Workshop Program

All times are local

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

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 

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)

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