The upcoming workshop "Gravitational Waves meet Nuclear Astrophysics" will be held from July 7-11, 2025. The workshop will be hosted by the Nicholas and Lee Begovich Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy at California State University, Fullerton.
Our goal is to bring researchers from multiple fields together to understand how gravitational-wave astronomy will help us understand the dense matter equation of state and heavy-element nucleosynthesis in our universe. As gravitational wave astronomy opens new windows into the high-energy cosmos, nuclear astrophysics provides the keys to understanding the fundamental processes powering these cosmic events—from supernovae to neutron star mergers and beyond. Talks and working sessions will build connections across work in gravitational-wave rates, source populations, chemical evolution, nuclear reactions, nuclear equation of state, nucleosynthesis, hydrodynamic simulations, and transient astronomy.
SOC:
- Floor Broekgaarden, UC San Diego
- Maya Fishbach, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
- Alex Ji, University of Chicago
- Jocelyn Read, California State University Fullerton
- Achim Schwenk, TU Darmstadt
- Rahul Somasundaram, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Nicole Vassh, TRIUMF