Fall 2025

Unless otherwise specified, CNR seminars will be held in person and online (a link will be sent via email) on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in SMH-302 of Smith Hall (Physics Building) . Student discussions will also be held in Smith Hall SMH-302 at 1:30 pm on Tuesdays in person. Refreshments will be provided.

Calendar:

Aug. 19 - First day of classes (no meeting)

Aug. 26 - Planning meeting

Sep. 2 - No meeting (Labor Day week)

Sep. 9 - Seminar: Maci Kesler

Kent State University, OH USA

From Diffraction to Definition: Imaging Nuclei with Vector Mesons

Sep. 16 - Seminar: Ashik Ikbal

Kent State University, OH USA
Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY USA

Creating a Portrait of a Nucleus with Light from the Universe's Strongest Electromagnetic Fields

Sep. 23 - Seminar: Rafael Bán Jacobsen

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil

An effective model for nuclear matter with many-body interactions at finite temperature

Sep. 30 - No meeting (Week of Fall Break)

Oct. 7 - No meeting (Physics Colloquium)

Oct. 14 - Seminar: Sabin Thapa

Kent State University, OH USA

Bottomonium suppression and regeneration in p + Pb collisions at LHC energies

Oct. 21 (Cancelled) - Seminar: Cesar Luis Da Silva

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Oct. 28  (Cancelled)- Journal: Albandry Alshammri

Kent State University, OH USA

Nov. 4 - Seminar: Qi Shi

Kent State University, OH USA

Exploring Meson Structure with Lattice QCD: Form Factors and Generalized Parton Distributions

Nov. 14 (Friday at 2pm) - Seminar: Xianwen Bao

Shandong University, Jinan, China

Probing the production mechanisms of virtual photons at STAR

Nov. 18 - Journal: David Gough

Kent State University, OH USA

Nov. 21 (Friday at 3:45pm in SMH-108) - Joint Seminar: Makis Petratos

Kent State University, OH USA

The MARATHON Run of a Nuclear Physics Experiment at a National Laboratory

Nov. 25 - No meeting (Thanksgiving week)

Dec. 2 - Journal: Marceline Thornton

Kent State University, OH USA

Dec. 9 - Seminar: Tianhao Shao

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Observation of Symmetric Energy-Level Splitting from Charge-Symmetry Breaking in A = 4 Mirror Hypernuclei

Spring 2025

Unless otherwise specified, CNR seminars will be held in person and online (a link will be sent via email) on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in SMH-302 of Smith Hall (Physics Building) . Student discussions will also be held in Smith Hall SMH-302 at 1 pm on Tuesdays in person. Refreshments will be provided.

Calendar:

Jan. 14 - First day of classes (no meeting)

Jan. 21 - Planning meeting

Jan. 28 - Journal: Emmy Duckworth

Kent State University, OH, USA

Feb. 4 - Seminar: Joaquin Grefa

Kent State University, OH, USA

The QCD equation of state from the MUSES Collaboration

Feb. 11 - Journal: Sabin Thapa

Kent State University, OH USA

Feb. 18 - Seminar: Xiaofeng Wang

Ohio State University, OH USA

Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC

Feb. 25 - No meeting

Mar. 4 -  Journal: Mateus Pelicer

Kent State University, OH USA

Mar. 11 - No meeting (spring break)

Mar. 18 - No meeting (APS)

Mar. 25 - Seminar: Sooraj Radhakrishnan

Kent State University, OH USA

Apr. 1 - Seminar: Peter Hammond 

University, of New Hampshire, NH USA

Investigating the impact of high-order QCD phase transitions on BNS mergers

Apr. 8 - Seminar: Jérôme Margueron

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France  and Michigan State University, FRIB, USA

Constraints on nuclear matter properties from nuclear data: impact of giant monopole resonances and heavy ion collisions

Apr. 15 -  Journal: Yuhan Wang and Rajesh Kumar

Kent State University, OH USA

Apr. 22 - Seminar: Ramona Vogt

LLNL, Livermore and University of California, Davis, USA

Detecting Fission in the Cosmos

Apr. 29 - Journal: Ashik Ikbal

Kent State University, OH USA

May 6 - No meeting (finals week)