NUSTAR Annual Meeting 2026

Name: NUSTAR Annual Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-02-23T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-27T18:00:00+01:00
Location: GSI

23.02.2026, 13:00 → 27.02.2026, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

GSI lecture hall (GSI)

GSI lecture hall

GSI

Darmstadt

Beschreibung

We are pleased to announce the NUSTAR Annual meeting 2026 to be held at GSI Darmstadt, Germany.

Organizers: Helena Albers, Michael Block, and Christoph Scheidenberger (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH Darmstadt, Germany) - Alexander Herlert (FAIR GmbH Darmstadt, Germany) - Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. Surrey, UK)

Satellite meeting:

GSI Colloquium "50th anniversary of SHIP" (Tuesday, February 24 - please register here)

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Mo., 23. Februar
- 14:00 → 17:30
  HISPEC/DESPEC GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 14:00
    
    Welcome 10m
    
    Sprecher: Alejandro Algora (IFIC Valencia), Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
  - 14:10
    
    Final results from S100 20m
    
    Sprecher: Jeroen Bromans (TU Darmstadt - IKP / GSI)
  - 14:30
    
    Final results from S100 20m
    
    Sprecher: Johan Emil Larsson (GSI / TU Darmstadt IKP)
  - 14:50
    
    Final results from S450 20m
    
    ON-LINE
    
    Sprecher: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
  - 15:10
    
    News from LISA 20m
    
    Sprecher: Elisa Gandolfo (GSI), Kathrin Wimmer (Univ. Cologne)
  - 15:30
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 16:00
    
    DEGAS status 20m
    
    Sprecher: Philipp Herrmann (GSI)
  - 16:20
    
    Plans for the DESPEC implantation setup 20m
    
    Sprecher: Marta Polettini (FAIR)
  - 16:40
    
    Monte Carlo simulations 20m
    
    Sprecher: Daniele Brugnara (GSI / TU Darmstadt IKP)
  - 17:00
    
    Status of IDATEN/C2urie 10m
    
    Sprecher: Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
  - 17:10
    
    AGATA@FAIR 20m
    
    Sprecher: Kathrin Wimmer (Univ. Cologne)
Di., 24. Februar
- 09:00 → 13:10
  HISPEC/DESPEC GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 09:00
    
    The future of BELEN 20m
    
    Sprecher: Ariel Tarifeño (IFIC Valencia)
  - 09:20
    
    Time line towards NUSTAR@FAIR 30m
    
    Sprecher: Helena Albers (FAIR / GSI)
  - 09:50
    
    HISPEC/DESPEC LoIs for Early Science (part 1) 40m
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 11:00
    
    HISPEC/DESPEC LoIs for Early Science (part 2) 1 h
  - 12:00
    
    Collaboration business 30m
    
    Sprecher: Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
- 10:30 → 12:30
  
  MATS/LaSpec Theory Seminar Room
  
  Theory Seminar Room
  
  GSI
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1 h GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
- 13:30 → 15:30
  ILIMA open meeting GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 13:30
    
    Going exotic with neutron-capture on radioactive isotopes: status and prospects 30m
    
    Sprecher: César Domingo Pardo (IFIC Univ. Valencia)
  - 14:00
    
    Artificial intelligence for high energy density physics at large scale facilities 30m
    
    Sprecher: Michael Bussmann (HZDR)
    
    260224_nustar_ai.pptx
    
    In this talk I will present the idea of AI-augmented facilities with a few introductory examples from high energy density physics before introducing some of my favourite AI technologies that should give you an idea on what AI is and how it can be used.
  - 14:30
    
    Nuclear astrophysics with long- and short-lived radionuclei 30m
    
    Sprecher: Dennis Mücher (Univ. Cologne)
  - 15:00
    
    Isomeric spectroscopy in neutron-rich Hafnium and Tantalum isotopes at the KISS facility 30m
    
    Sprecher: Siddharth Doshi (Univ. of Brighton)
- 13:30 → 16:00
  
  Super-FRS EC MB AP Seminar Room
  
  AP Seminar Room
  
  GSI
  
  (closed session)
- 15:45 → 16:15
  
  Tea (GSI colloquium) 30m GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
- 16:15 → 18:00
  
  Special GSI Colloquium: 50th anniversary of SHIP GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  NOTE: separate registration required
  
  Speakers:
  Fritz Peter Heßberger (GSI Darmstadt & HI Mainz): Fifty Years of SHIP – The First Decade
  Rolf-Dietmar Herzberg (University of Liverpool): Fifty Years of SHIP – A Journey to the Edges of the World
  
  GSI Colloquium (incl. Zoom)
- 18:30 → 20:30
  
  GSI Colloquium Dinner Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
  
  NOTE: separate registration required
  
  GSI Colloquium
Mi., 25. Februar
- 09:00 → 10:35
  Plenary 1 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome 5m
    
    Sprecher: Christoph Scheidenberger (GSI / JLU Gießen)
  - 09:05
    
    Welcome by FAIR/GSI Directorate and status of FAIR 30m
    
    Sprecher: Thomas Nilsson (FAIR / GSI)
  - 09:35
    
    Status of FAIR project 30m
    
    Sprecher: Jörg Blaurock (FAIR / GSI)
  - 10:05
    
    Technical Roadmap of the GSI accelerator complex for FAIR 30m
    
    Sprecher: Ralph Aßmann (GSI)
- 10:35 → 10:40
  
  Conference photo 5m GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
- 10:40 → 11:10
  
