Name: Nuclear Structure 2026
Start: 2026-07-26T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-07-31T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre

Monday, July 27, 2026
9:00 a.m. Monday Morning Early Session: Monday Morning Early Session Block
Monday Morning Early Session Block
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Welcome

9:10 a.m. EDI in Physics Collaborations - Erica Caden (SNOLAB)

9:40 a.m. Nuclear Shell Model on Current and Future Quantum Computers - Paul Stevenson (University of Surrey)

10:05 a.m. Halo Nuclei from Ab Initio Nuclear Theory - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)
10:30 a.m. Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. Monday Morning Late Session: Monday Morning Late Session Block
Monday Morning Late Session Block
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

11:00 a.m. The Standard Model and Beyond from a Nuclear Structure Perspective - Antoine Belley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:30 a.m. Measuring Electroweak Nuclear Properties with Single Molecular Ions in a Penning Trap - Charlotte Konig (Texas A&M University)

11:50 a.m. Exploring the origin of the reactor antineutrino anomaly: high-resolution β-decay study of 92-Rb - Pietro Spagnoletti (University of Liverpool)

12:10 p.m. Nuclear structure from higher-order multipole moments - Andrew Stuchbery (The Australian National University)
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Monday Afternoon Early Session: Monday Afternoon Early Session
Monday Afternoon Early Session
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

2:00 p.m. Recent Results with the FDSi at FRIB and the new GROVER Detector - James Allmond (ORNL)

2:30 p.m. Two Neutrons, Three Discoveries: Using Two-Neutron Energy Correlations to Probe Nuclear Structure from 134In Decay - Peter Dyszel (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

2:50 p.m. Erosion of the N=40 Subshell Closure: New Insights from 68Fe - Rashmi Umashankar (TRIUMF)

3:10 p.m. First β-Decay Spectroscopy Measurements of ³¹F and ³⁷Na Using FDSi - Tawfik Gaballah (Mississippi state university)
3:30 p.m. Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. Monday Afternoon Late Session: Monday Afternoon Late Session Block
Monday Afternoon Late Session Block
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

4:00 p.m. TAGS and beta shape measurements for nuclear structure and reactor applications - Alejandro Algora (IFIC (CSIC-Univ. of Valencia))

4:30 p.m. Beta-decay spectroscopy with laser-polarized beams at CERN ISOLDE - Monika Piersa-Siłkowska (University of Tennessee & Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

4:50 p.m. Exploring the structure of nuclei with A≈100 via β decay - Desislava Kalaydjieva (University of Guelph)

5:10 p.m. Nuclear structure of $^{114}$Sn via $\beta$ decay of $^{114}$Sb with GRIFFIN - Madhu Madhu (Simon Fraser University)
6:00 p.m. Reception

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
9:00 a.m. Tuesday Morning Early Session: Tuesday Morning Early Session Block
Tuesday Morning Early Session Block
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Nuclear structure for X-ray burst models via beta decay at FRIB - Christopher Wrede (Michigan State University and Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

9:30 a.m. Probing explosive nucleosynthesis with radioactive beams - Artemis Tsantiri (University of Regina)

9:50 a.m. Direct Neutron Capture Measurements with a Storage Ring - Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF)

10:10 a.m. ORRUBA: two decades of discovery - Steven Pain (ORNL)
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
11:00 a.m. Tuesday Morning Late Session Block: Tuesday Morning Late Session Block
Tuesday Morning Late Session Block
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

11:00 a.m. Coulomb Breakup and soft E1 excitation of Halo Nuclei - Takashi Nakamura (Institute of Science Tokyo)

11:30 a.m. First spectroscopic study with direct reactions at RAON - Xesus Pereira-Lopez (CENS, IBS)

11:50 a.m. Study of the structure of neutron-rich isotopes 23, 24, 25F in inverse kinematics with the R3B experimental setup at GSI/FAIR - Pablo González Rusell (USC (IGFAE))

