LEAPS – the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources – is a strategic consortium initiated by the Directors of the Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Laser (FEL) user facilities in Europe. Its primary goal is to actively and constructively ensure and promote the quality and impact of the fundamental, applied and industrial research carried out at their respective facility to the greater benefit of European science and society.
The Plenary Meeting offers an insight into the LEAPS Strategy
Quark Matter 2019 – the XXVIIIth International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions – will consist of five and a half days of conference, beginning the morning on Monday, November 4, and ending early afternoon on Saturday, November 9. The conference is preceded by a Student Day on Sunday, November 3, at the Science Hall on the campus of Central China Normal University (CCNU).
Quark Matter 2019 brings together physicists from around the world to discuss new developments in high energy heavy-ion physics. The focus is on the fundamental understanding of strongly-interacting matter at extreme conditions of high temperature and density, as formed in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. In these conditions, which also characterised the early Universe, matter appears as a Quark-Gluon Plasma, with quarks and gluons not confined within hadrons.
The scientific topics addressed by this conference are:
- QCD at finite temperature and baryon density
- Initial state and approach to equilibrium
- Small systems
- Collective dynamics and final state interaction
- Search for the critical end point
- Chirality, vorticity and spin polarization
- Jet modifications and medium response
- Heavy flavor and quarkonium
- Electromagnetic probes
- Quark matter and nuclear astrophysics
- New theoretical developments
- Future facilities and instrumentation
The International Workshop on Vertex Detectors (VERTEX) is a major annual series of international workshops for physicists and engineers from the high energy and nuclear physics community. VERTEX provides an international forum to exchange the experiences and needs of the community, and to review recent, ongoing, and future activities on silicon based vertex detectors. The workshop covers a wide range of topics: existing and future detectors, new developments, radiation hardness, simulation, tracking and vertexing, electronics and triggering, applications to medical and other fields.
The Swampland program gives general constraints on effective theories to be compatible with quantum gravity, which defines the Landscape of consistent theories, and is quickly gaining command of the fundamental understanding of open questions in particle physics and cosmology, ranging from the hierarchy of fundamental scales in nature, to the origin and final fate of the universe.
Current research surfs over several powerful conjectures, whose riptide deposits valuable implications on the structure of effective theories, their spectrum of particles, their moduli spaces and potentials. Time is ripe to navigate the swampland, collecting these results and conjectures, and weaving them up to unveil fundamental structures in quantum gravitational theories. This workshop plans to gather the leading experts in the field to review our knowledge on the Swampland extension, the underlying related fundamental questions within quantum gravity and string theory as well as possible constraints for particle physics and cosmology.
This conference is devoted to relations between quantum field theory and string theory one hand, and mathematical knot theory and random matrix models on the other hand. Surprising connections between these areas of research have been found in last years. In the conference we will summarize important recent developments in this context and try to set the goals for the future research. Topics considered in the conference include: supersymmetric gauge theories, BPS states, topological string theory, integrability, homological knot invariants, matrix models, topological recursion.
The bi-annual 12th International Workshop COOL’19 will be held on September 23 – 27, 2019, and co-hosted by the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS and Novosibirsk State University. The workshop will be focused on the various aspects of the cooling methods and technics of charged particles. The workshop Topics:
- electron cooling
- stochastic cooling
- muon cooling
- cooled beam dynamics
- new concepts and theoretical advancements in beam cooling
- facility status updates and beam cooling reviews
The purpose of the meeting is to bring together experts and young researchers in the areas of nuclear, particle and astro-physics as well as cosmology and the pertinent interrelations among these fields. The aim is to discuss the current status of the field and to explore future directions, both in experiment and theory. With the recent observation of gravitational-wave signals of black-hole and neutron-star mergers – for the latter in coincidence with electromagnetic signals -, the meeting is particularly timely. The aim is to cover a broad range of topics to elucidate synergies and identify areas of future progress. This should be especially beneficial to the younger participants of the meeting.
In detail, the following topics will be presented and discussed:
- Binary Star Mergers – the observations of gravitational waves
- Binary Star Mergers – simulations
- Binary Star Mergers – nucleosynthesis
- Direct and indirect Dark Matter Searches
- Axions – Dark Matter?
- Dark Matter Searches at the LHC
- Neutrino Mass from Tritium Decay
- Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (Majorana versus Dirac Neutrino)
- Neutrino Mass from electron Capture
- Elastic Neutrino scattering – COHERENT
- The Reactor Neutrino Spectrum Anomaly
- Search for the Cosmic Neutrino Background
- Neutrinos and Cosmology
The XII International Conference on Nuclear Structure Properties (NSP2019) will be held in Bitlis, Turkey. The aim of this conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers from all over the world to present their research results and activities in Nuclear Physics and related subjects. The conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish research relations and to find academic partners for future collaborations.
