International Workshop "Shapes and Dynamics of Atomic Nuclei: Contemporary Aspects" (SDANCA-26), 10-12 September 2026, Sofia, Bulgaria
Programme
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Wednesday, 9-th of September
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Registration (Park-Hotel Moskva - Lobby) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception (Restaurant Panorama of Park-Hotel Moskva) |
Thursday, 10-th of September
| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Restaurant Winter Garden in Park-Hotel Moskva) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Registration (Park-Hotel Moskva - Lobby) |
Morning sessions
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Opening (N. Minkov) |
| Session T1 | Chair: Peter Thirolf |
| 09:35 - 09:55 | Pengwei Zhao: "Nuclear Structure and Dynamics in Relativistic Density Functional Theory" |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Ludovic Bonneau: "Octupole deformation in multiquasiparticle states within a microscopic approach" |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Petrica Buganu: "Bohr-Mottelson Hamiltonian with octic potential and the shape coexistence phenomenon" |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee |
| Session T2 | Chair: Ludovic Bonneau |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Kosuke Nomura: "Shape coexistence and neutrinoless double-beta decay" |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | Irene Dedes: "Tetrahedral and Octahedral Shape Coexistence in 152Sm" |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Yiping Wang: "Configuration-interaction time-dependent density functional theory for nuclear dynamics" |
| 12:35 - 12:55 | Arunita Mukherjee: "High-spin structure and shape evolution in neutron-rich Re isotope" |
| 13:00 | Lunch (Restaurant Panorama of Park-Hotel Moskva) |
Afternoon sessions
| Session T3 | Chair: Pengwei Zhao |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Nikolai Antonenko: "Generation of angular momentum in fission fragments" |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | Gurgen Adamian: "Role of alpha-clustering in nuclear fission" |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Xiao-Tao He: "Nuclear structure of superheavy nuclei" |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | Timur Shneidman: "Description of the correlations between fission observables in spontaneous fission of 252Cf" |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Coffee |
| Session T4 | Chair: Nikolai Antonenko |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Azam Rahmati Nejad: "A question of shape: a new mechanism governing the survival of superheavy nuclei" |
| 17:35 - 17:55 | Dennis Bonatsos: "Proxy-SU(3) symmetry in superheavy nuclei" |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | Andriana Martinou: "Transformation of the Nilsson orbitals to the proxy-SU(3) irreps" |
| 18:25 - 18:55 | Common Discussion |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner (Restaurant Panorama of Park-Hotel Moskva) |
Friday, 11-th of September
| 07:00 - 08:55 | Breakfast (Restaurant Winter Garden in Park-Hotel Moskva) |
Morning sessions
| Session F1 | Chair: Petrica Buganu |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Peter Thirolf: "Dawn of the 229mTh nuclear clock: Achievements and Perspectives" |
| 09:25 - 09:45 | Victor Flambaum: "Effects of new physics in nuclei and atoms" |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Nikolay Minkov: "The 229mTh isomer as a probe for fundamental properties of matter" |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Tobias Kirschbaum: "Laser driven excitation schemes for the 229Th isomer" |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee |
| Session F2 | Chair: Xiao-Tao He |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Philip Walker: "Progress with understanding K-isomer decay rates" |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | Filip Kondev: "Beta-decay Transition Probabilities of Deformed Nuclei in the A=100 and 160 Mass Regions" |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Theo Mertzimekis: "Revisiting lifetimes in the gh shell using the activation method and a contemporary analysis framework" |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Stefan Lalkovski: "Onset of the j-1 anomaly in 103Ag" |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Conference Photo in front of the hotel |
| 13:00 | Lunch (Restaurant Panorama of Park-Hotel Moskva) |
Afternoon sessions
| Session F3 | Chair: Kosuke Nomura |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Yu Zhang: "A Boson model's view on B(E2) Anomaly in Collective Nuclei" |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | Sorin Pascu: "New evidence on the B4/2 anomaly in Te isotopes through precise lifetime measurements in the ps range" |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Huben Ganev: "Symplectic particle-core model description of the low-lying rotational bands in 167Er" |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | Pavlos Koseoglou: "178Yb near the rigid-rotor limit" |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Coffee |
| Session F4 | Chair: Theo Mertzimekis |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Gabriela Thiamova: "Triaxiality in Mo and Ru isotopes" |
| 17:35 - 17:55 | Polytimos Vasileiou: "Exploring features of triaxiality in quadrupole collective bands of even-even Er and Yb" |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | Common Discussion |
| 18:20 - 18:30 | Posters presentations (3min/poster) |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Poster session (Lobby in front of the Conference hall) |
| Diyana Hristova: "Lifetime measurements of low-lying excited states in 211Bi" | |
| Georgi Stoev: "Lifetime measurements in 107Ag" | |
| Viktor Terziev: "Coulomb excitation of 210Pb" |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Official dinner at Restaurant Panorama of Park-Hotel Moskva |
Saturday, 12-th of September
| 07:00 - 08:55 | Breakfast (Restaurant Winter Garden in Park-Hotel Moskva) |
Morning sessions
| Session S1 | Chair: Dennis Bonatsos |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | V. K. B. Kota: "Irreducible representations of SU(3) for nucleons in oscillator shells up to eta=8 and their application to nuclei with proxy-SU(3) symmetry" |
| 09:25 - 09:45 | Dimana Grigorova: "Vector Boson Model with symmetry-dependent effective charges" |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Kalin Drumev: "On the Algebraic Realization of Collective Dynamics in Nuclei" |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Ivan Anastasov: "Does the Seniority Scheme Hold in the N=126 Isotone 214Ra?" |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee |
| Session S2 | Chair: Filip Kondev |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Deyan Yordanov: "Polynomial trends in nuclear electromagnetism" |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | Liss Vazquez Rodriguez: "Recent results on laser spectroscopy at COLLAPS with the ROC and LIAF setups" |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Hanxu Zhang: "Influence of Electrons on Atomic Nuclear Transitions" |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Momchil Naydenov: "Axion contribution to the mass profiles of neutron stars" |
| 13:00 | Lunch (Restaurant Panorama of Park-Hotel Moskva) |
Afternoon session
| Session S3 | Chair: Yu Zhang |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Polychronis Koliogiannis: "From Nuclear Mass Models to the Neutron-Star Outer Crust: New Equations of State and Crustal Composition" |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | Ioannis Mavroudis: "Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking and Structural Evolution of Nuclei in Superstrong Magnetic Fields: A Covariant Density Functional Study" |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Michael Vikiaris: "The Neutron Decay Puzzle in Nuclear Physics and its Implications for Neutron Star Properties" |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | Concluding discussion |
| 16:35 - 16:45 | Closing: N. Minkov |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner (Restaurant Panorama of Park-Hotel Moskva) |
Sunday, 13-th of September
| 07:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast (Restaurant Winter Garden) |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Departure |