Young Scientists Study Group on Neutrino & Nuclear Physics for Nucleosynthesis & Chemical Evolution

In China, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will be both searching for new physics and observing astrophysical neutrinos. The Jinping Underground Laboratory for Nuclear Astrophysics (JUNA) will be measuring key nuclear reactions for stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis.

The Center for Nuclear Astrophysics (CNA) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) aims to lead the development of nuclear astrophysics research in China by forging collaborations among theorists, modelers, experimentalists, and observers across the fields of particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, and by training young scientists who will actively contribute to and capitalize the scientific returns of JUNO and JUNA.

In partnership with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics – Center for the Evolution of the Elements, which is funded by the US National Science Foundation to address fundamental questions about the evolution and properties of matter and the origin of the chemical elements, CNA will sponsor a series of activities of several Young Scientists Study Groups.

To initiate this series, CNA will host a Study Group on neutrino and nuclear physics for nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution from June 29 through July 8, 2015 at SJTU.