Course Materials

Acknowledgement Policy

If your research benefits from collaborations or insights that began at this summer school, we kindly ask that you include the following acknowledgment in any resulting publications:

"This work benefited from discussions at the Third Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics Summer School at Ohio University, supported by IReNA under National Science Foundation Grant No. OISE-1927130."

Lecture Materials

Day 1: Nuclear Theory

• Alexandra Semposki – Nuclear Theory in the Precision Era: An Overview

• Brendan Reed – Nuclear Structure and Density Functional Theory

• Brady Martin – Reaction Theory
  
  

Day 2: Nuclear Experiment

• Rahul Jain – Experimental Nuclear Reaction Measurements

• Sivahami Uthayakumaar  – Techniques to Explore Exotic Reactions in Stellar Environments

• Joseph Derkin – The Role of Nuclear Resonances in Astrophysics
  
  

Day 3: Astrophysics Theory

• Finia Jost – Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Luca Boccioli – The Explosion Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Atul Kedia – An Overview of Simulating Neutron Star Merges, Kilonovae, and the r-process
  
  

Day 4: Astrophysics Observation

• Lauren Henderson – What Can Astronomers Tell Nuclear Physicists: The Frontiers and Limitations of Measuring Neutron-Capture Abundances in Stars

• Kaitlin Webber and Pranav Nalamwar – Stellar Streams and Globular Clusters

• Anirban Dutta – Understanding Supernova Spectra
  
  
  

Hands-on Activities

Day 1: Nuclear Theory

• Brady Martin – Two-Body Nuclear Scattering with Python

• Brendan Reed – Relativistic Mean Field in Python
  
  

Day 2: Nuclear Experiment

• Joseph Derkin – How a Nuclear Experiment Becomes Astrophysics

• Sivahami Uthayakumaar  – TALYS Introduction
  
  

Day 3: Astrophysics Theory

• Andrius Burnelis – Python... But Faster

• Atul Kedia – Virtual Box and PRISM Reaction Network
  
  

Day 4: Astrophysics Observation

• Kaitlin Webber and Pranav Nalamwar –Virtual Box and  High-Resolution Spectroscopy (SMHR)
  
  Instructions
  
  1. Download the ObsII_stars.ova file from the SMHR link above. 

2. Import the .ova file onto Oracle.

3. Open and enter the password: Moog2017

4. In the terminal, run:

conda activate smhr-py3
cd smhr-rpa
git pull origin
cd smh/gui
ipython __main__.py

• Anirban Dutta – Supernovae Spectra Analysis
  
  TARDIS Installation
  
  1. In your terminal, type:
  
  wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tardis-sn/tardis/master/conda-{platform}-64.lock
  
  where {platform} is replaced by osx or linux.
  
  

2. Download the lock file:

conda create --name tardis --file conda-{platform}-64.lock conda activate tardis

3. Clone the GitHub repo:

git clone git@github.com:{username}/tardis.git

where {username} is replaced by your GitHub account username.

4. Finish the installation:

cd tardis

pip install -e .

Click here for TARDIS documentation

Click here for more installation details

If you do not have conda installed, please try to install miniforge, then run the above conda commands with mamba instead.