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

NUSTAR Annual Meeting 2026

from Monday, February 23, 2026 (1:00 PM) to Friday, February 27, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, February 23, 2026
2:00 PM HISPEC/DESPEC: HISPEC/DESPEC
HISPEC/DESPEC
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome - Alejandro Algora (IFIC Valencia) Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)

2:10 PM Final results from S100 - Jeroen Bromans (TU Darmstadt - IKP / GSI)

2:30 PM Final results from S100 - Johan Emil Larsson (GSI / TU Darmstadt IKP)

2:50 PM Final results from S450 - Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)

3:10 PM News from LISA - Elisa Gandolfo (GSI) Kathrin Wimmer (Univ. Cologne)

4:00 PM DEGAS status - Philipp Herrmann (GSI)

4:20 PM Plans for the DESPEC implantation setup - Marta Polettini (FAIR)

4:40 PM Monte Carlo simulations - Daniele Brugnara (GSI / TU Darmstadt IKP)

5:00 PM Status of IDATEN/C2urie - Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)

5:10 PM AGATA@FAIR - Kathrin Wimmer (Univ. Cologne)
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
9:00 AM HISPEC/DESPEC: HISPEC/DESPEC
HISPEC/DESPEC
9:00 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

9:00 AM The future of BELEN - Ariel Tarifeño (IFIC Valencia)

9:20 AM Time line towards NUSTAR@FAIR - Helena Albers (FAIR / GSI)

9:50 AM HISPEC/DESPEC LoIs for Early Science (part 1)

11:00 AM HISPEC/DESPEC LoIs for Early Science (part 2)

12:00 PM Collaboration business - Andrea Jungclaus (IEM-CSIC Madrid)
10:30 AM MATS/LaSpec: MATS/LaSpec
MATS/LaSpec
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Theory Seminar Room

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
1:30 PM ILIMA open meeting: ILIMA open meeting
ILIMA open meeting
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

1:30 PM Going exotic with neutron-capture on radioactive isotopes: status and prospects - César Domingo Pardo (IFIC Univ. Valencia)

2:00 PM Artificial intelligence for high energy density physics at large scale facilities - Michael Bussmann (HZDR)

2:30 PM Nuclear astrophysics with long- and short-lived radionuclei - Dennis Mücher (Univ. Cologne)

3:00 PM Isomeric spectroscopy in neutron-rich Hafnium and Tantalum isotopes at the KISS facility - Siddharth Doshi (Univ. of Brighton)
Super-FRS EC MB: Super-FRS EC MB
Super-FRS EC MB
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: AP Seminar Room

3:45 PM Tea (GSI colloquium)
Tea (GSI colloquium)
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall

4:15 PM Special GSI Colloquium: 50th anniversary of SHIP: Special GSI Colloquium: 50th anniversary of SHIP
Special GSI Colloquium: 50th anniversary of SHIP
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall

6:30 PM GSI Colloquium Dinner: GSI Colloquium Dinner
GSI Colloquium Dinner
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Canteen
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary 1: Plenary 1
Plenary 1
9:00 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)

9:05 AM Welcome by FAIR/GSI Directorate and status of FAIR - Thomas Nilsson (FAIR / GSI)

9:35 AM Status of FAIR project - Jörg Blaurock (FAIR / GSI)

10:05 AM Technical Roadmap of the GSI accelerator complex for FAIR - Ralph Aßmann (GSI)
10:35 AM Conference photo
Conference photo
10:35 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: GSI lecture hall

10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Cafeteria/Lobby
11:10 AM Plenary 2: Plenary 2
Plenary 2
11:10 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

11:10 AM Super-FRS Status Report - Martin Winkler (GSI)

11:40 AM Status of NUSTAR - Zsolt Podolyak (Univ. of Surrey)

12:10 PM NUSTAR Project update - Helena Albers (FAIR / GSI)
12:40 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Canteen

1:30 PM FAIR construction site tour: FAIR construction site tour
FAIR construction site tour
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall

