News 　(as of Dec. 2024)

● Ukakuren Young Scientist Award/Master Thesis Award were given to the following people:
young scientist award
Toshitaka Niwase (Kyushu U.)
Discovery of new isotope 241U and systematic high-precision atomic mass measurements of neutron-rich Pa-Pu nuclei produced via multinucleon transfer reactions
Kanji Mori (NAOJ)
Three-dimensional core-collapse supernova models with phenomenological treatment of neutrino flavor instabilities

宇核連修士論文賞
Lin Yifan（Osaka U.）
Development of MAIKo+ TPC for the measurement of neutron inelastic scattering cross section on 12C
Kwon Hyukjin （Inst. of Science Tokyo）
Constraining of Nuclear Matter Equation of States with Rotating Neutron Star

Thank you for many applications for these awards.

● Ukakuren Seminars to be held:
Date&time: Dec. 16, 2024, 10:30-
Title: Revealing the large-scale mass ejection mechanism from massive stars
Speaker: Toshikazu Shigeyama (Univ. of Tokyo, RESCEU)
Date&time: Jan. 17, 2025, 13:30-
Title: X-ray bursters/compact stellar objects/cosmic X-ray observation (TBD)
Speaker: Takehiro Mihara (RIKEN)
Date&time: Mar. 6, 2025, 15:00-
Title: Supernovae (TBD)
Speaker: Kosuke Sumiyoshi (Numazu　Inst. of Tech.)

Details.
● Ukakuren Seminar to be held:
Date&time: 17:00-, on Jul. 9, 2024,
Title: Mass ejection and nucleosynthesis in binary neutron star mergers: dependence on binary mass ratio and lifetime of remnant neutron star
Speaker: Dr. Sho Fujibayashi (Tohoku Univ.)
Details.

● Informal meeting of JaFNA was held online on Jul 1, 16:30-. See Ukakuren ML for details.

● Ukakuren Seminar to be held:
Date&time: 13:30-, on Nov. 17, 2023,
Title: Supernova Nucleosynthesis (TBC)
Speaker: Dr. Carla Frohlich (North Carolina State University)
Details.

● The 1st IReNA-Ukakuren Joint Workshop "Advancing Professional Development in Nuclear Astrophysics and Beyond" was held at NAOJ for Aug. 28-Sep. 1. The Poster Presentation Award was given to the following persons for their presention in the poster session. Congraturations.
  • Kosuke Sakanashi (Osaka Univ.)
  • Mackenzie Smith (Michigan State University/FRIB)
  • Yugo Motogami (Saitama Univ.)
  • Kurumi Furutsuka (University of Hyogo)


    • ● Ukakuren Seminar to be held:
    "The mechanism of supernova -- from its explosion to the remnant -- studied with a 3D-hydrodynamical calculation, the characteristics of progenitor stars, neutron stars, and molecular formation" by Masaomi Ono (ASIAA), Jun 19 (Mon), 17:00-
    Details.

    ● The 1st IReNA-Ukakuren Joint Workshop "Advancing Professional Development in Nuclear Astrophysics and Beyond" will be held at NAOJ in Mitaka, Tokyo for Aug. 28-Sep. 1. The details are found here. Now the abstract submission is open on this page. This is the first IReNA-Ukakuren joint workshop, and we would like to widely welcome researchers of various fields that are related to the nuclear astrophysics. Young reserachers are particularly encouraged to join in this workshop.

    ● Informal meeting of JaFNA is to be held online on Mar 20, 15:30-. See Ukakuren ML for the connection information.

    ● Ukakuren Seminars in Jan. 2023:
    "Recent advances in compound nuclear reaction theory and its applications" by Toshihiko Kawano (LANL), Jan 13 (Fri), 13:30-

    "Photo-nuclear reactions below a mass of A = 60" by Atsushi Tamii (RCNP, Osaka Univ.), Jan 31(Tue), 17:00-
    Details.

    ● Ukakuren Seminar by Yasushi Nara (Akita International University) from 17:00 (JST) on Oct. 28, 2022. Details.

    ● UKAKUREN-RCNP Conference on AstroNuclear Physics (ANP2022) was held at Osaka Univ. (+online) for July 20-21.
    A school of photo-nuclear reaction was also held on the previous day (July 19).
    Details (mostly in Japanese).

    ● Ukakuren Seminar by Wako Aoki (NAOJ) from 17:00 (JST) on Jul. 6, 2022. Details.

