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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)

Seminar

Progress Toward Ascertaining the Explosion Mechanism for Core Collapse Supernovae and Their Observables

Anthony Mezzacappa
Oak Ridge National Lab

The core collapse supernova problem - i.e., identifying the explosion mechanism or mechanisms responsible for the demise of massive stars and determining the neutrino, gravitational wave, and nucleosynthetic yields from these events - has challenged modelers for more than four decades. Nonetheless, significant progress has been made recently. This progress has been based on both theoretical and computational advances, which we discuss. We will discuss, in particular, the results of the ORNL-FAU-NCSU-UCSD collaboration, frame these results in a broader context, and discuss future needs/plans. Recent progress by our group and others has both moved the field forward and illuminated the path forward.

Host: Salman Habib, habib@lanl.gov