Collaborations
Nuclear Astrophysics is a multidisciplinary field that requires the collaboration of researchers from different areas of astronomy, and astrophysics, nuclear physics, computational science and engineering. The Computational Stellar Astrophysics group is engaged in several international collaborations to address challenging problems in a broad and comprehensive manner.
PPMstar collaboration
A long-standing collaboration with Paul Woodward’s Laboratory of Computational Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, focused on the development and application of the PPMstar 3D stellar hydrodynamics code.
NuGrid collaboration
An international collaboration in nuclear astrophysics, astronomy, and computational science developing a comprehensive set of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis tools to study the origin of the elements.
Canadian Nuclear Physics for Astrophysics Network (CaNPAN)
A Canadian network bringing together nuclear physics, astrophysics, and astronomy to investigate the origin of the elements, with a strong emphasis on cross-disciplinary training of students.
PROST: Progenitor Structure in 3D
A collaboration with the Arcones group at TU Darmstadt building 3D massive-star pre-supernova progenitors with PPMstar and connecting them to 3D core-collapse supernova explosion simulations with FLASH.
APSARA: Asia-Pacific Stellar Astrophysics Research Alliance
A faculty research fellowship under Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy building a quadrilateral research network across Australia, Thailand, and Japan around 3D stellar hydrodynamics, asteroseismology, and foundation models for science.