GPPU Seminar

Date

10:00-12:00, December 12th, 2017

Place

Room 745, Science Complex B (H-03) map

Abstract

More than half a century after their existence was first postulated, we finally seem to be getting closer to understanding the elusive physics of neutrinos. Their seemingly very small masses and feeble interactions with ordinary matter make neutrinos rather special. For a long time very little experimental information was available about neutrino properties, even though a minute neutrino mass has intriguing cosmological and astrophysical implications. After a very exciting discovery stage during the last decade, which was celebrated with recent Nobel and Breakthrough prizes, neutrino physics is now at precision stage. In this talk, after a brief review of recent developments, importance of neutrinos in astrophysics will be discussed. Especially the role of neutrinos in the dynamics of core-collapse supernovae, neutron star mergers, and the origin of chemical elements will be elucidated.

Point

GSP 1