The 25th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (EFB25)
Sonia Bacca, H.‐W. Hammer · Few-Body Systems · 2024
The European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics is one of three major conference series in the field of few-body physics.Held every three years in a European country, it gathers international physicists from Europe and the rest of the world.The 25th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (EFB25) was held in Mainz, Germany, from July 30th through August 4th, 2023.Previous conferences of this series took place in Guildford (2019), Aarhus (2016), Krakow (2013), Salamanca (2010), and Pisa ( 2007).The purpose of the conference is to bring together scientists working on few-body problems in physics, as well as to engage young students and postdocs to nurture the future leadership of the field.As a matter of fact, this is one of the most important meetings of the few-body community, where the latest results in the field are discussed.The conference had an interdisciplinary nature, focusing on problems with only a few degrees of freedom in different areas of physics.Such problems can often be solved exactly and thus play a special role in the investigation of fundamental physics questions.Recent developments in the field of few-body systems in the following areas were discussed: hadron physics, nuclei and hyper-nuclei, electroweak processes, nuclear astrophysics, cold atoms and quantum gases, atoms and molecules, few-body methods, and few-body aspects of many-body systems.EFB25 was attended by 158 physicists (see group photo in Fig. 1), 35 of which (22%) were female, 30 of which (19%) were junior researchers without a doctoral degree, and many of which were early-career postdoctoral researchers.This underscores the diversity and vibrance of the field.The conference featured 27 plenary talks, with 8 of them (30%) delivered by female researchers, and 18 lead invited talks in the parallel sessions, 5 of which (28%) were delivered by female speakers.