This week, I am in Tokyo for the workshop Quantum Computing in Nuclear Physics. It's quite a different feel to the CNR conference last week. The meeting is smaller and more targetted, with longer talks where people get into technical details of their work, and there is more discussion. I gave my talk yesterday, and one of the delegates was kind enough to take a picture of me talking and send it to me. Here it is
It's Thursday at CNR'26, and we are treated to a talk by Sam Sullivan, PhD student at Surrey, co-supervised by me and his industrial sponsor supervisors, James Benstead and Lee Morgan. Here he is, standing in front of the ~100 or so members of the audience, doing himself proud. Well done, Sam!
I am at the CNR'26 conference in Fukuoka, Japan. CNR = Compound Nuclear Reactions, being a class of nuclear reactions in which the nucleus undergoes a particular intermediate state. A large class of these are neutron-induced reactions, such as those taking place in fission reactors. I am here more because of my work on heavy-ion collisions, which is the usual way of describing reactions between pairs of nuclei, as opposed to reactions of a nucleus and a subnuclear particle.
I presented the work largely done by my recent PhD graduate Khlood Alharthi, on the effect of the nuclear surface on fusion reactions. Here I am standing by my poster in the poster session last night (picture thanks to Amy Lovell):
