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

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Darmstadt

Beschreibung

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

Organizers: Helena Albers and Michael Block (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
- HISPEC/DESPEC GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Sprecher: Alejandro Algora (IFIC Valencia), Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
  - 2
    
    Final results from S100
    
    Sprecher: Jeroen Bromans (TU Darmstadt - IKP / GSI)
  - 3
    
    Final results from S100
    
    Sprecher: Johan Emil Larsson (GSI / TU Darmstadt IKP)
  - 4
    
    Final results from S450
    
    ON-LINE
    
    Sprecher: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
  - 5
    
    News from LISA
    
    Sprecher: Elisa Gandolfo (GSI), Kathrin Wimmer (Univ. Cologne)
  - 15:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 6
    
    DEGAS status
    
    Sprecher: Philipp Herrmann (GSI)
  - 7
    
    Plans for the DESPEC implantation setup
    
    Sprecher: Marta Polettini (FAIR)
  - 8
    
    Monte Carlo simulations
    
    Sprecher: Daniele Brugnara (GSI / TU Darmstadt IKP)
  - 9
    
    Status of IDATEN/C2urie
    
    Sprecher: Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
  - 10
    
    AGATA@FAIR
    
    Sprecher: Kathrin Wimmer (Univ. Cologne)
Di., 24. Februar
- HISPEC/DESPEC GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 11
    
    The future of BELEN
    
    Sprecher: Ariel Tarifeño (IFIC Valencia)
  - 12
    
    Time line towards NUSTAR@FAIR
    
    Sprecher: Helena Albers (FAIR / GSI)
    
    HDCollab_GSIFeb26_HMAlbers.pdf
  - 13
    
    HISPEC/DESPEC LoIs for Early Science (part 1)
    
    LOI_Sn_Elisa-1.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 14
    
    HISPEC/DESPEC LoIs for Early Science (part 2)
  - 15
    
    Collaboration business
    
    Sprecher: Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
- MATS/LaSpec Theory Seminar Room
  
  Theory Seminar Room
  
  GSI
- 12:30
  
  Lunch GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
- ILIMA open meeting GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Yury Litvinov (GSI / Univ, Cologne)
  - 16
    
    Going exotic with neutron-capture on radioactive isotopes: status and prospects
    
    Sprecher: César Domingo Pardo (IFIC Univ. Valencia)
    
    NUSTAR_talk_2026_cdp.pdf
  - 17
    
    Artificial intelligence for high energy density physics at large scale facilities
    
    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.
  - 18
    
    Nuclear astrophysics with long- and short-lived radionuclei
    
    Sprecher: Dennis Mücher (Univ. Cologne)
    
    Nustar Week Muecher.pdf
    
    Nustar Week Muecher.pptx
  - 19
    
    Isomeric spectroscopy in neutron-rich Hafnium and Tantalum isotopes at the KISS facility
    
    Sprecher: Siddharth Doshi (Univ. of Brighton)
- Super-FRS EC MB AP Seminar Room
  
  AP Seminar Room
  
  GSI
  
  (closed session)
- 15:45
  
  Tea (GSI colloquium) GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
- 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)
  
  Herzberg.pdf
  
  Hessberger.pdf
- GSI Colloquium Dinner Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
  
  NOTE: separate registration required
  
  GSI Colloquium
Mi., 25. Februar
- Plenary 1 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
  - 20
    
    Welcome
    
    Sprecher: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
  - 21
    
    Welcome by FAIR/GSI Directorate and status of FAIR
    
    Sprecher: Thomas Nilsson (FAIR / GSI)
  - 22
    
    Status of FAIR project
    
    Sprecher: Jörg Blaurock (FAIR / GSI)
    
    20260225_NUSTAR_Status of FAIR Project_rev02_final.pdf
  - 23
    
    Technical Roadmap of the GSI accelerator complex for FAIR
    
    Sprecher: Ralph Aßmann (GSI)
- 24
  
  Conference photo GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
- 10:40
  
  Coffee break Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- Plenary 2 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki (Univ. Groningen)
  - 25
    
    Super-FRS Status Report
    
    Sprecher: Martin Winkler (GSI)
    
    Winkler_260225.pdf
  - 26
    
    Status of NUSTAR
    
    Sprecher: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
    
    Podolyak_NUSTAR_annual_meeting_25feb2026.pdf
  - 27
    
    NUSTAR Project update
    
    Sprecher: Helena Albers (FAIR / GSI)
    
    NUSTAR_AnnualMeeting_GSI_25Feb26_HMAlbers-1.pdf
- 12:40
  
  Lunch break Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
- FAIR construction site tour GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  NOTE: sign up in the registration form (limited number of participants)
- 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
  
  Coffee break Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- Plenary 3 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Michael Block (GSI / HIM / Univ. Mainz)
  - 28
    
    Learning from History – Looking towards the Future: Isotope and Isomer Discoveries
    
