17th Varenna Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms (NRM2026)

17th Varenna Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms (NRM2026)

The 17th Varenna Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms (NRM2026) will take place in the usual Villa Monastero venue (Varenna, Italy) on June 14-19, 2026.

The 17th edition of NRM is dedicated to honouring Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson, an eminent physicist and a leading force behind the Varenna Conference series across the decades.

Supporting Institutions

Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland
DRF, IRFU, CEA, Saclay, France
International Center Piero Caldirola ETS, Italy
European Gravitational Observatory, Italy

Topics

• NUCLEON AND NUCLEUS RESPONSE TO HADRONIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBES
• EXOTIC NUCLEI, RADIOACTIVE BEAMS AND GAMMA TRACKING DETECTORS
• HYPERNUCLEI
• FISSION
• NUCLEAR DATA
• LIGHT AND HEAVY ION REACTIONS AT LOW, INTERMEDIATE AND RELATIVISTIC ENERGIES (MEASUREMENTS AND MODEL DEVELOPMENTS)
• NUCLEAR REACTIONS AS PROBES FOR WEAK PROCESSES
• NUCLEAR INTERACTION MODELS IN GENERAL PURPOSE TRANSPORT CODES
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPROACHES TO NUCLEAR REACTIONS
• NUCLEAR RESEARCH FACILITIES
• NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS
• MEDICAL RADIOISOTOPE PRODUCTION
• HADRONTHERAPY
• OTHER APPLICATIONS: NUCLEAR ENERGY, SPACE RADIATION PROTECTION, RADIATION BIOLOGY …

Organizing Committee

F. Cerutti (chairman)                             CERN
T. Kawano (chairman)                           LANL
S. Marin                                                      CERN
D. Pifferetti (local organization)           Milano
F. Salvat Pujol (scientific secretary)   CERN
B. Sulignano                                             Paris-Saclay
P. Talou (scientific secretary)              LANL
A. Tsinganis                                             Geel

International Advisory Committee

Y. Alhassid           Yale
A. Bonaccorso     Pisa
B.A. Brown            MSU
Z. Buthelezi           iThemba Labs
F. Camera             Milano
L. Canton               Padova
F. Cappuzzello     LNS Catania
M. Chadwick        LANL
C. Duchemin        CERN
J. Escher                LLNL
F. Farget                GANIL
S. Förtsch              iThemba Labs
E. Gadioli               Milano
A. Guglielmetti    Milano
S. Hillaire               Bruyères-le-Châtel
H. Lenske               Giessen
S. Nishimura         RIKEN
F.M. Nunes             MSU
S. Pacetti                Perugia
A. Plompen            Geel
G. Potel                   Seville
L. Sihver                  Texas – RGV
G. Tagliente           Bari
E. Tomasi               Paris-Saclay
N. Tsoneva            ELI-NP

Registration

Fee Payment

Each participant, after the approval of own registration, has to proceed with the payment of the fee (500 EUR) by means of a bank transfer to be performed by March 31st. The registration fee covers admission to the Conference, coffee breaks, the Conference dinner, as well as the publication of the proceedings volume. 

After that date, a late registration fee of 600 EUR applies.
Students can benefit from fee halving (250/300 EUR).

The bank address is:
Banca Popolare di Sondrio
Via Strada Statale 85/A
23826 Mandello del Lario (LC), Italy

The bank coordinates are:
IBAN:     IT40B0569651490000041377X47
BIC/SWIFT:     POSOIT22
The bank account is at the name of International Center Piero Caldirola.

The transfer must indicate as motive ‘17th NRM‘ and the participant name. Additional costs applied by the sender bank are not meant to be subtracted from the fee amount, and should be paid in cash upon registration in Varenna.

The payment receipt will be issued only after the payment has been received. For further information or administrative clarification, please contact: secretariat@icpc.it

Conference Link