Research Seminars @ Illinois

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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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Nuclear Physics Seminar - Matt Caplan (Illinois State University) "Progress in Neutron Star Crusts"

Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor: Physics Department
Location: Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Date: Oct 27, 2025 1:00 pm
Speaker: Matt Caplan (Illinois State University)
Contact: Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail: bkoebbe@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Physics - Nuclear Physics Seminar; At sufficiently high temperatures matter becomes fully ionized, but under sufficiently high pressure those plasmas freeze solid. These “strongly coupled” plasmas have Coulomb energies orders of magnitude greater than their thermal energies and can be found in systems spanning electrically charged dusts to the crusts of neutron stars. While many of the physically 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.

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