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Galileo Galilei Institute For Theoretical Physics

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

The meeting will take place in person in Ponte de Lima, which is the oldest municipality in Portugal (chartered in 1125) and about 90min away from Porto airport by express bus. The meetings are informal, and there is no registration fee. There will be no invited speakers, parallel sessions, or posters, and all the time slots will be of equal length. Should there be excessive abstract demand, some preference will be given to younger participants. The meetings are not restricted to a single focused topic, but are open to cosmologists in the broadest sense, from theoretical particle physics to observational astrophysics. Stimulating interactions between theorists and observers is a particular concern of the organizers, and will be the key factor for the success of the meeting. In addition to the talks, there may also be time for guided discussions, particularly if there are several requests for talks on a common hot topic. The meeting will also include a programme of social and educational/outreach activities.

The primary goal of the meeting is to discuss complementary aspects of elementary particle phenomenology both within the standard model and beyond: those relevant for the third and high luminosity runs of the Large Hadron Collider and possible future high energy colliders; in high intensity experiments measuring neutrino oscillations, quark/lepton number, flavour and CP violation; in astroparticle observatories probing the matter-energy content of the early and present universe. Planned topics to be covered include Higgs boson and electroweak physics, top quark physics, flavour phenomena and CP violation, neutrino physics, dark matter as well as other particle dynamics in the early universe.

COSPAR organizes a series of Symposia that are aimed at promoting space research at a regional level and are generally held in countries with medium or small-size space infrastructures.

Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

Soon after Einstein postulated the General Theory of Relativity, he introduced what he called his "greatest mistake'', the so-called cosmological constant. Solutions of the Einstein equation with cosmological constant are now called Einstein manifolds, and despite Einstein's pessimistic view, play key roles both in mathematics and physics. Quasi-Einstein manifolds are generalizations of Einstein manifolds, which include not only Einstein manifolds but Ricci solitons, warped product Einstein manifolds, static Einstein manifolds, and other special manifolds. These are important in many areas of modern mathematical research, including Ricci flow, collapsed Gromov-Hausdorff limits, and general relativity. This workshop will examine progress in seemingly disparate fields which in fact share a common nexus, namely quasi-Einstein manifolds or the related notion of Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature. Problems to be discussed include the classification problem for near horizon geometries (of black holes), for Ricci solitons and for static Einstein metrics, as well as the fundamental gap problem for Laplace and Schroedinger operators, and the formulation and application of synthetic Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature.

Galileo Galilei Institute

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together scientists with different backgrounds and expertise to discuss open problems, recent developments and future directions in axion physics, a field that is notoriously replete with interdisciplinary connections. The aim is to foster a fruitful cross breeding between different theoretical areas, with a focus on certain open issues in axion particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Quantitative assessments of the axion contribution to Cold Dark Matter (CDM) involve top-notch lattice simulations of non- perturbative QCD effects, as well as of the cosmic evolution of axionic topological defects. Astrophysical observations provide strong bounds on axion properties because stellar evolution would be affected by the existence of axions and, intriguingly, some excesses in star energy losses have been reported. Cosmological scenarios in which the PQ symmetry is broken before inflation foresee axions imprints in the CMB, while in post-inflationary scenarios axion miniclusters, with overdensities several orders of magnitude larger than the local density of CDM, are expected to form, and a reliable assessment of their properties is of utmost importance. From the experimental side, a blossoming of potentially game-changing ideas, with an exciting crossover from experimental particle physics to materials science and cutting-edge technologies is inspiring new methods for axion searches. Novel techniques have been put forth that, besides exploiting the axion- photon coupling, aim to reveal axions via their couplings to nucleons and electrons. The interaction between the experimental and theoretical communities will foster the merging of `how to search’ with `where to search’ into optimized strategies to hunt for the axion.

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Metrology and Instrumentation

The conference addresses the cardinal issues of the dark universe today, gathering a selected number of scientists working in cosmology and particle physics in the inspiring and monumental setting of Avignon. There will be both review talks by leading experts in each field and selected contributions, all aimed at encouraging in-depth debates. A certain amount of time will be devoted to discussion sessions.

