SNAQs

[snæks] Schools on Nuclear Astrophysics Questions

A virtual school format discussing questions related to nuclear astrophysics

Content

• ⤓ General information
• ⤓ Editions
• ⤓ Guidelines for participants
• ⤓ Organizing committee

General information

Starting in 2021, when travel worldwide was restricted, a new event of SNAQs has been organized always on the 2nd Wednesday in each month with a break in summer. SNAQs lasted about 3.5 hours, including breaks, with lectures and scientific talks around a given question in nuclear astrophysics. Lectures have been held by senior researchers and scientific talks preferably by young researchers, as master and PhD students. Further, SNAQs have put a special focus on the interaction between participants to allow young scientists networking even if traveling to schools, workshops and conferences is not an option.

After travel to in-person conferences, meetings, schools, and workshops is most common again, the SNAQs organizing committee decided to reduce the number of SNAQs to four per year. This is also in favour of all those colleagues who are tired of long lasting and exhaousing online sessions in front of a monitor. The new format of SNAQs will last less than 90 minutes and comprises one or two talks around a given question in nuclear astrophysics. Still, SNAQs put a special focus on the multidisciplinary (astronomy, astrophysics, nuclear physics) audience of students and senior scientists.

SNAQs join the community of schools related to nuclear astrophysics that partner with ChETEC-INFRA:

• Carpathian Summer School of Physics (well established)
• European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (well established)
• Intercontinental School on Nuclear Astrophysics (new)
• International school on nuclear physics, neutron physics and applications (well established)
• Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics School (new)
• Rußbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics (well established)
• School on observations and spectroscopic tools (new)

The aim of this community is to give all students and young researchers the same, multidisciplinary knowledge about nuclear astrophysics. SNAQs will support this idea and strengthen the community of schools by providing a frequent lecture series to train and educate the next generation of scientist with knowledge across the three types of infrastructures used by nuclear astrophysicists:

• Astronuclear laboratories supplying reaction data,
• Supercomputer facilities performing stellar structure and nucleosynthesis computations, and
• Telescopes and mass spectrometers collecting elemental and isotopic abundance data.

Editions

Guidelines for participants

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Organizing committee

Former members of the organizing committee

• Mohamad Moukaddam (University of Strasbourg, France)