission cross sections with precision |
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Contributed Talk Joseph Derkin Investigating Narrow Resonances in 16O + n via Precise Total Cross Section Measurements |
| 11:15 am – 11:45 am | Invited Talk Hsin-Yu Chen Inference of multi-channel r-process element enrichment in the Milky Way using neutron star merger observations |
| 11:45 am – 12:00 pm | Group Photo |
| 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Invited Talk Matthew Mumpower Let there be neutrons! Hadronic photoproduction from a large flux of high-energy photons |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | Contributed Talk Benjamin Wehmeyer Galactic chemical Evolution with short lived radioactive isotopes |
| 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Contributed Talk Maria C Babiuc Hamilton Temperature-dependent Population and Decay of Nuclear Isomers around Neutron Magic Numbers in r-process Nucleosynthesis |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Invited Talk Camilla Hansen |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Assemble & Walk to Edwards Accelerator Laboratory |
| 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Optional tour of the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory |
Main Meeting – Day 2
| 8:15 am – 8:45 am | Coffee and Registration |
| 8:50 am – 9:10 am | IReNA Talk Daniel Bemmerer ChETEC-INFRA |
| 9:10 am – 9:30 am | IReNA Talk Chiaki Kobayashi BRIDGCE |
| 9:30 am – 9:50 am | IReNA Talk Falk Herwig CaNPAN |
| 9:50 am – 10:10 am | IReNA Talk Achim Schwenk EMMI |
| 10:10 am – 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am – 11:00 am | IReNA Talk Luis Acosta IANNA |
| 11:00 am – 11:20 am | IReNA Talk Marco Pignatari NuGrid |
| 11:20 am – 11:40 am | IReNA Talk Takahiro Kawabata UKAKUREN/JaFNA |
| 11:40 am – 12:00 pm | IReNA Talk Hendrik Schatz CeNAM |
| 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Unconferencing Sessions |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Unconferencing Summaries |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Break to set up posters |
| 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | Poster Session and Drinks |
| 7:30 pm – EOD | Conference Dinner |
Main Meeting – Day 3
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Coffee and Registration |
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Invited Talk Mathieu Renzo Cooking nuclei in two cauldrons |
| 9:30 am – 9:45 am | Contributed Talk Aldana Grichener Nuclear Neural Networks: Emulating Late Burning Stages in Core Collapse Supernova Progenitors |
| 9:45 am – 10:00 am | Contributed Talk Hajime Sotani Supernova gravitational waves and asteroseismology |
| 10:00 am – 10:15 am | Contributed Talk Luca Boccioli Explosive Nucleosynthesis in realistic 1D+ simulations and the role of Carbon-Oxygen shell mergers |
| 10:15 am – 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am – 11:15 am | Invited Talk Franziska Maria Maier Pushing the boundaries at FRIB: High-Precision Mass Measurements Near The Driplines |
| 11:15 am – 11:30 am | Contributed Talk Sam Porter Exotic radioactive beams for nuclear astrophysics: The N = 126 Factory |
| 11:30 am – 11:45 am | Contributed Talk Marina Barbui Measurement of the 13N(α,p) and 13N(α,α) reactions with the Tick Target Inverse Kinematics Technique |
| 11:45 am – 12:00 pm | Contributed Talk Honey Arora Destruction rate for 40K via study of 37Cl(α,n)40K measurement with HeBGB detector |
| 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Invited Talk Yutaka Hirai Galactic Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Elements |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | Contributed Talk Marta Molero Forging the Heaviest Elements: Challenges and Advances in Galactic Chemical Evolution |
| 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Contributed Talk Adamu Issifu Proto-neutron Stars with Dark Matter Admixture: A Single-Fluid Approach |
| 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm | Contributed Talk Avrajit Bandyopadhyay Tracing Early Nucleosynthesis and Galactic Chemical Evolution: Insights from Metal-Poor Halo Stars and Globular Clusters |
| 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm | Closing Remarks Andrea Richard, Michael Jeswald, Chirag Rathi |