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.
News and Announcements
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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
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)
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The workshop "Testing the Standard Model in Charged-Weak Decays" took place at the INT from January 12- 16.
38 participants were in attendance. Read the workshop highlights report here.
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The "Open Quantum Systems: Dissipative Dynamics from Quarks to the Cosmos" program takes place December 1-12, 2025. Visit the program webpage for more information on the event.
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Martin Savage (InQubator for Quantum Simulation) has been awarded the 2026 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. Professor Savage is recognized for pioneering contributions to computational quantum chromodynamics for nuclear physics, especially through large-scale lattice quantum chromodynamics simulations, and for exploring applications of quantum computing.
More information on this achievement can be found on the University of Washington Physics Department website.