Name: 2026 IOP Conference
Start: 2026-04-04T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-15T17:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 30 March 2026
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
Wednesday, 1 April 2026
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Friday, 3 April 2026
Saturday, 4 April 2026
Sunday, 5 April 2026

Monday, 6 April 2026
Tuesday, 7 April 2026
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Thursday, 9 April 2026
Friday, 10 April 2026
Saturday, 11 April 2026
Sunday, 12 April 2026

Monday, 13 April 2026

10:45 Conference opening
Conference opening
10:45 - 11:00
Room: Huxley 300
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

11:00 Were the Superheavy Elements Made in Nature? - Ani Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame, USA)

11:30 Nuclear structure and dynamics at finite temperature - Prof. Dr sc. Nils Paar (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
12:00
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

12:00 Storage Rings for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics - Dr Ragandeep Singh Sidhu (University of Surrey, UK)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:45
Room: Huxley 300
13:45 2
2
13:45 - 14:45
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

13:45 Extending the Chart of Nuclides: How to Create New (Super)Heavy Nuclei - Sophia Heinz (GSI, Germany)

14:15 Neutrino–Nucleus Interactions from Reactors to the Cosmos: Precision Measurements and New Physics Opportunities - Ivan Martinez-Soler (University of Durham)
14:45 1
1
14:45 - 15:15
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

14:45 Quantum entanglement of positron annihilation gamma – fundamental research applied to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging - Ms Laura Stephenson (University of York)

15:00 Detector-Aware Neural Networks for Particle Identification in Pb-PbCollisions: Feature Set Embedding with Adaptive AttentionMechanisms - Mr Robert Forynski (University Of Derby & CERN)
15:15 Tea
Tea
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 A
A
15:45 - 17:00
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

15:45 Production of Terbium-161 at HF-ADNeF - Max Conroy (Birmingham)

16:00 Nuclear Reaction Studies at NIF: Establishing the Method and Recent Results - Daniel Pitman-Weymouth (Atomic Weapons Establishment)

16:15 Nuclear and radiation backgrounds for the BUTTON anti-neutrino detector testbed at Boulby - William Hopkins (University of Glasgow)

16:30 Detecting water in spent nuclear fuel using the prompt neutron capture reaction on hydrogen - Brendan Green (University of Lancaster)

16:45 Probing Short Range Correlations via (p,pd) Quasi-Free Scattering reactions - Matthew Whitehead (University of York)
B
B
15:45 - 17:00
Room: Huxley 406
Contributions

15:45 A Compact Multimode Detector for the Decommissioning of Irradiated Graphite - Nia Hunter (University of Glasgow)

16:00 Transforming Inorganic Scintillators Into Neutron Spectrometers - Joseph O'Neill (University of Birmingham)

16:15 The Structure of Neutron-Rich N∼126 Nuclei - Gee Bartram (University of Surrey)

16:30 Competing decay modes from the 25/2− spin-gap isomer in 155Lu - Andy Briscoe (University of Liverpool)

16:45 Investigations of the unbound states in 20C - Sidong Chen (University of York)
C
C
15:45 - 17:00
Room: Huxley 407
Contributions

15:45 Exploring intense photon/muon beams as Dark Matter detectors - Mikhail Bashkanov (University of York)

16:00 GEn-RP: Neutron Electric Form Factor Measurement using Recoil Polarimetry at Jefferson Lab - Andrew Cheyne (University Of Glasgow)

16:15 Quantum Machine Learning Meets Predicting Nuclear Binding Energy - Serkan Akkoyun

16:30 Investigating the boundaries of enhanced octupole collectivity in the rare-earth region - Pietro Spagnoletti (University of Liverpool)

16:45 Direct Measurements of Low-Lying Monopole Transitions in 28Si - Jacob Towers (University of York)
17:00

17:00 - 19:30
Room: Cockcroft Building, G50
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
09:00 3
3
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

09:00 Radioactive ion beams for real-time PET-guided adaptive particle therapy - Dr Daria Boscolo (GSI, Germany)

09:30 TBC - Bryan McKinnon (University of Glasgow)
10:00 2
2
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

10:00 Evidence of isomeric states in 183,184Ta. - Mr Siddharth Doshi (University of Brighton)

10:15 First identification of resonant states in the 45V(p,γ)46Cr reaction and their influence on the production of 44Ti in core-collapse supernovae - Dr Chris Cousins (University of Surrey)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 D
D
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

11:00 Constraining the density-dependence of the symmetry energy by cross section measurements at R3B - Lukas Ponnath (University of York)

11:15 Uncertainty quantification of spin-parity assignments in 19Ne with ML methods - Benjamin Wood (University of Birmingham)

11:30 Evidence of the 9B(1/2+) state in the 12C(p,a)9B reaction - Alex Brooks (University of Birmingham)

11:45 Lifetime measurements in neutron-rich barium and cerium isotopes using the fast-timing technique - Faye Rowntree (University of Liverpool)

12:00 B(E2) measurements of heavy N = Z nuclei at FRIB - Michael Bentley (University of York)
E
E
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Huxley 406
Contributions