12:10 p.m. Probing Halo Structure in the 1/2$^{+}$ Excited State of $^{17}$C via Interaction Cross Section Measurements - Andrew Douglas (FRIB/Michigan State University)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Tuesday Afternoon Early Session Block: Tuesday Afternoon Early Session Block
Tuesday Afternoon Early Session Block
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

2:00 p.m. A universal fate for spin-orbit partners in the weak-binding regime? - Benjamin Kay (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:30 p.m. Abrupt structural transition in exotic molybdenum isotopes unveils an isospin-symmetric island of inversion - Francesco Recchia (University of Padova and INFN)

2:50 p.m. Direct Observation of Superallowed Alpha Decay of 104Te - Ian Cox (Argonne National Laboratory)

3:10 p.m. Fast-Beam One-Neutron Pickup Reactions: A Selective Probe of High-ℓ States - Thomas Parry (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
4:00 p.m. Tuesday Afternoon Late Session Block: Tuesday Afternoon Late Session Block
Tuesday Afternoon Late Session Block
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

4:00 p.m. The Gamma Ray Energy Tracking Array - GRETA - Heather Crawford (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

4:30 p.m. Recent results on the double-gamma decay - Michael Weinert

4:50 p.m. Neutron spectroscopy at the FRIB Decay Station Initiator - Robert Grzywacz (University of Tennessee)

5:10 p.m. Study of shape coexistence and triaxial deformation in 56Cr using AGATA spectrometer: The puzzling B(E2) values - Julgen Pellumaj (INFN-Padova, University of Padova)
6:00 p.m. Poster session
Poster session
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
9:00 a.m. Wednesday Early Morning Block: Wednesday Early Session Block
Wednesday Early Session Block
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Shaking up the Periodic Table with Superheavy Element Molecules - Jennifer Pore (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

9:30 a.m. Hyperfine spectroscopy of the $K=8^-$ isomer in $^{254}$No with JetRIS resolving a 20-year-old debate - Fedor Ivandikov (KU Leuven)

9:50 a.m. Laser spectroscopy of heavy actinides - Sebastian Raeder

10:10 a.m. In-beam $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy of $^{249,251}$Md - Corrigan Appleton (LBNL)
10:30 a.m. Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
11:00 a.m. Wednesday Morning Late Session Block: Wednesday Morning Late Session Block
Wednesday Morning Late Session Block
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

11:00 a.m. ACTAR TPC Studies of Direct and Resonant Reactions: Insights from the TRIUMF campaign - Beatriz Fernandez Dominguez (University of Santiago de Compostela)

11:30 a.m. Determination of the electromagnetic nature of the Low Energy Enhancement in the γ-ray strength function of 70Zn - Eleanor Ronning (INFN Padova)

11:50 a.m. Charge Radii of 52,53Ni from Precision Laser Spectroscopy - Adam Dockery (Michigan State University / Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

12:10 p.m. Support for multiple coexistence: the first lifetime measurements of the $0^+_3$ states in $^{118}$Sn and $^{120}$Sn - Frank (Tongan) Wu (Simon Fraser University)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Free afternoon
Free afternoon
2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada

TRIUMF Tour (optional- registration needed)
TRIUMF Tour (optional- registration needed)
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Thursday, July 30, 2026
9:00 a.m. Thursday Morning Early Session Block: Thursday Morning Early Session Block
Thursday Morning Early Session Block
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Shape coexistence studied with Coulomb excitation and AGATA - Magda Zielinska, (CEA Saclay)

9:30 a.m. Search for Shape Coexistence Signatures in 100Ru using Thermal Neutron Capture Reaction. - Sangeet Pannu (University Of Guelph)

9:50 a.m. Shape transitions of the 2+ states in 106,108,110Sn from Coulomb excitation - Jason Park (Lund University/Hope College)

