Introduction

The 16th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC-XVI), will be held from 21st – 25th September 2021, in Chengdu, China. NIC-XVI is organized by the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE), Institute of Modern Physics (IMP), Sichuan University (SCU), and Beijing Normal University (BNU). The symposium is supported by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA), China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (CCAST), China Institute of Nuclear Astrophysics (CINA), China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and CIAE.

Overview and background

Nuclei in the Cosmos 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. Past meetings have been held in Gran Sasso - Italy (2018), Niigata- Japan (2016), DebrecenHungary (2014), Cairns- Australia (2012), Heidelberg - Germany (2010), Mackinac Island - USA (2008), Geneva - Switzerland (2006), Vancouver – Canada (2004), Fuji-Yoshida - Japan(2002), Aarhus - Denmark (2000), Volos – Greece (1998), Notre Dame - USA (1996), Gran Sasso - Italy (1994), Karlsruhe - Germany (1992), Baden bei Wien - Austria (1990).

Committee

International Advisory Committee

A. Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame, USA)

M. Busso (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy)

R. Diehl (Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Germany)

A. Formicola (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy)

A. Frebel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

L. Gialanella (University of Campania & Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy)

K. I. Hahn (Institute for Basic Science, Korea)

Z. W. Han (National Astronomical Observatories of China, China)

A. Heger (Monash university, Australia)

F. Herwig (University of Victoria, Canada)

T. Janka (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany)

Y. P. Jing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

J. José (Universitat Politècnica de Cataluny, Spain)

T. Kajino (University of Tokyo/Beihang University, Japan)

C. Kobayashi (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

S. Kubono (University of Tokyo, Japan)

W. P. Liu (China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

M. Lugaro (Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Y. G. Ma (Fudan University, China)

J. Meng (Peking University, China)

Y. Z. Qian (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, USA)

S. Reddy (University of Washington, USA)

R. Reifarth (University of Frankfurt, Germany)

H. Schatz (Michigan State University, USA)

X. D. Tang (Institute of Modern Physics, China)

F. K. Thielemann (University of Basel, Switzerland)

A. Wallner (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)

P. Woods (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Y. L. Ye (Peking University, China)

G. Zhao (National Astronomical Observatories of China, China)

Program Advisory Committee

R. J. deBoer (University of Notre Dame, USA)

B. Guo (China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

J. J. He (Beijing Normal University, China)

M. Junker (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare -LNGS, Italy)

A. Li (Xiamen University, China)

C. Ruiz (TRIUMF, Canada)

J. R. Shi (National Astronomical Observatories of China, China)

M. Smith (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

Y. B. Wang (China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

H. Yamaguchi (The university of Tokyo, Japan)

H. Q. Zhang (China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

Y. H. Zhang (Institute of Modern Physics, China)

Local Organizing Committee

W. P. Liu (Chair, China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

B. Guo (vice-chair, China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

Z. G. Ge (China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

S. Zeng (secretary, China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

C. Y. He (China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

Y. P. Shen (China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

J. Su (Beijing Normal University, China)

Z. An (Sichuan University, China)

X. D. Tang (Institute of Modern Physics, China)

Y. B. Wang (China Institute of Atomic Energy, China)

P. P. Ren (Sichuan University, China)

Call for paper

Important date

2021-06-30
Final paper submission deadline

Submission Topics

Main Topics 

Nuclear reaction rates and stellar abundances

The s process

Nuclear properties for astrophysics

High density matter

Novae and XRB

SNIa and the p process

Core collapse SN, mergers and the r process

Underground nuclear astrophysics

The early universe

Galaxy evolution

Radioactivity and meteorites

Inputs for Astrophysics

One Minute Poster Presentations

Guidlines

(a), abstracts should be in plain text, and special characters should be typed in either the Markdown or LaTeX format;

(b), the deadline for submission is June 15 2021. A scientific committee will review submitted abstracts and decide which would be presented orally, which would not. We will let every single abstract submitter know her/his presentation way by June 30 2021.

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Important Date

  • Conference Date

    Sep 21

    2021

    to

    Sep 25

    2021

  • Jun 30 2021

    Final Paper Deadline

Sponsored By
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
Organized By
Institute of Modern Physics (IMP)
Sichuan University (SCU)
Beijing Normal University (BNU)
China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE)
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