Carla Fröhlich (North Carolina State University, USA)

Core-collapse supernovae are the spectacular deaths of massive stars. In the explosion, they temporarily outshine the host galaxy and synthesize chemical elements across the periodic table. They emit photons, gravitational waves, and copious amounts of neutrinos. Due to the short lifetime of massive stars, core collapse supernovae are some of the earliest nucleosynthetic sources in the galaxy and can drive their early chemical evolution. Core-collapse supernovae are also splendid laboratories of nuclear physics: in the collapse, the stellar core reaches nuclear matter density, eventually leading to a compact object such as a neutron star or black hole. In this talk, I will discuss recent advances in the modelling of core collapse supernovae and their implications for nuclear physics and observations.