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

1 Registration + Welcome

Superheavy elements

2 Toward Pursuing New Superheavy Elements

Speaker: Jacklyn Gates (LBNL)

IOP Prize Winners

3 Data-driven approaches to learning about nuclear structure

Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize winner 2023

Speaker: David Jenkins (University of York)

10:30 Coffee break

Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

Instrumentation: Parallel session

Nuclear structure: Parallel session

12:45 Lunch + Poster session

Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions

4 TBC

Speaker: Rachel Montgomery (University of Glasgow)

Applied nuclear physics

5 TBC

Speaker: Giuseppe Loruso (NPL)

Nuclear theory

6 IPPP talk

15:30 Coffee break

STFC Town Meeting

7 Update from STFC Executive Chair

Speaker: Michele Dougherty (STFC)

8 Update from Science Board

Speaker: Keith Grange

9 Update from Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel

10 Update from IOP Nuclear Physics Group

Speaker: Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)

11 Discussions

19:00 Drinks Reception

Thursday, 24 April

IOP Prize Winners

12 TBC

Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize winner 2024

Speaker: Alison Bruce (University of Brighton)

13 Direct measurements of astrophysical reactions with radioactive beams

Early Career Researcher Prize winner

Speaker: Matthew Williams (University of Surrey)

14 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)

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 Coffee break

Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions: Parallel session

Nuclear structure: Parallel session

Nuclear theory: Parallel session

Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

Nuclear structure: Parallel session

12:30 Lunch + Poster session

Nuclear structure

16 TBC

Speaker: Ben Kay (Argonne National Laboratory)

Applied nuclear physics

17 TBC

Speaker: Heather Williams (The Christie NHS Foundation Trust)

Nuclear theory

18 Chiral forces and uncertainty quantification in ab initio nuclear structure predictions

Speaker: Andreas Ekström (Chalmers University of Technology)

15:30 Coffee break

Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

Instrumentation: Parallel session

Nuclear structure: Parallel session

Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions: Parallel session

19:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, 25 April

Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions

19 Investigating strange baryons and charm production with the upgraded ALICE Inner Tracker

Speaker: Lee Barnby (University of Derby)

Nuclear theory

20 Electroweak reactions with light (and not so light) nuclei

Speaker: Sonia Bacca (JGU Mainz)

Nuclear structure

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

Speaker: Louis Lalanne (LPHC-CNRS)

10:30 Coffee break

Nuclear structure

22 TBC

Speaker: Silvia Leoni (INFN)

Nuclear astrophysics

23 Neutron Reactions in Astrophysics

Speaker: Claudia Lederer-Woods (University of Edinburgh)

Nuclear theory

24 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)

Applied nuclear physics

25 Nuclear Science to Benefit Society

Speaker: Iain Darby (UKNNL)

13:00 Closing remarks