================================================================== Nuclear Physics, Compact Stars, and Compact Star Mergers 2016 Oct.17 - Nov.18, 2016, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~npcsm/index.cgi npcsm@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp Registration http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~npcsm/regist.php ================================================================== First Circular It is our pleasure to announce that we are organizing a workshop on nuclear physics, compact stars, and compact star mergers at YITP, Kyoto, Japan from Oct.17 to Nov.18, 2016. * Aims and Scopes Physics of compact stars has been attracting much attention in recent years and remarkable progress is expected to be made. For instance, advanced LIGO, which has recently detected gravitational waves from a black hole merger, will detect gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers, and play a key role in understanding the equation of state (EoS) of dense nuclear matter and nucleosynthesis as well as supernova explosions. Furthermore, recent observations of massive neutron stars have stimulated debates on the property of the dense nuclear matter, such as possible existence of hyperons and quark matter. Future high-precision measurements of the mass and radius of neutron stars will shed light on the resolution. The aim of this long-term workshop is to gather leading and active researchers both from nuclear physics and astrophysics and to discuss the current problems and future directions in the physics of compact stars. We would also like to promote collaborations among researchers in the different fields. Subjects to be discussed are 1. Core collapse supernova explosions 2. Binary compact star mergers and their observations with electromagnetic and gravitational waves 3. Explosive nucleosynthesis in supernovae and compact star mergers 4. Observations and structure of neutron stars 5. Compact star matter equation of state 6. Ab initio calculation of nuclei and nuclear matter 7. Neutron rich nuclei and symmetry energy 8. Exotic components in neutron stars and dense matter EOS 9. Dense quark matter and QCD phase diagram 10. Related topics * Schedule The workshop will last 5 weeks in total, including a one-week conference. More than 100 people are expected to participate in the conference (capacity of the conference hall at YITP is 120 people maximally). The remaining 4 weeks are spent for workshops where participants can hear seminars and enjoy free discussions. The capacity of the visitor facilities at YITP during the 4-week workshop is 50 maximally. The main scopes of the workshops are nuclear matter EOS and neutron stars (Oct. 17-28) and binary neutron star mergers and supernova explosions (Nov. 7-18). Participants can choose their favorite dates to stay in Kyoto during the workshop. * Invited speakers of the conference (3rd week) Marcello Baldo (Catania), Gordon Baym (Illinois), Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute)*, Nicolas Chamel (Bruxells), Paulo Freire (Bonn), Stefano Gandolfi (Los Alamos), J. E. Grindlay (Harvard)*, Charles J. Horowitz (Indiana), Dan Kasen (Berkley)*, James M. Lattimer (Stonybrook), Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia), Ken Nomoto (IPMU), Tsvi Piran (Hebrew), Luciano Rezzolla (Frankfurt), Bing Zhang (Nevada) (* to be confirmed) * Registration, Conference Fee, and Financial Support Please make your registration online via http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~npcsm/regist.php Conference fee in the 3rd week is 10,000 yen (~$100). There is no conference fee for the workshop weeks (1,2,4,5-th weeks). If you need financial support, please register by August 31 (Wed), 2016 and mark "yes" at the financial support item on the registration. We will inform you the results by September 16, 2016. * Organizers: Akira Ohnishi (YITP, co-chair), Masaru Shibata (YITP, co-chair), Yudai Suwa (YITP, scientific secretary), Kenji Morita (YITP, scientific secretary), Toru Harada (Osaka EC), Kei Iida (Kochi U.), Kunihito Ioka (YITP), Kei Kotake (Fukuoka U.), Hitoshi Nakada (Chiba U.), Yuichiro Sekiguchi (Toho U.), Hajime Sotani (NAOJ), Kohsuke Sumiyoshi (Numazu CT), Hirokazu Tamura (Tohoku U.), Shinya Wanajo (Sophia U.) Organized by: Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University Sponsored by: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University Yukawa International Program for Quark-Hadron Sciences, YITP (YIPQS) Center for Gravitational Physics, YITP ------------------------------------------------------------------