The 2024 NUCLEI Collaboration Meeting was held May 29-31 at LBNL.
Go here for information on the meeting.
Contact Stefan Wild (wild@lbl.gov) if you have questions.
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NUCLEI researcher wins DNP thesis award
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Recent Washington University in St. Louis graduate Garrett King (now a postdoc at LANL) was selected to receive the
American Physical Society's 2025 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics.
The citation reads: "For significant implementation and extensive application of Quantum Monte Carlo many-body methods to the study of electroweak structure and reactions in light nuclei across a wide range of experimentally relevant kinematics."
Congratulations, Garrett!
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NUCLEI Researcher named as APS Fellow
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Stefano Gandolfi of Los Alamos National Laboratory has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society through the Division of Nuclear Physics.
He was recognized "for developing advanced Quantum Monte Carlo methods in nuclear physics, enabling a simultaneous understanding of nuclei and dense neutron star matter that has strengthened connections across nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics."
Congratulations, Stefano!
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NUCLEI Researcher recognized for contributions to nuclear theory
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Dick Furnstahl of THE Ohio State University has been awarded the 2025 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society. The citation reads "For foundational contributions to calculations of nuclei, including applying the Similarity Renormalization Group to the nuclear force, grounding nuclear density functional theory in those forces, and using Bayesian methods to quantify the uncertainties in effective field theory predictions of nuclear observables."
Congratulations, Dick!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted in PRC as Editors' Suggestion
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The Physical Review C paper:
"Ab initio computations of strongly deformed nuclei near 80Zr"
by NUCLEI researchers Baishan Hu, Zhonghao Sun, Gaute Hagen, and Thomas Papenbrock
was selected as an Editors' Suggestion.
Congratulations to the authors!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted in PRB as Editors' Suggestion
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The Physical Review B paper:
"Message-passing neural quantum states for the homogeneous electron gas"
by NUCLEI researcher Alessandro Lovato and colleagues
was selected as an Editors' Suggestion.
Congratulations to the authors!
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NUCLEI member named Distinguished Professor at ISU
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James Vary has been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University.
This is the highest academic honor at ISU and the first time a Nuclear Physicist has received this recognition. Congratulations, James!
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NUCLEI member named SIAM Fellow
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Chao Yang has been named a 2024 SIAM fellow for contributions to developing novel algorithms and software for eigenvalue problems, as well as applying algorithms and software to solve challenging scientific problems. Congratulations, Chao!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted in PRC as Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review C paper:
"Effects of quasiparticle-vibration coupling on Gamow-Teller strength and β
decay with the Skyrme proton-neutron finite-amplitude method"
by Qunqun Liu, Jonathan Engel, and colleagues
was selected as an Editor's Suggestion.
Congratulations to the authors!
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NUCLEI member elected to be SIAM President
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NUCLEI member Carol Woodward has been elected President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Carol will serve as President-Elect in 2024 before a two-year term as president in 2025-2026.
Congratulations, Carol!
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NUCLEI Researcher recognized for contributions to optimization
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Stefan Wild of LBNL and Northwestern University has been awarded the 2023 Egon Balas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society.
The prize was established in 2020 and is awarded annually to recognize the winner’s innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization.
Congratulations, Stefan!
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Article by NUCLEI researchers and collaborators highlighted on Science website
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Results from the Physical Review Letters paper "Strong evidence for 9N and the limits of existence of atomic nuclei" by Witek Nazarewicz, Josh Wylie, and collaborators were highlighted as a news item entitled "Fleeting form of nitrogen stretches nuclear theory to its limits" on the Science magazine website.
Congratulations, Witek and Josh!
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NUCLEI Researchers interpret the observation of 28O
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NUCLEI researchers Gaute Hagen, Thomas Papenbrock, and Zhonghao Sun contributed to the interpretation of the experiment reporting the first observation of 28O. This work is published in Nature. Congratulations to these scientists!
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Young Researcher to join SciDAC team at ANL
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Dr. Anna McCoy, currently an FRIB Theory Fellow resident at
Washington University in St. Louis, will be joining the Physics Division Theory Group of Argonne
National Laboratory this fall as an Assistant Physicist. She will become an integral part of the
Argonne SciDAC team. Welcome, Anna!
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NUCLEI Researcher receives multiple recognitions for research
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Dr. Kyle Godbey, research assistant professor at FRIB has been selected for the 2023 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers in theory.
He has also been named as a recipient of an MSU Postdoctoral Excellence in Research Award (PERA).
PERAs recognize outstanding productivity and success in research while at MSU.
