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

17:00 Registration

17:00 - 20:00

Monday, 23 June 2025
09:00 Morning Session: Opening and Session 1
Opening and Session 1
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Opening - Dan Cozma (IFIN-HH)

09:10 Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering - Mihai Radu (IFIN-HH)

09:55 Nuclear astrophysics introduction - Xiaodong Tang (IMP Lanzhou)

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

12:05 Recent gamma-ray spectroscopy studies at the ROSPHERE array: The physics case of 32Si - Razvan Lica
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00 Afternoon Session: Session 2
Session 2
15:00 - 17:00
Contributions

15:00 Exploring the Universe at highest energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory: Status and latest results - Paula Gina Isar (ISS - INFLPR Subsidiary)

16:10 Bird's View on the Chart of Nuclides with Some Selected Zooms - Catalin Borcea (IFIN-HH)
17:00 Student Communications
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Development of a detection system for identification of multinucleon transfer reactions near 00 - Silvia Ise (IFIN-HH)

17:20 Direct measurement of the carbon-carbon fusion cross section at stellar energies - Yunzhen Li (IMP, CAS)

17:40 Experimental Study of the 13C(α, n)16O Neutron Source Reaction in Stellar - Yihua Fan (IMP, CAS)
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
09:00 Morning Session: Small accelerators (I)
Small accelerators (I)
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Ion Beam Modification and Analysis in Contemporary Materials Research - Stefan Facsko (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

09:55 Advances in ionization-induced annealing of pre-exiting defects in semiconductors - Gihan Velisa (IFIN-HH)

11:10 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 Gamma Spectroscopy of Natural Radionuclides: techniques and instrumentation - Yuri Venturini (CAEN, MixedTech)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00 Afternoon Session: Small accelerators (II)
Small accelerators (II)
15:00 - 16:40
Contributions

15:00 Current status of the Ion irradiation Platform for Exploring Nano-Satellites Resilience to Space Radiation and future perspectives - Ion Burducea (IFIN-HH)

16:10 Application of cosmogenic nuclide dating in geosciences: Results from the RoAMS laboratory - Daniela Pascal (IFIN-HH)
16:40 Student Communications
16:40 - 18:00
Contributions

16:40 Development efforts toward a Matrix Ion Detector for CRYRING@ESR - Andrei Hotnog (IFIN-HH)

17:00 Improvement of a Plastic Scintillator with Different Coatings for Gamma-Ray Redection - Jonathan Méndez (Instituto de Física, UNAM)

17:20 Neutron shielding studies for underground large detectors - Denis Barbu (University of Bucharest)

17:40 Development of a Neutron Dosimeter: Instrumentation and Applications in Radiation Protection - Ignacio Corazza (Instituto Balseiro – Centro Atómico Bariloche (CNEA))
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
09:00 Morning Session: Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Structure
09:00 - 12:05
Contributions

09:00 Quadrupole-octupole dynamics in atomic nuclei - Radu Budaca (IFIN-HH)

09:55 Photoneutron reactions in the GDR region: cross sections and average neutron energies - Ioana Gheorghe (IFIN-HH)

11:10 From Virtual Photons to Nuclear Deformation: The Harsh Elegance of Coulomb Excitation - Ștefana Călinescu (IFIN-HH)
12:05 Student Communications
12:05 - 13:05
Contributions

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

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

12:45 The beta decay of Rb and Cs Isotopes - YiHui Liu (China Institute of Atomic Energy)
13:05 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:05 - 15:05
Thursday, 26 June 2025
09:00 Morning Session: Nuclear structure and Nuclear Astrophysics
Nuclear structure and Nuclear Astrophysics
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Nuclear Matter Equation of States - Constraints from Heavy Ion Collisions at GSI / FAIR - Yvonne Leifels (GSI)

09:55 Experimental Tools for Laser and Gamma-Beam Driven Nuclear Astrophysics - Giovanni Luca Guardo (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)

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

12:05 Probing nuclear structure by emission processes - Doru Delion (IFIN-HH)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00 Afternoon Session: Session 7
Session 7
15:00 - 16:40
Contributions

15:00 Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics Status update - Ioan Dancuș (IFIN-HH/ELI-NP)

16:10 Emission processes in a self-consistent field - Alexandru Dumitrescu (IFIN-HH)
16:40 Student Communications
16:40 - 18:20
Contributions

16:40 Monte Carlo simulations of LPA VHEE dose distributions in water phantom - Ionut Slabu (IFIN-HH/ELI-NP)

17:20 Measurement of the 18O(𝛼, 𝛾)22Ne reaction with DRAGON in inverse kinematics - Dhruval Shah (McMaster University)

17:40 Proton and Alpha induced reactions on light nuclei for nuclear structure and astrophysics - Virender Ranga (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

18:00 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, 27 June 2025
09:00 Morning Session: Nuclear Astrophysics (I)
Nuclear Astrophysics (I)
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Probing Stellar Reactions with MUSIC: Advancing Nuclear Astrophysics through Active-Target Detection - Eilens Lopez Saavedra (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:55 R-matrix reaction rate calculations - James deBoer (University of Notre Dame)

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

12:05 Precise Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments in the Multi-Messenger Era - Institute of modern physics - Xiaodong Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00 Afternoon Session: Exotic phenomena
Exotic phenomena
15:00 - 17:00
Contributions

15:00 Investigating physics beyond SM through double-beta decay - Sabin Stoica (CIFRA)

16:10 Resonant scattering by the TTIK approach - Aliya Nurmukhanbetova (INFN-LNS)
17:00 Student Communications: Sponsors presentation and experiment
Sponsors presentation and experiment
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions

17:00 Proton-neutron pairing and quartetting in N=Z nuclei in the framework of the Quark-Meson Coupling model - Theodor Popa (IFIN-HH)

17:20 Methods for Dose, LET and Energy Measurements in Ultra-High Dose Rate (UHDR) Beams - Radu Alin Vasilache (Canberra-Packard, University of Bucharest)

17:50 Vacuserv presentation followed by experiments - Mircea Lupaș (Vacuserv)
Saturday, 28 June 2025
09:00 Morning Session: Outreach Day
Outreach Day
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 The European project EURO-LABS - Navin Alahari (GANIL)

09:55 The search for superheavy elements in nature and in the laboratory - Walter Kutschera (University of Vienna)

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

12:05 Atomic nuclei in the cosmos - Roland Diehl (MPE Garching)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Afternoon Session: Outreach session - Do we surrender Science to AI and social media discussions
Outreach session - Do we surrender Science to AI and social media discussions
14:00 - 18:00

19:00 Banquet
Banquet
19:00 - 20:00
Sunday, 29 June 2025

08:00 Day off
Day off
08:00 - 18:00