The Department of Theoretical Physics at UMCS in Lublin conducts a series of seminars devoted to the theory of atomic nuclei, solid state theory, astrophysics and other fields of theoretical physics. The seminars are held on Tuesdays at 10:15 in the Department of Theoretical Physics seminar room and are broadcast online on the MS Teams platform.

The next two seminars will be devoted to nuclear physics:

19.11.2024 Dr Yannen Jaganathen (NCBJ Warsaw) Demystifying the fusion mechanism in heavy ion collisions within full Langevin dissipative dynamics

26.11.2024 Prof. Krzysztof Pomorski (KFT, UMCS) On spontaneous and fusion-induced fission of Cf isotopes and iso-scalar liquid drop model

A full list of speakers and a link to the online broadcast in MS Teams are available on our website:

https://kft.umcs.lublin.pl/?page_id=3019

We encourage you to participate in all seminars and share this information with your colleagues.

Prof. Henryk Witała from Jagiellonian University was awarded the prestigious Faddeev Medal. On 23 September 2024 Prof. Witała received his medal and gave a lecture during a special session of 23rd International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics in Beijing. Professor Henryk Witała was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Faddeev medal for his life-time achievements in few-nucleon physics, especially for solving the continuum Faddeev equations with realistic nuclear forces and comprehensive studies of three-nucleon dynamics. He also co-authored key papers on chiral forces, which are fundamental to modern nuclear physics. His research not only contributed to the understanding of complex processes in atomic nuclei, but has also provided new theoretical tools that are now being used by scientists around the world.

 The Faddeev Medal was inaugurated in 2016 by the Topical Group on Few-Body Systems & Multiparticle Dynamics of the American Physical Society and the European Research Committee on Few-Body Problems in Physics to recognize distinguished achievement in Few-Body Physics. The medal, named in honor of distinguished theoretical physicist Ludwig Faddeev, is awarded every three years to a scientist or scientists who advanced the field of Few-Body Physics significantly, either through ground-breaking research or due to crucial progress achieved over the course of a career.

More information on the web page: https://engage.aps.org/gfb/honors/prizes-awards/faddeev-medal

With deep regret we inform that on June 13, 2024, Professor Reinhard Kulessa, an outstanding specialist in nuclear physics, Director of the Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University in 1988-1990 and President of the Management Board of the Polish Physical Society (2006-2009), died. Together with the late Professor Zbigniew Majka were the animators of Poland’s participation in XFEL and FAIR.

He was an outstanding scientist and teacher – Polish nuclear physics suffered a huge loss.