30th Carpathian Summer School of Physics Announced for July 2023

The 30th edition of the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2023 is scheduled to take place in Sinaia on July 2-15, 2023, as an in-person event. The school on “Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics. Physics with small accelerators” will feature a combination of school-like and conference-like presentations, with longer invited lectures by senior scientists/professors and …

Video Tutorial Online on Multi-Zone Post-Processing Code on HPC Clusters

Continuing the series on Stellar Nucleosynthesis Tools for HPC Clusters, a new video is now available. The tutorial on installing and running the program mppnp by the NuGrid collaboration in a cluster environment is available on the ChETEC-INFRA YouTube channel, as part of this play list (external link to youtube.com). The video series is part …

Next Edition of SNAQs, Schools on Nuclear Astrophysics Questions, on December 7

As limitations for in-person conferences are slowly lifted and travel to conferences, meetings, schools, and workshops is more common again, the SNAQs organizing committee decided adjust the format and calendar for future editions of these Schools on Nuclear Astrophysics Questions. The new schedule foresees four editions of SNAQs per year, with a duration of less …

European Low-Level Laboratories convene for CELLAR Community Meeting

Underground physics laboratories in Europe have been a driving force for progress in various domains. This includes nuclear and particle physics as well as low-background detector technologies, which are crucial for experimental studies of weak nuclear processes, such as those which are driving stellar evolution. The three-day CELLAR Community Meeting 2022 (starting November 28), aims …

ChETEC-INFRA TNA Event on October 24: Transnational Access and the PTB Ion Accelerator Facility (PIAF)

On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 16:00 – 16:45 (Brussels time) the next edition of the „ChETEC-INFRA TNA event“ will take place on Zoom: Meeting Link. After an introduction outlining TNA in ChETEC-INFRA, the PTB Ion Accelerator Facility in Braunschweig, Germany, will be presented, and combined with a virtual tour of the laboratory. The remaining …

Hands-On Training for Young Nuclear Astrophysicists at Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics X School

On the 3rd of September 2022, the ChETEC-INFRA Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics X school was concluded. The school took place at CERN (Geneva), and hosted 32 students or young post-docs (~50% females) from 13 Countries. The school was one of a kind, combining lectures and hands-on activities. Students had the chance to learn first-hand how …

Solar Fusion III Workshop

The Solar Fusion III workshop (SF-III) took place from July 26-29, 2022, at Berkeley (USA) under the sponsorship of ChETEC-INFRA, the NSF network N3AS and the Institute for Nuclear Theory (USA). Initially scheduled for 2020, ten years after the previous SF-II workshop, SF-III brought together experimentalists and theoreticians working on hydrogen burning nuclear reactions with …

New Video on HPC Stellar Nucleosynthesis Tools

The next video of the series on Stellar Nucleosynthesis Tools for HPC Clusters is now available. The tutorial on SE Outputs from MESA for Postprocessing is available on the ChETEC-INFRA channel on YouTube, or as part of this play list (external link to youtube.com). The video series is part of the resources provided to the …

ChETEC-INFRA Meets for Second General Assembly in Padova

One year after the first general assembly of ChETEC-INFRA in 2021 was held online, the second assembly now took place in hybrid mode. Held in the center of Padua (Italy), the program of the meeting included presentations on developments in nuclear astrophysics, as well as talks on highlights of the individual ChETEC-INFRA Work Packages and …

ChETEC-INFRA TNA Event on May 23: Transnational Access and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at the DREAMS Facility

On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 15:30 – 16:30 (Brussels time) the next edition of the „ChETEC-INFRA TNA event“ will take place on Zoom: Meeting Link. After an introduction outlining TNA in ChETEC-INFRA, the DREAMS Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility in Dresden, Germany, will be presented with slides and a virtual tour of the laboratory. The …