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, February 24, 2026 (8:00 a.m.) to Friday, February 27, 2026 (11:00 p.m.)

Monday, February 23, 2026
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
9:00 a.m. Morning Talks
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Introduction - Petr Navratil

9:30 a.m. Chiral Nuclear Forces with Gradient Flow Regulator - Hermann Krebs

10:00 a.m. Light hypernuclei based on chiral baryon-baryon and three-baryon forces - Andreas Nogga
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. Morning Talks
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Contributions

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

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

12:00 p.m. Subleading three-body contacts in light nuclei - Georgios Palkanoglou
12:30 p.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Afternoon Talks
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Contributions

2:00 p.m. Coupled-cluster computations of superheavy nuclei - Francesca Bonaiti

2:30 p.m. Diagrammatic Monte Carlo and Emulating Many-Body Green’s Functions - Stefano Brolli

3:00 p.m. Progress with the IM-NCSM - Peter Gysbers
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. Afternoon Talks
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Contributions

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

4:30 p.m. Connecting Nuclear Forces to the Properties of Complex Nuclei - Antoine Belley
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
9:00 a.m. Morning Talks
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. ARIEL at the Finish Line: Delivering TRIUMF’s Next-Generation RIB Capabilities - Alexander Gottberg (TRIUMF)

9:30 a.m. From light nuclei to neutron stars - Alex Gezerlis

10:00 a.m. Recent progress in NLEFT - Ulf-G. Meißner
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. Morning Talks
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Contributions

11:00 a.m. Violating parity in the IMSRG - Antoine Belley

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

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

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Afternoon Talks
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Contributions

2:00 p.m. Ab initio nuclear corrections to light muonic atoms - Mehdi Drissi
2:30 p.m. Poster Jamboree
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Contributions

2:30 p.m. Two-Photon exchange correction for Boron 10 - Diego Araujo Najera

2:40 p.m. Lanczos Method for Strength Functions in Even-A Helium - Scott Baker

2:50 p.m. In-Medium Generator Coordinate Method with Explicit Quasiparticle Excitations - Shane Blade

3:00 p.m. Correlated mass model for calcium isotopes - Max Cincar

3:10 p.m. Emulating the Magnus Formulation of IMSRG - Ben Clark

3:20 p.m. Ab Initio Nuclear Theory for New Physics at the Electroweak Scale - Leah Massmann
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. Poster Jamboree
4:00 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Contributions

4:00 p.m. Uncertainty quantification and emulators with low-resolution nuclear forces - Tom Plies
4:10 p.m. Afternoon Talks
4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.
Contributions

4:10 p.m. Constraining neutrino properties by double-beta decay - Lotta Jokiniemi

4:40 p.m. Emulators for uncertainty propagation: from nuclear forces to many-body physics - Ryan Curry
Thursday, February 26, 2026
9:00 a.m. Morning Talks
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Developments of a hybrid Gorkov-Dyson SCGF formalism and Monte Carlo based methods in nuclei - Carlo Barbieri

9:30 a.m. Update on IMSRG Developments - Heiko Hergert

10:00 a.m. New results from nuclear lattice simulations - Dean Lee
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. Morning Talks
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Contributions

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

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

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

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Colloquium
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Contributions

2:00 p.m. Fine-tunings in nuclear physics - Ulf-G. Meißner
3:00 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m. Poster Jamboree
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Contributions

3:30 p.m. Probing Beyond the Standard Model with Beta Decay and Electron Capture - Victor DUMENIL

3:40 p.m. Equation of Motion (EOM) Extensions of the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group (IMSRG) - Michael Gajdosik

3:50 p.m. Improved ANNs for NCSM Charge Radius Calculations - Tobias Gesser

4:00 p.m. Ab initio calculations of proton and neutron scattering on 12C - Marshall Kodar Hurlbut

4:10 p.m. Collective Excitations in Open-Shell Nuclei: Strength Functions in the In-Medium CI - Michelle Müller

4:20 p.m. Application of ab initio in nuclear theory to electroweak processes - Hoang Dang Khoa Nguyen

4:30 p.m. Light Sterile Neutrino Contributions to Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay - Taiki Shickele

4:40 p.m. Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Nuclear Matrix Elements from an Approximation to IMSRG(3) - Alex Todd

4:50 p.m. Advances in the In-Medium Active-Space CI - Cedric Wenz
5:00 p.m. Poster Session

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m. Workshop Dinner at Sports Illustrated Clubhouse

6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday, February 27, 2026
9:30 a.m. Morning Talks
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Contributions

9:30 a.m. Intruder states in the no-core shell model - Calvin Johnson

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

10:30 a.m. Calcium dripline from a new chiral interaction - Gaute Hagen
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. Morning Talks
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Contributions

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

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

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Tour of TRIUMF experimental facilities (optional, first come first serve) - contact Georgios

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

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