    ● Ukakuren Seminar by Hajime Sotani (RIKEN) from 16:00 (JST) on Apr. 22, 2022. Details.

    ● Informal meeting of JaFNA was held on Mar 14, during the JPS spring meeting.

    ● The 2022 JINA-CEE Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics Conference will be hosted by the University of Notre Dame on May 25-27 in South Bend, Indiana. A two-day Junior Workshop dedicated to the training and professional development of students and postdocs will precede the meeting (May 23-24).
    This year, the Frontiers Conference will also be the stage for the first in-person IReNA collaboration meeting, which will feature an IReNA Day on May 25. The IReNA Day will include invited talks and discussion sessions for all Focus Areas.
    More information is available here.

    ● ChETEC(Europian community on "Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos") has published 2022 calender of "Women who Made Nuclear Astrophysics", introducing 12 women researchers who made key contributions to the field of nuclear and astrophysics. See ChETEC Web page for details.
    JaFNA (Ukakuren) agreed on the idea of the project, and contributed to it by translating the text into Japanese.
    On Jan. 27, We made a press release (in Japanese) on "Publication of 2022 calender of 'Women who Made Nuclear Astrophysics'".

    If you want to have the calender, "Women who Made Nuclear Astrophysics":

    -Our Japanese translated version (in pdf) is here for free download.
    -You can find multilingual (in 18 languages) calenders here.
    -If you want a printed, Japanese version of the calender, please fill in this form (in Japanese) and we will send it to you.

    ★ Ukakuren Seminar "Muliti-messenger astronomy in supernovae; achievements and remaining subjects in large-scale simulation" by Kazuya Takiwaki (NAOJ) from 13:30 (JST) on Jan. 28, 2022. Details.

    ● Ukakuren members are making online lectures, "Evolution of the Universe and the Birth of the Solar System", at Asahi Culture Center - Nakanoshima Class. The second series has started. 1st series(Oct 23-Dec 4)/ 2nd series(Jan 22-Mar 26)

    ● Ukakuren Seminar "KISS to KISS-II ― An expedition to the origin of uranium " by Michiharu Wada (KEK WNSC director) from 19:00 (JST) on Nov. 19, 2021. Details.

    ● Dr. Kanji Mori from Fukuoka University will give a talk in IReNA/JINA-CEE Online Seminar from 22:00 (JST), on Oct. 15th, 2021. Anyone can join freely. For more detail

    ● Informal meeting of JaFNA was held on Sep 14, during the JPS fall meeting.

    ● The JaFNA web page has been renewed. For now, only some pages are translated to English. Please tell the administrator (Yamaguchi) for any problems.

    ● Prof. Takahiro Kawabata was elected as the new Representative of JaFNA on Mar. 22, 2021.

    ● On Mar. 12, 2021, the regular informal meeting of JaFNA was held, during the annual meeting of the Physical Society of Japan.

    ● On Sep. 14, 2020, the regular informal meeting of JaFNA was held, during the annual meeting of the Physical Society of Japan.

    ● A workshop was held at NAOJ (Mitaka) for Dec. 3-4 2019, as one of the first activities of IReNA. Hendrik Schatz (MSU), Tim Beers (ND) and other JINA-CEE members participated in this workshop.
    Main topics:
    ・Chemical evolution of heavy elements (theory & observation) ・Optical/infrared follow-up for GW events

    ● About international collaboration： The research network "IReNA (International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics )" , which was under the budget application to NSF by JINA-CEE and others, has been approved. This is a five-year project to promote international communication and collaboration. Organizations registered are: JINA-CEE、ChETEC、JaFNA(Ukakuren)、EMMI、CRC881、NuGRID.

    ● The 15th International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies (OMEG15) was held for Jul. 2-5, 2019, at Yukawa Inst. (Kyoto University).


    ● JaFNA committee meeting was held at JPS meeting (Kyushu Univ.) on Mar. 14, 2019.


    ● JaFNA workshop was held at Hokkaido Univ. for Mar. 6-8, 2019.
    　web page


    ●The new logotype of JaFNA was approved on Jan. 17, 2019.


    ● JaFNA committee meeting was held at JPS-APS meeting (Hawaii) on Oct. 24, 2018.

    ● JaFNA committee meeting was held at JPS meeting (Tokyo Sci. Univ.) on Mar. 22, 2018.