Name: MeV Gamma-ray Science Workshop 2026
Start: 2026-11-13T08:30:00+08:00
End: 2026-11-15T19:30:00+08:00
Location: Suzhou

MeV Gamma-ray Science Workshop 2026

from Friday, 13 November 2026 (08:30) to Sunday, 15 November 2026 (19:30)

Monday, 9 November 2026
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Thursday, 12 November 2026
Friday, 13 November 2026

14:00 Registration

14:00 - 18:30
Room: Hotel Lobby

18:30 Dinner

18:30 - 20:00
Room: 2nd floor
Saturday, 14 November 2026

08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)

09:00 Opening • Welcome address

09:00 - 09:15
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
09:15 Session 0: Introduction (Chair: Ping Zhou)
09:15 - 10:45
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
Contributions

09:15 MeV science and line spectroscopy; WP Introduction - Roland Diehl

09:45 Accretion astrophysics and MeV science - Felix Aharonian

10:15 MeV continuum emissions, positron astrophysics, and fundamental questions - Thomas Siegert
10:45 Group Photo & Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
11:15 Session 1: Stellar evolution, stellar explosions, and cosmic nucleosynthesis: Chair: Xilu Wang
Chair: Xilu Wang
11:15 - 12:00
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
Contributions

11:15 Distribution of the ISM and star formation in the solar neighborhood - Min Fang

11:30 From stellar physics uncertainties to MeV science requirements - Xiaoting Fu

11:45 Nucleosynthetic analysis of three-dimensional core collapse supernova simulations - Tianshu Wang
12:00 Lunch

12:00 - 14:00
Room: 2nd floor
14:00 Session 1: Stellar evolution, stellar explosions, and cosmic nucleosynthesis: Chair: Xiaoting Fu
Chair: Xiaoting Fu
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
Contributions

14:00 MeV emissions from rare explosions - Xilu Wang

14:15 ⁴⁴Ti in Supernova Remnants: Current Constraints on Supernova Explosions and Future Prospects - Ping Zhou
14:30 Progress of the white paper in “Stellar evolution, stellar explosions, and cosmic nucleosynthesis” & Discussions: key science topics for session 1

14:30 - 15:15
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)

15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 15:45
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
15:45 Session 2: Cosmic rays and the interstellar medium: Chair: Ruizhi Yang
Chair: Ruizhi Yang
15:45 - 17:00
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
Contributions

15:45 Astrochemical imprint of MeV cosmic-rays - Thomas Bisbas

16:00 Cosmic-ray induced solar gamma rays in the MeV band - Kenny Chun Yu Ng

16:15 On the MeV Nuclear De-excitation Line Emission from the Vela Supernova Remnant Region - 蕴之沈 (南京大学)

16:30 Precise measurement of pion-bump structure using future MeV gamma-ray detectors - Jiahao Liu

16:45 Hard photon contribution to the MeV gamma-rays - Feng Cong
17:00 Progress of the white paper in “Cosmic rays and the interstellar medium” & Discussions: key science topics for session 2

17:00 - 17:45
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)

18:05 Banquet

18:05 - 20:05
Room: Dongzhu Room, 东渚厅, 3rd floor
Sunday, 15 November 2026
09:00 Session 3: Compact objects: Chair: Yang Chen
Chair: Yang Chen
09:00 - 10:15
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
Contributions

09:00 MeV emission from X-ray binaries - Long Ji

09:15 MeV studies of pulsar wind nebulae - Stephen C.-Y. Ng

09:30 MeV gamma-ray Emission in AGN - Jin Zhang Yu-Fei Huang

09:45 Study and Prospect of MeV Emission from TDEs - Chichuan Jin

10:00 MeV spectral line in Gamma-ray Bursts - Zhenghang Yu
10:15 Progresses of “Compact Objects” for MeV Science & Discussions: key science topics for session 3

10:15 - 11:00
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
11:30 Session 4: Fundamental physics: Chair: Qiang Yuan
Chair: Qiang Yuan
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
Contributions

11:30 Light thermal dark maaer in minimal models - Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

11:45 Hawking radiation from primordial black holes: prospects in the MeV band - Bin Zhu

12:00 Light new physics search in the gamma ray sky - Chen Sun

12:15 Development of A Novel Compton Camera for MeV Gamma Ray Measurement - Mengjiao Xiao
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 13:30
Room: 2nd floor

13:30 Progress of the white paper in “Fundamental physics” & Discussions: key science topics for session 4

13:30 - 14:15
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
14:15 Session 5: MeV instruments
14:15 - 14:45
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
Contributions

14:15 MeV gamma-ray telescopes and introduction to COSI - Thomas Siegert
14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 - 14:55
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
14:55 Session 5: MeV instruments
14:55 - 16:10
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)
Contributions

14:55 MeVGRO introduction - Tiangang Zhang

15:10 Progress on in-orbit background evolution modeling for the MASS-Cube Compton telescope - Jiahuan Zhu

15:25 PAIRS: a Positron Annihilation Imaging high-Resolution Spectrometer for the Galactic Center 511 keV Line - Daikang Yan

15:40 MeGat introduction - Ruizhi Yang

15:55 Very Large Area gamma-ray Space Telescope - Chuan Yue
16:10 Workshop Summary: unique & key science objectives and needs for MeV missions

16:10 - 16:20
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)

16:20 Open Discussion

16:20 - 18:00
Room: Room A104, Kechuang Building (科创大厦A104)

18:00 Dinner

18:00 - 19:30
Room: 2nd floor