Welcome to NPCSM 2016 homepage

From Secretary: The first thing to do at Yukawa Institute

When you first come to YITP, please proceed to the Secretariat Desk. We will hand you a workshop kit, keys (your office key and a card key) and other stuffs (including reimbursement procesure and wireless internet information).
The location and opening hours of the desk are:
Secretariat Desk: K106 in Main Building
Opening hours: 10:00-12:00, 13:00-16:00 (Mon.-Fri.)

Date and Venue

We will hold a long-term staying type workshop,
Nuclear Physics, Compact Stars, and Compact Star Mergers 2016, (NPCSM 2016)
Oct.17 (Mon) - Nov.18 (Fri), 2016,
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan.

Conference

In the 3rd week of the NPCSM2016 workshop, we will have a conference,
Compact stars and gravitational waves
October 31 - November 4, 2016

Mini workshop

On November 8 and 9, we hold a mini-workshop
Compact Star Mergers and Nucleosynthesis.

Confirmed speakers: J.Barnes (UC Berkeley),R.Fernandez (Alberta), K.Hotokezaka(Hebrew),
K.Kiuchi (YITP), K.Kyutoku (RIKEN),J.Lippuner (Caltech), G.Martinez-Pinedo (GSI Darmstadt and TU Darmstadt),
G.McLaughlin (North Carolina), F.Thielemann (Basel), S.Wanajo (Sophia U.), T.Yoshida (Tokyo).

Registration

Registration was closed. We thank all who registered.

Subjects

1. Core collapse supernova explosions
2. Binary compact star mergers and their observations in 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

Workshop Schedule

• 1st and 2nd weeks (Oct.17-28):
  Workshop mainly on nuclear matter EOS and neutron stars
• 3rd week (Oct.31-Nov.4):
  Intensive conference week on both nuclear physics and astrophysics
  Compact stars and gravitational waves
• 4th and 5th weeks (Nov.7-18):
  Workshop mainly on binary neutron star mergers and supernova explosions

Organizers

Akira Ohnishi (YITP, co-chair), Masaru Shibata (YITP, co-chair), Kunihito Ioka (YITP, LOC),
Yudai Suwa (YITP, LOC), Kenji Morita (YITP, LOC), Atsushi Watanabe (YITP, Program Coordinator),
Toru Harada (Osaka EC), Kei Iida (Kochi U.), 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.).

Sponsors

This workshop is financially supported by YIPQS, YITP, the Center for Gravitational Physics,
Nishinomiya City, and Project for the Priority Issue 9 to be Tackled by Using Post K Computer.