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SUMMARY:ORIGINS Lecture: Astromaterial Science of Neutron Stars
DTSTART:20260518T150000Z
DTEND:20260518T160000Z
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UID:indico-event-8013@indico.ph.tum.de
CONTACT:odele.straub@origins-cluster.de
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Matt Caplan (Illinois State University)\n\nAbstract:
  \nAt sufficiently high temperatures matter becomes fully ionized\, but un
 der sufficiently high pressure those plasmas freeze solid. These “strong
 ly coupled” plasmas have Coulomb energies orders of magnitude greater th
 an their thermal energies and can be found in systems spanning electricall
 y charged dusts to the crusts of neutron stars. While many of the physical
 ly interesting combinations of temperature and density are inaccessible to
  laboratory experiments on earth\, numerical simulations allow us to study
  the detailed microphysics of these crystals\, including how they break\, 
 with implications for starquakes\, pulsar glitches\, and more.\n\nAfter ta
 lk drinks: \nWe'll go for drinks after the lecture at Augustiner in Garchi
 ng! Feel free to join and continue to chat with Matt there!\n\nBio: \nMatt
  Caplan is an Associate Professor at Illinois State University\, currently
  a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He w
 as a CITA National Fellow at McGill and his PhD from Indiana University wo
 n the 2018 APS Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics. Beyond academia\, Dr
 . Caplan is also a scriptwriter for Kurzgesagt and PBS Space Time. Also ac
 tive in arms control\, he was an inaugural fellow of the Physicists Coalit
 ion for Nuclear Threat Reduction and he is the creator and host of the NPR
  podcast Twelve Thousand Bombs.\n\nhttps://indico.ph.tum.de/event/8013/
LOCATION:Old Seminar Room (401) (MPA)
URL:https://indico.ph.tum.de/event/8013/
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