The Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics, for historical reasons called School, has been organized since 1963 by the Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) and the Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University. Over the years the School became famous worldwide conference. Nowadays, the Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics has a character of a biennial international congress and is one of the major events in Poland, related to the low energy nuclear physics.
During the construction of the scientific program special attention has always been paid to offering enthusiastic and pedagogical overviews of the most recent research subjects in nuclear physics from both theoretical and experimental points of view. Young participants have also the opportunity to present results of their research in short talks or on posters.
Currently, the conference theme is “Extremes of the Nuclear Landscape” and it is a forum for reviewing progress in theory and experiment at the forefront of nuclear research.
This year a special attention will be given to: i) hot topics of the nuclear structure theory including: ab initio calculations, nonequilibrium phenomena and applications of quantum computing, ii) different aspects of nuclear fission, and iii) collective excitations in nuclei. Furthermore, investigations of the properties of exotic nuclei and the nuclear physics context of astrophysical processes will be discussed. An important part of the Conference will be devoted to the newest achievements in the nuclear structure and reaction investigations and their impact on other disciplines. Discoveries in these areas are closely linked to the ongoing development of experimental facilities and detectors, which is among the conferences topics. The aim of the Conference is also to establish contacts between physicists representing various areas of nuclear physics and to create opportunities for intense interaction between graduate students, young researchers and senior scientists.