Congratulations, Kyle!
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Symposium honors NUCLEI Researcher
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A DOE symposium was held in April to celebrate long-time UNEDF and NUCLEI researcher Rusty Lusk's contributions to computer science, including his contributions to computational nuclear many-body physics.
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NUCLEI Researcher named to FRIB position
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NUCLEI researcher Kyle Godbey was hired as an Assistant Research Professor at FRIB.
Congratulations, Kyle!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted in PRC as Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review C paper:
"Densities and momentum distributions in A ≤
12 nuclei from chiral effective field theory interactions"
by Maria Piarulli, Saori Pastore, Bob Wiringa and colleagues
was selected as an Editor's Suggestion.
Congratulations to the authors!
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NUCLEI Researchers win SIAM/ACM Prize
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NUCLEI researchers Cody Balos and Carol Woodward of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been awarded the
2023 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering for their
team's development of the SUNDIALS software suite. Every two years this
prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to the
development and use of mathematical and computational tools and methods
for the solution of science and engineering problems.
Congratulations Carol and Cody!
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NUCLEI Researcher appointed Division Director
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Stefan Wild was appointed Division Director of Berkeley Lab's Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division.
Congratulations Stefan!
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NUCLEI Researcher member of winning R&D 100 team
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Jared O'Neal of Argonne National Lab was part of a team that won an R&D 100 award for their multiphysics, multiscale simulation software
Flash-X.
Congratulations, Jared!
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NUCLEI Researchers named AAAS Fellows
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Esmond Ng of Lawrence Berkeley Lab was
named a 2020 Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and
James Vary of Iowa State University was named a 2021 Fellow of the AAAS.
Congratulations Drs. Ng and Vary!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted in PRC as Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review C paper:
"Electron scattering on A=3 nuclei from quantum Monte Carlo based approaches",
by Lorenzo Andreoli, Joseph Carlson, Alessandro Lovato, Saori Pastore, Noemi Rocco, and R. B. Wiringa
was selected as an Editor's Suggestion.
Congratulations to the authors!
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The Physical Review C paper:
"Light nuclei with semilocal momentum-space regularized chiral interactions up to third order",
by nuclei researchers Pieter Maris, Dick Furnstahl, James Vary, and collaborators
was also selected as an Editor's Suggestion.
Congratulations to the authors!
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Former NUCLEI Researcher joins Intel
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Recent NUCLEI graduate student Md Afibuzzaman successfully defended his Ph.D. in
Computer Science at MSU and has joined Intel as a System Software Architect.
Congratulations Dr. Afibuzzaman!
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NUCLEI Researcher selected for outstanding publication
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Dr. Matt Menickelly
of Argonne National Laboratory and coauthors were awarded
the INFORMS Simulation Society’s 2021 Outstanding Publication Award
for their work analyzing stochastic optimization algorithms.
Congratulations Dr. Menickelly!
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NUCLEI Researcher named ASA Fellow
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The American Statistical Association recognized Dr. Earl Lawrence of Los Alamos National
Laboratory as a Fellow with the citation: "For innovative methodological development,
promotion of statistical methods in high consequence challenges in science and national
security, outstanding service to the statistical profession, and mentorship of the next
generation of statistician."
Congratulations to Dr. Lawrence!
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NUCLEI researcher selected for prestigious DOE Early Career grant
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Maria Piarulli, formerly a NUCLEI postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory and now an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has been
selected
as a recipient of an award
in the 2021 Early Career Research Program from the Department of Energy
Office of Science.
Maria's proposal was selected by the Office of Nuclear Physics
and is entitled "From Atomic Nuclei to Infinite Nucleonic Matter within Chiral Dynamics".
Congratulations to Dr. Piarulli!
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NUCLEI young researcher recently named to faculty position
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Dr. Simin Wang, who has been a NUCLEI postdoc
at Michigan State University,
has accepted a tenure-track position at Fudan University in Shanghai, one of the top schools in China.
Congratulations, Simin!
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Research by NUCLEI scientists on short-range correlation physics highlighted
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A recent paper entitled "Many-body factorization and position–momentum equivalence of nuclear
short-range correlations" by Diego Lonardoni of FRIB and LANL, Bob Wiringa of ANL and collaborators
was published in Nature Physics and featured in Nature News & Views
and on Phys.org.
Congratulations, Diego, Bob, and collaborators!
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Papers of NUCLEI researchers selected as Physical Review C 50th Anniversary Milestones
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NUCLEI researchers Joe Carlson, Gaute Hagen, Thomas Papenbrock, James Vary and Bob Wiringa
authored papers in Physical Review C that have been selected as
“milestone papers that remain central to developments in the field of nuclear physics”
on the occasion of the journal’s 50th anniversary.
