Michael Ramsey-Musolf

I established the ACFI upon my arrival at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2013. Its mission is to provide a scientific meeting ground for physicists working at the different intensity, high energy, and cosmological frontiers to exchange ideas and develop new, often cross-frontier research directions. It also provides a focal point for the nuclear physics fundamental symmetries and neutrinos (FSN) community. In contrast to many other experimental efforts in fundamental interaction physics, such as the high energy physics program based at Fermilab and the hadronic and nuclear structure program at Jefferson Laboratory, the experimental FSN program is distributed across a wide range of laboratories and university facilities, with no single institution providing a natural “home” for the entire program. The ACFI seeks to provide this home.

Serving as founding ACFI Director, I have overseen a program of nearly 30 topical, targeted workshops and topical schools involving well over 500 researchers from around the world. ACFI also continues to provide opportunities for early career researchers to develop their research directions through extended visits to the ACFI. U. Mass Amherst Professor Andrea Pocar serves as the Associate Director. Seed funding from U. Mass, along with grant funding from the Nuclear Physics Office of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation, has provided financial support to build and sustain the ACFI program.

A detailed view of upcoming and past ACFI workshops can be found here.