Name: Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2025
Start: 2025-06-22T17:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-07-03T08:00:00+03:00
Location: Sinaia, Romania

Monday, June 16, 2025
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Friday, June 20, 2025
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Sunday, June 22, 2025

5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Monday, June 23, 2025
9:00 AM Opening and Session 1
Opening and Session 1
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening - Dan Cozma (IFIN-HH)

9:10 AM Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering - Mihai Radu (IFIN-HH)

9:55 AM Nuclear astrophysics introduction - Xiaodong Tang (IMP Lanzhou)

11:10 AM Solid-State Physics at ISOLDE-CERN - Juliana Schell (ISOLDE-CERN, Universität Duisburg-Essen)

12:05 PM Recent gamma-ray spectroscopy studies at the ROSPHERE array: The physics case of 32Si - Razvan Lica
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Session 2
Session 2
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Exploring the Universe at highest energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory: Status and latest results - Paula Gina Isar (ISS - INFLPR Subsidiary)

4:10 PM Bird's View on the Chart of Nuclides with Some Selected Zooms - Catalin Borcea (IFIN-HH)
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Development of a detection system for identification of multinucleon transfer reactions near 00 - Silvia Ise (IFIN-HH)

5:20 PM Direct measurement of the carbon-carbon fusion cross section at stellar energies - Yunzhen Li (IMP, CAS)

5:40 PM Experimental Study of the 13C(α, n)16O Neutron Source Reaction in Stellar - Yihua Fan (IMP, CAS)
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
9:00 AM Small accelerators (I)
Small accelerators (I)
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Ion Beam Modification and Analysis in Contemporary Materials Research - Stefan Facsko (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

9:55 AM Advances in ionization-induced annealing of pre-exiting defects in semiconductors - Gihan Velisa (IFIN-HH)

11:10 AM Generation of Defects in Solids by Radiation, Their Role in Determining Material Properties, and Introduction to Experimental Techniques for Characterizing - Joseph Graham (Missouri University of Science and Technology / Institue of Optics-CSIC)

12:05 PM Gamma Spectroscopy of Natural Radionuclides: techniques and instrumentation - Yuri Venturini (CAEN, MixedTech)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Small accelerators (II)
Small accelerators (II)
3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Current status of the Ion irradiation Platform for Exploring Nano-Satellites Resilience to Space Radiation and future perspectives - Ion Burducea (IFIN-HH)

4:10 PM Application of cosmogenic nuclide dating in geosciences: Results from the RoAMS laboratory - Daniela Pascal (IFIN-HH)
4:40 PM
4:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Development efforts toward a Matrix Ion Detector for CRYRING@ESR - Andrei Hotnog (IFIN-HH)

5:00 PM Improvement of a Plastic Scintillator with Different Coatings for Gamma-Ray Redection - Jonathan Méndez (Instituto de Física, UNAM)

5:20 PM Neutron shielding studies for underground large detectors - Denis Barbu (University of Bucharest)

5:40 PM Development of a Neutron Dosimeter: Instrumentation and Applications in Radiation Protection - Ignacio Corazza (Instituto Balseiro – Centro Atómico Bariloche (CNEA))
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
9:00 AM Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Structure
9:00 AM - 12:05 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Quadrupole-octupole dynamics in atomic nuclei - Radu Budaca (IFIN-HH)

9:55 AM Photoneutron reactions in the GDR region: cross sections and average neutron energies - Ioana Gheorghe (IFIN-HH)

11:10 AM From Virtual Photons to Nuclear Deformation: The Harsh Elegance of Coulomb Excitation - Ștefana Călinescu (IFIN-HH)
12:05 PM
12:05 PM - 1:05 PM
Contributions

12:05 PM CBS calculations in the rare-earth mass region - Dimitrios Papadopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

12:25 PM In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei around the N=20 island of inversion - Bellona Bles (GSI)

12:45 PM The beta decay of Rb and Cs Isotopes - YiHui Liu (China Institute of Atomic Energy)
1:05 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:05 PM - 3:05 PM
Thursday, June 26, 2025
9:00 AM Nuclear structure and Nuclear Astrophysics
Nuclear structure and Nuclear Astrophysics
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Nuclear Matter Equation of States - Constraints from Heavy Ion Collisions at GSI / FAIR - Yvonne Leifels (GSI)

9:55 AM Experimental Tools for Laser and Gamma-Beam Driven Nuclear Astrophysics - Giovanni Luca Guardo (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)

11:10 AM Indirect Methods for Nuclear Astrophysics Studies - Aurora Tumino (Kore University of Enna/INFN-LNS)

12:05 PM Probing nuclear structure by emission processes - Doru Delion (IFIN-HH)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Session 7
Session 7
3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics Status update - Ioan Dancuș (IFIN-HH/ELI-NP)

4:10 PM Emission processes in a self-consistent field - Alexandru Dumitrescu (IFIN-HH)
4:40 PM
4:40 PM - 6:20 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Monte Carlo simulations of LPA VHEE dose distributions in water phantom - Ionut Slabu (IFIN-HH/ELI-NP)

5:20 PM Measurement of the 18O(𝛼, 𝛾)22Ne reaction with DRAGON in inverse kinematics - Dhruval Shah (McMaster University)

5:40 PM Proton and Alpha induced reactions on light nuclei for nuclear structure and astrophysics - Virender Ranga (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

6:00 PM Experimental Nuclear Methods and Application of the EMPIRE Statistical Reaction Code for Determining Cross-Sections of The Reaction 12C+19F - Andrei Cristian Opincă (IFIN-HH)
Friday, June 27, 2025
9:00 AM Nuclear Astrophysics (I)
Nuclear Astrophysics (I)
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Probing Stellar Reactions with MUSIC: Advancing Nuclear Astrophysics through Active-Target Detection - Eilens Lopez Saavedra (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:55 AM R-matrix reaction rate calculations - James deBoer (University of Notre Dame)

11:10 AM Insights into Nuclear Astrophysics Through Analyzing Isotope Ratios of Presolar Grains - Nan Liu (Boston University)

12:05 PM Precise Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments in the Multi-Messenger Era - Institute of modern physics - Xiaodong Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Exotic phenomena
Exotic phenomena
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Investigating physics beyond SM through double-beta decay - Sabin Stoica (CIFRA)

4:10 PM Resonant scattering by the TTIK approach - Aliya Nurmukhanbetova (INFN-LNS)
5:00 PM Sponsors presentation and experiment
Sponsors presentation and experiment
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Proton-neutron pairing and quartetting in N=Z nuclei in the framework of the Quark-Meson Coupling model - Theodor Popa (IFIN-HH)

5:20 PM Methods for Dose, LET and Energy Measurements in Ultra-High Dose Rate (UHDR) Beams - Radu Alin Vasilache (Canberra-Packard, University of Bucharest)

5:50 PM Vacuserv presentation followed by experiments - Mircea Lupaș (Vacuserv)
Saturday, June 28, 2025
9:00 AM Outreach Day
Outreach Day
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM The European project EURO-LABS - Navin Alahari (GANIL)

9:55 AM The search for superheavy elements in nature and in the laboratory - Walter Kutschera (University of Vienna)

11:10 AM Nuclear physics - driving force of the Universe - Karlheinz Langanke (GSI Helmholtzzentrum Darmstadt)

12:05 PM Atomic nuclei in the cosmos - Roland Diehl (MPE Garching)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Outreach session - Do we surrender Science to AI and social media discussions
Outreach session - Do we surrender Science to AI and social media discussions
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

7:00 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sunday, June 29, 2025

8:00 AM Day off
Day off
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM