Fast timing for nuclear structure and applications - FAST'26

Following the successful 2025 edition in Madrid, the FAST'26 workshop is aimed at sharing the latest developments in instrumentation and methods for fast timing measurements, their use in fundamental physics research and their application to other fields such as medical imaging.

The meeting will be held at the Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Magurele-Bucharest, Romania from 27^th to 29^th April 2026.

The scientific programme includes:

• New detector technologies, including scintillators and photosensors
• Fast front-end and readout electronics
• Time pick-up methods, optimization, and AI processing
• Large scintillator and hybrid arrays for fast-timing measurements
• Nuclear structure from fast-timing measurements: decay and reactions
• Other methods for the measurement of nuclear state lifetimes (RDDS, DSAM, etc.)
• Fast scintillators for time-of-flight PET and other imaging modalities
• Fast response and high count rate detectors for technology and applications

The FAST'26 workshop will be followed by the ISOLDE Decay Station (IDS) collaboration meeting, at the same venue in the afternoon of April 29^th 2026.