Name: PAINT2026 - Workshop on Progress in Ab Initio Nuclear Theory
Start: 2026-02-24T08:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-27T23:00:00-08:00
Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

PAINT2026 - Workshop on Progress in Ab Initio Nuclear Theory

from Tuesday, 24 February 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 27 February 2026 (23:00)

Monday, 23 February 2026
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Petr Navratil

09:30 Chiral Nuclear Forces with Gradient Flow Regulator - Hermann Krebs

10:00 Light hypernuclei based on chiral baryon-baryon and three-baryon forces - Andreas Nogga
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Emulating light hypernuclei for calibration of hypernuclear interactions - Daniel Gazda

11:30 Exploring quark mass dependent three-nucleon forces in medium-mass nuclei - Urban Vernik

12:00 Subleading three-body contacts in light nuclei - Georgios Palkanoglou
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Coupled-cluster computations of superheavy nuclei - Francesca Bonaiti

14:30 Diagrammatic Monte Carlo and Emulating Many-Body Green’s Functions - Stefano Brolli

15:00 Progress with the IM-NCSM - Peter Gysbers
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 7Li in the no-core shell model with continuum framework with coupling of mass partitions 4He + 3H, 6Li + n, and 6He + p - Jakub Herko

16:30 Connecting Nuclear Forces to the Properties of Complex Nuclei - Antoine Belley
Wednesday, 25 February 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 ARIEL at the Finish Line: Delivering TRIUMF’s Next-Generation RIB Capabilities - Alexander Gottberg (TRIUMF)

09:30 From light nuclei to neutron stars - Alex Gezerlis

10:00 Recent progress in NLEFT - Ulf-G. Meißner
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Violating parity in the IMSRG - Antoine Belley

11:30 Neutron-rich matter from chiral EFT, experiments, and observations - Achim Schwenk

12:00 Two-body currents at finite momentum transfer and applications to dark matter scattering off nuclei - Catharina Brase
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Contributions

14:00 Ab initio nuclear corrections to light muonic atoms - Mehdi Drissi
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Contributions

14:30 Two-Photon exchange correction for Boron 10 - Diego Araujo Najera

14:40 Lanczos Method for Strength Functions in Even-A Helium - Scott Baker

14:50 In-Medium Generator Coordinate Method with Explicit Quasiparticle Excitations - Shane Blade

15:00 Correlated mass model for calcium isotopes - Max Cincar

15:10 Emulating the Magnus Formulation of IMSRG - Ben Clark

15:20 Ab Initio Nuclear Theory for New Physics at the Electroweak Scale - Leah Massmann
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 16:10
Contributions

16:00 Uncertainty quantification and emulators with low-resolution nuclear forces - Tom Plies
16:10
16:10 - 17:10
Contributions

16:10 Constraining neutrino properties by double-beta decay - Lotta Jokiniemi

16:40 Emulators for uncertainty propagation: from nuclear forces to many-body physics - Ryan Curry
Thursday, 26 February 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Developments of a hybrid Gorkov-Dyson SCGF formalism and Monte Carlo based methods in nuclei - Carlo Barbieri

09:30 Update on IMSRG Developments - Heiko Hergert

10:00 New results from nuclear lattice simulations - Dean Lee
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Ab initio structure input for scattering observables - Grigor Sargsyan

11:30 Ab initio optical potentials derived from SA-NCSM densities for elastic scattering from Magnesium isotopes - Charlotte Elster

12:00 Ab initio Glauber-theory calculations of high-energy nuclear scattering - Wataru Horiuchi
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Fine-tunings in nuclear physics - Ulf-G. Meißner
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Probing Beyond the Standard Model with Beta Decay and Electron Capture - Victor DUMENIL

15:40 Equation of Motion (EOM) Extensions of the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group (IMSRG) - Michael Gajdosik

15:50 Improved ANNs for NCSM Charge Radius Calculations - Tobias Gesser

16:00 Ab initio calculations of proton and neutron scattering on 12C - Marshall Kodar Hurlbut

16:10 Collective Excitations in Open-Shell Nuclei: Strength Functions in the In-Medium CI - Michelle Müller

16:20 Application of ab initio in nuclear theory to electroweak processes - Hoang Dang Khoa Nguyen

16:30 Light Sterile Neutrino Contributions to Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay - Taiki Shickele

16:40 Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Nuclear Matrix Elements from an Approximation to IMSRG(3) - Alex Todd

16:50 Advances in the In-Medium Active-Space CI - Cedric Wenz
17:00

17:00 - 18:30

18:30

18:30 - 21:00
Friday, 27 February 2026
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Intruder states in the no-core shell model - Calvin Johnson

10:00 Uncertainty quantification for many-body perturbation theory - Isak Svensson

10:30 Calcium dripline from a new chiral interaction - Gaute Hagen
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Emulators for Hartree-Fock and IMSRG - Margarida Companys Franzke

12:00 World's highest intensity UCN source at TRIUMF - Alexis Brossard
12:30

12:30 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:30