CAWONAPS 2010

CAWONAPS (The Canadian Workshop on the Nuclear and Astro- Physics of Stars) was held at TRIUMF on December 9th/10th 2010. This workshop brought together Canada's top researchers in the field, including observational astronomers, experimental nuclear physicists and theoretical astrophysicists, in order to take measure of what the Canadian community has to offer in the field and to foster greater future collaboration within this highly multi-disciplinary field.

Program for CAWONAPS 2010 (click on titles for download)		PDF Version
Thursday 9th December
9:00	Welcome	Nigel Lockyer
9:05	Introduction	Lothar Buchmann
	Facilities and associated experiments
9:15	DRAGON and TUDA nuclear astrophysics facilities	Chris Ruiz
9:35	TIGRESS-SHARC and 8pi facilities	Adam Garnsworthy
9:55	Neutron-deficient mass measurements with TITAN	Stephan Ettenauer
10:15	Mass measurements on neutron-rich nuclei using the CPT mass spectrometer @ CARIBU	Kumar Sharma
10:35	Coffee (20 minutes)
	*Observational/Theoretical astrophysics*
10:50	Neutron Star masses	Ingrid Stairs
11:15	Positron production by pulsars and magnetars	Jeremy Heyl
11:40	Nuclear physics in type I X-ray bursts	Andrew Cumming
12:05	Lunch (1 hour)
	*Modeling, sensitivity studies*
13:05	NuGrid and MESA – a framework for numerical experiments in nuclear astrophysics (.zip archive) + Quicktime Movie	Falk Herwig
13:30	3D numerical simulations of thermohaline mixing in low-mass red giants	Pavel Denisenkov
13:55	Nucleosynthesis simulations with the NuGrid PPN code	Athira Menon
14:10	Sensitivity studies of x-ray bursts and classical novae	Anuj Parikh
14:35	Coffee (20 minutes)
	*R-Matrix, theory, politics*
14:55	Azure R-Matrix code	Dick Azuma
15:20	Ab initio calculations of radiative capture	Peter Navratil
15:45	The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics	Michael Wiescher
16:10	Discussion
18:00	Pub Dinner at Mahoney’s Irish Pub – UBC Campus
Friday 10th December
	*Nuclear Reactions of Astrophysical importance*
9:00	Low energy reaction theory: the forsaken realm	Lothar Buchmann
9:25	The ¹⁵O(α,γ)¹⁹Ne reaction	Barry Davids
9:50	The ³He(α,γ)⁷Be reaction	Sky Sjue
10:10	Absolute resonance strength measurements of the ²²Na(p,γ) reaction	Chris Wrede
10:35	Coffee (20 minutes)
	*Nuclear Reactions (cont)*
10:55	¹⁴N(p,γ) via ¹⁵O state lifetimes	Naomi Galinski
11:15	³³S(p,γ)	Jennifer Fallis
11:35	A study of the ³⁰P(p,γ)³¹S reaction via the ³²S(d,t)³¹S reaction and its astrophysical relevance	Dan Irvine
11:55	The structure of ³⁰S and the ²⁹P(p,γ)³⁰S reaction rate	Kiana Setoodehnia
12:15	Lunch (1 hour)
	Quark-Novae
13:15	Distinct photometric and chemical evidence of the Quark-Nova in SN2006gy	Matthew Kostka
13:35	Numerical simulations of the explosive transition from hadronic to strange quark matter	Brian Niebergal
13:55	Trends in ⁴⁴Ti and Calcium in (dual-shock) Quark-Novae	Rachid Ouyed
14:15	Java-based r-process code: applications to SNe and QNe	Nico Koning
14:30	Coffee (15 minutes)
14:45	Tour of TRIUMF (Buchmann, Davids, Ruiz)
	Summary Session and discussion
16:00	Summary of the Workshop	Alan Shotter
16:20	Discussion

Program for CAWONAPS 2010

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