Event Schedule

National Nuclear Physics Summer School

STUDENT TALKS

Format: 8 minutes (5-min talk, 2-min Q&A, 1-min transition)

Student talks will take place in Physics/Astronomy Auditorium A114 on July 3rd, 9th, and 10th. 

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Week 2

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Slides Video
Canonical statistical hadronization with local baryon conservation for higher-order cumulants Volodymyr Kuznietsov University of Houston Slides
Initial State Modelling of Baryon-Dense Fixed-Target Collisions Lance Lampert Duke University Slides mp4
A=12 Binding energies in a finite volume formulation of pionless effective field theory Rosie Zielinski Massachusetts Institute of Technology Slides
He6-CRES: Precision Beta Spectroscopy With Microwaves Luciano Malavasi University of Washington Slides mp4
Universal three-body clustering in excited states of light nuclei Kosei Nakagawa Kyoto University Slides
Exploring the Λ-Nucleon Interaction through Mass Spectroscopy of Hypernuclei at Jefferson Lab Ken Nishida The University of Tokyo Slides
Graph Convolutional Network for Light-Based Position Reconstruction of Alpha Events in EXO-200 Hannah Peltz Smalley University of Massachusetts Slides mp4
Modelling Nuclear Effects in NuWro Monte Carlo Generators Hemant Prasad University of Wrocław Slides
Quark Matter Phase Boundary Evolution in Neutron Star Mergers Jiazhen Shao Washington University in St. Louis Slides
Heavy Quarkonia in Small and Light-Ion Collision Systems Sabin Thapa Kent State University Slides mp4
Critical slowing down and bulk viscosity in binary neutron star mergers Rachel Steinhorst Massachusetts Institute of Technology Slides

Friday, July 10, 2026

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Slides Video
Studying Orbital Angular Momentum Evolution in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Naveenkumar Senthilkumar Wayne State University Slides mp4
A New “Skin Thickness” in High-spin Isomers as a probe for Equation of State of Spin-polarized Matter Toi Tachibana Kyoto University Slides
PIONEER: High Precision Measurements of Rare Pion Decay (Phase I) Jessie Yang University of Washington Slides
Measuring the Pion Beta Decay Rate with the PIONEER Apparatus Bradley Taylor University of Washington Slides mp4
Continuous-variable ADAPT-VQE for bosonic lattice models Gloria Tejedor García Stony Brook University Slides
Reformulation of the pionless effective field theory for practical few- and many-body application Cameron Shotwell University of Washington Slides
Modeling Nucleon-Nucleon Potentials with Machine Learning Jose Arlo Gabriel Wui Texas A&M University Slides mp4
Organizing Non-Equilibrium Photon Dynamics from Symmetry Principles Genki Yoshimura The University of Osaka Slides
Effective Field Theory of Dilute, Polarized Fermi Gases Owen Young University of Washington Slides
Laser Spectroscopy at the Cyclotron Institute Mason Moenter Texas A&M University Slides
Making and Breaking Radioactive Molecules Savannah Limarenko Texas A&M University Slides
Spin and Magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions Raúl Wolters Utrecht University Slides