N3AS Summer School (2026 Draft)
2026 Summer School in Santa Cruz: July 10-19, 2026
The N3AS-sponsored Summer School on Multi-Messenger Astrophysics is intended for advanced graduate students and beginning postdoctoral researchers interested in nuclear and particle astrophysics — theory, experiment, or observation.
Application coming soon Lecturers
Details to be announced shortly.
Lecturers:
| Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Josh Frieman | SLAC/KIPAC | The Standard Cosmological Model |
| Francois Foucart | University of New Hampshire | Modeling Neutron Star Mergers and Kilonovae |
| George Fuller | UC San Diego | Probing the Early Universe: Entropy, Neutrinos, Nuclei, the Dark Side |
| Erika Holmbeck | Lawrence Livermore Laboratory | Astrophysical Explosions and Nucleosynthesis |
| Tesla Jeltema | UC Santa Cruz | The Rubin Observatory: Mapping the Universe’s Dark Matter and Energy |
| Jorge Piekarewicz | Florida State University | Neutron Stars and Dense Matter |
| Brant Robertson | UC Santa Cruz | What Have We Learned About the Earliest Stars and Galaxies from the JWST? |
| Chiara Salemi | UC Berkeley | Searching for the Axion |
| Tim Tait | UC Irvine | WIMPs and other Dark Matter Candidates and their Interactions |
| Steve Taylor | Vanderbilt University | Nanohertz gravitational waves: Sources and Detection |
| Victoria Xu | UC Berkeley | Gravitational Wave Interferometers: How Does Advanced LIGO Work? |
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