Topics: 

1) Studying nuclear reactions at radioactive beam facilities  (FRIB and TRIUMF) to facilitate X-ray burst light-curves model-observation comparison, especially for source GS 1826-24  

2) Modeling X-ray burst light curves and burst ashes 

3) Modeling nuclear processing in atmosphere during accretion 

4) Nuclear reaction studies to understand the pycnonuclear burning in the neutron star crust

Topics: 

1) Studying nuclear reactions  at U. of Notre Dame to understand the production of radionuclides in explosive burning in CCSNe 

2) Multi-zone post-processing network calculations to understand production of gamma-emtting nuclei in CCSNe and possible gamma-ray observations from future nearby supernovae 

3) Shock stalling and re-heating in CCSNe  

Development and testing of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors