Convenient scheduling and a generous host meant that I was lucky enough to attend the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics workshop on Nucleosynthesis and Evolution of Neutron Stars at Kyoto University, end of this month. The workshop featured observers, astro and nuclear theorists, and nuclear experimentalists, and was supported in part by IReNA. Was great to catch up with some colleagues' work on thermonuclear bursts, including with the remarkable NinjaSat satellite. Also lots of presentations and posters about identifying and investigating key nuclear reactions for thermonuclear bursts. I gave a talk covering X-ray binaries and focussing on new views of thermonuclear bursts, including some recent work with matching observations and numerical models.

I am extremely grateful to the organisers and also the Foundation for Promotion of Astronomy who supported my travel and local costs.

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