Fall 2026

Unless otherwise specified, CNR seminars will be held in person and online (a link will be sent via email) on Tuesdays at 1:45 pm in SMH-302 of Smith Hall (Physics Building) . Student discussions will also be held in Smith Hall SMH-302 at 1:45 pm on Tuesdays in person. Refreshments will be provided.

Calendar:

September 15 - Seminar:
José C. Jiménez (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF)
TBD

September 8 - Journal Club:
Mahmood Al-Omeri (Kent State  University)
TBD
Anantha Padmanabhan Manoj Nair (Kent State  University)
TBD

Spring 2026

Unless otherwise specified, CNR seminars will be held in person and online (a link will be sent via email) on Tuesdays at 1:45 pm in SMH-302 of Smith Hall (Physics Building) . Student discussions will also be held in Smith Hall SMH-302 at 1:45 pm on Tuesdays in person. Refreshments will be provided.

Calendar:

Jan. 13 - No meeting (first week of classes)

Jan. 20 - Organizational meeting

Jan. 27 - No meeting

Feb. 3 - Seminar:
Ricardo Farias
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Speed of Sound Peak in QCD Matter: Violation of the Conformal Limit at Finite Density

Feb. 10 - Seminar:
Biaogang Wu
Kent State University
In-Medium Transport of Heavy Quarkonia and Quarks in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Feb. 17 - Seminar:
Bruno Lopes
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Pion condensation in effective models with an isospin asymmetry

Feb. 24 - Seminar:
Alex Clevinger
Kent State University
Exotic Matter and Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars

Mar. 3 -  Seminar:
Jacob Boyd
Kent State University
Numerical modeling of bottomonium suppression from top to bottom

Mar. 10 - No meeting (spring break)

Mar. 17 - No meeting (APS)

Mar. 24 - Journal (postponed):
Marceline Thornton
Kent State University

Apr. 1 - Journal (Wednesday at 1pm):
Chase Osborne
Kent State University

Apr. 8 - Seminar (Wednesday at 1pm):
Peter Denton
Brookhaven National Lab, NY, USA
CP-Violation with Neutrino Disappearance and NuFast

Apr. 14 -  Journal:
Micheal Kahangirwe
Kent State University

Apr. 15 - Seminar (Wednesday at 1pm):
André Gonçalves da Silva
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
How uncertain is the neutron-star equation of state?

Apr. 21 - Journal:
David Gough
Kent State University

Apr. 28 - Seminar:
Rongrong Ma
Brookhaven National Lab, NY, USA
Heavy Flavor Physics at RHIC and EIC

May 5 - No meeting (finals week)