Email: pont.avignon.2023@gmail.com

Early universe, Late universe, Gravitational waves, Astrophysical messengers of new physics

This is the 6th meeting of the ISPUN series which started in 2002 with ISPUN02 held in Halong Bay. ISPUN23 is expected to be supported by Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM), Helmholtz Research Academy Hesse for FAIR (HFHF), IJCLab Orsay, and endorsed by Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA). Like previous ISPUN meetings, ISPUN23 is aimed at bringing together not only the leading nuclear physicists, but also young colleagues currently involved in the forefront of the nuclear physics research. During ISPUN23, the OC of ISPUN23 also plans to celebrate the career and retirement of Professor Dao Tien Khoa and Professor Nicolas Alamanos (two active organizers of previous ISPUN meetings) with an extended session on direct nuclear reactions and the implication on nuclear astrophysics, EOS of neutron star matter, shell evolution of dripline nuclei, structure of unstable nuclei, and nuclear clusters.

Green bank Observatory

This 3-day workshop at the Green Bank Observatory will focus on topics related to the role of oxygen in the universe, planets and life, and how the rise of oxygen on Earth may (or may not) likely have analogs on other planets. Attendance is limited to 50 participants, by application only, and all registration and travel expenses will be covered. The conference scope should be construed broadly; researchers working on any related problems are strongly encouraged to apply. Recognizing the challenges the pandemic has presented for networking over the past several years, this workshop will have a strong focus on early career researchers, and will have broad international participation. Presenters are encouraged to gear their talks to an interdisciplinary audience, eschewing the trees of internecine disciplinary debates for the forest of broader understanding.

Phone: [5105947750];     Email: astrowright@gmail.com

Astrobiology, planetary science

Geophysics and Geology,    Biology

Email: https://spidi23.insight-outside.fr/en/welcome/0

Karabük University, Physics Department, Karabük, Türkiye

The NSP conference series is a basic sciences event focusing on advances in nuclear structure, astrophysics, nuclear reactions, nuclear energy, high energy & physics and other related topics. The conference will be held ONLINE for the participants due to the earthquake disaster on February 6, 2023. Conference participation fees will be sent directly to AFAD – “Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency” bank accounts as earthquake donations.

Phone: [+903704189189];     Email: nsp2023@karabuk.edu.tr

Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Reactions, Nuclear Astrophysics, Nuclear Models, Nuclear Scattering, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Analytical Methods, Accelerator Physics, Medical and Health Physics, High Energy and Particle Physics, Nuclear Application in Life Science, Radiation Measurements and Dosimeters, Nuclear Engineering, Other Related Topics

Nuclear Physics,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

European Astrobiology Institute

The Biennial European Astrobiology Conference (BEACON) brings scientists and experts in the Astrobiology field from Europe and beyond. BEACON will take place at the La Palma &Teneguia Princess Hotel on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain) from 8 – 12 May 2023. La Palma offers a multitude of relevant research infrastructures (telescopes) and locations (active volcanoes, recent lava fields, Mars-analogue landscapes, etc.) We will visiting many of these sites during our conference excursion. A field trip to other astrobiologically interesting field sites will be organised after the conference as well as an optional after conference walk along the “Volcano route” (Ruta de los Volcanes) spanning several active volcanoes above 1600m altitude. Outreach events for the general public will also be held.

Phone: [+46723691155];     Email: wgeppert@fysik.su.se

astrobiology, astrochemistry, geobiology, planetary sciences,

Geophysics and Geology,    Biology

APCTP, Pohang (Korea)

Black holes are playing an ever increasing role in fundamental physics, from information theory to quantum gravity and holography. They are now under active investigation in many important branches of observational, theoretical and mathematical physics. In particular, they have stimulated important advances in the computation of entanglement entropies in large N conformal field theory and in various aspects of gauge theory/gravity duality. This workshop gathers researchers working on mathematical problems related to the holographic description of black holes, in its quantum aspects. The workshop will stimulate progress at this cutting edge of theoretical high energy physics.

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Astrophysics Research Center, The Open University of Israel

In the last decades, probes of atomic hydrogen through the intensity mapping of the 21 cm line and Lyman-alpha emission and absorption have become essential tools for characterizing and understanding the physical conditions of the intergalactic medium (IGM) across cosmic time as well as the formation and evolution of the large scales structure (LSS) of the Universe. The aim of this meeting is to bring together cosmologists and IGM and LSS astrophysicists in order to focus the attention of their diverse communities on current and future challenges in this field.

