2019 Nuclear Physics Meetings

There was a spate of emails leading up to Christmas from conference and workshop organisers sending reminders or announcements about their conferences.  I thought I would assemble the details, along with some other relevant meetings coming up in low-energy nuclear physics here.  It will help me decide which I might attend.  I'll add more 2019 meetings as I hear about them. (last updated 06/03/2019)

25/02–27/02: ENSAR2 NUSPRASEN Workshop, GSI, Germany

Very much a workshop by the sounds of it, with an aim to stimulate cooperation between laboratories working on superheavy element synthesis research.  The blurb says "It is the opportunity to dwell on topics which are not usually treated in regular conferences or collaboration meetings" [website]

25/03–26/03: Workshop AGATA@LNL for stable beams, Padua, Italy
The first of two meetings in Padua on this list.  This one primarily for those interested in undertaking gamma ray spectroscopy experiments in Legnaro.  If I go to any meetings on this date, it'll be the next one in the list.  [website]

25/03–27/03: 54th ASRC International Workshop "Nuclear Fission and Structure of Exotic Nuclei", Tokai, Japan
From the website: "The meeting will mainly be devoted to new experimental and theoretical achievements in fission, super-heavy nuclei, nuclear reaction and structure of exotic nuclei. Especially, our group is driving a dedicated program using the rare target material, einsteinium-254, for which new results and new proposals will be discussed."  I've set some calculations with einsteinium–254 going to see whether I might find anything interesting enough to talk about.  If so, I'll tell the organisers and see if they'd like to hear my talk.  [website]

01/04–05/04: XVII Workshop on Nuclear Physics WONP-2019, Havana, Cuba
This series of Workshops in Cuba cover a wide range of nuclear physics topics, with a particular emphasis on radiation physics and applications, as these are what the local group in Cuba mostly work on.  I attended a previous conference in the series (in 2005) and enjoyed learning about the applications that were going on there.  I enjoyed the chance to go to Cuba, too.  When I then went to the US shortly after, the border guard saw the Cuban visa in my passport and asked me what I was doing there.  "Scientific conference" I said, and he nodded and waved me through.  I'm glad he didn't grill me about which area of science.  "Nuclear Physics" might not have gone down well.  [website]

18/04–19/04: AGATA campaign at GANIL Pre-PAC workshop 2019, Caen, France
A bit niche this, but if you are working on any physics that relates to the proposed experiments at the AGATA + MUGAST + VAMOS setup at GANIL, then attending this workshop might be for you so that you can inform the discussion of the proposals taking place at the PAC right after the workshop. [website]

13/05–17/05: NSD2019 Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Venice, Italy
This is one of a series of conferences hosted by one of a number of University-based research groups somewhere around the Adriatic.  I went to a very enjoyable one in Dubrovnik some years ago, and this is a nice medium-sized general low-energy nuclear physics conference that always has lots of talks on-topic for me.  Though I don't think I'll be going to this one. [website]

19/05–24/05: PLATAN 2019, Mainz, Germany

I didn't put the whole title of this one in the bold header line, because its name is "Merger of the Poznan Meeting on Lasers and Trapping Devices in Atomic Nuclei Research and the International Conference on Laser Probing".  I've been tangentially involved in work related to laser trapping and excitation of nuclei in the form of calculations of isotope shifts, but it's not something I've done much of lately, and I don't expect to attend this one.  [website]

20/05–21/05: TNP19 Theoretical Nuclear Physics in Padova, Padua, Italy

The subtitle is "a meeting in honor of Prof. Andrea Vitturi" and the meeting is organised due to his retirement.  I suppose the attendees will be largely drawn from his collaborators, and those whose research overlaps strongly.  Vitturi has done a lot of work on giant resonances (among many other things), which is relevant to me.  [website]

20/05–24/05: 2019 JINA-CEE Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics, East Lansing, USA
Ninth in a series of workshops aimed at those affiliated to JINA-CEE (Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics – Centre for the Evolution of the Elements) and other interested physicists working on astrophysical nucleosynthesis and neutron star physics.  [website]