The notification of this selection states
“These papers announce major discoveries or open up new avenues of research.”
Congratulations to these scientists!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted in PRC as Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review C papers:
"Benchmark calculations of pure neutron matter with realistic nucleon-nucleon
interactions," by M. Piarulli, I. Bombaci, D. Logoteta, A. Lovato, and R. B. Wiringa;
"Chiral effective field theory calculations of weak transitions in light nuclei,"
by G. B. King, L. Andreoli, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, R. Schiavilla, R. B. Wiringa,
J. Carlson, and S. Gandolfi;
and
"Reexamining the relation between the binding energy of finite nuclei and the equation of state of infinite nuclear matter,"
by M. C. Atkinson, W. H. Dickhoff, M. Piarulli, A. Rios, R. B. Wiringa,
were all selected as Editor's Suggestions.
Congratulations to all!
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Research by NUCLEI scientist on neutron star physics highlighted
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Several works from Ingo Tews of Los Alamos National Laboratory and collaborators
have drawn wide attention:
1) “Stringent constraints on neutron-star radii from multimessenger observations and
nuclear theory” by C. Capano, I. Tews, et al. was published in Nature Astronomy
and highlighted by the DOE Office of Science:
“How Large Are Neutron Stars?”
2) "Multimessenger constraints on the neutron-star equation of state and the Hubble constant”,
was published in Science
and highlighted in Scientific American.
3) "Direct astrophysical tests of chiral effective field theory at supranuclear densities” by R. Essick, I. Tews, et al.
is an Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review C.
Congratulations, Ingo and collaborators!
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NUCLEI theorists help challenge magic characterization
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NUCLEI researchers Sam Novario, Gaute Hagen, Gustav Jansen, Witek Nazarewicz, and Thomas Papenbrock
provided the theoretical calculations for an experiment at CERN/ISOLDE using the charge radii in
potassium isotopes that implies that neutron number N=32 is not magic.
The work appears in a recent Nature Physics paper
and is highlighted here in phys.org.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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Research by NUCLEI scientist on nuclear astrophysics highlighted
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Several works from Chuck Horowitz of Indiana University and collaborators have been
recently highlighted:
1) "Actinide crystallization and fission reactions in cooling white dwarf stars" by
Horowitz, and M.E. Caplan will appear in Physical Review Letters as an Editors' selection and
featured in Physics. This work is described here as "Physicists Propose That the Universe
Is Filled With Tiny, Natural Atomic Bombs".
2) An image from molecular dynamics simulations by Caplan, Horowitz and A. Cumming was selected as a
Featured Image: To Heat a White Dwarf on AAS NOVA.
3) "Fast neutrino cooling of nuclear pasta in neutron stars: molecular dynamics simulations" by
Lin, Caplan, Horowitz, and C. Lunardini was featured in Physics and as an Editors' suggestion in PRC.
Congratulations, Chuck et al.!
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NUCLEI researcher becomes FRIB Research Professor
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NUCLEI scientist Diego Lonardoni has recently transitioned from being an FRIB Theory Fellow to a visiting assistant
professor position ("FRIB Research Professor") at Michigan State University in collaboration with Los Alamos
National Lab.
Congratulations, Diego!
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NUCLEI researcher elected as SIAG/CSE chair
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Stefan Wild of Argonne National Laboratory has been elected to a
two-year term as chair of the SIAM Activity Group in Computational
Science and Engineering (SIAG/CSE). SIAG/CSE is the largest activity
group of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Congratulations, Stefan!
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NUCLEI researcher selected as 2021 FRIB-TA Theory Fellow
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NUCLEI scientist Xilin Zhang from Ohio State University will become
one of the two 2021 five-year theory fellows sponsored
by the FRIB Theory Alliance.
Xilin will be hosted at Michigan State University.
Congratulations, Xilin!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted as Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review C paper
"Global description of β−decay with the axially deformed Skyrme finite-amplitude method: Extension to odd-mass and odd-odd nuclei"
by NUCLEI scientists Evan Ney and Jon Engel of UNC Chapel Hill, Tong Li of Michigan State University, and Nicolas Schunck of Lawrence Livermore National Lab has been highlighted as an Editor's Suggestion.
Congratulations to all!
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NUCLEI research highlighted by DOE
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The DOE Office of Science recently published a highlight,
“Computing Nuclei Properties at Lightning Speed,”
about work by NUCLEI scientist Gaute Hagen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and his collaborator
Andreas Ekström of Chalmers University of Technology.