Saleem Zaroubi;     Email: saleem@astro.rug.nl

Cosmology, Large Scale Structure of the Universe, Radio Astronomy, Cosmic Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, Epoch of Reionization, Intergalactic medium

Candela Foundation

The 25th Planck conference in the series "From the Planck scale to the electroweak scale" will take place in Warsaw, May 22-26, 2023. It will be focused on "Hot topics in particle physics and cosmology: theory facing experimental prospects". Thus, its mostly theoretical character will be guided and organized according to the following blocks: Axions and axion-like particles, dark matte, flavour physics, gravitational waves and the universe's evolution, LHC and HLHC potential, neutrino physics

Event Secretariat;     Email: planck2023@candela.org.pl

Axions and axion-like particles, dark matte, flavour physics, gravitational waves and the universe's evolution, LHC and HLHC potential, neutrino physics

Gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs) have provided key insights into numerous aspects of string theory and supersymmetric field theory and have been a bridge to various fields in mathematics such as enumerative and algebraic geometry and category theory. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from mathematics and physics to celebrate 30 years of GLSMs by addressing topical research questions and identifying new applications. Topics include: GLSMs in the context of mirror symmetry, new types of stringy (Calabi-Yau) geometries, homological projective duality and generalisations thereof, SUSY gauge theories in more than two dimensions, generalized cohomology, quantum K-theory, and mathematical invariants stemming from a rigorous mathematical definition of GLSMs.

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Mathematical Physics

This meeting is an activity of IRN:QFS, the International Research Network on Quantum Fields and Strings.

This meeting will gather the France-based community working in string and quantum field theory for three days of scientific exchanges on current developments in these research areas.

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Mathematical Physics

The ECMRP is the first conference to bring together the entire community (space plasmas as well as fusion plasmas) working on magnetic reconnection in order to build a new multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the phenomenon.

Email: ecmrp@sciencesconf.org

magnetic reconnection; plasma physics; fusion; space plasmas; astrophysics;

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

This conference aims to bring together scientists to review and discuss the current status of research on Alfvén waves in space plasmas, including the solar atmosphere, the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, and laboratory plasmas (if relevant to space plasmas). Participants will have the opportunity to interact and exchange knowledge/ideas with scientists from the “other” communities in a collegial setting.

Alfvén wave generation mechanisms, Alfvén wave propagation and coupling, Alfvén wave interactions with plasma and energetic particles, Alfvén wave applications in solar system plasmas

Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion,    Electrostatics, Electromagnetic Waves

ICMS - International Centre for Mathematical Sciences

This workshop aims to bring together experts on singularity formation from mathematical general relativity as well as from dispersive PDE to map out the current frontiers of the fields, stimulate the transfer of ideas, foster discussions and new collaborations, and to inspire the new generation of researchers to take up the challenges this field holds. On the side of general relativity the workshop focuses on the topics of naked singularities, singularities inside black holes, as well as cosmological singularities. On the side of dispersive PDE the workshop aims to discuss the characterisation of general singularities and blow-up dynamics.

Calculus, Differential Equations and Integration,    Mathematical Physics

Institute of Physics (IOP)

The Sun bathes the Earth in light but also in a stream of charged particles traveling at over 1.8 million mph. As these particles reach Earth, they collide with Earth’s magnetic field, getting captured and trapped in the space around us.

Dr. Forsyth will explain how this stream of particles results in the aurora, Van Allen belts and what stops such ‘space weather’ negatively impacting our lives

Public Lectures and Outreach,    Geophysics and Geology

The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT)

The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT, https://www.eucapt.org) is a new initiative, with central hub at CERN, that aims to bring together the European community of theoretical astroparticle physicists and cosmologists. Our goals are to increase the exchange of ideas and knowledge; to coordinate scientific and training activities; to help scientists attract adequate resources for their projects; and to promote a stimulating, fair and open environment in which young scientists can thrive. 

Royal Society of Chemistry

The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers from astronomy, gas-phase, solid state and surface physics, and chemistry communities to address the wide-ranging roles of chemistry in astronomy in the light of the wealth of observational detail becoming available in this era of high resolution astrochemistry. Our window on the universe is being opened more widely as new observational platforms are developed that will overcome the limitations of resources currently available to astronomers. Together we will address the role of chemical spectroscopy in identifying chemical species and probing their environments; we will attempt to understand the interplay of gas-phase, surface, solid state and photochemically-induced processes that drive the chemical evolution of our Galaxy and others; how this chemical evolution is intimately involved in controlling the process of star and planet formation; and how chemistry brings us to the edge of biology.

Physical (Theoretical) Chemistry, Computational Chemistry,    Analytical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

One of the central features of the AAS Summer and Winter Meetings is their plenary talks spanning the full breadth of astrophysics. Some plenaries are given by prize winners from the AAS and other organizations, while other speakers are selected by the AAS Vice Presidents. Most plenary talks present science content, but talks on the state of the profession, demographics, and societal issues of relevance to the astronomical community are also regularly scheduled.

