Speaker: Dr. Farheen Naqvi

Time: 15:00-16:00, December 2

Location: 24-121

Dr. Farheen Naqvi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics & Astrophysics in University of Delhi, India. She is a nuclear physicist who did her PhD from University of Cologne, Germany in the year 2011. As a graduate student she investigated the structure of neutron-rich nuclei using gamma-ray spectroscopy. After completing PhD, she joined Yale University as a postdoctoral associate. There she performed experiments to extract the nuclear g-factor of the excited states in heavy nuclei. She also held research associate position at National Superconducting Cyclotron laboratory at Michigan State University and University of Notre Dame. Her current research focuses on the field of Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics. In particular, she studies the nuclear reactions taking place in stellar environments to understand the synthesis of the elements we see around us.

In her talk titled “Nuclei in the Cosmos” she will discuss the total absorption spectroscopy technique and its applications in measuring the reaction cross sections relevant for the astrophysical rapid neutron-capture (r-process) and proton-capture processes. She will present the results of experiments done at the Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory of Texas A&M University and the Tandem Accelerator Laboratory of University of Notre Dame.