Lecture Slides:

The provided lecture slides can be found here.

Tentative program:

Description: The First Frontiers Summer School will provide training to early career scientists in the major areas of JINA-CEE science:

• Where do the elements come from that make up our world?
• What are basic properties of matter when compressed to high density?

Lectures will cover experimental and theoretical nuclear physics, astrophysical modeling, and astronomical observations. Specific topics include those listed below, and additional topics will be added based on participant interest:

• Nuclear Physics: Shell structure, driplines, reactions, and direct and indirect measurements
• Astronomy: Stellar evolution, halo stars, first stars and CEMP stars, and dwarf galaxies and cosmology
• Astrophysics: Galactic chemical evolution, core-collapse supernova, neutrinos, neutron stars, and gravitational waves

Lecturers:

Matt Caplan (McGill)

Louis Wagner (MSU)

Chelsea Harris (MSU)

Daniel Votaw (MSU)

Matt Mumpower (LANL)

Benoit Cote (Konkoly Observatory)

Erika Holmbeck (ND)

MacKenzie Warren (MSU)

Alex Ji (Carnegie Observatories)

Jinmi Yoon (ND)