The thematic school Gravitational wave emission from proto-neutron stars and neutron star mergers (GWsNS-2023) is a graduate school that will cover several aspects of the gravitational wave (GW) emission from neutron stars. Lectures will mainly focus on the gravitational emission from supernovae, proto-neutron stars and coalescing binaries, with an eye on the connection between astrophysical phenomena and the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter that defines the structure and macroscopic behaviour of these compact objects.

Galileo Galilei Institute For Theoretical Physics

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Metrology and Instrumentation

University of Michigan

We are pleased to announce the second Michigan Cosmology Summer School from June 5-9, 2023 at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, MI. The target participants are graduate students and junior postdocs. Additional details are in the Summer School website: https://johannesulf.github.io/cosmology-school-2023/, including a preliminary list of lecturers. While we expect the majority of participants to be in-person, we will provide a hybrid setup, opening lectures and interaction spaces to online participants. This should significantly broaden the accessibility of the School to junior scientists based in countries from which it is expensive and difficult to travel to the U.S. The school will cover topics across the field of cosmology ranging from theory to experiment, but the emphasis will be on computation and the interface between data and theory. An overarching goal of the school will be to provide participants with concrete practical skills for data modeling. The focus will be on the theoretical underpinnings of inflation, dark matter, and dark energy using modern measurements, principally those coming from the LSS and CMB. The registration opens late January. The Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics will heavily subsidize registration costs to minimize barriers for attendees. The weather in Michigan that time of the year should be very nice, with long sunny days. We are planning to organize some outdoor activities as well.

cosmology, summer school

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

INFN Pisa, Pisa University, Scuola Normale Superiore

To provide a cross-disciplinary overview and the main tools to work on some of the main aspects of astroparticle physics where quantum collective properties of matter play a crucial role.

Email: isapp2023@lists.pi.infn.it

Properties of matter in neutron stars and GW emission, Multimessenger observations of neutron stars, Light dark matter candidates, Light dark matter around black hole and its gravitational signature, Simulation of gravity and GWs in Bose-Einstein condensates, Classical and quantum fluids in gravitational fields

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Multidisciplinary Events in Physics

This year's GRS will explore topics ranging from exoplanet detection and characterization, laboratory experiments relevant to planetary formation, advances in astrochemistry and astrobiology, protoplanetary disk observations, numerical simulations of the physical and chemical processes of early solar system formation, insights provided by spacecraft missions to ancient planetary bodies, and more.

Constraining the Origin and Evolution of Planetary Systems Through a Multidisciplinary Approach

The Origins of Solar Systems GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. In 2023, we will highlight results from recent and ongoing missions including Hyabusa 2, OSIRIS-REx, and JWST, in addition to exciting work from ALMA, other facilities, and from theoretical investigations.

Chemical and Dynamical Constraints on Planet Formation

Email: http://www.mit.edu/~eilers/firstlight.html

ICRANet

Exceptionally wide research interests of Ya. B. Zeldovich ranging from chemical physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to astrophysics and cosmology provide the topics to be covered at the conference. Some of the speakers at the conference will be the members of the world-famous scientific school in astrophysics and cosmology, founded by Ya. B. Zeldovich, who now became leading scientists in these fields in many countries worldwide including Germany, Italy, USA and Russia. This conference will follow a very successful international conferences in honor of Ya. B. Zeldovich, held in Minsk in 2009, 2014, 2018 and online in 2020.

Email: zeld5@icranet.org

multimessenger astrophysics, early universe, large scale structure, cosmic microwave background, neutron stars, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, hypernovae, gravitational waves, quantum and gravity

XMM-Newton SOC at ESAC

The symposium is the sixth meeting in the series "The X-ray Universe". It is intended to encompass a broad range of high energy astrophysics topics and provide a showcase for results and discoveries not only from XMM-Newton but also from other current missions. In addition, the scientific potential of future projects will be discussed at the conference.

Email: xru2023@sciops.esa.int

Solar System, Exoplanets and their host stars, Stars & White Dwarfs, Isolated Neutron Stars, White Dwarf, Neutron Star and Black Hole Binaries, ULXs, Supernovae, GRB & GW events, SNRs, Diffuse Emission & Galactic Halos, Galaxies & Galactic Surveys, Active Galactic Nuclei, Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies, & Superclusters, Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies, AGN & Extragalactic Deep Fields, Current & Future Missions, Analysis and related software (e.g. SAS, xspec)

This workshop will be co-organized by two main institutions, namely the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Durham.

