Speaker: Professor Nikolai Antonenko, JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) Dubna, Russia

Invited by: Professor Wang Nan

Time: November 15, 2023, at 11:00 AM

Location: Room 1206, Zhìyuán Building

Abstract:

The discovery of nuclear fission has profoundly impacted human society. Despite being over 80 years since its discovery, research into nuclear fission continues to deepen. On one hand, there are new applications for nuclear fission, and on the other hand, nuclear fission is a complex quantum many-body dynamics process. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in both theoretical and experimental studies of nuclear fission. People have gained new insights into fission probabilities, fission products, and fission mechanisms. This helps clarify some empirical assumptions of phenomenological models and provides opportunities for further validation, constraint, and development of new fission theories.

Speaker's Bio:

Prof. Dr. Nikolai Antonenko, Born: June 2, 1964

Education:

1981–1987: Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (University)

1991: Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (PhD) ("The dynamics of the formation of charge and mass distributions in reactions multinucleon transfers")

2013: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Work:

2014–2015: Leading Researcher, BLTP

2015–2017: Head of the Nuclear Theory Department, BLTP

Since 2017: Deputy Director of BLTP

Scientific interests:

Mechanism of heavy-ion reactions at low and intermediate energies, nuclear structure, cluster effects in nuclear structure and fission, fusion reactions and formation of superheavy nuclei, theory of open quantum systems

Scientific publications:

Author of more than 350 scientific papers

Prizes, honorary titles, awards:

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Scholarship (University of Giessen, Germany) (1997–1998); JINR prizes for work in the field of theoretical physics (1993, 2004, 2014, and 2016); Scopus Award Russia 2012; Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2019 for Journal of Physics G; Outstanding APS Referee 2022

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