Nuclear Physics Conference 2025

23 Apr 2025, 09:00 → 25 Apr 2025, 13:30 Europe/London

Engineering A Theatre B (2A.041) (Nancy Rothwell Building)

David Sharp, Kara Lynch (University of Manchester), Thomas Day Goodacre (The University of Manchester), Toby Wright (University of Manchster)

The Nuclear Physics Conference 2025 will feature invited talks from national and international speakers, as well as extensive opportunities for contributed talks. A poster session will take place to showcase work and discoveries, and updates and discussions with senior members of the Science and Technology Facilities Council will be provided at a Town Meeting. The conference is particularly welcoming to Ph.D. students and all are offered the opportunity to present their research.

Further information can be found on the conference website: https://iop.eventsair.com/np2025/

Please upload your talks to this Indico page before the start of your session. As a reminder:

• Plenary talks are 25 mins + 5 mins for questions
• Parallel talks are 12 mins + 3 mins for questions

 

This event is supported by:

Wednesday, 23 April

09:00 → 09:30 Registration + Welcome

09:30 → 10:00 Superheavy elements

09:30 Toward Pursuing New Superheavy Elements

Speaker: Jacklyn Gates (LBNL)

10:00 → 10:30 IOP Prize Winners

10:00 Data-driven approaches to learning about nuclear structure

Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize winner 2023

Speaker: David Jenkins (University of York)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:45 Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

11:00 → 12:45 Instrumentation: Parallel session

11:00 → 12:45 Nuclear structure: Parallel session

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch + Poster session

14:00 → 14:30 Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions

14:00 TBC

Speaker: Rachel Montgomery (University of Glasgow)

14:30 → 15:00 Applied nuclear physics

14:30 TBC

Speaker: Giuseppe Loruso (NPL)

15:00 → 15:30 Nuclear theory

15:00 IPPP talk

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 STFC Town Meeting

16:00 Update from STFC Executive Chair

Speaker: Michele Dougherty (STFC)

16:45 Update from Science Board

Speaker: Keith Grange

17:05 Update from Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel

17:25 Update from IOP Nuclear Physics Group

Speaker: Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)

17:45 Discussions

19:00 → 21:00 Drinks Reception

Thursday, 24 April

09:00 → 10:30 IOP Prize Winners

09:00 TBC

Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize winner 2024

Speaker: Alison Bruce (University of Brighton)

09:30 Direct measurements of astrophysical reactions with radioactive beams

Early Career Researcher Prize winner

Speaker: Matthew Williams (University of Surrey)

10:00 Calorimeter Construction for Luminosity Monitoring at the Electron Ion Collider

Best Second Year PhD Student Talk at the STFC Nuclear Physics Summer School 2024 winner

Speaker: Alex Smith (University of York)

10:15 Development of a gamma radiation detector system for localisation and mapping of distributed sources

Best Second Year PhD Student Talk at the STFC Nuclear Physics Summer School 2024 winner

Speaker: Refilwe Setso (University of York)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions: Parallel session

11:00 → 12:30 Nuclear structure: Parallel session

11:00 → 12:00 Nuclear theory: Parallel session

12:00 → 12:30 Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

12:00 → 12:30 Nuclear structure: Parallel session

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch + Poster session

14:00 → 14:30 Nuclear structure

14:00 TBC

Speaker: Ben Kay (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:30 → 15:00 Applied nuclear physics

14:30 TBC

Speaker: Heather Williams (The Christie NHS Foundation Trust)

15:00 → 15:30 Nuclear theory

15:00 Chiral forces and uncertainty quantification in ab initio nuclear structure predictions

Speaker: Andreas Ekström (Chalmers University of Technology)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

16:00 → 16:30 Instrumentation: Parallel session

16:00 → 17:30 Nuclear structure: Parallel session

16:30 → 17:30 Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions: Parallel session

19:00 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, 25 April

09:00 → 09:30 Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions

09:00 Investigating strange baryons and charm production with the upgraded ALICE Inner Tracker

Speaker: Lee Barnby (University of Derby)

09:30 → 10:00 Nuclear theory

09:30 Electroweak reactions with light (and not so light) nuclei

Speaker: Sonia Bacca (JGU Mainz)

10:00 → 10:30 Nuclear structure

10:00 Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure studies: future plans at the GANIL and DESIR facility

Speaker: Louis Lalanne (LPHC-CNRS)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Nuclear structure

11:00 TBC

Speaker: Silvia Leoni (INFN)

11:30 → 12:00 Nuclear astrophysics

11:30 Neutron Reactions in Astrophysics

Speaker: Claudia Lederer-Woods (University of Edinburgh)

12:00 → 12:30 Nuclear theory

12:00 Exploring the structure and reactions of two-neutron halos at the low-Z coast of the island of inversion

Speaker: Jagjit Singh (University of Manchester)

12:30 → 13:00 Applied nuclear physics

12:30 Nuclear Science to Benefit Society

Speaker: Iain Darby (UKNNL)

13:00 → 13:10 Closing remarks