This workshop aims to discuss the phenomenological implications of Primordial Black Holes (PBH), such as their possible relationship with dark matter origin, neutrino mass, the baryon asymmetry, inflation, their theoretical aspects and origin and the possible multi-messenger detection and the experimental state-of-the-art. Recently, the interest in PBHs from the physics community is growing because they can provide an alternative explanation of some of the major problems of the Standard Model. We know that Black Holes can merge or evaporate (according to the seminal paper by Hawking), generating gravitational waves, fluxes of Dark Matter, and standard model particles. Therefore, different experimental indirect searches can possible exploit the multi-messenger approach.

Email: http://astro.dur.ac.uk/vam2023/

During the last decades, strong gravitational lensing has become a powerful tool that can be used to study astronomical objects with different physical scales. It has also proven to be a promising diagnostic that can help solve some of the most important problems in cosmology. We have now reached a critical time for strong gravitational lensing research, as forthcoming large-scale surveys (Euclid, the Roman Space Telescope, the Chinese Space Station Telescope and the Vera Rubin Observatory) will map the entire sky and increase the number of known gravitational lenses from a few hundred to about 100 000. At the same time, strong gravitational lenses with current and forthcoming instruments (e.g. ALMA, JWST, E-ELT, SKA-VLBI) will spatially resolve scales that are beyond the reach of telescopes for individual objects in the high-redshift Universe. These new data will revolutionise our understanding of dark matter and structure formation, and offer unprecedented cosmological applications. This strong gravitational lensing symposium will bring together observational and theoretical members of the community to review their preparedness for this new era, to discuss advanced statistical techniques and possible systematics limitations, and to foster novel collaborations.

SOC chair;     Email: stacey@mpa-garching.mpg.de

Institute of Physics (IOP)

Dr Sadie Jones, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton will discuss the mysterious behaviour of Active Galactic Nucleui (AGN) NGC 4051 which was the subject of her PhD research. She will specifically focus on the simultaneous Radio and X-ray data analysis she did and then end with some discussion of how the first direct image of a black hole was produced using a combination of radio interferometry and computing expertise.

Theoretical and observational studies of astrophysical black holes have been in rapid development in recent decades. This conference will present major breakthroughs and key remaining questions concerning our fundamental understanding of astrophysical black holes, such as the formation and collimation of relativistic jets, the accretion and growth of black holes, the measurement of black hole spin, the merger of black holes, the first images of black hole shadow, the particle acceleration mechanisms and transient phenomena around black holes, and the feedback from massive black holes to galaxies.

Email: blackholehk2023@gmail.com

The observations of the sky at millimetre wavelengths in the past years contributed to tremendous improvements in our understanding of a great variety of scientific topics ranging from the star formation in the Milky Way to the measurement of cosmological parameters. This international conference will bring together the scientific community working on science related to millimetre observations. It includes both theoretical and observational topics related to the mm Universe, from stellar to cosmological scales.

Cosmology with clusters of galaxies - Galaxy cluster science (SZ, X, visible) - Galaxy formation in the early Universe - Nearby galaxies - Galactic star formation - From dust to planets - Instrumentation, other mm-instruments.

PASCOS is a conference series on particles, cosmology and strings. In 2023 it is scheduled to take place June 26-30 at the University of California Irvine.

Nuclear Theory Laboratory, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Science

The International Workshop on Nuclear Theory (IWNT) is annually organized since 1980 by the Nuclear Theory Laboratory (NTL) of the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the Workshop is to provide an international forum for exchange of ideas, discussions and collaboration between researchers in nuclear physics and related areas.

Email: nthlrila@gmail.com

nuclear structure and reactions, nuclear equation of state and symmetry energy, symmetries and dynamics, collective and intrinsic motions of nuclei, exotic nuclei, few-body and many-fermion systems, nuclear astrophysics and related topics

Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

The Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2023, the 30th edition of this school, is scheduled to take place again in Sinaia, July 2-15, 2023. Given the improved conditions from the pandemic of recent years and the need to re-create the opportunities for in-person communication for all in our field, we will once again have this Carpathian school in-person.

The title and topics are being retained from recent past schools: "Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics. Physics with small accelerators”. It is part of the ENNAS (European Network of Nuclear Astrophysics Schools), is supported by the European Horizon 2020 project ChETEC-INFRA, and is recognized by the Division of Nuclear Physics of EPS.

