News and Announcements

That's a wrap on the 2026 National Nuclear Physics Summer School! 🎉

Students from across the U.S. and around the world came to Seattle for two weeks of immersive learning, collaboration, and discovery in experimental and theoretical nuclear physics.

The program included multiple social activities, including a facility tour of CENPA, a visit to the Museum of Flight, a visit to Discovery Park, and a trip to Bainbridge Island.

A huge thank you to our guest lecturers, organizers, and administrative staff for making this year's summer camp a huge success!

The program INT-26-2a, "Recommended Values for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Nuclear Matrix Elements" is now available

The "Finite-Temperature Effects in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics" workshop takes place June 15-19, 2026. Visit the workshop webpage for more information on the event.

The "Nuclear Hamiltonians for Advancing Nuclear Physics and Beyond" program takes place April 27 - May 29, 2026. Visit the program webpage for more information on the event.

Dave Hertzog, director of CENPA at the the UW and co-spokesperson for the Muon g-2 experiment, accepted the Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics on behalf of the g-2 collaborations.

More information on this achievement can be found at the links below:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01014-9

https://breakthroughprize.org/News/98

https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/muon-g-2-experiment-pioneers-win-breakthrough-prize-fundamental-physics

Image Credit: At the Breakthrough Prize ceremony on April 18, 2026, left to right: Brookhaven National Laboratory Interim Director John Hill, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) physicist Chris Polly, Boston University physicist Lee Roberts, Fermilab Director Emeritus Young-Kee Kim, CERN Director General Mark Thomson, University of Washington physicist David Hertzog, and Brookhaven Lab physicist William Morse. (Courtesy of Kat Morse)