Mini-Symposium: Interdisciplinary Needs to Understand Multi-Messenger Events I

Presentations

• The many faces of astrophysical heavy element production

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Kelsey Lund

    • UC Berkeley

  Authors

  • Kelsey Lund

    • UC Berkeley

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• Neutrino Dynamics in Neutron Star Mergers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Liam Brodie

    • Washington University in St. Louis

  Authors

  • Liam Brodie

    • Washington University in St. Louis

  • Mark Alford

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  • Francois Foucart

    • University of New Hampshire

  • Alexander Haber

    • University of Southampton

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• Bulk viscosity from neutron decays in dense matter

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25838
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12133

  Presenters

  • Steven Harris

    • Iowa State University

  Authors

  • Steven Harris

    • Iowa State University

  • Charles Horowitz

    • Indiana University Bloomington

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• Microscopic Properties of Hot, Dense Nuclear Matter from Chiral EFT for Core-Collapse Supernovae

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • David Friedenberg

    • Texas A&M University

  Authors

  • David Friedenberg

    • Texas A&M University

  • Jeremy Holt

    • Texas A&M University College Station

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• Assessing the Relative Importance of Neutrino–Matter Interaction Channels in post-merger remnant of neutron star mergers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Samantha Rath

    • University of New Hampshire

  Authors

  • Samantha Rath

    • University of New Hampshire

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• Neutron skins and neutron stars

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Carlos Bertulani

    • East Texas A&M University

  Authors

  • Carlos Bertulani

    • East Texas A&M University

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• Modeling the Neutron Star Equation of State with a Structured Variational Autoencoder

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: Paper to be submitted by the meeting

  Presenters

  • Tianqi Zhao

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Tianqi Zhao

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Alex Ross

    • University of Washington, Seattle

  • Fanglida Yan

    • Amazon Science, Sunnyvale

  • Sanjay Reddy

    • University of Washington

  • James Lattimer

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

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