Plenary Speakers

Please find below a complete list of speakers with titles of talks and biographies (as available).

• Explosive scenarios in astrophysics: Observations, models and nuclear inputs
  Professor Ani Aprahamian, Notre Dame University, USA

• Challenges in laser spectroscopy of the heaviest elements
  

  Professor Michael Block, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

• Recent advances in the description of reactions involving exotic nuclei
  Professor Pierre Capel, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

• Nuclear astrophysics in underground laboratories
  Dr Francesca Cavanna, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy

• Physics opportunities with reactions induced by relativistic rare beam: Unveiling neutron-star secrets
  Professor Lola Cortina, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• Anti-atom physics
  Dr Michael Doser, CERN, Switzerland

• From nuclei to the cosmos: Tracing heavy-element production with the oldest stars
  Professor Anna Frebel, MIT, USA

• Evolution of nuclear structure in exotic nuclei
  Professor Alexandra Gade, Michigan State University, USA

• Nuclear pear shapes studied with radioactive ion beams
  Dr Liam Gaffney, University of Liverpool, UK

• Quo vadis neutrino?
  

  Professor Juan Jose Gomez Cadenas, Donostia International Physics Center, Spain

• The nucleus as a femtometer laboratory: Hadronization, 3D tomography and more
  Dr Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

• Towards quantum computations of atomic nuclei
  Dr Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

• Nuclear forces from lattice QCD
  Dr Tetsuo Hatsuda, RIKEN, Japan

• Probing the strong nuclear interaction at neutron-star densities
  Professor Or Hen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

• Short range correlations in nuclei

  Dr Arnau Rios Huguet, University of Surrey, UK

• Application of radionuclides in theranostics

  Dr Ulli Köster, Institut Laue–Langevin, France

• Rare isotopes as laboratories for fundamental-interactions studies
  Professor Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic, Michigan State University, USA

• Searching for the quark-gluon plasma from proton-proton to heavy-ion collisions
  Dr Alice Ohlson, University of Heidelberg, Germany

• Exploring hot-QCD matter properties with jets
  Professor Joern Putschke, Wayne State University, USA

• IAEA activities in support of nuclear physics research and applications
  Dr Danas Ridikas, The International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria

• Revealing the origin of mass
  Professor Craig Roberts, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

• The decay of silver-129
  Dr Robert Shearman, National Physical Laboratory, UK

• Relativistic heavy-ion collisions for the investigation of strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasmas
  Professor Chun Shen, Wayne State University, USA

• Exotic meson spectroscopy
  Professor Justin Stevens, College of William and Mary, USA

• Electron scattering for short-lived nuclei
  Professor Toshimi Suda, Tohoku University, Japan

• Progress towards a nuclear clock: properties of the 229-Thorium isomer

  Dr Peter Thirolf, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany

• The future of neutrino physics and neutrino oscillations
  Professor Mark Thomson, The Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK

• Gravitational waves as probes for nuclear physics

  Professor Jo Van den Brand, Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• High-resolution laser spectroscopy for the study of exotic nuclear properties
  Dr Xiaofei Yang, Peking University, China