The same format from recent schools will be maintained: a combination of school-like and conference presentations, with 1-2 hour-long invited lectures by senior scientists/professors and 20 minute short student communications. The school is aimed at graduate students, post-docs and young or established researchers. Students from all countries are invited to attend. A limited number of stipends to cover the local expenses for students will be available.

CSSP23 Scientific Secretary;     Email: cssp23@nipne.ro

Nuclear Physics,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

The 49th European Conference on Plasma Physics (2023) will be held as an in-person meeting from July 3 to July 7 2023. This annual conference covers the wide field of plasma physics including magnetic confinement fusion, beam plasma and inertial fusion, low temperature plasmas, and basic, space and astrophysical plasmas.

Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasma, Beam Plasmas & Inertial Fusion, Low Temperature and Dusty Plasmas, Basic, Space & Astrophysical Plasmas

Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion,    Atomic and Molecular Physics

Email: https://www.munich-iapp.de/extragalactic-distance-scale

Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

This School is part of the network of CERN Summer Schools of Excellence and supported by CNRS, ICTP and other funds.

This Summer School is aimed at advanced doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. It is the 2023 edition in a bi-annual series of Advanced Summer Schools in High Energy Theoretical Physics, which were traditionally held either in Cargèse or Les Houches.  This session will exceptionally take place at ICISE, the International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education in Quy Nhon, Viet Nam. The center is surrounded by a lush garden and just a few steps away from a beautiful beach.

Quantum gravity, string theory, black holes, amplitudes, holography, cosmology, quantum information theory, theoretical condensed matter and artificial intelligence

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Email: https://events.mpe.mpg.de/event/14/

International Centre for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics of the University of Buenos Aires

This school is a joint activity by ICTP and DF-UBA with the goal of providing an introduction to the current state of research in cosmology and astroparticle physics. It is geared toward graduate students as well as more senior non-expert researchers interested in the field.

ICTP Secretariat;     Email: smr3856@ictp.it

CMB, Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves, Inflation, Statistical Methods, Structure Formation

Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

The main topics covered by this conference are Cosmic Ray Physics, Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Neutrino Astronomy & Neutrino Physics, Dark Matter Physics, Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Multi-messenger Astronomy, and an additional new topic in the 2023 conference is Gravitational Wave Astronomy.

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

Over the past decade, the astronomical community has invested enormous efforts to exploit major ground- and space-based facilities. The advent of stellar spectroscopic surveys, such as Gaia-ESO, GALAH, and APOGEE, paved the way for the large-scale analysis of the chemical compositions of millions of stars. Time-domain photometry missions, such as CoRoT, Kepler, and TESS, allowed detailed characterization of the interior structure of stars by asteroseismic techniques. Interferometric observations with VLTI and CHARA provide new information about stellar diameters and the circumstellar environment. With Gaia, stellar luminosities and radii of millions of stars can now be derived. The upcoming facilities and surveys, such as SDSS-V, 4MOST, PLATO, LSST, and JWST will revolutionize the field with unique time-domain information, and an increase in sample size by orders of magnitude. The main challenge is to combine the large amount of high-quality observations into a general coherent picture of the fundamental parameters of stars and to position them within the context of theoretical stellar structure and stellar evolution. The MIAPP program will assess the state-of-the-art in the field and develop concepts for new strategies and models to move towards the percent-level precision and accuracy in diagnostics of stellar structure.

This MIAPP program will focus on theoretical and observational challenges in the broad area of Stellar Astrophysics.

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

The International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP) is a biennial Conference started in 1989 at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). The purpose of TAUP is to bring together theorists and experimentalists working in Astroparticle Physics, to review and discuss the status and prospects of the field.

Cosmology and particle physics ; Dark matter and dark energy; Gravitational waves; Neutrino physics and astrophysics; High energy astrophysics and cosmic rays

This symposium will explore and stimulate connections between planetary nebulae and research topics in modern astrophysics.

Email: https://iaus384-pne.ncac.torun.pl/

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

Defining a theory of quantum gravity remains one of the most challenging problems at the cutting edge of research in mathematical and theoretical physics. Unlocking this problem implies constructing a quantum field theoretic description of gravity which fully elucidates how a quantum field theory encodes gravitational spacetime background solutions. Much of the progress in shaping the language and the framework of this problem owes its genesis to a specific subset of problems in quantum gravity, namely those dealing with understanding the organisation of information in black holes.

