HELIUM25 Workshop – Abstract Submission and Registration Open

The workshop “HELIUM25 – Helium burning and perspectives for underground labs” is hosted at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and aims to bring together experimentalists, theorists, and astrophysicists to address open questions for the study of helium-burning reactions. July 24, 2025, will be dedicated to a career development day, with talks and discussions on diverse career paths, scientific …

“Stelle sulla Terra”: Nuclear Astrophysics Outreach made Accessible

ChETEC-INFRA supports the project “Stars on Earth – Inclusive dissemination paths of Nuclear Astrophysics”. Founded at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padua, the project pursues the goal to broaden the target audience of scientific dissemination activities through the development of inclusive methods of communication, adopting techniques to improve accessibility of …

Registration Open for 2nd ChETEC-INFRA Observational School

We are delighted to announce the 2nd ChETEC-INFRA Observational School (“ChINOS2”). This school will bring together Master’s students, PhD students and young postdocs who want to learn about the thrills and challenges of stellar spectroscopic observations, analysis and interpretation from experts in the field. To this end, we have secured 4 half nights with the …

Interdisciplinary Physics of the Sun

Spanish‐German WE-Heraeus-Seminar Date: 29 Jun – 04 Jul 2025Location: Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany Scientific organizers:Prof. Dr. Daniel Bemmerer, HZDR Dresden‐Rossendorf • Prof. Dr. Markus Roth, Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg • Dr. Aldo Serenelli, ICE, CSIC Cerdanyola del Valles/E The physical understanding of our Sun is in many ways foundation science. Its applications range from the Sun …

Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics Conference NPA-XI in Dresden

Past week 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, …

Nuclear Astrophysicists meet for 4th ChETEC-INFRA General Assembly and TA User Meeting in Strasbourg

On May 27 and 28, the ChETEC-INFRA consortium met in Strasbourg. Hosted by IPHC, the 4th General Assembly brought together consortium members and nuclear astrophysicists from outside the consortium, to discuss developments in nuclear astrophysics and catch up on developments of the Research and Networking activities within ChETEC-INFRA, as well as the Infrastructures in the …

Registration Opens for 4th General Assembly

The fourth ChETEC-INFRA General Assembly will be held in Strasbourg from May 27 to 28, 2024. As for previous Assemblies – online, in Padua and in Debrecen – the program will feature progress reports from within the project, as well as scientific talks in the field of nuclear astrophysics in general. Registrations on the conference …

High School Students Visit Camp on Astrophysics at TU Dresden

24 students from schools of the national Excellence School Network MINT-EC conducted research on astrophysics at the TUD Dresden University of Technology from October 23 to 26, 2023. For four days, they worked together with scientists from the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics of TU Dresden and from the DeltaX School Lab at the …

ChETEC-INFRA Observational School (ChINOS) Concluded Successfully

The first edition of the ChETEC-INFRA Observational School (ChINOS 2023) was held at the Ondřejov Observatory near Prague in the Czech Republic. Participants of the school followed a program of lectures, scientific discussions and hands-on activities. As a special opportunity, the hands-on experience included three nights of remote observations at the Nordic Optical Telescope. Favorable …