10:10 a.m. Investigating the deformation of intruder states in 79Zn via Coulomb excitation - Filippo Angelini (GSI)
10:30 a.m. Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
11:00 a.m. Thursday Morning Late Session Block: Thursday Morning Late Session Block
Thursday Morning Late Session Block
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

11:00 a.m. From Shell Evolution to Halo Structure: Quasi-Free Scattering at SAMURAI - Liu Hongna (Beijing Normal University)

11:30 a.m. Neutron knockout from titanium isotopes near the new magic numbers N=32,34 - Martha Reece (GSI)

11:50 a.m. Investigations of the unbound states in 20C - Sidong Chen (University of York)

12:10 p.m. Probing shell evolution in neutron-rich 50-54Ca: lifetime and Coulomb excitation measurements at RIBF - Ting Gao (University of York)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Thursday Afternoon Early Session: Thursday Afternoon Early Session Block
Thursday Afternoon Early Session Block
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

2:00 p.m. Recent developments of ab initio calculations in light nuclei - Sonia Bacca (Johannes Gutenberg University)

2:30 p.m. Approaching the N=20 Island of Inversion with the $^{29}$Mg(d,p)$^{30}$Mg reaction - Alan Wuosmaa (University of Connecticut)

2:50 p.m. Experimental Study of Electromagnetic Transitions in Neutron-rich ²²F - Muzafar Ibrahim (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

3:10 p.m. Exploring Configurations in Neutron-Rich Si Isotopes - Matthew Martin (Argonne National Laboratory)
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
4:00 p.m. Thursday Afternoon Late Session: Thursday Afternoon Late Session Block
Thursday Afternoon Late Session Block
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

4:00 p.m. Recent Results on Nuclear Structure from the University of Jyväskylä Accelerator Laboratory - Panu Ruotsalainen (University of Jyväskylä)

4:30 p.m. Nuclear structure of neutron-rich Ge and Zn isotopes in vicinity of the doubly-magic 78Ni nucleus. - Francois Didierjean (IPHC - University of Strasbourg)

4:50 p.m. Excited-State Lifetime Measurements in Neutron-Rich Ca, Ar Isotopes at INFN LNL - Beau Greaves (INFN-LNL)

5:10 p.m. Low-Energy Coulomb Excitation of Neutron Deficient 106,108Sn - Daniel Rhodes (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
6:00 p.m. Conference Dinner

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday, July 31, 2026
9:00 a.m. Friday Morning First Session: Friday Morning First Session Block
Friday Morning First Session Block
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Recent progress of nuclear mass measurements in CSRe/Lanzhou - Yuhu Zhang (Insititute of modern physics, CAS)

9:30 a.m. Mass measurements of neutron-rich barium isotopes for the r-process and probing the evolution of nuclear structure - Simon Rausch (University of Jyväskylä)

9:50 a.m. Precision Mass Measurements of N≈Z Nuclei Near the Proton Dripline around A≈80 - Hannah Erington (The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (Michigan State University))

10:10 a.m. Nuclear structure studies of neutron-rich lanthanides using precision mass spectrometry at TITAN, TRIUMF - Dwaipayan Ray
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
11:00 a.m. Friday Morning Second Session: Friday Morning Second Session Block
Friday Morning Second Session Block
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada
Contributions

11:00 a.m. New frontiers in collinear laser spectroscopy at COLLAPS: Shell structure in exotic Ca isotopes - Liss Vazquez Rodriguez (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

11:30 a.m. Charge Radii and Magnetic Moments of Neutron-Rich Silicon Isotopes - Fabian Camilo Pastrana Cruz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:50 a.m. Laser-radio-frequency double-resonance spectroscopy of 209Bi for the extraction of its nuclear magnetic octupole moment - Anita Candiello (Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium)

12:10 p.m. Collinear Laser Spectroscopy far from stability: Mg and Cd - Anthony Roitman (McGill University)
12:30 p.m. Closing

12:30 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Room: Fletcher Challenge Canada