2:00 PM Wissenschaft für Alle: Wissenschaft für Alle
Wissenschaft für Alle
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall

4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Cafeteria/Lobby
4:30 PM Plenary 3: Plenary 3
Plenary 3
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

4:30 PM Learning from History – Looking towards the Future: Isotope and Isomer Discoveries - Michael Thoennessen (FRIB/MSU)

5:00 PM Liquid hydrogen targets and physics program at FAIR - Alexandre Obertelli (TU Darmstadt - IKP)

5:30 PM Surrogate Reactions in Inverse Kinematics at the ESR Storage Ring - Bogusław Włoch (FAIR)
6:00 PM NUSTAR Council: NUSTAR Council
NUSTAR Council
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall

6:30 PM Conference Dinner: Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Canteen
Thursday, February 26, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary 4: Plenary 4
Plenary 4
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

9:00 AM Active Stoppers for DESPEC at FAIR - Marta Polettini (FAIR)

9:30 AM Coulomb excitation with stable and radioactive beams - Jacob Heery (Univ. of Surrey)

10:00 AM Latest news from the GATE tool - Karin Füssel (GSI)

10:15 AM Report from beam time coordinator - Daniel Severin (GSI)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Cafeteria/Lobby
11:00 AM Plenary 5: Plenary 5
Plenary 5
11:00 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

11:00 AM Latest progress and status of HIAF project - Jiancheng Yang (Institute of Modern Physics - CAS)

11:30 AM MR-ToF Devices: New Applications and Developments - Franziska Maier (FRIB)

12:00 PM Collinear laser spectroscopy at the Super-FRS’ Cryogenic Gas Cell as an early LASPEC realization at FAIR - Philipp Imgram (FAIR)

12:30 PM FAIR Fellow and Associate Programme - Pradeep Ghosh (FAIR)
12:35 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:35 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Canteen

NUSTAR BR: NUSTAR BR
NUSTAR BR
12:35 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: AP Seminar Room
2:00 PM Plenary 6: Plenary 6
Plenary 6
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

2:00 PM New ideas for Solar fusion studies - LUNANOVA ERC Synergy grant - Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences)

2:30 PM Hydrodynamical models of neutron-star mergers and other potential r-process sites - Oliver Just (GSI)

3:00 PM Experiments at FRS on eta-prime mesic nuclei: Results and perspectives - Kenta Itahashi (The University of Osaka)
3:30 PM Coffee break (FAIR-GENCO)
Coffee break (FAIR-GENCO)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria/Lobby
4:00 PM FAIR-GENCO: FAIR-GENCO
FAIR-GENCO
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

4:00 PM How new facilities open a new era of research with exotic nuclei - Examples from FRIB - Alexandra Gade (FRIB / MSU)
6:30 PM FAIR-GENCO Dinner: FAIR-GENCO Dinner
FAIR-GENCO Dinner
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Canteen
Friday, February 27, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary 7: Plenary 7
Plenary 7
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

9:00 AM Super-FRS Experiment Collaboration: status and highlights - Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki (Univ. of Groningen)

9:30 AM Drip-line phenomena in neutron-rich nuclei - Nikhil Mozumdar (TU Darmstadt - IKP)

10:00 AM S122@GSI: constraining symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities by means of HIC - Fabio Risitano (INFN Sezione di Catania - CSFNSM)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Cafeteria/Lobby
11:00 AM Plenary 8: Plenary 8
Plenary 8
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: GSI lecture hall
Contributions

11:00 AM Electroweak Currents and Nuclear Structure: From Magnetic Moments to beta Decay - Rui Han (FAIR)

11:30 AM Developing a unified framework for direct and resonant scattering reactions to study reaction rates and clustering in light nuclei - Kevin Li (Univ. of Oslo)

12:00 PM Identification of MNT reaction products from slowed down beams - Paul Constantin (IFIN-HH / ELI-NP)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Canteen

NUSTAR CC: NUSTAR CC
NUSTAR CC
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Theory Seminar Room

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