This mini school is designed to foster new collaborations between the TAMU nuclear experimental program and researchers in theoretical nuclear astrophysics, including Dr. Bradley Meyer and Dr. Mengke Li. It will provide practical training, promote cross-disciplinary exchange, and strengthen the connection between TAMU’s experimental efforts and state-of-the-art theoretical and computational research in nuclear astrophysics. 

The school will be hosted at the Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute Feb 16th-20th 2026.

To preview some of the content, you can access with this link: https://osf.io/7eztb/wiki?wiki=gm2rd

Through this mini school, participants will:

1. Gain a conceptual understanding of how nuclear reaction networks behave and evolve.

2. Learn to run reaction-network calculations and interpret their outputs.

3. Explore how to update nuclear data inputs and evaluate the impact of new measurements on nucleosynthesis predictions.

4. Discover how machine-learning methods can improve theoretical model predictions, and how experimental data can refine these models.

Any questions should be directed to Phil Adsley padsley@tamu.edu

The Mini-School is free but space is limited. Registration is useful for working out space, groups and lunches. Please register with this link even if you're a local student so we can get an idea of numbers. Visitors from outside TAMU who want to attend the school will likely have to fill in some university paperwork if they want to use any local computational resources. We will be in touch about that.