27/05–31/05: 7th Workshop on Level Density and Gamma Ray Strength, Oslo, Norway
I've been to one of these before, in 2015.  The lab in Oslo have a technique (named after them) to measure the quantities used to name this workshop.  I can calculate them, or at least closely related things, and it's not crazy to think of going.  And Oslo is lovely.  [website]

31/05–01/06: 28th HNPS Symposium
The 28th Hellenic Nuclear Physics Symposium is being held in Thessaloniki.  Though ostensibly a regional meeting it is advertised widely and open to interested participants to apply to speak and attend.  The topics cover nuclear structure, reactions, astrophysics, and applied nuclear physics.  [website]

03/06–07/06: Procon2019, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Taking place every 4 years, Procon is a conference about proton-emitting nuclei, so those isotopes with an extremely low proton-to-neutron ratio such that they exhibit proton radioactivity.  I've been involved in performing structure calculations for proton-emitting nuclei in the past, and have featured as a co-author in the proceedings of previous editions of this conference, but have yet to attend one.  Don't see myself travelling to this one, either, with no particularly recent work done by me that is on-topic (though that doesn't seem in general to stop many conference speakers, now I think about it) [website]

23/06–29/06: International Workshop on Nuclear Theory #38, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria

The annual workshop organised by the theoretical nuclear physics group in Sofia.  I've been to this a few times and always like to come.  I had to stop when I took over running the MPhys Research Year programme at Surrey, as this meeting is always during our exam board meeting and my attendance became more or less compulsory.   [website]

24/06–28/06: NUSPIN, Orsay, France
A workshop for those allied to gamma-ray spectroscopy using the AGATA gamma-ray tracking array.  [website]

01/07–05/07: ANPC African Nuclear Physics Conference, Kruger National Park, South Africa

I heard about this when attending COMEX6 in Cape Town in October.  It's a broad conference of fundamental and applied nuclear physics which I'm sure I'd enjoy, and it's in a lovely location.  I've used their website photo on this post above.  I can't really justify going, though.  [website]

16/07–19/07: The 13th International Conference on Stopping and Manipulation of Ions and related topics (SMI-2019), Montreal, Canada
Held in beautiful Montreal, this conference is all about doing nuclear physics on (mostly exotic, unstable) ions by stopping them first after their production in a radioactive ion beam.  [website]

24/07–26/07: Ab Initio Nuclear Theory Workshop, Guildford, Surrey
This is a small meeting organised by my colleagues (Carlo and Arnau) here at Surrey as a satellite meeting to the INPC2019 meeting in Glasgow, to allow people to easily attend both while in the country.  It's open to those working in ab initio theory connecting the underlying strong nuclear interaction to calculated results of finite nuclei.  [website]

29/07–02/08: INPC2019, Glasgow, Scotland

As the conference flyer says, "INPC is the biggest conference in the world for fundamental nuclear physics".  And it's in the UK this year, so the chances of me going are very high.  And it's in one of the UK nicest cities, so that helps too.  I like INPC, with its very broad coverage of nuclear physics areas.  I end up going to a combination of sessions which are right up my street, and others which broaden my horizons.  [website]

12/08–16/08: MICRA2019: Microphysics in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics, Jena, Germany
The 'microphysics' in question is the nuclear equation of state, nucleosynthesis reactions and neutrino-nucleus interactions.  Part of a biennial series of nuclear astrophysics workshops that alternates between Europe and North America.  Our turn this time.  [website]

25/08–30/08: 6th International Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of the Transactinide Elements (TAN 19), Wilhelmshaven, Germany

I haven't been to editions 1-5 in this series.  I don't expect I an add this to my list of conferences to attend, though fusion reactions (leading to superheavy nuclei) is one thing I work on.  [website]

28/08–30/08: Fundamentals of Nuclear Particle Decay, Stockholm, Sweden
A workshop to bring together those working on understanding the properties of nuclei by studying how they decay.  [website]

01/09–07/09:  XXXVI Mazurian Lakes Conference, Piaski, Poland
Every year there is a large nuclear physics conference in Poland – either the Zakopane conference or the Mazurian lakes conference.  I've never been to either.  Maybe one year, but not this, since it clashes with the next conference, which I am co-organising.  [website]

