Brief description: The Bin Boom group at the University of Arizona, led by Mathieu Renzo, studies the evolution, interactions, explosions, and afterlives of massive stars, especially those in binary systems. Through numerical modelling and analytical calculations, the group explores mass transfer and stellar mergers, supernovae and compact-object formation, runaway stars, x-ray binaries and gravitational-wave sources, including the nuclear processes that shape stellar evolution and explosions.  The group brings researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels, who meet weekly to discuss ongoing projects and recent advances in stellar astrophysics.

The Siwach group studies the nuclear many-body problem using concepts and tools from quantum information science. The group develops quantum algorithms for simulating nuclear systems and investigates computational complexity through measures such as entanglement and quantum magic in nuclear and neutrino physics. This work bridges traditional nuclear structure theory with emerging quantum computing platforms and strengthens the department’s profile in quantum science. Notable contributions include efficient encoding schemes for mapping nuclear systems onto quantum hardware and entanglement-based diagnostics for collective neutrino dynamics in supernova environments, positioning the group at the forefront of an area of growing strategic national interest.