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SUMMARY:National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
 Alessandro Pastore from the University of York 
 will be speaking.\n
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 The seminar is titled "From 
 nuclei to neutron stars: simple binding 
 energy computer modelling in the classroom."\n
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 The 
 Binding Block collaboration started in 
 2015 and since then has worked hard to develop 
 material to explain nuclear physics to A-level 
 students. In particular, we have created 
 a simple activity based on the liquid-drop model 
 which allows secondary school students to 
 explore the uses of mathematical models and 
 gain an intuitive understanding of the concept 
 of binding energy, and in particular the significance 
 of positive binding energy. Using 
 simple computational tools (Excel files), students 
 can perform simple manipulations on the 
 different coefficients of the model to understand 
 the role of each of its five terms. Students 
 can use the spreadsheets to determine 
 model parameters by optimising the agreement 
 with real atomic mass data. This will subsequently 
 be used to predict the limit of existence 
 of the Segre chart and to find the minimum 
 mass of a neutron star. In this talk, I'll present 
 the material/activities we have created 
 so far and I'll discuss my personal experience 
 in the world of outreach.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.nscl.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-9671\n
 Contact email: nscl.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.nscl.msu.edu/apps/seminars.php\n
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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