Nuclear Physics Community Meeting January 2026

Europe/London
Merrison Lecture Theatre

Merrison Lecture Theatre

Daresbury Laboratory
Description

The annual nuclear physics community meeting will be held at Daresbury Laboratory on 7th - 8th January 2026 (Google Maps link).

The meeting will start with lunch provided at 12pm on the first day. It will finish around 1:30pm on the second day. Lunches and coffee breaks have been kindly sponsored by Rapiscan Systems.

On arrival, please go to the main reception building where the security staff will welcome you and direct you to the Thomson room for registration and lunch. The meeting will take place in the neighbouring Merrison lecture theatre.

The full agenda can be found by clicking the timetable tab on the Indico page.

A social dinner is organised at San Lorenzo in Warrington on the evening of the 7th January, starting at 19:30. Before the dinner, there will be a drinks reception at the Palmyra Cocktail Bar, starting at 18:00, kindly sponsored by our friends at Mirion Technologies.

 

Sponsors:

Mirion Technologies 

 

Rapiscan Systems

  • Wednesday, 7 January
    • 12:00 12:45
      Lunch 45m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
    • 12:45 12:55
      Welcome 10m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Prof. John Smith (University of the West of Scotland)
    • 12:55 13:35
      Update from STFC 40m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Grahame Blair (STFC)
    • 13:50 14:15
      News from NPAP 25m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Bjoern Seitz (University of Glasgow)
    • 14:15 14:40
      NPGP chairperson's report 25m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Dan Watts (University of York)
    • 14:40 15:10
      Coffee break 30m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
    • 15:10 15:25
      Update from NuPECC 15m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speakers: Prof. David Ireland (University of Glasgow), Paul Stevenson (University of Surrey)
    • 15:25 15:45
      News from the IOP group 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)
    • 15:45 16:05
      Cross community status and plans 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Carlo Bruno (University of Edingburh)
    • 16:05 16:25
      HYPATIA project 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Marina Petri (University of York)
    • 16:25 16:45
      EIC Project 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Daria Sokhan (University of Glasgow)
    • 17:05 17:25
      Bus to Warrington town centre 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
    • 18:00 19:30
      Drinks reception 1h 30m
    • 19:30 22:00
      Dinner 2h 30m
  • Thursday, 8 January
    • 09:15 09:30
      New DAQ developments at Daresbury 15m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Carl Unsworth (STFC)
    • 09:30 09:55
      Learning about the strong interaction from heavy-ion collisions with ALICE 25m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Martin Volkl (University of Birmingham)
    • 09:55 10:20
      Nuclear Astrophysics with Stable and Radioactive Ion Beams 25m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Ragandeep Singh Sidhu (University of Surrey)
    • 10:20 10:45
      Uncovering the microscopic structure of the quark-gluon plasma 25m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Jaime Norman (University of Liverpool)
    • 10:45 11:10
      Coffee break 25m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
    • 11:10 11:30
      New digitisers project: iThemba-STFC collaboration 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speakers: Moschos Kogimtzis (STFC), Philippos Papadakis (STFC)
    • 11:30 11:50
      FAUST Project 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Gavin Lotay
    • 11:50 12:10
      R3B-TRT Project 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Stefanos Paschalis (University of York)
    • 12:10 12:30
      Report from the EPSRC community 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Malcolm Joyce (University of Lancaster)
    • 12:30 12:50
      Round-table discussion 20m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory

      Points to raise:
      * Nuclear Physics Graduate School

      Speaker: Prof. John Smith (University of the West of Scotland)
    • 12:50 13:30
      Lunch 40m Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory