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Tuesday Nov 4th
Chair: Erika Holmbeck
9:00 Welcome to RPA Workshop and safety briefing (Terese Hansen, Garren Weiss)
9:10 Terese Hansen - Overview of RPA 2K sample
9:30 Invited and contributed talks
9.30 Tatyana Sitnova - Tracing s-, i-, and r-processes through barium isotope ratios in VMP stars.
9.50 Friedrich Thielemann (online) - Deciphering the origins of the elements through galactic archeology
10:10 Thanassis Psaltis - Linking nuclear experiments and neutrino-driven winds to the Sr-Ag patterns of limited-r stars
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Invited and contributed talks
Chair: Erika Holmbeck
11:00 Guilherme Limberg - (online) The Rise of r-Process in Disrupted Dwarf Galaxies
11:20 Matthew Shetrone - Beyond the BAD Flag: Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor and r-Process Stars in APOGEE
11:40 Shivani Shah - Actinide abundances, Ratios, and Evolution of Metal-Poor Stars
12:00 Sivahami Uthayakumaar - The journey to explore the r-process: An experimentalist approach
12:20 Lunch break
Chair: Charli Sakari
14:00 Breakout discussion groups focused on science questions - what are the most important questions to tackle to move forward with r-process research?
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Continue with breakouts
16:30 Summary of breakout sessions
17:00 End of the day
Wednesday Nov 5th
Chair: Tim Beers
9:00 Student talks - 5+2min
Ruijie Shi Non-LTE Abundance Analysis of Neodymium in R-process Enhanced Stars
Erin Huntzinger The Temporal Evolution of the R-Process Production Ratio in the Milky Way
Zhenghai Liu Prospects for detecting gamma rays from r-process producing supernova
Vivian Tang Stellar Parameter Determination Beyond the APOGEE ASPCAP Grid Using The Cannon
Jonathan Garcia The title of my talk is Chemodynamically Tagged Groups of Carbon Enhanced Metal-poor stars.
Angela Beatty Kinematic Analysis of Chemically Peculiar Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way Halo
Monique Windju SMHr-IL: A Python GUI for IL Analysis in MOOG
Daniel Niel Gilbert Testing MOOG with Rayleigh Scattering
10:10 Invited and contributed talks
10:10 Chiaki Kobayashi (online) - Galactic chemical evolution models
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Invited and contributed talks
Chair: Tim Beers
11:00 Yukiya Saito - The Effect of Global Beta-Decay Properties on the r-Process Dynamics
11:20 Aldena Grichener (online) - R-process nucleosynthesis and enrichment by stellar mergers
11:40 Avrajit Bandyopadhyay - Heavy element Nucleosynthesis: Insights from Metal-Poor Halo Stars and Globular Clusters
12:00 Ainun Azhari (online) - Understanding the actinide production through the Th/Eu abundance ratio
12:30 Lunch break
Chair: Rana Ezzeddine
14:00 RPA executive time and Breakout working groups - how will you use the 2K sample for your project? Write up project descriptions, what are your data needs?. Preparation for Hackathon Thursday+Friday
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Continue with breakouts
17:00 End of the day
Thursday Nov 6th
9:00 Overview of 2K data access and policies (summary from RPA executive time)
To obtain access to the preliminary dataset, please submit the following forms to acknowledge the RPA collaboration policy and data access policy. Note access is restricted to workshop participants.
9:30 Hackathon: We invite people to explore the preliminary results for the 2K sample, make your favorite plot, test your theory etc.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Hackathon
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Hackathon
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Hackathon - Show me your plot, discussion of data capabilities/needs
17:00 End of the day
Friday Nov 7th
9:00 Hackathon: We invite people to explore the preliminary results for the 2K sample, make your favorite plot, test your theory etc.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Summary of projects and next steps.
12:30 End of Workshop