It is listed as a DOE Science Highlight
and on EurekaAlert!
and the DOE Science News Source.
This research appeared in Physical Review Letters in the article
"Global Sensitivity Analysis of Bulk Properties of an Atomic Nucleus".
Congratulations, Gaute!
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NUCLEI researcher wins DNP thesis award
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Recent Ohio State University graduate Jordan Melendez was selected to receive the
American Physical Society's 2021 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics.
The citation reads: "For the development of tools that rigorously quantify theory uncertainties in nuclear-physics observables and their
application to forefront problems including infinite matter, neutrinoless double-beta decay, and experimental planning."
His thesis is available here.
Congratulations, Jordan!
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Two NUCLEI Researchers selected for prestigious DOE Early Career grants
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Alessandro Lovato and Stefan Wild, both of Argonne National Laboratory, were
selected
as recipients of an award
in the 2020 Early Career Research Program from the Department of Energy
Office of Science.
Alessandro's proposal was selected by the Office of Nuclear Physics
and is entitled "A Unified Picture of Long- and Short-range Dynamics of Atomic Nuclei".
Stefan's proposal was selected by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
and is entitled
"Structure-Exploiting, Adaptive, Zeroth-Order Optimization to Improve Efficiency".
Congratulations to Drs. Wild and Lovato!
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NUCLEI researcher joins ORNL staff
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NUCLEI postdoc Titus Morris
has recently joined the R&D staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Congratulations, Titus!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted as Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review C papers
"Benchmark calculations of pure neutron matter with realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions"
by NUCLEI scientists Maria Piarulli, Alessandro Lovato, and Bob Wiringa and collaborators,
"Improved many-body expansions from eigenvector continuation"
by NUCLEI scientist Dean Lee of MSU and collaborators,
and
"Survey of nuclear pasta in the intermediate-density regime: Shapes and energies"
by NUCLEI scientists Md Afibuzzaman, Metin Aktulga and collaborators
are highlighted as Editor's Suggestion. Congratulations to all!
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NUCLEI Researcher selected for prestigious NSF CAREER award
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H. Metin Aktulga, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan
State University, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award.
The title is
"CAREER: Scalable Sparse Linear Algebra for Extreme-Scale Data Analytics
and Scientific Computing".
The project addresses algorithmic challenges and develops a computational
infrastructure to enable extreme-scale data analytics and scientific computing.
Congratulations, Metin!
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NUCLEI researcher leads NESAP award team
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Pieter Maris (ISU) leads a team that has received a new
NERSC
Exascale Science Application Program (NESAP) award.
The team will focus on developing and implementing improvements to
Many Fermion Dynamics – nuclear (MFDn) for NERSC’s next supercomputer,
Perlmutter. Team members include Chao Yang (LBNL), ISU graduate student
Matthew Lockner and U. Notre Dame graduate student Patrick Fasano, with
collaborators Mark Caprio (U. Notre Dame),
Esmond Ng (LBNL) and James Vary (ISU).
Congratulations to Pieter and his team!
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NUCLEI researcher elected as SIAG/CSE program director
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Stefan Wild of Argonne National Laboratory has been elected to a two-year term as program director
of the SIAM Activity Group in Computational Science and Engineering
(SIAG/CSE).
SIAG/CSE is the largest activity group of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Congratulations, Stefan!
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NUCLEI researchers publish book
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Nicolas Schunck (LLNL) is the editor and author of a recently published book on
"Energy Density Functional
Theory for Atomic Nuclei", IOP Publishing (2019).
The book gives an updated presentation of non-relativistic and covariant energy functionals,
single- and multi-reference methods, and techniques to describe small- and large-amplitude
collective motion or nuclei at high excitation energy.
The book includes the contributions of several experts within the field,
including NUCLEI researcher Jon Engel (UNC), and provides a comprehensive and informative
exploration of EDF methods. Detailed derivations, practical approaches, examples and
figures are used throughout the book to give a coherent narrative of topics that have
hitherto rarely been covered together.
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NUCLEI researcher announced as the FRIB theory fellow for 2019
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The FRIB theory alliance conducted a search for a new FRIB theory fellow in the Fall of 2018.
The search committee received many excellent applications and selected a shortlist of five.
The interviews took place in the beginning of December 2018. Following the recommendation
of the search committee, NUCLEI scientist
Kevin Fossez was selected as the new FRIB theory fellow, and will
be hosted by Argonne National Laboratory. Congratulations, Kevin!
