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Title: What Stubs and Sparkles in Vast Vats of Liquid Will Tell Us About Exploding Stars

Speaker: Kate Scholberg, (Duke)

Abstract: When a massive star collapses at the end of its life, nearly all of
the gravitational binding energy of the resulting remnant is released
in the form of neutrinos.  I will discuss the nature of the
core-collapse neutrino burst and what we can learn about particle
physics and about astrophysics from the detection of these neutrinos.
I will cover supernova neutrino detection techniques in general,
current supernova neutrino detectors, and prospects for specific
future experiments.

Host: Michael Schmitt

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Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, colloquium