Speaker
Summary
With the current worldwide development of rare isotope accelerators such as the Korea Rare Isoptope Accelerator (KoRIA) and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), it is timely to review the forefront of the nuclear physics theories that can analyze the data from these accelerators and provide the deeper understanding on the physics of nuclei and the nuclear astrophysics. In this presentation, we discuss the frontiers of current nuclear physics theories that can address the fundamental issues in the physics of nuclei and the nuclear astrophysics such as the nature of the nuclear force, the origin of simple patterns in complex nuclei, the nature of dense nuclear matter (e.g. neutron stars), the mechanism of the nucleosynthesis (e.g. nuclear reactions that drive stars and stellar explosions), as well as the origin of the elements in the cosmos, and thereby the origin of the universe and the composition of matters in the universe. Relevance of these theories to the physics with rare isotope accelerators, in particular KoRIA, will also be discussed.