The first CRC 1245 Mini-Workshop “Neutrino-matter interactions in the standard model and beyond” was hosted at the TU Darmstadt on June 19-21, 2024. The workshop featured main talks by Kirsty Duffy, Joanna Sobczyk, Javier Menèndez, Giovanni Benato, Baha Balantekin, and Zewei Xiong and an exciting program of talks by CRC members.

Laura Mertes (A04) defended her dissertation entitled “Collective Excitations in Nuclei with ab initio Methods ”successfully. Congratulations.

Matthias Heinz (A04) defended his dissertation entitled “Ab initio calculations of neutron-rich nuclei with many-body operators” successfully. Congratulations.

Benedikt Schallmo defended his dissertation entitled “Colour Superconductivity and the Equation of State of Dense Matter” successfully. Congratulations.

Christine Collins was awarded a Marie-Curie fellowship to move to Trinity College Dublin in September 2024. She will work on kilonova modeling using three-dimensional radiative transfer calculations and will keep close ties to GSI and SFB 1245.

Sebastian Blacker (B07) defended his dissertation entitled “Exploring thermal effects in neutron star mergers” successfully. Congratulations.

Scientists from the SFB 1245 with colleagues from GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, proposed a new nucleosynthesis process denoted the νr-process. It operates when neutron-rich material is exposed to a high flux of neutrinos.

Prof. Atsushi Tamii was the lecturer of our Topical Lecture Week in Spring 2024 and presented 7 Lectures on “Nuclear Excited States Studied by Proton Scattering with a High-Resolution Magnetic Spectrometer” to the young Researchers of the SFB.

Phillip Imgram was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Section Matter and Cosmos of the German Physical Society for his measurements on helium-like carbon ions.

Phillip Imgram will be one of 4 finalists for the Dissertation Prize of the Matter and Cosmos Section (SMuK) of the German Physical Society. This is a great success.