NUSTAR Annual Meeting 2026

Europe/Berlin
GSI lecture hall (GSI)

GSI lecture hall

GSI

Darmstadt
Description

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)
    • HISPEC/DESPEC
      • 1
        Welcome
        Speakers: Alejandro Algora (IFIC Valencia), Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
      • 2
        Final results from S100
        Speaker: Jeroen Bromans (TU Darmstadt - IKP / GSI)
      • 3
        Final results from S100
        Speaker: Johan Emil Larsson (GSI / TU Darmstadt IKP)
      • 4
        Final results from S450

        ON-LINE

        Speaker: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
      • 5
        News from LISA
        Speakers: Elisa Gandolfo (GSI), Kathrin Wimmer (Univ. Cologne)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee break
      • 6
        DEGAS status
        Speaker: Philipp Herrmann (GSI)
      • 7
        Plans for the DESPEC implantation setup
        Speaker: Marta Polettini (FAIR)
      • 8
        Monte Carlo simulations
        Speaker: Daniele Brugnara (GSI / TU Darmstadt IKP)
      • 9
        Status of IDATEN/C2urie
        Speaker: Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
      • 10
        AGATA@FAIR
        Speaker: Kathrin Wimmer (Univ. Cologne)
    • HISPEC/DESPEC
      • 11
        The future of BELEN
        Speaker: Ariel Tarifeño (IFIC Valencia)
      • 12
        Time line towards NUSTAR@FAIR
        Speaker: Helena Albers (FAIR / GSI)
      • 13
        HISPEC/DESPEC LoIs for Early Science (part 1)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break
      • 14
        HISPEC/DESPEC LoIs for Early Science (part 2)
      • 15
        Collaboration business
        Speaker: Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
    • MATS/LaSpec
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch
    • ILIMA open meeting
      Convener: Yury Litvinov (GSI / Univ, Cologne)
      • 16
        Going exotic with neutron-capture on radioactive isotopes: status and prospects
        Speaker: César Domingo Pardo (IFIC Univ. Valencia)
      • 17
        Artificial intelligence for high energy density physics at large scale facilities
        Speaker: Michael Bussmann (HZDR)

        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
        Speaker: Dennis Mücher (Univ. Cologne)
      • 19
        Isomeric spectroscopy in neutron-rich Hafnium and Tantalum isotopes at the KISS facility
        Speaker: Siddharth Doshi (Univ. of Brighton)
    • Super-FRS EC MB

      (closed session)

    • 3:45 PM
      Tea (GSI colloquium)
    • Special GSI Colloquium: 50th anniversary of SHIP

      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 Dinner

      NOTE: separate registration required

    • Plenary 1
      Convener: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
      • 20
        Welcome
        Speaker: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
      • 21
        Welcome by FAIR/GSI Directorate and status of FAIR
        Speaker: Thomas Nilsson (FAIR / GSI)
      • 22
        Status of FAIR project
        Speaker: Jörg Blaurock (FAIR / GSI)
      • 23
        Technical Roadmap of the GSI accelerator complex for FAIR
        Speaker: Ralph Aßmann (GSI)
    • 24
      Conference photo
    • 10:40 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary 2
      Convener: Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki (Univ. Groningen)
    • 12:40 PM
      Lunch break
    • FAIR construction site tour

      NOTE: sign up in the registration form (limited number of participants)

    • Wissenschaft für Alle

      Zwei Werte – ein Universum: Diskrepanzen bei der Bestimmung der Hubble-Konstante
      (public lecture in German - please register separately)

    • 4:00 PM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary 3
      Convener: Michael Block (GSI / HIM / Univ. Mainz)
      • 28
        Learning from History – Looking towards the Future: Isotope and Isomer Discoveries
        Speaker: Michael Thoennessen (FRIB/MSU)
      • 29
        Liquid hydrogen targets and physics program at FAIR
        Speaker: Alexandre Obertelli (TU Darmstadt - IKP)
      • 30
        Surrogate Reactions in Inverse Kinematics at the ESR Storage Ring
        Speaker: Bogusław Włoch (FAIR)
    • NUSTAR Council

      (closed session)

    • Conference Dinner
    • Plenary 4
      Convener: Giovanna Benzoni (INFN Milano)
    • 10:30 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary 5
      Convener: Dieter Ackermann (GANIL)
      • 35
        Latest progress and status of HIAF project

        ON-LINE

        Speaker: Jiancheng Yang (Institute of Modern Physics - CAS)
      • 36
        MR-ToF Devices: New Applications and Developments
        Speaker: Franziska Maier (FRIB)
      • 37
        Collinear laser spectroscopy at the Super-FRS’ Cryogenic Gas Cell as an early LASPEC realization at FAIR
        Speaker: Philipp Imgram (FAIR)
      • 38
        FAIR Fellow and Associate Programme
        Speaker: Pradeep Ghosh (FAIR)
    • 12:35 PM
      Lunch
    • NUSTAR BR

      (closed session)

      Convener: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)
    • Plenary 6
      Convener: Wolfram Korten (IRFU CEA Saclay)
      • 39
        New ideas for Solar fusion studies - LUNANOVA ERC Synergy grant
        Speaker: Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences)
      • 40
        Hydrodynamical models of neutron-star mergers and other potential r-process sites
        Speaker: Oliver Just (GSI)
      • 41
        Experiments at FRS on eta-prime mesic nuclei: Results and perspectives
        Speaker: Kenta Itahashi (The University of Osaka)
    • 3:30 PM
      Coffee break (FAIR-GENCO)
    • FAIR-GENCO
      • 42
        How new facilities open a new era of research with exotic nuclei - Examples from FRIB
        Speaker: Alexandra Gade (FRIB / MSU)
    • FAIR-GENCO Dinner
    • Plenary 7
      Convener: Dolores Cortina (IFIC Univ. Valencia)
    • 10:30 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary 8
      Convener: Timo Dickel (GSI)
      • 46
        Electroweak Currents and Nuclear Structure: From Magnetic Moments to beta Decay
        Speaker: Rui Han (FAIR)
      • 47
        Developing a unified framework for direct and resonant scattering reactions to study reaction rates and clustering in light nuclei
        Speaker: Kevin Li (Univ. of Oslo)
      • 48
        Identification of MNT reaction products from slowed down beams
        Speaker: Paul Constantin (IFIN-HH / ELI-NP)
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch
    • NUSTAR CC

      (closed session)

      Convener: Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)