The 11th international conference on Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams (DREB2020) is part of the biennial series, which began in 1999 at MSU, East Lansing, at the initiative of physicists working in the field from MSU, IPN-Orsay, and FSU. The following meetings were held at Orsay (2001), Guildford (2003), East Lansing (2005), Wako (2007), Tallahassee (2009), Pisa (2012), Darmstadt (2014), Halifax (2016), and Matsue (2018). The scientific program is devoted to the latest experimental and theoretical research and developments in nuclear reactions with exotic nuclei. The topics will include the following subjects relevant to direct reactions:

• Nuclear astrophysics
• Spectroscopy of exotic nuclei, drip-line and unbound nuclei
• Nuclear force and Short-range correlations
• Advances in direct reaction theory
• New instrumentation for direct reaction studies
• Ab-initio methods for structure and reactions
• Clustering phenomena probed by nuclear reactions

100xCiencia.5, the successor to last edition’s 100xCiencia.4 in 2019, is almost here. The subject of this year’s event will underscore the importance of the international dimension of science.

The Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), joint center of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and the Xunta de Galicia, will co-organize this meeting together with SOMMa, the ‘Severo Ochoa’ Centres and ‘María de Maeztu’ Units of Excellence Alliance.

The 100xScience.5 meeting is aimed at highlighting the importance of international collaboration in science as a key element to face the global challenges of the future. The COVID-19 health crisis has evidenced the need and urgency for the entire scientific community, industry, governments and society to cooperate to solve problems, particularly when they affect the whole of humanity.

The meeting is structured into four main thematic areas, Cosmos, Health, Climate Crisis and Scientific Culture.

100xCiencia.5 will take place in Santiago de Compostela, 26-27 November 2021.

Preliminary event programme: https://igfae.usc.es/100xciencia.5/

Neutron stars are probably the most exotic objects in the Universe: indeed, they present extreme and quite unique properties both in their macro- and micro-physics. Indeed, the physics of compact stars and of the stellar systems they form requires expertise from disciplines that are generally mostly disjointed, but now have to work sinergetically: high-energy astrophysics, gravitational physics, nuclear and hadronic physics, neutrino physics, QCD, superfluid hydrodynamics, plasma physics.

This course will offer a general and multi-disciplinar overview of the present understanding of the physics of neutron stars to master and PhD students, young scientists and established researchers.

This hybrid course will take place at IGFAE and online via Zoom.

Information and registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1081679/

Neutron stars are probably the most exotic objects in the Universe: indeed, they present extreme and quite unique properties both in their macro- and micro-physics. Indeed, the physics of compact stars and of the stellar systems they form requires expertise from disciplines that are generally mostly disjointed, but now have to work sinergetically: high-energy astrophysics, gravitational physics, nuclear and hadronic physics, neutrino physics, QCD, superfluid hydrodynamics, plasma physics.

This course will offer a general and multi-disciplinar overview of the present understanding of the physics of neutron stars to master and PhD students, young scientists and established researchers.

This hybrid course will take place at IGFAE and online via Zoom.

Information and registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1081679/

Neutron stars are probably the most exotic objects in the Universe: indeed, they present extreme and quite unique properties both in their macro- and micro-physics. Indeed, the physics of compact stars and of the stellar systems they form requires expertise from disciplines that are generally mostly disjointed, but now have to work sinergetically: high-energy astrophysics, gravitational physics, nuclear and hadronic physics, neutrino physics, QCD, superfluid hydrodynamics, plasma physics.

This course will offer a general and multi-disciplinar overview of the present understanding of the physics of neutron stars to master and PhD students, young scientists and established researchers.

This hybrid course will take place at IGFAE and online via Zoom.

Information and registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1081679/

Neutron stars are probably the most exotic objects in the Universe: indeed, they present extreme and quite unique properties both in their macro- and micro-physics. Indeed, the physics of compact stars and of the stellar systems they form requires expertise from disciplines that are generally mostly disjointed, but now have to work sinergetically: high-energy astrophysics, gravitational physics, nuclear and hadronic physics, neutrino physics, QCD, superfluid hydrodynamics, plasma physics.

This course will offer a general and multi-disciplinar overview of the present understanding of the physics of neutron stars to master and PhD students, young scientists and established researchers.

This hybrid course will take place at IGFAE and online via Zoom.

Information and registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1081679/

Neutron stars are probably the most exotic objects in the Universe: indeed, they present extreme and quite unique properties both in their macro- and micro-physics. Indeed, the physics of compact stars and of the stellar systems they form requires expertise from disciplines that are generally mostly disjointed, but now have to work sinergetically: high-energy astrophysics, gravitational physics, nuclear and hadronic physics, neutrino physics, QCD, superfluid hydrodynamics, plasma physics.

This course will offer a general and multi-disciplinar overview of the present understanding of the physics of neutron stars to master and PhD students, young scientists and established researchers.

This hybrid course will take place at IGFAE and online via Zoom.

Information and registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1081679/

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is an external committee composed by internationally recognized experts in different fields of physics who monitors the evolution of the scientific objectives and ranks the performance of IGFAE, its scientific programs and its researchers, as well as new affiliations.

Programme TBA.

Binary black hole spins are among the key observables for gravitational wave astronomy. In particular, the spin orientations within the orbital plane can be used to identify spin-orbit resonances, where the black hole spins and the orbital angular momentum become locked into a fixed plane as the binary evolves. Stellar binaries can become trapped in these resonances if supernova natal recoils and stellar tides are large enough; therefore, observing these resonances in gravitational wave data can inform us about supernova and stellar astrophysics. However, the general expectation has been that current gravitational wave detectors, LIGO and Virgo, are not sensitive enough to measure the orbital-plane spin orientations. In this talk, I will show that this can be achieved by simply measuring the spins very close to the merger. This leads to a marked improvement in the spin constraints for several signals detected by LIGO-Virgo. Finally, I will show results combining many such signals to look for signatures of spin-orbit resonances in the astrophysical binary black hole population.

Join Zoom Meeting

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Core collapse supernovae is among the most exciting events that we expect to observe in the future by gravitational wave interferometers. They provide a unique multi messenger opportunity with the combined emission of gravitational waves, neutrinos and electromagnetic waves. In this talk I will focus in the current understanding of core-collapse GW signals and how they can be modelled in terms of normal oscillations modes of proto-neutron stars excited during the post-bounce phase before the onset of the SN explosion. The observation of such modes in the future by gravitational wave observatories (Virgo, LIGO) may allow to infer the properties of proto-neutron stars and constrain the the equation of state of hot nuclear matter. 

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