Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
45th Course
Nuclei in the Laboratory and in Stars
Erice-Sicily
September 16-22, 2024

Blackett Institute (San Domenico)


Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday


Tuesday, September 17

Chair: Michael Buballa
08:50 - 09:00 Welcome
09:00 - 09:40 Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo (Darmstadt, Germany)
Probing heavy element nucleosynthesis through electromagnetic observations
09:50 - 10:30 Hendrik Schatz (East Lansing, USA)
Nuclear astrophysics at FRIB
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee
Chair: Christian Fischer
11:10 - 11:50 Marek Ploszajczak (Caen, France)
Physics of nuclear threshold effects
12:00 - 12:40 Michael Wiescher (Notre Dame, United States)
Threshold effects in Nuclear Reaction Rates
12:50 Lunch

Chair: Kathrin Wimmer
16:00 - 16:15 Catharina Brase (Darmstadt, Germany)
Two-body currents at finite momentum transfer and applications to M1 transition
16:20 - 16:35 Horst Lenske (Giessen, Germany)
Exploring Isotensor Modes in Double Charge Exchange Reactions
16:40 - 16:55 Julian Marcus Hauf (Darmstadt, Germany)
Nuclear resonance fluorescence study of the most neutron-rich stable zinc isotope at the N=40 subshell closure
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee
Chair: Emiko Hiyama
17:30 - 17:45 Lauren Bell (Oslo, Norway)
Nuclear Level Density and Gamma Strength function in the well deformed even-even samarium isotopes
17:50 - 18:05 Kiriaki Prifti (Darmstadt, Germany)
First Temperature-dependent Relative Self-Absorption at the S-DALINAC
18:10 - 18:25 Lisa Wagner (Darmstadt, Germany)
Precision Calculation of Nuclear Observables in the No-Core Shell Model

Wednesday, September 18

Chair: Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo
09:00 - 09:40 Sunniva Siem (Oslo, Norway)
Nuclear level densities and astrophysical reactions
09:50 - 10:30 Dean Lee (East Lansing, United States)
Nuclear Lattice Simulations
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee
Chair: Hendrik Schatz
11:10 - 11:50 Evgeny Epelbaum (Bochum, Germany)
Chiral effective field theory using gradient flow
12:00 - 12:40 Witold Nazarewicz (East Lansing, United States)
Structure of rare isotopes: theoretical challenges
12:50 Lunch

Chair: Marek Ploszajczak
16:00 - 16:15 Ushasi Datta (Kolkata, India)
Exploring properties of the exotic nuclei and its impact on cosmic phenomena
16:20 - 16:35 Margarida Companys Franzke (Darmstadt, Germany)
Application of eigenvector continuation to nuclear many-body problems
16:40 - 16:55 Cedric Wenz (Darmstadt, Germany)
The In-medium no-core shell model - an ab initio path towards medium mass nuclei
17:00 - 17:15 Andre Nunes (Lisbon, Portugal)
The deuteron as a six-quark state in QCD
17:20 - 17:50 Coffee
Chair: Michael Wiescher
17:50 - 18:05 Joshua Wylie (Lansing, United States of America)
Understanding continuum effects on nuclei near the driplines
18:10 - 19:10 Christian Fischer (Giessen, Germany)
A (short) history of Sicily

Thursday, September 19

08:00 - 19:00 Excursion:
Monreale and Palermo
Leaving at 8:00 from Porta Trapani.

Friday, September 20

Chair: Berta Rubio
09:00 - 09:40 Kathrin Wimmer (Darmstadt, Germany)
Nuclear physics at the N=Z line
09:50 - 10:30 Jonathan Wilson (0rsay, France)
New Fission Studies
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee
Chair: Witold Nazarewicz
11:10 - 11:50 Saori Pastore (St Louis, USA)
Nuclei as a laboratory for beyond the Standard Model physics
12:00 - 12:40 Emiko Hiyama (Sendai, Japan)
Hypernuclear physics from view point of few-body problem
12:50 Lunch

Chair: Sunniva Siem
16:00 - 16:15 Diana Alvear Terrero (Darmstadt, Germany)
Microscopic description of beta-decay rates of r process nuclei
16:20 - 16:35 Tanja Kirchner (Darmstadt , Germany)
Entanglement in few-particle scattering
16:40 - 16:55 Eric Flynn (East Lansing, USA)
Spontaneous fission yields and lifetimes from self-consistent calculations
17:00 - 17:15 Kotaro Uzawa (Kyoto, Japan)
Non-equilibrium Green's function approach to low-energy fission dynamics
17:20 - 17:50 Coffee
Chair: Nicolas Chamel
17:50 - 18:05 Heamin Ko (Darmstadt, Germany)
Impact of neutrino oscillation on neutrino-process in core-collapse supernova
18:10 - 18:25 Takasumi Maruyama (Tsukuba, Japan)
Measurements and searches with Decay-At-Rest neutrinos produced at J-PARC MLF
18:30 - 18:45 Helen Meyer (Bonn, Germany)
Primordial nucleosynthesis with varying fine-structure constant

Saturday, September 21

Chair: Dean Lee
09:00 - 09:40 Nicolas Chamel (Brussels, Belgium)
Nuclear clustering and pasta in neutron stars
09:50 - 10:30 Berta Rubio (Paterna- Valencia, Spain)
Isospin and beta decay
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee
Chair: Jonathan Wilson
11:10 - 11:50 Tomohiro Uesaka (Wako, Saitama, Japan)
Nuclear clustering — manifestations of nonuniformity in nuclei —
12:00 - 12:40 Angela Bracco (Milano, Italy)
Isospin effects probed by the Electric Dipole Emission
12:50 Lunch

Chair: Saori Pastore
16:00 - 16:15 Lucas Happ (Wako-shi, Japan)
Mass-ratio dependence of three-body resonance lifetimes
16:20 - 16:35 Ilaria Michelon (Meyrin, Switzerland)
Beta-decay spectroscopy with laser-polarised beams of neutron-rich nuclei at ISOLDE
16:40 - 16:55 Vivian de la Incera (Edinburg, United States)
Fluctuations in Dense Quark Matter Phases with Topology
17:00 - 17:15 Efrain J Ferrer (Edinburg, USA)
Axion Polaritons in Quark Stars. A possible solution for the Missing Pulsar Problem.
17:20 - 17:50 Coffee
Chair: Angela Bracco
17:50 - 18:05 Daniele Fargion (Rome, Italy)
UHECR: From lightest to heavy nuclei in nearest universe
18:10 - 18:25 Asahi Yano (Wako, Saitama, Japan)
Mass measurements of rare-radioactive isotopes with a unique storage ring
18:30 - 18:45 Daniel Lay (East Lansing, United States)
Accelerating HFB Simulations for Nuclear Structure and Dynamics

20:00 Conference Dinner
Hotel Moderno