02/09–06/09: 24th European conference on few-body problems in physics, Guildford, UK

Well, I'm a local organiser of this, so I will definitely attend, though more for the scientific interest than because I am any kind of expert with few-body systems.  Mostly I deal with nuclei made of many (rather than few) particles which means particular kinds of approximation in theoretical study, while "few-body" implies a different method of solution.  [website]

05/09–06/09: SADO2019, Sado Island, Japan
A workshop on many–body correlations in microscopic nuclear models.  This one is right up my street, but I'll be busy at the few-body conference that I am co-organising at Surrey. [website] 

09/09–13/09: HIAS2019 Heavy Ion Accelerator Symposium, Canberra, Australia

A long way away from me, in Canberra, but this annual meeting all about heavy-ion reactions of the sort that can be performed at the Canberra accelerator is very relevant to me through my time-dependent Hartree-Fock work.  This year, I (as coordinator of the Surrey MPhys Research Year) have placed two students for research work in Canberra, and I will have to visit them roughly at that time of year, so it wouldn't be crazy to make my visit coincide with the symposium.

09/09–13/09: 21st Colloque GANIL, Strasbourg, France
Coinciding  with HIAS, this colloquium is dedicated to review and discuss work carried out at the GANIL facility, along with relevant related work elsewhere.  [website]

15/09–20/09: Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics IX, Frankfurt, Germany
I've been involved with work on nuclear physics for neutron stars, actually going back to my PhD a long time ago which included calculating properties of predicted neutron stars from a particular form of the nuclear interaction.  While I've also done follow-up things more recently, I don't think I will be able to present anything sufficiently interesting and on-topic here.  Of course, attending conferences is more about learning new things than telling everyone else your latest results, but without the latter, it's harder to justify attending.  [website]

20/09–22/09: JINA–CEE International Workshop on “Beta-decay and Charge-exchange Reactions for Nuclear-Astrophysics"
A workshop to discuss beta-decay, its links to charge-exchange reactions, their role in nuclear astrophysics, theoretical advances, recent experiments, and what experiments could be done in future.  [website] 

24/09-29/09: XXVI Nuclear Physics Workshop, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
This is the annual conference set in the beautiful town of Kazimierz Dolny in Poland, organised by the group at the University of Lublin.  It has a theory slant, but covers all aspects of low-energy nuclear physics. I went to one of these a long time ago, and enjoyed it, though I did have to share a bedroom with another delegate who apologised to me on the first night that he was a loud snorer, which he certainly was. [website] 

30/09–04/10: NuSYM-2019, Danang City, Vietnam
Part of a series of conferences on the nuclear symmetry energy.  This is well up my street, but Vietnam is a long way to go at a busy time of year when semester is starting up again, so a long shot for me.  [website]

03/10–05/10: SDANCA–19, Sofia, Bulgaria
The conference acronym stands for "Shapes and Dynamics of Atomic Nuclei: Contemporary Aspects", and this is the third in the series, which has taken place every two years since 2015.  I was at the first one, and only didn't go to the second one due to illness.  I'd like to go to this and present some work I'm doing on giant resonances as probes of nuclear shapes, but I need to have a think about logistics.  This is taking place in the freshers week at the start of our new academic year, which may cause some clashes.  [website]

06/11–08/11: Nuclear Physics Research-Technology Coaction 2 Workshop, Seville, Spain
A workshop aimed at joining those working on basic nuclear physics research with those involved in the development of associated technologies -- detectors, accelerators etc.  [website]

12/11–15/11: Microscopic Approaches to Nuclear Structure and Reactions, Lawrence LIvermore Laboratory, California, USA
This is the third in a series of workshops in honour of the late Daniel Gogny, concentrating on the areas of nuclear physics he worked most in.  This is very much up my street and I would have accepted the invitation to go if it were not for the fact that my partner has a baby due right around then.  [website]

25/11–27/11: NUSPRASEN Workshop on Nuclear Science Applications, Helsinki, Finland
Part of the ENSAR2 European Union–funded project, this workshop concentrates on applied nuclear physics, in medical, nuclear safety and cultural heritage [website]