N3AS Summer School

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 form

Deadline to apply: June 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST.

---

---

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
Joel Meyers	Southern Methodist University	The Cosmic Microwave Background: Observations and their Interpretation
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?

---

Archives: Photos, speakers, and lecture slides

---

Sponsored By