Talk Monday June 16 at the UniTN by ECT Board member Professor Gail McLaughlin

Professor Gail Mc Laughlin (North Carolina State University) will give a talk on Neutrino flavor transformation and element synthesis in exploding astrophysical events

Abstract: many exploding astrophysical objects are multimessenger events that include gravitational waves, an electromagnetic signal, element synthesis, and the emission of enormous numbers of neutrinos. To understand these signals, we need a careful accounting of the microphysics that occurs during and after the merger. One rapidly evolving area is the application of neutrino flavor transformation physics to large-scale simulations. I will review new developments in this area and discuss the importance of these developments to predictions of heavy element synthesis and the astrophysical origin of the r-process.