    Sprecher: Michael Thoennessen (FRIB/MSU)
  - 29
    
    Liquid hydrogen targets and physics program at FAIR
    
    Sprecher: Alexandre Obertelli (TU Darmstadt - IKP)
    
    NUSTARweek_Feb2026_Obertelli.pptx
  - 30
    
    Surrogate Reactions in Inverse Kinematics at the ESR Storage Ring
    
    Sprecher: Bogusław Włoch (FAIR)
    
    BoguslawWloch-NUSTAR-website.pdf
- NUSTAR Council GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  (closed session)
- Conference Dinner Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
Do., 26. Februar
- Plenary 4 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Giovanna Benzoni (INFN Milano)
  - 31
    
    Active Stoppers for DESPEC at FAIR
    
    Sprecher: Marta Polettini (FAIR)
  - 32
    
    Coulomb excitation with stable and radioactive beams
    
    Sprecher: Jacob Heery (Univ. of Surrey)
    
    jheery_nustar2026-2.pdf
  - 33
    
    Latest news from the GATE tool
    
    Sprecher: Karin Füssel (GSI)
    
    LatestNewsOnGATE_2026-02-26.pdf
  - 34
    
    Report from beam time coordinator
    
    Sprecher: Daniel Severin (GSI)
    
    2026-02 NUSTAR week_v1.pptx
- 10:30
  
  Coffee break Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- Plenary 5 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Dieter Ackermann (GANIL)
  - 35
    
    Latest progress and status of HIAF project
    
    ON-LINE
    
    Sprecher: Jiancheng Yang (Institute of Modern Physics - CAS)
  - 36
    
    MR-ToF Devices: New Applications and Developments
    
    Sprecher: Franziska Maier (FRIB)
    
    20260226_Talk_NUSTAR_Maier.pdf
  - 37
    
    Collinear laser spectroscopy at the Super-FRS’ Cryogenic Gas Cell as an early LASPEC realization at FAIR
    
    Sprecher: Philipp Imgram (FAIR)
    
    Imgram_LaSpecCSC_NustarAnnualMeeting_upload.pdf
  - 38
    
    FAIR Fellow and Associate Programme
    
    Sprecher: Pradeep Ghosh (FAIR)
    
    FAIR_Fellowship_Pitch.pptx
- 12:35
  
  Lunch Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
- NUSTAR BR AP Seminar Room
  
  AP Seminar Room
  
  GSI
  
  (closed session)
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
- Plenary 6 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Wolfram Korten (IRFU CEA Saclay)
  - 39
    
    New ideas for Solar fusion studies - LUNANOVA ERC Synergy grant
    
    Sprecher: Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences)
    
    Serenelli_NUSTAR.pdf
  - 40
    
    Hydrodynamical models of neutron-star mergers and other potential r-process sites
    
    Sprecher: Oliver Just (GSI)
    
    Oliver_Just_NUSTAR_small.pdf
  - 41
    
    Experiments at FRS on eta-prime mesic nuclei: Results and perspectives
    
    Sprecher: Kenta Itahashi (The University of Osaka)
- 15:30
  
  Coffee break (FAIR-GENCO) Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- FAIR-GENCO GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  - 42
    
    How new facilities open a new era of research with exotic nuclei - Examples from FRIB
    
    Sprecher: Alexandra Gade (FRIB / MSU)
- FAIR-GENCO Dinner Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
Fr., 27. Februar
- Plenary 7 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Dolores Cortina (IFIC Univ. Valencia)
  - 43
    
    Super-FRS Experiment Collaboration: status and highlights
    
    Sprecher: Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki (Univ. of Groningen)
    
    Kalantar_Super-FRS-EC-NUSTAR-Annual-Meeting-Feb2026-Final.pdf
  - 44
    
    Drip-line phenomena in neutron-rich nuclei
    
    Sprecher: Nikhil Mozumdar (TU Darmstadt - IKP)
  - 45
    
    S122@GSI: constraining symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities by means of HIC
    
    Sprecher: Fabio Risitano (INFN Sezione di Catania - CSFNSM)
    
    Risitano_NUSTARAnnualMeeting.pdf
- 10:30
  
  Coffee break Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  Cafeteria/Lobby
  
  GSI
- Plenary 8 GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI lecture hall
  
  GSI
  
  Darmstadt
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Timo Dickel (GSI)
  - 46
    
    Electroweak Currents and Nuclear Structure: From Magnetic Moments to beta Decay
    
    Sprecher: Rui Han (FAIR)
  - 47
    
    Developing a unified framework for direct and resonant scattering reactions to study reaction rates and clustering in light nuclei
    
    Sprecher: Kevin Li (Univ. of Oslo)
  - 48
    
    Identification of MNT reaction products from slowed down beams
    
    Sprecher: Paul Constantin (IFIN-HH / ELI-NP)
    
    NUSTAR_PConstantin.pdf
- 12:30
  
  Lunch Canteen
  
  Canteen
  
  GSI
- NUSTAR CC Theory Seminar Room
  
  Theory Seminar Room
  
  GSI
  
  (closed session)
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)

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