We are pleased to announce the FRIB Theory Alliance summer school “Emergence of Collective Motion in Atomic Nuclei ” to be hosted at Michigan State University on August 19-22, 2025.

The summer school targets graduate students and postdocs within a few years of their Ph.D. Applications are now open, and more information is available at https://indico.frib.msu.edu/event/84/.

The application deadline is July 7.

In this summer school, we will discuss our current understanding of nuclear collective motion with emphasis on new developments relevant to the FRIB scientific program.

Lectures will include the theoretical frameworks applied to current examples and discuss possible new and exotic phenomena that can be studied at FRIB, such as the effects of weak binding and continuum coupling. Also planned are several hands-on activities to familiarize participants with some of the codes currently in use by the practitioners.

For selected participants we hope to provide partial support which may include lodging and meals. After registration closes, you will be contacted about the support we can provide.

Please forward this announcement to students and postdocs who might be interested in joining the summer school.

The school is made possible thanks to the support by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under the FRIB Theory Alliance award DE-SC0013617.

Contact persons: Mitch Allmond (allmondjm@ornl.gov) and Augusto Macchiavelli (macchiavelao@ornl.gov)

Previous Summer Schools

Put the reaction into action: A Nuclear physics boot camp on reaction methods, Augst 12-14, 2024

For full details visit https://indico.frib.msu.edu/event/75/

Practical Uncertainty Quantification and Emulator Development in Nuclear Physics , June 26-28, 2023

For full details visit https://indico.frib.msu.edu/event/65/

FRIB-TA Summer School: Quantum Computing and Nuclear Few- and Many-Body Problems, June 20-22, 2022

For more information, see https://indico.frib.msu.edu/event/54/ and https://github.com/NuclearPhysicsWorkshops/FRIB-TASummerSchoolQuantumComputing

The FRIB-TA Summer School: A Practical Walk Through Formal Scattering Theory: Connecting Bound States, Resonances, and Scattering States in Exotic Nuclei and Beyond was held online from August 4 to 6, 2021.

All materials for the FRIB-TA summer school on formal scattering is now online!

Use link https://fribtascattering.github.io/

FRIB-TA Summer School: A practical walk through formal scattering theory: Connecting bound states, resonances, and scattering states in exotic nuclei and beyond, August 4 - 6, 2021 (virtual)

Scattering theory is a framework connecting seemingly different phenomena of the quantum world such as stable bound states, resonances, elastic scattering, and reactions. It has applications in many areas of physics, ranging from hadrons and nuclear physics to the description of ultracold atomic systems. In particular, scattering theory provides the foundation for few- and many-body approaches that solve quantum problems from first principles, and it is an essential ingredient for the description of low-energy nuclear reactions that will be studied at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).

This summer school will offer an introduction to nonrelativistic quantum scattering theory, discussing its fundamental assumptions and techniques guided by concrete applications. Formal aspects, centered around the important concept of the S-matrix, will be covered in detail, complemented at each step by numerical illustrations and hands-on programming exercises.

At the end of this three-day course, participants will have a firm understanding of the basic concepts of scattering theory, how they relate to a variety of few-and many-body quantum systems, and how they can be implemented numerically for simple examples.

Organizers and Lecturers:
* Kevin Fossez (ANL)
* Sebastian Koenig (NCSU)
* Heiko Hergert (MSU)

FRIB Theory Alliance Summer School: Dense matter in Astrophysics, June 30 – July 2, 2020

The FRIB-TA Summer School: Dense matter in Astrophysics took place in an on-line format due to travel restrictions surrounding Covid-19. The school focuses on dense matter in astrophysics, such as the matter in the interior of neutron stars and the one created in supernova explosions and neutron star mergers, along with comparisons with the matter created in laboratories. There were lectures from the following experts, together with interactive activities:
* Veronica Dexheimer (Kent State University): introduction to modeling the core of neutron stars
* Luke Roberts (Michigan State University): the physics of supernova explosions and neutron star mergers
* Pawel Danielewicz (Michigan State University): laboratory constraints for the equation of state of neutron stars
* Rodrigo Negreiros (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil): general relativity (including the formalism to describe stellar rotation and magnetic fields) and stellar cooling
* Thomas Klähn (California State University Long Beach): deconfined quarks and phase transitions in the core of neutron stars

FRIB Theory Alliance Summer School: Machine Learning Applied to Nuclear Physics

The school, held from 20-23 May, was titled "Machine learning applied to nuclear physics." It brought together graduate students, postdoctoral researches, and senior scientific experts. They work in nuclear physics, mathematics, computer science, and related areas. They came together to discuss an important emerging science, how it applies to nuclear science, and reviewed publications on machine learning.
Hosted by scientists from universities and national laboratories, the summer school had nearly one hundred attendees. Students came from all over the United States, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway.
For additional information about the program visit the "Machine learning applied to nuclear physics" program website.

FRIB Theory Alliance Summer School: Neutron star mergers for non-experts: GW170817 in the multi-messenger astronomy and FRIB eras

The FRIB Theory Alliance hosted a summer school at FRIB entitled "Neutron star mergers for non-experts: GW170817 in the multi-messenger astronomy and FRIB eras" from May 16 to May 18, 2018. It brought together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and senior scientific experts working in nuclear physics, astrophysics, astronomy and related areas to discuss the impact of the GW170817 neutron star merger on nuclear science and nuclear astrophysics. An MSU Today article gives details of the school, which was also livestreamed to remote participants.