N3AS Summer School

2023 Summer School in Santa Cruz: July 15-24, 2023

The N3AS-sponsored Summer School on Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, held from July 15-24 in 2023, is intended for advanced graduate students and beginning postdoctoral researchers interested in nuclear and particle astrophysics — theory, experiment, or observation.

Program Schedule Lecturer Slides

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Lecturers, Topics & Slides:

Cosmology and the Early Universe

• Michael Turner, Univ. Chicago and UCLA — The Standard Cosmology
• Francois Lanusse, CEA Paris-Saclay, CNRS — Deep Learning and Observational Cosmology
• Garth Illingworth, UC Santa Cruz — JWST: Searching for the First Galaxies (Lecture 1, Lecture 2)

Dark Matter

• Graciela Gelmini, UCLA — Dark Matter: Theory and Laboratory Phenomenology (Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Extra: Old Slides on Axions and ALPs)
• Ben Safdi, UC Berkeley — Dark Matter in Astrophysics

Neutron Stars, Supernovae, Mergers, and Nucleosynthesis

• Dany Page, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México — Neutron Stars: Structure, Evolution and Cooling (Lecture 1, Lecture 2)
• David Radice, Penn State Univ. — Explosive Astrophysics: Binary Neutron Star Mergers and Supernovae
• Nicole Vassh, TRIUMF — Nucleosynthesis: Connecting Nuclear Properties and Observations (Part 1, Part 2)

Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

• Glennys Farrar, New York Univ — UHE Cosmic Rays and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (Lecture 1, Lecture 2)
• Joshua Smith, CalState Fullerton — Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• Susanne Mertens, Tech. Univ. Munich — Neutrino Properties: Masses and Mixing (Part 1, Part 2)
• George Fuller, UC San Diego — Neutrino Astrophysics (Part 1, Part 2, Appendix)

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Attendee Presentations

• Nick Ekanger — Signatures of heavy element nucleosynthesis in transients
• Jacob Fields — Thermal Effects in Binary Neutron Star Mergers
• Mariam Gogilashvili — Predicting Which Massive Stars Explode
• Atul Kedia — Neutron star merger ejecta estimation from kilonova light curve (surrogates)
• Mrunal Korwar — IceCube at the frontier of macroscopic dark matter direct detection
• Vincent Lee — Probing Dark Matter with Pulsar Timing Arrays
• Gabriel Lynch — Probing the Recombination Era with CMB Anisotropies
• Takuya Okawa — A photon signal from stimulated decays of axion dark matter in the Milky Way
• Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr — Exoplanets: New Targets for Exploring Dark Matter
• Yi Qiu — Quantum Kinetic Equations of Neutrino Oscillations
• Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon — Understanding binaries in common envelope and the case study of the pulsar triple system PSR J0337+1715
• Jake Spisak — Constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background with POLARBEAR
• Thomas Hong Tsun Wong — Multi-messenger Constraint on H0 with Tidal Disruption Events
• Winston Yin — Charge quantisation, Axion strings, and Cosmic birefringence

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