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Description
Nuclear processes are the driving force for the origin of the elements in the Universe and for the dynamics of the astrophysical objects which made them continuously until now. Tremendous progress in experimental and theoretical nuclear physics, paired with advances in astronomical observation and astrophysical modelling, has laid out the basic ideas how the elements have been and are being made. Despite this progress, some fundamental questions are still open. Here answers are hoped for from new experimental facilities getting operational around the world, but also from new observational tools.
The talk summarizes our current understanding and the perspectives of the origin of the elements from Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the emerging field of First Stars to solar and stellar nucleosynthesis and finally to explosive events like supernovae and neutron star mergers.
