Possible presentation/paper topics:

You are free to choose another topic related to nuclear astrophysics. E-mail me your topic choice and you will be locked in for that topic. Topics should go beyond what is covered in class, but we can work something out for pretty much any topic - just let me know what you want to do and we can discuss how to make it complementary to the class.

Suggestions for topics:

First stars

Topics already taken:

• Pair instability supernovaei (Meece)
• Dark matter (Clairemont)
• Gamma ray Bursts (Prokop)
• Storage ring experiments for nuclear astrophysics (Meisel)
• Asteroseismology (Fritsch)
• EOS and neutron star propertiesi (Winkelbauer)
• GAIA Missioni (Stiefel)
• Dark Energy (Connor)
• Neutron star radius measurements (Ling-Ying)
• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Li problem (Jones)
• Neutrinos - masses, oscillations, and nucleosynthesis (Isaacson)
• Nuclear astrophysics and planet formation (Stevens)
• Gravitational Waves (Novario)
• Hauser-Feshbach model for stellar reaction rates (Morris)
• Core Collapse Supernova explosion mechanism (Morse)
• Chemical Evolution (Novak)
• Chemical evolution of Globular Clusters (Finzell)
• Cosmic Rays (Tangwancharoen)
• Type Ia Supernovae (Conolly)
• Novae (Bennett)
• Neutron Star Mergers (Wyka)