Speaker
Matthew Mumpower
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Description
The outcome of astrophysical events depends critically on the structure and reactions of heavy nuclei. These properties often remain unmeasured, leaving theory to fill in the gaps. I will provide a broad overview of recent theoretical progress in the description of heavy nuclei. I will cover progress in structure and reaction models, the behavior of astrophysically relevant nuclear isomers (astromers), the advent of Machine Learning based models, and the prediction of fission properties.
