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10 November 2009 (Tuesday), 4:00pm, Corcoran Hall, Room 106
Stefan Immler (NASA/Goddard and University of Maryland)
Energetic Explosions in the Universe:
Highlights from Five Years of Swift Satellite Observations
Over the last 5 years of operations, the Swift satellite has observed more than
500 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and one hundred young supernovae (SNe) in the
optical, uv, X-rays, and in gamma-rays. During this talk, I will present some
of the highlights of Swift GRB and SN observations, discuss what we have
learned, and will give an outlook what future Swift observations will contrite
to our understanding of energetic explosions in the Universe.
17 November 2009 (Tuesday), 4:00pm, Corcoran Hall, Room 106
Will Detmold (College of William and Mary and Jefferson Lab)
Multi-hadron systems in lattice QCD
Lattice QCD is a well established tool for studying the low energy dynamics of
QCD. Precise results with fully controlled uncertainties are available for many
single hadron properties and lattice QCD has become a integral part of modern
particle physics. In the last few years the first realistic calculations in the
two hadron sector have also appeared (although not yet with the same level of
systematic control of uncertainties as in the single hadron case) stimulating
the interest of the nuclear physics community as well. To become a central part
of nuclear physics, lattice QCD must confront the many hadron systems that
define nuclear physics. Recently, the first steps have been taken in this
direction by the NPLQCD collaboration who have performed a series of
numerically studies of systems of up to twelve pions and/or kaons and up to
three baryons. I will review this work and outline the future prospects for
lattice QCD in nuclear physics.