15–20 Sept 2024
TU Dresden, Germany; Barkhausen-Bau, Schönfeld-Hörsaal (BAR/SCHÖ/E)
Europe/Berlin timezone
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Confirmed Invited Speakers

Astronomy and Astrophysics

  • Prof. Dr. Anna Frebel (MIT, USA)
            Finding metal-poor r-process stars to understand heavy element nucleosynthesis
  • Dr. Sébastien Guillot (IRAP Toulouse, France)   
           Recent results from NICER
  • Prof. Dr. Michèle Heurs (Leibniz University Hannover & German Center for Astrophysics, Germany)   
           Gravitational Wave Astronomy
  • Prof. Dr. Sophie Van Eck (Bruxelles, Belgium)   
           Carbon enhanced metal poor stars 
  • Dr. Anish Amarsi (Uppsala, Sweden)   
           Stellar abundances with 3D model atmospheres
  • Dr. Marco Pignatari (Konkoly CSFK, Hungary)   
           Impact of stellar yields on galactic chemical evolution
  • Prof. Dr. Stephan Rosswog (University of Hamburg, Germany)   
           Neutron star mergers and nucleosynthesis
  • Dr. Artur Choplin (Universite de Bruxelles, Belgium)   
           Impact of nuclear physics parameters on i-process simulations in AGB stars
  • Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich (University of Potsdam, Germany)   
           Multi-messenger constraints on the neutron-star equation of state and the Hubble constant
  • Dr. John Tomsick (Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, USA) 
           Compton Spectrometer and Imager - science case and plans
  • Dr. Sébastien Martinet (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)   
           Evolution of stars
  • Prof. Dr. Else Starkenburg (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Netherlands)  
           Chemically pristine stars in the Milky Way
  • Prof. Dr. Günther Hasinger (German Center for Astrophysics, TU Dresden, Germany)
           The New German Center for Astrophysics (DZA)
  • Dr. Erin Higgins (Armagh Observatory, UK)
           Stellar evolution and very massive stars

Experiment (atomic and nuclear physics, cosmochemistry)

  • Prof. Dr. Philip Adsley (Texas A&M, USA)   
           Indirect experimental approaches to charged particle reactions in astrophysics.
  • Prof. Dr. Carlo Bruno (University of Edinburgh, UK)   
           Reactions with stored nuclei 
  • Prof. Dr. Richard deBoer (University of Notre Dame, USA)   
           Neutron sources in stars
  • Dr. Cesar Domingo Pardo (CSIC University of Valencia, Spain)   
           Neutron capture reaction rates for s-process nucleosynthesis
  • Prof. Dr. Stephan Fritzsche (Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany)   
           Atomic physics data for kilonova modelling
  • Dr. Jan Glorius (GSI Darmstadt, Germany) 
           Study of proton-induced reactions at the ESR
  • Dr. Heshani Jayatissa (Los Alamos National Lab, USA)   
           Stellar nucleosynthesis in explosive environments
  • Prof. Dr. Beatriz Jurado (LP2I, Bordeaux, France)   
           Surrogate-reaction approach for studying fission of stored ion beams for astrophysics
  • Dr. Dominik Koll (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) 
           Accelerator mass spectrometry of Fe-60 and Pu-244
  • Prof. Dr. Gavin Lotay (University of Surrey, UK)   
           Nuclear physics and X-ray bursts
  • Dr. Denise Piatti (INFN Padova, Italy)   
           The 12,13C(p,γ)13,14N reactions
  • Dr. David Rapagnani (University of Naples, Italy)   
           Nuclear astrophysics at LUNA and LUNA-MV
  • Dr. Roberta Spartà (INFN Laboratori del Sud, Catania, Italy) 
           Trojan Horse measurements for nuclear astrophysics
  • Prof. Dr. Reto Trappitsch (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)   
           Signatures of stellar nucleosynthesis in meteorites
  • Prof. Dr. Mathis Wiedeking (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)   
           Extracting model-independent nuclear level densities away from stability
  • Dr. Matthew Williams (University of Surrey, UK)   
           Nuclear astrophysics at TRIUMF 

Theory

  • Prof. Dr. Almudena Arcones (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)   
           Origin of the heavy elements - theory status
  • Dr. Anthea Fantina (GANIL, France)   
           Nuclear physics constraints on the equation of state
  • Prof. Dr. Brynmor Haskell (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw, Poland)   
           Probing high density physics in the gravitational wave astronomy era