  Coffee break 30m Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- 11:10 → 12:40
  Plenary 2 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 11:10
    
    Super-FRS Status Report 30m
    
    Sprecher: Martin Winkler (GSI)
  - 11:40
    
    Status of NUSTAR 30m
    
    Sprecher: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
  - 12:10
    
    NUSTAR Project update 30m
    
    Sprecher: Helena Albers (FAIR / GSI)
- 12:40 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 50m Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
- 13:30 → 16:00
  
  FAIR construction site tour GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  NOTE: sign up in the registration form (limited number of participants)
- 14:00 → 15:00
  
  Wissenschaft für Alle GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Zwei Werte – ein Universum: Diskrepanzen bei der Bestimmung der Hubble-Konstante
  (public lecture in German - please register separately)
  
  Registration/Info
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee break 30m Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- 16:30 → 18:00
  Plenary 3 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 16:30
    
    Learning from History – Looking towards the Future: Isotope and Isomer Discoveries 30m
    
    Sprecher: Michael Thoennessen (FRIB/MSU)
  - 17:00
    
    Liquid hydrogen targets and physics program at FAIR 30m
    
    Sprecher: Alexandre Obertelli (TU Darmstadt - IKP)
  - 17:30
    
    Surrogate Reactions in Inverse Kinematics at the ESR Storage Ring 30m
    
    Sprecher: Bogusław Włoch (FAIR)
- 18:00 → 19:00
  
  NUSTAR Council GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  (closed session)
- 18:30 → 20:30
  
  Conference Dinner Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
Do., 26. Februar
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Plenary 4 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 09:00
    
    Active Stoppers for DESPEC at FAIR 30m
    
    Sprecher: Marta Polettini (FAIR)
  - 09:30
    
    Coulomb excitation with stable and radioactive beams 30m
    
    Sprecher: Jacob Heery (Univ. of Surrey)
  - 10:00
    
    Latest news from the GATE tool 15m
    
    Sprecher: Karin Füssel (GSI)
  - 10:15
    
    Report from beam time coordinator 15m
    
    Sprecher: Daniel Severin (GSI)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- 11:00 → 12:35
  Plenary 5 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 11:00
    
    Latest progress and status of HIAF project 30m
    
    ON-LINE
    
    Sprecher: Jiancheng Yang (Institute of Modern Physics - CAS)
  - 11:30
    
    MR-ToF Devices: New Applications and Developments 30m
    
    Sprecher: Franziska Maier (FRIB)
  - 12:00
    
    Collinear laser spectroscopy at the Super-FRS’ Cryogenic Gas Cell as an early LASPEC realization at FAIR 30m
    
    Sprecher: Philipp Imgram (FAIR)
  - 12:30
    
    Latest news from the GET_Involved program 5m
    
    Sprecher: Pradeep Ghosh (FAIR)
- 12:35 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1 h 25m Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
- 12:35 → 14:00
  
  NUSTAR BR AP Seminar Room
  
  AP Seminar Room
  
  GSI
  
  (closed session)
- 14:00 → 15:30
  Plenary 6 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 14:00
    
    New ideas for Solar fusion studies - LUNANOVA ERC Synergy grant 30m
    
    Sprecher: Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences)
  - 14:30
    
    Hydrodynamical models of neutron-star mergers and other potential r-process sites 30m
    
    Sprecher: Oliver Just (GSI)
  - 15:00
    
    Experiments at FRS on eta-prime mesic nuclei: Results and perspectives 30m
    
    Sprecher: Kenta Itahashi (The University of Osaka)
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break (FAIR-GENCO) 30m Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- 16:00 → 18:00
  FAIR-GENCO GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 16:00
    
    How new facilities open a new era of research with exotic nuclei - Examples from FRIB 45m
    
    Sprecher: Alexandra Gade (FRIB / MSU)
- 18:30 → 20:30
  
  FAIR-GENCO Dinner Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
Fr., 27. Februar
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Plenary 7 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 09:00
    
    Super-FRS Experiment Collaboration: status and highlights 30m
    
    Sprecher: Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki (Univ. of Groningen)
  - 09:30
    
    Drip-line phenomena in neutron-rich nuclei 30m
    
    Sprecher: Nikhil Mozumdar (TU Darmstadt - IKP)
  - 10:00
    
    S122@GSI: constraining symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities by means of HIC 30m
    
    Sprecher: Fabio Risitano (INFN Sezione di Catania - CSFNSM)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Plenary 8 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 11:00
    
    Electroweak Currents and Nuclear Structure: From Magnetic Moments to beta Decay 30m
    
    Sprecher: Rui Han (FAIR)
  - 11:30
    
    Developing a unified framework for direct and resonant scattering reactions to study reaction rates and clustering in light nuclei 30m
    
    Sprecher: Kevin Li (Univ. of Oslo)
  - 12:00
    
    Identification of MNT reaction products from slowed down beams 30m
    
    Sprecher: Paul Constantin (IFIN-HH / ELI-NP)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1 h 30m Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  NUSTAR CC Theory Seminar Room
  
  Theory Seminar Room
  
  GSI
  
  (closed session)

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