Conference and Workshops
Past Events Sponsored by CNP
The 20th International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators
August 12-18, 2018
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
NuFACT2018 is the twentith in the series of yearly international workshops which started in 1999 and which was originally called
the International Workshop on Neutrino Factories. The workshop program has, over the years, come to include all current and future
accelerator and also reactor based neutrino projects, including also muon projects, not only the Neutrino Factory project.
Summer Institute for Neutrino Theory 2017
July 23-29, 2017
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
The Summer Institute for Neutrino Theory (SINT) will bring together neutrino theorists at all career stage across the disciplines of a
stro, nuclear and particle physics. Formal lectures and a small number of topical seminar presentations will allow participants to profit
from the broad expertise represented by the senior participants and to discuss open issues and develop new ideas in a relaxed atmosphere.
For the participating students the formal lectures provide an opportunity to learn from world-leading experts about cutting edge topics.
July 3-7, 2017
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
String Phenomenology 2017 is a forum to bring together diverse researchers aiming to bridge the gap between fundamental theory and
observable physics. The conference includes invited plenary talks as well as two afternoons of parallel sessions. We particularly
welcome and encourage the participation of younger researchers. This is the 16th conference in the String Phenomenology Conference
series.
A Three Workshop Series on the Physics and Mathematics of F-theory: First Workshop
October 8-9, 2016
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
String theory provides an arena in which many significant and challenging questions in modern mathematics can be linked, often
in surprising and fundamental ways. In this workshop series, this viewpoint will be utilized to study the geometry of elliptically
fibered manifolds in singular limits with the goal of bringing together diverse mathematical structures. These range from the moduli
spaces of elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau 4-manifolds to those of singular (parabolic/irregular/wild) Hitchin systems; from birational
geometry to representation theory; from limiting mixed Hodge structures to the study of invariants of singular varieties.
This NSF (DMS) funded workshop series (2016 - 2018) will rotate between Virginia Tech, Harvard University and Florida State University to facilitate progress on pressing problems at the interface of algebraic/differential geometry and string theory.
Heavy Quarks and Leptons 2016 (HQL 2016)
May 22-27, 2016
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
The XIIIth International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons is dedicated to the
study of the heavy quarks charm, bottom, and top with obvious extensions to interesting
topics involving the strange quark. Neutrino oscillation studies and new insights in μ
and τ lepton phenomenology are also included. The conference continues the tradition
of regular scientific meetings, first started in 1993 at the Laboratori Nazionali di
Frascati under the name "Heavy Quarks at Fixed Target", and widened in 2002 to include
leptons with the workshop renamed to what it is known as today.
March 11-12, 2016
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Recent advances in the LBNF/DUNE effort have brought new focus on low-energy neutrino physics. The objectives of this
two-day focused workshop are to discuss: (1) the low-energy capabilities of DUNE, (2) the recent status of supernova
physics, and (3) the potential impacts of DUNE for unraveling the physics of supernovae in future Galactic core-collapse
neutrino datasets, including the physics of cross sections and backgrounds that are required to deliver science. The workshop
will bring together theorists and experimentalists at this promising intersection, and will be modeled to provide a venue for
stimulating exchange of scientific ideas and information among experts in different areas.
Workshop on Applied Antineutrino Physics (AAP2015)
December 7-8, 2015
Arlington, Virginia, USA
The Applied Anti-Neutrino Physics workshops are focused on applications of neutrinos such as
non-proliferation and geophysics.
NuSTEC Training in Neutrino Nucleus Scattering Physics
October 20-30, 2014
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
The aim of the program is to provide the necessary theoretical background on the physics of electroweak interactions
with nucleons and nuclei. It should allow the participants to understand recent developments and to contribute to this
field, which has become very important for the future of neutrino physics.
Elba XIII Workshop in Electron-Nucleus Scattering
June 23-27, 2014
Marciana Marina, Isola d'Elba, Italy
May 1-2, 2014
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
KURF Users Meeting
June 7, 2013
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Borexino Collaboration Meeting
May 3-4, 2013
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
April 12-13, 2013
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Symposium on the Life and Science of Raju Raghavan
October 20, 2012
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
This one day Symposium will attempt to cover the full breadth of Raju's life in science, but also focus on Raju the man: his
creativity, his infectious enthusiasm, his kindness and humanity.
The International Neutrino Summer School
July 10-21, 2012
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
The goal of this series is to train the next generation of neutrino physicists, and the curriculum covers many topics: introductions
to both the Standard Model and oscillation phenomenology, accelerator and reactor neutrinos, neutrino cross sections, and neutrinos
in cosmology, just to name a few. The target audience consists of graduate students and recent post-docs in both theory and experiment.
We aim to cover the full breadth of neutrino physics over all energy scales. The school will comprise formal lectures as well as
informal tutorial sessions and opportunities for students to present their own work.
Sterile Neutrinos at the Crossroads
September 25-28, 2011
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts in the sub-disciplines of nuclear theory and experiment, particle theory and experiment,
cosmology, and neutrino phenomenology to critically review the evidence for and against sterile neutrinos and to discuss the need or otherwise
to pursue dedicated new experiments and possibly new strategies.