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Student Lunch Talks Archive 2024-2025

Schedule for 2024-2025

23 October 2024

Leslie Rogers, Argonne National Laboratory  No Nus is Good News: From the Origin of Matter, to the Rarest Radioactive Decay in the Universe”

20 November 2024

Vasil Karayonchev, Argonne National Laboratory  Lifetime Measurements of Excited Nuclear States”

29 January 2025

Leah ZimmerCASPAR and the 19F(p,gamma)20Ne Reaction: Spelunking a Mile Underground to Probe Nucleosynthesis Lightyears Away”

Chloe Jones, Navigating the Branches of the s-Process Using HECTOR: Key Nuclear and Astrophysical Factors”

19 February 2025

Fabio Rivero, University of Notre Dame, Precision Measurements of the Standard Model with the St. Benedict Ion Trap System”

12 March 2025

Daniel Burdette, Argonne National Laboratory, CARIBU BEARtrap, and the Peregrine’s Nest: Wild Encounters in Low-Energy Experimental Nuclear Physics at Argonne National Laboratory”

9 April 2025

Matt Christie,” Beta Delayed spectroscopy of 27/29F: Exploring the Dripling in Neutron Rich Fluorine Isotopes” 

23 April 2025

Brandon Polley, TBA, Coulomb Excitation of Two 0νββ Candidates” 

21 May 2025

Matt Torres, Argonne National Laboratory, A Brief Tour of Quantum Computing” 

5 June 2025

Andrew Jacobs, Argonne National Laboratory, A Short History of Nuclear Physics” 

Adrian Valverde, Argonne National Laboratory, ” Rate Isotope Beam Production and the N=126 Factory

12 June 2025

Sam Porter An Overview of Mass Spectrometry” 

26 June 2025

David Peana, Argonne National Laboratory, Progress Toward Improved Limits on Charge-Parity Violation Using Octupole-Deformed Radium at Atoms” 

Jianhui Li, Argonne National Laboratory, Progress Toward a Measurement of Time-Reveral Symmetry Violation in Thallium Floride”

3 July 2025

Varun Jorapur, Argonne National Laboratory, Optical Tweezer Arrays for Quantum Science” 

John Greene, Argonne National Laboratory, Center for Accelerator Target Science”

10 July 2025

Eilens Lopez Saavedra, Argonne National Laboratory, Nuclear Astrophysics with the MUSIC Detector”

Nirupama Sensharma, Argonne National Laboratory, Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy 

17 July 2025

Vasil Karayonchev, Argonne National Laboratory, Nuclear Structure Studies with AGFA and FMA at Argonne National Laboratory” 

24 July 2025

Aiden LaLiberte, Simulating and Optimizing the N=125 Degrader and MR-TOF

Jacob Dulya, Superconducting Nanowire Detectors for Nuclear and Particle Physics” 

8 October 2025

Cameron Cassells, Lifetime measurement of the 2+ excited state in Y78” 

19 November  2025

Alicen Houff, Mass Measurements for the Astrophysical r-process Near the Rare Earth Region Using the Canadian Penning Trap at the N=126 Factory” 

 

the organizing committee (2023-2025)

Adrian Valverde (Chair)

Coordinator: Paula Dahlberg (630-252-4100)