NIC XVIII will take place in Girona (Catalonia, Spain) in Summer 2025 (June 15 - 20), and it will be preceded by the usual NIC School in downtown Barcelona, the week before (June 9 - 13).
Conference webpage:
https://indico.icc.ub.edu/event/341/
Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC) is a biennial series of Nuclear Astrophysics conferences. These interdisciplinary events gather together several hundred nuclear physicists, astrophysicists and cosmochemists, to review, share, and discuss recent advances (and challenges) in this field, covering broad areas, from the origin of the elements to the nuclear processes that power stars and their evolution. As such, it has become the most important international meeting in Nuclear Astrophysics. Prior to each edition of the Conference, a School for graduate students and early career researchers is also held.
The scientific program of NIC XVIII will cover recent advances and future directions and perspectives in all areas of interest for Nuclear Astrophysics, including, among others:
• Cosmology, the early universe and Big Bang nucleosynthesis
• Stellar abundances: spectroscopic vs. meteoritic determinations; presolar grains
• Nuclear reactions
• Neutrinos
• Stellar evolution (I): hydrostatic phases –AGB stars; s- and i-process
• Stellar evolution (II): explosive nucleosynthesis –Novae, X-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Neutron star mergers; r- and p-process
• High-density matter; EOS of neutron stars
• Atomic and nuclear inputs for Astrophysics
• Galactic chemical evolution
• New facilities and experimental techniques in Nuclear Astrophysics