Speaker
Description
The focus of our program – and hence this contribution – is to recast lessons learned over the last half of the 20th Century regarding the structure of atomic nuclei (primarily a particle-based picture) into a forward leaning 21st Century (field-theory-based framework) in anticipation that this will encourage the establishment of a natural bridge between the low-energy and medium-to-high energy nuclear physics communities. This has been and continues to be enabled by two major developments, the first technical (high-end computational facilities of the 90s) and the other analytical (underpinned by the so-called no-core ab initio – from first principles – shell-model theories). Early successes of the latter rest upon a realization that special symmetries and the associated algebraic methods that this enables are far better than previously anticipated. Consequently, this presentation includes a shallow dive into some key group theoretical concepts, and also shows some published results that exposes "simplicity within complexity" in atomic nuclei that has, until now, been under appreciated!
