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:

October 6 - Journal Club:
Shilpa Balyan (Kent State University)
Probing Baryon-to-Charge Transport in O+O Collisions at sqrt(s_{NN})=200 GeV

  Daniel Samuel (Kent State University)
  Measurement of di-electron production in Au + Au collision at sqrt(s_{NN})=200 GeV 

September 29 - Seminar:
Ashish Pandav (Kent State University)
Understanding STAR measurements on baryon-to-charge stopping in Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions with HIJING/B$\bar{\rm B} model 

September 22 - Journal Club:
Trevor Donovan (Kent State University)
Scattering Calculations in Lattice QCD

September 15 - Seminar:
José C. Jiménez (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF)
General-Relativistic Stability of Neutron Stars: An Introduction

September 8 - Journal Club:
Mahmood Al-Omeri (Kent State  University)
Machine Learning in Particle Physics: Oxygen-Oxygen STAR
Anantha Padmanabhan Manoj Nair (Kent State  University)
Flavor-independence of baryon transport with heavy-flavor Λ at LHCb

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)