5th Santa Cruz School on Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

Start: Jul 10, 2026 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Jul 19, 2026 05:00 PM
Location: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Host: NSF Physics Frontier Center N3AS

The 5th Santa Cruz School on Multi-Messenger Astrophysics is a ten-day summer school intended for advanced graduate students and beginning postdoctoral researchers interested in nuclear and particle astrophysics — theory, experiment, or observation. Local costs of participants are covered; bus transportation to and from SFO airport is provided.

The school covers a broad range of topics in multi-messenger astrophysics, including: the standard cosmological model, neutron star mergers and kilonovae, the early Universe, astrophysical explosions and nucleosynthesis, the Rubin Observatory, the cosmic microwave background, neutron stars and dense matter, early stars and galaxies from JWST, axion searches, dark matter candidates, nanohertz gravitational waves, and gravitational wave interferometers. Confirmed lecturers include Josh Frieman (SLAC/KIPAC), Francois Foucart (University of New Hampshire), George Fuller (UC San Diego), Erika Holmbeck (LLNL), Tesla Jeltema (UC Santa Cruz), Joel Meyers (SMU), Jorge Piekarewicz (Florida State University), Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Chiara Salemi (UC Berkeley), Tim Tait (UC Irvine), Steve Taylor (Vanderbilt University), and Victoria Xu (UC Berkeley). The school is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through the Physics Frontier Center N3AS.