The 8th International Conference on Collective Motion in Nuclei under Extreme Conditions (COMEX8) will be held at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida (USA). The conference is hosted by the Department of Physics at Florida State University.
The Conference will be held in person from December 15 to December 19, 2025 at FSU's Turnbull Conference Center. In the tradition of previous COMEX conferences, we will accept contributed talks and poster contributions in addition to a number of invited talks.
Conference fee and hotel reservations
We anticipate to open registration for this event in August 2025. Abstract submission will open in May 2025. The conference fee will be USD 500. The conference fee does not include lodging.
Participants will need to make their own reservations. Discounted rates with hotels close to the conference venue (walking distance) have been negotiated. More information, including travel information can be found under "travel, accommodation, and visa information".
Conference dinner and excursion
The conference dinner will be held at the Lodge at Wakulla Springs. Prior to the dinner, conference attendees will have the chance to explore the Wakulla Springs State Park and to enjoy a boat tour along the Wakulla River. The following text is from the Wakulla Spring State Park website:"The river boat tour along the Wakulla River is one of the most popular visitor destinations in the Tallahassee area. The 45- to 55-minute world-class wildlife viewing event takes visitors on a 2-mile loop downstream and back among majestic bald cypress trees, elegant wading birds and toothy alligators. Manatees are often sighted, but their presence is not dependable." In December, you can expect to be able to see the manatees.
Previous editions and scope of conference
The COMEX conferences are a continuation of a long series of topical conferences on giant resonances started in 1979. The scope of COMEX8 will be similar to that of previous editions:
- COMEX1, held in Paris (France) in 2003
- COMEX2, held in Sankt Goar (Germany) in 2006
- COMEX3, held in Michigan (US) in 2009
- COMEX4, held in Kanagawa (Japan) in 2012
- COMEX5, held in Krakow (Poland) in 2015
- COMEX6, held in Cape Town (South Africa) in 2018
- COMEX7, held in Catania (Italy) in 2023
The main topics of the COMEX8 conference are:
- Giant resonances in cold and hot nuclei
- Collective and new excitation modes in nuclei
- Spin and isospin modes
- Clustering and pairing effects in excitations
- Studies of the decay of highly excited states
- Collective excitations and the nuclear equation of state
- Applications in astrophysics
- Novel instrumentation and methods
The local organizing committee
(Kevin Fossez (co-chair), Jorge Piekarewicz, Mark-Christoph Spieker (chair), Vandana Tripathi, and Alexander Volya.)
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 The COMEX 8 conference website is supported by FRIB, MSU. |
