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
      Lunch Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
    • 1
      Welcome Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Prof. John Smith (University of the West of Scotland)
    • 2
      Update from STFC Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Grahame Blair (STFC)
    • 3
      News from NPAP Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Bjoern Seitz (University of Glasgow)
    • 4
      NPGP chairperson's report Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

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

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
    • 5
      Update from NuPECC Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speakers: Prof. David Ireland (University of Glasgow), Paul Stevenson (University of Surrey)
    • 6
      News from the IOP group Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)
    • 7
      Cross community status and plans Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Carlo Bruno (University of Edingburh)
    • 8
      HYPATIA project Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Marina Petri (University of York)
    • 9
      EIC Project Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

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

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
    • 18:00
      Drinks reception
    • 19:30
      Dinner
  • Thursday, 8 January
    • 10
      New DAQ developments at Daresbury Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Carl Unsworth (STFC)
    • 11
      Learning about the strong interaction from heavy-ion collisions with ALICE Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Martin Volkl (University of Birmingham)
    • 12
      Nuclear Astrophysics with Stable and Radioactive Ion Beams Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Ragandeep Singh Sidhu (University of Surrey)
    • 13
      Uncovering the microscopic structure of the quark-gluon plasma Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

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

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
    • 14
      New digitisers project: iThemba-STFC collaboration Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speakers: Moschos Kogimtzis (STFC), Philippos Papadakis (STFC)
    • 15
      FAUST Project Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Gavin Lotay
    • 16
      R3B-TRT Project Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Stefanos Paschalis (University of York)
    • 17
      Report from the EPSRC community Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory
      Speaker: Malcolm Joyce (University of Lancaster)
    • 18
      Round-table discussion 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
      Lunch Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Merrison Lecture Theatre

      Daresbury Laboratory