Institute of Physics Belgrade

Efficiency of theoretical analysis, synthesis and modeling of various environments, depends on atomic data and their sources. In particular, for the modeling of stellar atmospheres and opacity calculations a large number of atomic data is needed. The same holds for Earth observations. Consequently, the development of databases with atomic data as well as astro-geoinformatics is important. This meeting will bring together physicists, astro & geophysicists to review the present stage of research in this field. The meeting is planned as an opportunity to consider the above-mentioned aspects of spectroscopic research on plenary sessions and then to work on the special mini-projects, which will result in common papers to be published in international scientific journals

Email: asspectro.conf@gmail.com

Earth Observation, Global Positioning System,    Multidisciplinary Events in Physics

Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC) is the most important international meeting in the field of nuclear astrophysics. It brings together nuclear experimentalists, nuclear theorists, astronomers, theoretical astrophysicists, cosmo-chemists, and others interested in the scientific questions at the interface of nuclear physics and astrophysics. These questions concern, for example, the origin of the elements in the cosmos and the nuclear reactions that occur in the Big Bang, in stars, and in stellar explosions.

Nuclear reaction rates and stellar abundances, The s-process, Nuclear properties for astrophysics, High-density matter, Novae and X-ray bursts, Type Ia supernova and the p-process, Core-collapse supernovae, mergers and the r-process, Underground nuclear astrophysics, The early universe, Galactic evolution, Radioactivity and meteorites, Inputs for astrophysics

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from number theory, automorphic representation theory and string theory to explore how automorphic forms that encode degeneracies of BPS could be related to and feed into information theoretic concepts such as quantum error corrections, applied to BPS and near-extremal black hole backgrounds, and to develop machine learning techniques to unveil some of the hitherto undefined automorphic structures underlying the generating functions for BPS black hole microstates in superstring models. This event is the first workshop of the 4-month long BLH programme at the INI centred around the same topics.

Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,    Number Theory, Arithmetic

Email: https://www.munich-iapbp.de/magnetic-fields

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris & Observatoire de Paris

The High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows (HEPRO) conferences are a cycle of biennial events devoted to the discussion of the most recent developments, either theoretical, phenomenological, or observational, on the major themes of high-energy and multi-messenger astrophysics associated with relativistic winds and jets, on all scales. Some specific themes that will be addressed at HEPRO VIII include gamma-ray and neutrino production in relativistic outflows, the environments of compact objects, the physics of relativistic sources, multi-messenger connections, and particle acceleration.

Event secretariat;     Email: hepro8@iap.fr

high-energy astrophysics, multi-messenger astrophysics, relativistic astrophysics

Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

What could be a bigger source of "big data" than the entire Universe? Researchers in statistics and computer science are developing new methods to analyse the "big data" that companies and governments want to understand. To test out these methods they need big datasets that everyone can share --- and new astronomical telescopes just happen to be gearing up to generate observations of billions of stars and galaxies that fit the bill. Insights from statistics will help astrophysicists to get the most out of these observations. The Astrostatistics 2023 workshop will bring together statisticians and astrophysicists to learn the technical languages of the two fields and identify how to work together to combine the excitement of space with big data.

Probability and Statistics, Game Theory,    Scientific Computing and Data Science

Frontiers in Machine Learning in Cosmology and Particle Physics 2023 is a workshop on the latest machine learning developments in the domains of cosmology and particle physics. It takes inspiration from the influential workshop series "Hammers & Nails", organised every other year by the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

This workshop aims to bring together researchers in solution-generating techniques and integrability, as well as Riemann-Hilbert factorization problems in gravity. It will also bring in expertise in AI and machine learning as a tool, especially in solving factorization problems, and in developing new matrix factorization methods that will be of service to solving gravitational PDEs. This event is the second workshop in a 4-month long BLH programme at the INI centred around the same topics.

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

This workshop aims to bring together researchers in quantum gravity and in holographic quantum information to take advantage of the rapid recent progress in these streams of research with a view to tackling outstanding questions related to black hole entropy and, more generally, the structure of information in quantum gravity. This is the last of the 3 workshops of a 4-month long BLH programme at the INI centred around the same topics.

