Event Schedule

Nuclear Physics in Mergers - Going Beyond the Equation of State

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Please check the schedule regularly, as it is subject to change.

This workshop takes place between weeks 1 and 2 of the separate 25-2b program.

Note: By attending a workshop talk, participants agree to abide by the INT Code of Conduct

Week 1

Monday, September 8, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Format Location Slides
Welcome to the workshop! The Organizers In-person C520
Dense matter inference: promises and challenges with next-generation observations Jocelyn Read California State University Fullerton Virtual C520 PDF
COFFEE
Connecting observations of the cold EoS to dynamical astrophysics Isaac Legred University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign In-person C520
The crack, the whisk and the spark: Neutron star mergers beyond the dense matter equation state Elias Most Caltech In-person C520 PDF
LUNCH BREAK
Turbulence modeling - A game we have no choice but to play ... Nils Andersson University of Southampton UK In-person C520 PDF
Inferring the nuclear equation of state from binary merger simulations Kenta Kiuchi Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics In-person C520 PDF
COFFEE
Discussion In-person C520

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Format Location Slides
Transport in Neutron Star Mergers Alexander Haber University of Southampton UK In-person C520 PDF
Bulk Viscosity of Two-Flavor Color Superconducting Quark Matter in Neutron Star Mergers Arus Harutyunyan Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Yerevan State University Virtual C520 PDF
COFFEE
Towards a self-consistent description of 𝜐 interactions in mergers: challenges and achievements Zidu Lin University of Tennessee Knoxville In-person C520 PDF
Bulk Viscous Dissipation in Neutron Star Megers: Effect of Magnetic field Pranjal Tambe Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics In-person C520 PDF
LUNCH BREAK
Dependence of the bulk viscosity of neutron star matter on the nuclear symmetry energy Yumu Yang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign In-person C520 PDF
Neutrino dynamics in neutron star mergers Liam Brodie Washington University in St. Louis In-person C520 PDF
COFFEE
Discussion In-person C520

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Format Location Slides
How do we connect the dense matter EOS to heavy-ion data? Jaki Noronha-Hostler University of Illinois Urbana Champaign In-person C520 PDF
COFFEE
Heavy-Ion Collisions and the QCD Phase Diagram Jamie Karthein Massachusetts Institute of Technology Virtual C520 PDF
T-matrix approach to quark-gluon plasma at finite baryon density Konstantin Maslov University of Houston In-person C520 PDF
LUNCH BREAK
UHECRs from Binary Neutron Star mergers Glennys Farrar New York University In-person C520 PDF
Geometric radius measurement during mergers: leveraging low-density nuclear physics through dynamical resonance to constrain the core David Tsang University of Bath In-person C520 PDF

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Format Location Slides
Enhancements to Neutrino Opacities in Hot Magnetized Matter Mia Kumamoto Ohio University / N3AS In-person C520 PDF
The neutron lifetime anomaly, dark baryons, and their impact on neutron star mergers Steven Harris Iowa State University In-person C520 PDF
COFFEE
Multi-Messenger Probes of Dark Matter With Neutron Stars and Binary Neutron Star Mergers Violetta Sagun University of Southampton UK In-person C520 PDF
LUNCH BREAK
Pi in the Sky: Neutron stars with exceptionally light QCD axions Masha Baryakhtar University of Washington In-person C520 PDF
Probing QCD axions with neutron stars: cooling and oscillations Antonio Gómez-Bañón Universidad de Alicante In-person C520 PDF
COFFEE
Discussion In-person C520

Friday, September 12, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Format Location Slides
Searching for quark matter in neutron stars: challenges and prospects Sophia Han T.D. Lee Institute / SJTU In-person C520 PDF
COFFEE
Correlations between the Neutron Star Mass–Radius Relation and the Equation of State Boyang Sun Stony Brook University In-person C520 PDF
EoS with Quarkyonic Matter Marlene Nahrgang Subatech In-person C520