2015 National Nuclear Physics Summer School

LLNL was honored to co-host the 2015 National Nuclear Physics Summer School.

During the ten-day event, 18 presenters from national labs and academia shared their expertise with nuclear physics graduate students and postdocs. They explored a broad range of topics, including nuclear reactions, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear medicine, nuclear security, nuclear and hadronic structure, heavy ions, fundamental symmetries, lattice QCD, and computational nuclear physics.

The annual summer school events are administered by the Institute for Nuclear Theory. Other co-hosts for the 2015 event included the University of California, Davis, and the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC) led by UC Berkeley.

Event Information

Dates: June 15–25, 2015

Location: Lake Tahoe, California

Presentations

Presenter	Institution	Topics
A. Baha Balantekin	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos-Theory (PDF)
Jeff Blackmon	Louisiana State University	Nuclear Astrophysics Introduction, Formalism, Big Bang and H Burning (PDF) He Burning, Heavy Elements and S Process (PDF) Stellar Explosions (PDF)
Carl Brune	Ohio University	Nuclear Science in High Energy Density Plasmas (PDF)
Heather Crawford	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Low-Energy Nuclear Experiments: The Basics (PDF) Ground States and Excitation Spectra (PDF) Probing Wavefunctions (PDF)
David Dean	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Computational Science (PDF)
Dan Dwyer	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Experiments in Neutrinos and Fundamental Symmetries (PDF)
Morten Hjorth-Jensen	University of Oslo, Norway	Nuclear Structure Theory and Reactions (PDF)
Barbara Jacak	UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Energy Loss and Opacity in the Quark Gluon Plasma (PDF) Screening and EM Probes (PDF)
Walter Loveland	Oregon State University	The Quest for Superheavy Elements (PDF)
Augusto Macchiavelli	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Gamma-Ray Tracking (PDF)
Naomi Makins	University of Illinois	Nuclear Physics in Four Quadrants (PDF)
Gail McLaughlin	North Carolina State University	Nuclear Astrophysics (PDF) Nucleosynthesis (PDF) The R-Process of Nucleosyntehsis (PDF)
Greg Mitchell	UC Davis	Nuclear Physics and Medical Imaging (PDF)
Scott Pratt	Michigan State University	Idealized Partonic Matter (PDF) Modeling Heavy Ion Collisions and Connecting QGP Properties to Experiment (PDF) Quantitative Conclusions from Heavy-Ion Collisions (PDF)
Martin Savage	Institute for Nuclear Theory	Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics (PDF)
Ron Soltz	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Nuclear Security in the 21st Century (PDF)
Michael Thoennessen	Michigan State University	The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (PDF)
Feng Yuan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hadron Physics and QCD Theory (PDF)