Email: https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/alma-at-10-years-past-present-and-future/

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

While it is widely acknowledged that string theory provides a framework for addressing quantum gravitational (and even quantum field theoretic) questions, the precise nature of its organizational principle remains obscure. Nearly three decades ago, when the question “What is string theory?” was asked, the perturbative string worldsheet viewpoint played the starring role. Since then, the discovery of D-branes, string dualities, and the holographic AdS/CFT correspondence has had spacetime dynamics taking center-stage. Much insight has been gleaned from these developments. We now have, for example, a much broader class of string backgrounds with better control over compactifications; strong constraints on the low energy effective field theories; a plethora of gauge-string dualities as well as applications of holographic techniques to a wide class of physical problems; and new angles on semiclassical gravitational physics from a fruitful interplay with quantum information in holography. Together with an influx of new tools and techniques, we have a very rich set of perspectives that illuminate the subject we continue to call string theory. While all these developments are interesting in and of themselves, it is an opportune moment to attempt to synthesize these, often disparate, strands and arrive at a deeper answer to the question in the title.

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Mathematical Physics

UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

Turbulence is an important process in various astrophysical environments and over vast scales. These environments range from the interior of stars, the solar wind, accretion flows, disks, jets, the interstellar medium and the circumgalactic medium, to the intra-cluster medium. The past few decades have seen great advances in both observational and theoretical studies of astrophysical turbulence. The advances in understanding and measuring turbulence have also brought significant changes to many branches of astronomy.

This conference will bring together turbulence experts from a wide range of subfields in astrophysics and physics. The goal is to encourage and enhance interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations. The conference will cover many topics, including: turbulent dynamo, magnetic reconnection, plasma physics, space physics, unresolved physics and sub-grid models in numerical simulations, turbulence in the laboratory, new observational techniques for diagnosing turbulence, connecting observations and models, and astrophysical applications of magnetized turbulence (e.g. star formation, cosmic rays, accretion, galaxy formation and evolution).

TESS welcomes participation by the entire Heliophysics community, including all four traditional sub-disciplines devoted to studies of the Sun, Heliosphere, Magnetosphere, and Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere.

The Triennial Earth-Sun Summit is a joint meeting of the AAS Solar Physics Division and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union.

UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), which occur when a star is destroyed by the immense tidal field of a supermassive black hole, fuel luminous accretion flares that provide unique insight into the properties of galactic nuclei and their central black holes. The detection rate of these events has accelerated in recent years thanks to advances in wide-field survey capabilities across the electromagnetic spectrum. Nonetheless, there remain theoretical uncertainties in the modeling of TDEs that obfuscate understanding in the face of observations, and our ability to use TDEs as a collective Rosetta Stone for deciphering black hole demographics across cosmic time remains elusive. To bridge theory and observation and to start to tap the wealth of understanding contained within TDE observations, this conference aims to unite the diverse field of astronomers working on TDEs and the related fields of variable Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and X-ray binaries. This conference will highlight the recent advances that have been made in understanding TDEs, make connections to related astrophysical phenomena, and elucidate the most outstanding questions in TDE theory and observation.

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

AbSciCon brings the astrobiology community together every two years to share research, collaborate, and plan for the future. Diversity, interdisciplinary research and engaging topics make AbSciCon the premier conference for astrobiology.

Biology,    Biochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, Toxicology

The international conference Loops ‘24 is the most recent in a long tradition of biennial meetings focused on loop quantum gravity and background independent approaches to quantum gravity. The conference will be held from Monday, May 6 through Friday, May 10, 2024, at the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA). The program will feature morning plenary talks complemented by contributed talks. Plenary sessions will be held in the auditorium of the Broward County Main Library one block away from the campus. The conference will highlight recent developments in canonical loop quantum gravity, covariant loop quantum gravity (spin foams), and other approaches to quantum gravity, as well as applications to symmetry-reduced models, quantum cosmology, black holes in quantum gravity, and other topics. Foundational, mathematical, numerical and phenomenological aspects will be covered.

Gravitation and Cosmology

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Mathematical Physics

UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

Observables spanning a wide range of cosmic epochs and length-scales independently testify to the existence of dark matter. Although little is known about the microphysical nature of dark matter, its mere existence points to physics beyond the Standard Model. New developments in theory, cosmological simulations, and observational capabilities in the era of large surveys have opened up a vast landscape for dark matter discovery, which includes models that can only be tested by astrophysical and cosmological probes.

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics)

Nuclear Physics,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

COSMO'24 will take place for October 21-25, 2024 in Kyoto, Japan. It will bring together a wide range of cosmologists and particle physicists to discuss current ideas on particle physics and cosmology.

One of the central features of the AAS Summer and Winter Meetings is their plenary talks spanning the full breadth of astrophysics. Some plenaries are given by prize winners from the AAS and other organizations, while other speakers are selected by the AAS Vice Presidents. Most plenary talks present science content, but talks on the state of the profession, demographics, and societal issues of relevance to the astronomical community are also regularly scheduled.