Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

Program: Sonata No 1, Op.105 I. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck II. Allegretto III. Lebhaft Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op.22 I. Andante molto II. Allegretto III. Leidenschaftlich schnell Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Un poco presto e con sentimento IV. Presto agitato Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Dmitri Berlinsky, professor of violin and artist teacher at the Michigan State University College of Music, has performed in major venues such as Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Mariinsky Concert Hall. Recent highlights include appearances as a soloist in Berlin Philharmonie Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Frankfurt Alte Opera House, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, among others on European concert tour “Paganini Night” with Russian Philharmonic of St. Petersburg. Last season Mr. Berlinsky performed and taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Royal Conservatory and Glen Gould School in Toronto, Tel Aviv University, Eastman School of Music, China Conservatory in Beijing, Xiamen and Fujian Universities in China, National University of Singapore and Institute of Music in Thailand. In high demand as a teacher, Mr.Berlinsky has given Master Classes at the University of South California in Los Angeles, Menuhin School in London, Manhattan School, Temple University in Philadelphia, DePaul and Roosevelt University in Chicago and served on the jury of Paganini International Competition, Washington International Competition, YCA and Astral Auditions. Mr. Berlinsky is a founder of “Dorothy DeLay MasterClass Series” and Artistic Director of “International Chamber Soloists”. He is the co-founder of “Juventus ProMusica” concert series in New York City, providing chamber music experiences for young students alongside distinguished guest artists. Mr. Berlinsky arrived on the international scene as the youngest winner in the history of the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy. This victory led to his performance on Nicolo Paganini's own Guarneri del Gesú instrument, a privilege shared by only a handful of artists in history. Subsequent triumphs at the Montreal International Violin Competition (Grand Prize), the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, led to appearances with major orchestras in Europe, Russia, the Far East, North and South America. Jiarui Cheng from Nanjing, China, is known for his blend of artistic nuance and bravura pianism. He is hailed for his affinity for a wide range of stylist traditions. Jiarui Cheng has performed as concerto soloist and recitalist in China, United States and Europe. He has been featured as concerto soloist with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra for the Conservatory’s 70th Anniversary Celebration Concert, performing Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in Shanghai Symphony Hall. He subsequently performed Beethoven No. 4 with the Grossetto Symphony Orchestra in Italy. Jiarui Cheng has been a prizewinner in multiple competitions including the Scriabin International Piano Competition and the National Piano Competition in Shanghai. In 2019 he performed Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto to great acclaim with The Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra as winner of the CIM Concerto Competition. As recipient of the Niu Ende Piano Scholarship, Jiarui Cheng studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Professor Jin Tang. He is currently studying with Stanislav Ioudenitch who was the Gold Medalist of eleventh Van Cliburn international piano competition. He was one of semi-finalists of Cleveland International piano competition and Santander International piano competition. In 2023 he performed Grieg piano concerto with Aspen Conducting Academy orchestra as winner of Aspen concerto competition. He also performed Beethoven piano concerto No.4 with Tongyeong Music Festival Orchestra as prize winner of ISANGYUN International Piano Competition. Jiarui Cheng has studied piano with Margarita Shevchenko and Eric Zuber at Michigan State University’s College of Music.

At high energy, the fundamental description of matter (Quantum Chromodynamics or QCD) is currently only directly applicable to specific regimes, leaving large portions of the QCD phase diagram uncharted, especially around the regime relevant for neutron stars. To bridge different regimes, the MUSES collaboration has built a cyberinfrastructure that provides descriptions of matter based on first-principle theories and models across the multidimensional QCD phase diagram, including thermodynamics but also observables pertinent to heavy-ion collisions, astrophysics, and more. Our online platform allows users to choose different descriptions (with different parametrizations), how these are connected, and what observables they reproduce. The platform is open for everyone, and all our code is open source.

Committee: Ting Xu (Chairperson), Sergey Baryshev Xianglin Ke, John Lewellen, John Smedley, Remco Zegers

The rapid neutron capture process (r-process) is one of the main mechanisms whereby elements heavier than iron are synthesized, and is entirely responsible for the natural production of the actinides. Now more over 50 years ago, it was proposed that the r-process could occur in the unbinding of material during the inspiral and merger of either a neutron star and black hole, or two neutron stars. Multi-messenger observations of the binary neutron star merger, GW170817, provided the first confirmation of lanthanide production in the merger ejecta. However, the full picture of the role these mergers play in the production of galactic r-process abundances remains unclear. Understanding the intricacies of nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers is a multi-physics problem spanning several orders of magnitude in both physical and temporal scales. I will discuss work that combines the use of r-process network calculations, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations with neutrino transport, and chiral effective field theory-informed nuclear equations of state to probe uncertainties in r-process production from post-neutron-star-merger accretion disks.

Despite being discovered over 86 years ago, fission still lacks a complete microscopic description, making it one of the oldest problems in quantum many-body theory. For comparison, superconductivity was discovered in 1911 and described microscopically in 1957 by the BCS theory. Fission is particularly difficult to treat theoretically in a unified manner as it contains many qualitatively distinct processes, each of which occurs at vastly different timescales, from the entrance channel (such as neutron absorption) to the splitting of a deformed nucleus into two fragments to the subsequent emission of radiation (typically gamma rays and neutrons). In 2016, the first simulation of the most rapid and highly non-equilibrium stage of fission, the evolution of the compound nucleus from the outer saddle point to scission to the formation of two fully separated fission fragments (FFs), was achieved for realistic initial conditions. This was done in the framework of the time-dependent superfluid local density approximation (TDSLDA) or equivalently time-dependent density functional theory extended to superfluid systems. Since the first study concerning 240Pu, TDSLDA has been applied extensively to compound systems 236U, 240Pu, and 252Cf (spontaneous fission), and recently to odd systems 239U, 241Pu, and 238Np. During this talk I will summarize the results of such investigations, covering the following topics: the role of pairing correlations during fission, the properties of the FF spins and their correlations, complexity and entanglement, the dynamics of the neck rupture and emission of scission neutrons, the differences between odd and even-even fission dynamics, and the energy dependence of fission observables.

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The Nuclear Science Summer School (NS3) is a summer school that introduces undergraduate student participants to the fields of nuclear science and nuclear astrophysics. NS3 is hosted by FRIB on the campus of Michigan State University (MSU). The school will offer lectures and activities covering selected nuclear science and astrophysics topics.

PAN introduces participants to the fundamentals of the extremely small domain of atomic nuclei and its connection to the extremely large domain of astrophysics and cosmology.

The PAN @ Michigan State Experience

• Learn about research in one of the top rare-isotope laboratories in the world.
• Get introduced to the fascinating fields of astrophysics, precision measurement, and nuclear science.
• Perform your own nuclear physics experiments.
• Meet researchers who are exploring a wide array of questions.
• Discover the surprising array of career opportunities in science.
• Experience the atmosphere of college life.
• Participants in the 2024 program get free room and board on campus (if required).