Jaki Noronha-Hostler

Productive use of chatGPT

Actually, let's just go ahead and connect St. Louis-Champaign-Indianapolis-Columbus!

New bill would have IDOT plan for hourly rail service from Chicago to Champaign If residents of Champaign-Urbana are tired of driving over two hours — plus traffic — to get to Chicago, now’s the time to let state legislators know, says High Speed

Yes, PLEASE! Also, please connect St. Louis-Champaign-Indianapolis! 😍

www.news-gazette.com/news/local/t...

I'm much more familiar with Soccer/Basketball, but what was really cool to see was how supportive both teams were (both for their own team and competitors). They danced along with everyone's routines and cheered everyone on!

Got to see Jordan Chiles compete in the Illinois-UCLA gymnastics match this past weekend. What an incredible athlete!

I really know nothing about Curling, but somehow I'm deeply invested in this USA-Switzerland match!

Thanks! It's been a fun visit!

We're North & Central America's Quantum City here in Urbana-Champaign, IL!

worldquantumday.org/quantum-city...

I had an idea to connect properties of (hyper)nuclei to chemical potentials. Considering that a nucleus is quantum many-body object with many crazy happenings going on, it's pretty shocking that it works this well. Biggest surprise was a large strangeness chemial potential!
arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05824

Yeah, I've found that figures get weird, fast. I've tried a few similar things and it gave me complete rubbish!

I'm so confused by those diagrams! 🤯

Just caught the insane Illini upset over Maryland! This team is on fire! Go Illini! 📣🏀

Congratulations to the Illinois Women's Basketball team on making history today! They just won against Purdue, putting them at a 12-1 record for the season, 2-0 in the Big Ten, which is their best starting record ever! 🤩 🏀
Can't wait for their next home game! 🥂

What happens to fluids moving at the speed of light when they're far-from-equilibrium? Imagine you had something like ink and you wanted to see how it spread across such a relativistic fluid, we now can study that in our code CCAKE!

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22852

You're missing out if you're not catching the Illini Women's Basketball games! They just won 100-28 this afternoon. 😱

Criticality in Nature’s Strongest Force Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider give the first hints of a critical point in the hot quark–gluon “soup” that is thought to have pervaded the infant Universe.

Recent write-up from me on the STAR collaboration's exciting new results for the search for the QCD critical point!

physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

New method to find sub-threshold binary neutron star mergers from gravitational waves AND they found one!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Yay!!!!

Is this about Columbia? I had the pleasure of being pregnant there and not having a bathroom in my floor 😭

Thanks!

Virtually attending the talk of Mateus Reinke Pelicer, who is presenting the MUSES cyberinfrastructure at the INT today.

Anyway, there was probably an even worse example I didn’t mention that was it cited a random STAR paper for the beam energy Scan’s search for the critical point, rather than the more obvious net-proton fluctuations paper or some of the review papers out there.

I think it depends on wording. If it’s about the discovery itself (in the context of this sentence it was) then the original should be cited, but if it’s the context of the state of the art later work should be. It just depends on what someone is trying to convey.

To give an example in my field, for the cross-over from the Quark Gluon Plasma to a hadron resonance gas it did not cite the proper 2006 Nature paper but other papers that came out 5-10 years later. They confirmed the previous result with better error bars, but are not the same thing.

I just ran a recent paper that I'm writing through chatGPT to see if I was missing any obvious references. Dear lord, I hope nobody is relying on it for references! 😱 It suggested that would have been "right enough" for or a non-expert, but would have been very misleading.

New group photo, feels like we're starring in drama series!

2025 Annual RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting Celebrates Past and Looks to the Future Sessioins cover 25 years of discoveries at RHIC; latest findings and challenges; path to the EIC; posters, awards, and more!

There's a few quotes from me at the very end :)

www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new...

Oxygen and neon collisions at the LHC for the first time ever 🚀

On 1 July, the four large #LHC experiments recorded particle collisions between oxygen and proton beams for the first time ever. Last week, they went a step further with oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collisions.

ATLAS takes a breath of oxygen The ATLAS Experiment at CERN dives into uncharted waters, recording its first-ever collisions of oxygen and neon ions. These are not your typical heavy-ion collisions. Oxygen and neon nuclei are far s...

Yay!! 🥳
Also, nice to see Illinois Physicist Riccardo Longo getting interviewed!

atlas.cern/Updates/News...