11:00 Particle identification with Bragg spectroscopy at ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer - Michał Włodarczyk (University of Manchester)

11:15 A Novel Method for PET Radioisotope Photoproduction - Josephine Stone (University of York)

11:30 Differential cross section measurements for (n,α) reactions with a Time Projection Chamber - Jack Bishop (University of Birmingham)

11:45 Deep Learning for Enhanced Muon Tomography Imaging - William O'Donnell (University of Glasgow)

12:00 Position resolution estimation of Adaptive Grid search algorithm for multi-site interactions position determination in 'SIGMA' detector. - Nawaf Altasan (University of Liverpool)
F
F
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Huxley 407
Contributions

11:00 The dynamical evolution of the parity splitting energy in nuclei with octupole deformation - Radu Budaca (Horia Hulubei, Romania)

11:15 Recent developments for microscopic optical potentials for nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering - Ashley Pitt (University of Surrey)

11:30 Lifetime measurements of the 2+ state in 128Nd and 132Sm - Jacob Heery (University of Surrey)

11:45 Laser spectroscopy measurements of 151-175Tm. On behalf of the COLLAPS collaboration - Jack Hughes (University of Liverpool)

12:00 Radiative decay and electromagnetic moments in 229Th determined within nuclear DFT - Alejandro Restrepo-Giraldo (University of York)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
13:30 4
4
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

13:30 Quantum algorithms for the nuclear shell model - Dr Arnau Rios Huguet (University of Barcelona, Spain)

14:00 The Path to Commercial Fusion Energy - Dr Chantal Shand (UK Atomic Energy Authority, UK)
14:30 3
3
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

14:30 Development of collectivity beyond N=50 in the Ge and Se isotopes - Dr Frank Browne (University of Manchester)

14:45 Stress-Testing AGATA: Benchmarking the High-Spin Capabilities of the 1π AGATA Spectrometer at LNL - Dr Connor Sullivan (University of Liverpool)
15:00 Tea
Tea
15:00 - 15:30

15:30

15:30 - 17:30
Room: Huxley 300

17:30 Exhibitor's reception
Exhibitor's reception
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Huxley 300

19:30

19:30 - 23:00
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
09:30 5
5
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

09:30 Exploring the key astrophysical reaction 12C(α,ɣ) with TPCs and ɣ beams - Robin Smith (Sheffield Hallam University)

10:00 Nuclear signatures from binary stars - Rob Izzard (University of Surrey)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 G
G
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

11:00 Pixel-based Target Recoil Tracker (TRT) for R3B at FAIR - Beatriz Amorim (University of York)

11:15 Development of novel LaBr3(Ce) Detector Modules for Nuclear Astrophysics Applications - Sulagna Dutta (University of West of Scotland)

11:30 Elucidating Strangeness with Electromagnetic Probes - Asli Acar (University of York)

11:45 Preliminary 2Pi0 channel analysis at GlueX - Alexandra Berger (University of Glasgow)

12:00 Jet measurements with the ALICE experiment at the LHC - Jaime Norman (University of Liverpool)
H
H
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Huxley 406
Contributions

11:00 First Cross-Section Measurements of the 93Sr(α, xn)95-96Zr Reactions: Implications for the Weak r-Process - Claire Jameson (University of Surrey)

11:15 Beta-decay spectroscopy of proton-rich N=82 isotones - Norah Alwadie (University of Liverpool)

11:30 A direct measurement of the ²⁷Al(α,p)³⁰Si cross section with TACTIC - Annabelle Cyster (University of York)

11:45 A Novel Approach to Observing Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture - John Fuller (University of York)

12:00 Probing the 10B + α pathway for primordial stars at LUNA: Experimental techniques and preliminary results - Rhys Bonnell (University of Edinburgh)
I
I
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Huxley 407
Contributions

11:00 Decay Spectroscopy of Medical Imaging Isotope Terbium-152 - Edward O'Sullivan (University of Surrey)

11:15 Water neutron moderation of AmBe: a computational approach with Geant4 - Filippo Falezza (The University of Birmingham)

11:30 Shell evolution and neutron halo formation in heavy sodium isotopes - Jagjit Singh (University of Manchester)

11:45 Unveiling proton-neutron pairing in homogeneous and isotropic nuclear matter - Betania Backes (University of York)

12:00 Thermal effects on neutron capture cross sections using a quantum dynamical approach - Nicholas Lightfoot (University of Surrey)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Huxley 300

12:45

12:45 - 13:30
Room: Huxley 406
13:30 4
4
13:30 - 14:00
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

13:30 Fission studies using quasi-free scattering reactions in inverse kinematics - Dr Jose Benlliure (csic - Universitat De València)

13:45 Anapole Moment Calculated within Nuclear DFT - Dr Herlik Wibowo (University of York)
14:00 6
6
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Huxley 300
Contributions

14:00 Spectroscopy of pear-shaped nuclei - John Smith (University of the West of Scotland)

14:30 Unveiling nucleon structure through measurements of Generalized Parton Distributions - Prof. Silvia Niccolai (IJClab, France)
15:00 Conference closing
Conference closing
15:00 - 15:15
Room: Huxley 300