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2026 N3AS Annual Meeting

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Annual Meeting Agenda
Organizer(s) N3AS Executive Committee
Description
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, unless otherwise noted

Schedule

Monday, August 17

TimeActivity
—Arrive in Berkeley
4:00 pmIntroduction: Wick Haxton
4:40 pmSchools, Workshops, Partnerships: Yong Zhong Qian, Wick Haxton
5:00 pmFaculty Discussion (Campbell Hall 131)
6:00 pmSelf-organized dinner

Tuesday, August 18

TimeActivity
8:40 – 8:55 amCoffee and chat
9:00 amIntroductions (Campbell 131)
9:10 – 10:30 amScience Session 1
Chair: Christian Drischler
9:10 – 9:30amTianqi Zhao (N3AS Fellow): Neutron Star EOS with Variational Autoencoder
9:30 – 9:50 amMia Kumamoto (N3AS Fellow): Effects of Chiral Four-Body Forces in Dense Matter
9:50 – 10:10 amAviral Prakash (N3AS Fellow): Multiphase Hydrodynamics of strongly interacting matter: Composition-driven phase change
10:10 – 10:30 amYuuka Kanakubo (RIKEN Berkeley Fellow): Linear response from hydrodynamics and kinetic theory in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
10:30 – 11:00 amCoffee Break
11:00 – 12:20 pmScience Session 2
Chair: David Radice
11:00 – 11:20 amAkira Dohi (RIKEN-Berkeley Fellow): NS 1987A: A New Probe of Crustal Superfluidity with Lynx
11:20 – 11:40 amAnna Suliga (former N3AS Fellow): Binary neutron starts as cosmic ray sources
11:40 – 12:00 pmAmira Aoyama (RIKEN visitor): An Observational Discrepancy in the Fuel Budget of Superbursts
12:00 pm – 12:20 pmIan Padilla Gay (N3AS Fellow): Solar-system abundances of p-nuclides probe collective neutrino oscillations in supernovae
12:20 – 1:40 pmLunch Break
1:40 – 3:20 pmScience Session 3
Chair: Yong Zhong Qian
1:40 – 2:00 pmEvan Rule (former N3AS Fellow): Nuclear Reactions on a Quantum Computer
2:00 – 2:20 pmAnupam Ray (former N3AS Fellow): Axions from Stellar Nuclear Transitions
2:20 – 2:40 pmIsh Gupta (N3AS Fellow): Distinguishing kilonovae for BNS and NSBH mergers
2:40 – 3:00 pmTianshu Wang (N3AS Associate Fellow): Exploring the Effects of Rotation and Magnetic Fields in CCSN Explosions using Fornax
3:00 PMCoffee Break
3:30 – 5:50 PMScience Session 4
Chair: Susan Gardner
3:30 – 3:50 pmGabriele Di Ubaldo (RIKEN-Berkeley Fellow): Axions from a Quantum Gravity Perspective
3:50 – 4:10 pmVincent Lee (N3AS Fellow): Warped Dark Dimension
4:10 – 4:30 pmErwin Tanin (incoming N3AS Fellow): Gradient-Produced Neutrinos
4:30 – 4:50 pmShoto Aoki (RIKEN Berkeley Fellow): Exact SL(2,Z)-Structure of Lattice Maxwell Theory with θ-term in Modified Villain Formulation
4:50 – 5:10 pmJan Shütte-Engel (former RIKEN-Berkeley Fellow): The Low-Frequency Bremsstrahlung/Memory Tail of Gravitational Radiation
5:10 – 5:30 pmBreak
5:30 – 6:00 pmReception at The Faculty Club – Howard Lounge
6:00 – 8:00 pmMembers Dinner at The Faculty Club

Wednesday, August 19

TimeActivity
8:40 – 8:55 amCoffee and chat
9:00 amAnnouncements & departure logistics Campbell 131
9:00 – 10:20 amScience Session 5
Chair: Gail McLaughlin
9:00 – 9:20 amRossella Gamba (N3AS Fellow): Parameterized tests of GR with gravitational waves
9:20 – 9:40 amKelsey Lund (N3AS Fellow): r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Neutron Star Merger Disks
9:40 – 10:00 amMengke Li (N3AS Fellow): Shaping the 3rd r-process Peak: The Role of Nuclear Properties around the N=126 Shell Closure
10:00 – 10:20 amDivya Singh (N3AS Fellow): Search for sub-solar-mass compact objects in data from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s fourth observing run
10:20 – 10:50 amCoffee Break
10:50 – 11:50 amOpen discussion on selected topics (Moderator: Wick Haxton)
11:30 – 12:00 pmBoxed Lunch Campbell patio
12:00 – 1:00 pmPostdocs Professional Development Meeting, UC policies (Wick Haxton, Sanjay Reddy, Ken McElvain) Campbell 121
1:00 pmAdjourn