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<div class="">Monday we are being visited by one of the candidates for our tenure-track hire, Dr. Matt Caplan. Colloquium will start at 4:10 in Room 123. I realize its an odd place and time, but please come if you are able.</div>
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
<div class="">Dr. Williams</div>
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<b class="">Special Colloquium</b></div>
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<b class="">Department of Physics & Astronomy, TAMU-Commerce</b></div>
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<b class="">MONDAY Oct 29, 4:10-5:00 PM in Science Building 123</b></div>
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<b class="">(Note special date and room)</b></div>
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Coffee and cookies will be served at 4:00 PM</div>
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<b class="">Future Directions in Astromaterial Science<br class="">
</b><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Dr. Matthew Caplan</b></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Dr. Caplan earned a BS in Physics from the University of Virginia in 2013 and completed his PhD in Physics at Indiana University in 2017. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow
at McGill Unversity’s McGill Space Institute in Montreal, Canada, working with Professor Andrew Cumming.</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">More information about Dr. Caplan can be found at
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.hep.physics.mcgill.ca_-7Emecaplan_&d=DwMGaQ&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=zR45CGBLdduIV4jIB6WGZAn8tVItG8Qcck8cmBEBvAA&m=bEgX7G-7ZjpCxBPj4csYCFt-whq_G2qDEpPJtDe3s14&s=4Z528mvo9tQz7nBqATkjH2jwgf41AFfeEM4ex9NkmkU&e=" class=""><span style="color: rgb(4, 51, 255);" class="">https://www.hep.physics.mcgill.ca/~mecaplan/</span></a></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Stars freeze. After their deaths in supernova the outer layers of neutron stars freeze and form a solid. In some ways this makes neutron stars like the earth, with a thin solid
crust enveloping a liquid core. To interpret observations of neutron stars and constrain nuclear theory the 'astromaterials' in this crust must be understood. Broadly speaking, this crust has two components. Nuclei form solid crystal lattices near the top.
Deeper, at the crust-core boundary, nuclei rearrange and form exotic shapes called "nuclear pasta." In this talk I will discuss recent simulations of these materials and their impacts on astrophysical observables, as well as future directions for this work.</font></div>
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<div class="">Dr. Kurtis A. Williams<br class="">
Associate Professor<br class="">
Department of Physics & Astronomy<br class="">
Texas A&M University-Commerce<br class="">
<a href="mailto:kurtis.williams@tamuc.edu" class="">kurtis.williams@tamuc.edu</a><br class="">
(903) 886-5516 </div>
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