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Call for bids Third Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP) Conference in 2027

Posted By Alessandra Fantoni, Monday 13 October 2025

Call for bids to host the Applied Nuclear Physics Conference 2027 (ANP 2027)

 

The board of the Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) is seeking candidates to host the third edition of the Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP) Conference, after the successful editions held in Prague in September 2021 and in Thessaloniki in September 2024.

This triennial conference has sections specifically devoted to themes such as energy, health, space, security, environment, material science, preservation and study of cultural heritage. The ANP conference belongs to the series of NPD divisional conferences, comprising the European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC) and the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics (NPA) Conference.

 

The application material should include:

-              the approximate dates when it is planned to hold the conference, expected in 2027

-               the description of the proposed location and venue,

-              the description of the participating Universities and Laboratories,

-              the projected costs,

-              the expected financial supports,

-              the anticipated sponsorship from Universities/Laboratories/Industries,

-              the support for students and early career researchers, and

-              the foreseen approximate conference fees.

The bid should also provide the list of members composing the Local Organizing Committee.

As the ANPC conference is part of the series organized by the Nuclear Physics Division:

  • a reduced fee for EPS members should be considered
  • a contribution of €25 per participant is expected to be provided to the NPD board
  • a certain number of NPD board members should be included in the Scientific Advisory Committee.

In the case of proceedings, it is strongly recommended to select those appearing on a referred journal. The procedure should be defined in advance, and the proceedings must be accessible to all conference speakers.

The conference could apply to be recognized as an EPS conference and may also request an EPS poster prize and/or a grant for early-career researchers.

The deadline to submit the application material to the Scientific Secretary of the NPD board (Raquel Crespo, raquel.crespo@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) is January 15th, 2026.

The candidates will be invited to present their proposal at the NPD board online meeting in January, 2026, when the selection of the ANP 2027 conference will be made.

Tags:  ANP  Applied Nuclear Physics  call  conferences  EPS NPD 

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Report of the Second ANP 2024 (Thessaloniki, 23-27/09/2024)

Posted By Administration, Monday 9 December 2024

Innovative applications of nuclear physics in the fields of energy, medicine, materials science, security through sensing technologies, space, environment, heritage conservation are showcased at the international conference on Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP2024), held at the Center Dissemination of Research Results of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, between 23-27 September 2024.

ANP2024 was the 2nd edition of the International Conference Series, after the first one hosted in Prague in 2021, with the support of the European Physics Society (EPS). The main aim is to highlight the importance and disseminate the research results in the field of applied nuclear physics to the international scientific community. ANP2024 was supported by the Greek Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) and was under the auspices of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society (HNPS), a non-profit scientific association, founded in 1990 and acts as the official body of nuclear scientists in Greece.

As the AUTh Rector, Professor Charalambos Feidas, stated during his opening of the ANP2024 conference: "The applications of nuclear physics offer societies sustainable solutions in energy, innovative medical treatments, space missions, the preservation of our cultural heritage. The field offers transformative solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face", while he added: "At conferences like this we can exchange ideas and forge partnerships, shaping a better future for our world," also noting that hosting ANP2024 at AUTh highlights the important role of the university and the physics department's research team in the advancement of Applied Nuclear Physics.

The importance of Applied Nuclear Physics in scientific research and technological development was underlined by the conference Chair and the Head of the School of Physics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor Alexandra Ioannidou, focusing on the cooperation of the scientific community with the institutional bodies to ensure the safe and innovative use of nuclear energy and technology, In this context, she explained that the conference will provide networking opportunities and the development of new partnerships. "The contacts made here are just as important as the knowledge we share, often leading to long-term relationships and partnerships", she noted.

The goal of the conference is to strengthen the connection of the European Union of Physicists with the respective national partners”, pointed out the Chair of the Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS), Professor Alessandra Fantoni (INFN Frascati, Italy) noting also that the EPS applied physics awards will to be awarded, in a special session, to the scientists Professor Alberto del Guerra (University of Pisa and INFN, Italy) and Professor Laura Harkness-Brennan (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom).

ANP2024 has been a successful EPS conference paving the path for the next one in the series. A Special Issue in the peer-reviewed journal "Applied Radiation and Isotopes" is dedicated to a limited number of original research papers presented, while all other contributions will be hosted in a Special Volume of the peer-reviewed HNPS Advances in Nuclear Physics" Proceedings Series.

ANP2024 had more than 150+ attendees, almost equally distributed between young and senior researchers. See some statistics in the Figures below. 

Besides its 5 days of talks, its 6 Plenary sessions, its 24 parallel sessions, and a Poster session with 3 awards sponsored by the Arizona Carbon Foil Co. and the EPS, ANP2024 gave the participants to enjoy the social program and swim in the blue waters of the Aegean Sea.

