Monthly Archive: July 2017

Jul 28

p-process Workshop

The sixth p-process Workshop was held at the University of Notre Dame, June 29 – July 1, 2017. 35 participants from Europe and U.S. joined the meeting to talk about the recent progress in computational, experimental and theoretical efforts to understand the astrophysical p-process. The presentations from the meeting were commented on live via twitter! …

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Jul 28

REU 2017

Joe Arroyo from Illinois Institute of Technology joined our group this summer as an REU student. During his second week, he took nightshifts for the experiment with HECTOR and learned how to operate a tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. His summer project was to figure out the efficiency of HECTOR after few modifications to the …

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