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

Friday, July 10, 2026

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