ANP2024 website: https://hnps.eu/ANP2024


Figure 1 - ANP2024 Participants per career level

Figure 2 - Participants per country of origin

Figure 3 - Participants per gender

Figure 4 - The AUTh Rector, Prof. Ch. Feidas and the AUTh Dept. of Physics Chair, Prof. A. Ioannidou

Figure 5 - The Chair of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division, Prof. Alessandra Fantoni (INFN Frascati, Italy)

Figure 6 - The recipients of the 2024 EPS Applied Nuclear Physics Prize, Prof. Alberto Del Guerra (University of Pisa and INFN, Italy) and Prof. Laura Harkness Brennan (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Figure 7 - Robert Stoner (ACF Co.) and Alessandra Fantoni (EPS) deliver the prizes for best posters


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Report of the NPA-XI 2024 (Dresden, 16-20/09/2024)

Posted By Alessandra Fantoni, Saturday 26 October 2024

The 11th edition of the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics conference series, in brief NPA-XI, concluded successfully in Dresden, Germany.

There was a record number of 191 academic participants (126 PhD scientists, 53 graduate students, and 12 undergraduates from the local university). Participants came from 18 EU+ countries and 10 countries in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. More than a third of the participants were from Germany, and there were six or more scientists each from Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hungary, Belgium, and Poland.

The gender makeup was in line with the statistics of the field overall, with 28% female participants and 36% of the invited talks given by women.

In altogether 33 invited and 48 contributed talks, all of them in the plenum, and 80 poster contributions, participants summarised the state of the art in nuclear astrophysics and related fields. Both the contributions overall and the individual sessions were balanced between experiment, theory, and observation. Most poster presenters used the opportunity to present their work in a one-minute poster pitch in the plenum. Due to the generosity of the European Physical Journal A and the NuPECC committee, altogether four poster prizes with 200-400€ financial award each were selected amongst the many excellent posters.

Topics discussed included the observed and predicted elemental compositions of the earliest stars, neutron capture nucleosynthesis including its outputs and scenarios, the observation and interpretation of multi-messenger events, a proposed new nucleosynthesis process, gravitational waves, and advanced laboratory experiments. The high share of young participants (in addition to 53 PhD students, there were 14 postdocs with less than two years after the PhD and even 12 undergraduates - altogether 41%) is encouraging given the fact that there is still much to study and learn regarding the synthesis of the chemical elements in the cosmos.


The conference was co-organised by the Dresden-based institutions HZDR, TU Dresden, and DZA Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik, in close partnership with regional partners from the University of Wroclaw, the AIP Leibniz Center for Astrophysics Potsdam, and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Two of the founding fathers of nuclear astrophysics agreed to contribute: Professor Friedel Thielemann from the University of Basel gave a public outreach talk in German for the general public. Professor Roland Diehl from MPE Garching summarised the state and outlook of the field in a dinner speech, given not as originally planned aboard a steamboat on the river but due to flooding simply in a restaurant. Four company exhibitors from fields as diverse as instrumentation, publishing, and accelerator construction contributed to the innovation aspect of NPA-XI.

 

Daniel Bemmerer 

 

Tags:  conferences  NPA  Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics Conference  TU Dresden 

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Call for bids - EuNPC 2025

Posted By Administration, Thursday 9 March 2023
Updated: Tuesday 2 May 2023

The recent successful EuNPC conference in Santiago de Compostela was the fifth in the series and was delayed from 2021 because of Covid. Previous conferences were: Bochum (2009), Bucharest(2012), Groningen (2015) and Bologna(2018).

Therefore, this is a call from the board of the Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) for expressions of interest in hosting an EuNPC at the end of 2025 (not to overlap with INPC 2025, planned for May in Korea). 

The conference brings together researchers from a multi-disciplinary community of experimental and theoretical nuclear physicists to discuss the status and the prospects of the field as well as its applications.

It is part of the series of NPD divisional conferences, which includes also  the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics (NPA) and the Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP) Conferences.

The application material for the conference should include:

- the description of the proposed location and venue
- the participating Universities and Laboratories
- the projected costs
- the expected financial support and
- the expected approximate conference fees.

The bid should also provide the list of members comprising the Local Organizing Committee.

The deadline to submit the application material to the Scientific Secretary of the NPD board (Dr Zsófia Kertész zsofi@atomki.hu) is 30th April, 2023 => extended to May 7th, 2023

The NPD board will select the host of EuNPC 2025 at its meeting in May 2023.

Tags:  2025  applied nuclear physics  bid  conferences  EuNPC  experimental nuclear physics  theoretical nuclear physics 

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