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NUCLEI Research on nuclear pasta widely highlighted
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The largest ever simulation of nuclear pasta, containing over three million protons and neutrons,
finds it to be the strongest material in the universe.
This work by present and former NUCLEI researchers Matthew Caplan, Andre da Silva Schneider,
and Chuck Horowitz, published as a
Physical
Review Letter, has been featured in
ScienceNews,
Newsweek,
The Atlantic,
Smithsonian.com,
Space.com,
and Phys.org.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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NUCLEI young researcher recently named to faculty position
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Dr. Sarah Wesolowski,
who did her PhD work at Ohio State University as part of NUCLEI, has accepted a
tenure track faculty position at Salisbury University.
She continues to collaborate on NUCLEI research applying Bayesian statistics
to effective field theory. Congratulations!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted as Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review C paper
"Critical examination of constraints on the equation of state of dense matter
obtained from GW170817" by NUCLEI researcher Ingo Tews of Los Alamos National Laboratory and collaborators
is highlighted as an Editor's Suggestion. Congratulations!
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NUCLEI Researchers Scott Bogner and Gaute Hagen named APS Fellows
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The American Physical Society recognized Dr. Bogner of Michigan State University as a
Fellow with the citation:
"For the development and application of renormalization group methods to low-energy nuclear physics,
including the similarity renormalization group and the in-medium similarity renormalization group
as a new ab initio method."
The APS recognized Dr. Hagen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Fellow with the citation: "For contributions to the development
of coupled-cluster methods in nuclear physics and his theoretical predictions for the structure of rare isotopes."
Both were nominated by the Division of Nuclear Physics.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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NUCLEI Research highlighted as Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review C paper
"Bayesian approach to model-based extrapolation of nuclear observables"
by NUCLEI researchers Yuchen Cao and Witek Nazarewicz of Michigan State University, in collaboration with MSU statisticians
Léo Neufcourt and Frederi Viens,
is highlighted as an Editor's Suggestion.
Congratulations!
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NUCLEI Researcher selected for prestigious DOE Early Career grant
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Stefano Gandolfi of Los Alamos National Laboratory was selected by the Office of Nuclear Physics
as a recipient of an award
in the 2018 Early Career Research Program from the Department of Energy
Office of Science.
The title of his proposal is
"Weak interactions in nuclei
and nuclear matter".
Congratulations to Dr. Gandolfi!
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Nature Physics Perspective by NUCLEI researcher widely highlighted
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The Nature Physics Perspective on The
limits of nuclear mass and charge
by NUCLEI researcher Witek Nazarewicz was highlighted by
MSUToday and many international news outlets.
Congratulations!
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Paper involving NUCLEI researchers is Physics Focus and Editor's Suggestion
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The Physical Review Letters paper
"Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy"
involving NUCLEI researchers Bastian Schuetrumpf and Witek Nazarewicz
is highlighted in an APS Physics Focus
article.
Congratulations!
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Quantum computing paper by NUCLEI researchers highlighted in APS Physics Viewpoint
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The Physical Review Letters paper
"Cloud Quantum Computing of an Atomic Nucleus"
by NUCLEI researchers Gaute Hagen, Gustav Jansen, Titus Morris, and Thomas Papenbrock and collaborators
at ORNL
is highlighted in an APS Physics Viewpoint
article by Stefano Gandolfi, also a NUCLEI researcher.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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Deep learning paper by NUCLEI researchers receives a "Best Paper" award
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The paper "Deep Learning: A Tool for Computational Nuclear Physics" by computer scientist Gianina Negoita
(formerly a SciDAC-2/UNEDF grad student) and
NUCLEI researchers James Vary, Pieter Maris, Andrey Shirokov, Esmond Ng, and Chao Yang (plus several other
collaborators) has
received a
"Best Paper" award
at the conference
"Computation Tools 2018"
in Barcelona, Spain.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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Paper on neutron-deficient tin isotopes by NUCLEI researchers selected as Editors Suggestion
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The Physical Review Letters paper
Structure of the lightest
tin isotopes"
by NUCLEI researchers T. D. Morris, G. Hagen, G. R. Jansen, and T.
Papenbrock, and collaborators was chosen as an
Editors’ Suggestion.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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NUCLEI young researchers recently named to faculty positions
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Congratulations to these scientists on their new positions!
- Dr. Saori Pastore
of Los Alamos National Laboratory has joined the faculty at Washington
University in St. Louis as an Assistant Professor.
- Dr. Maria Piarulli
of Argonne National Laboratory has joined the faculty at Washington
University in St. Louis as an Assistant Professor.
- Dr. Rodrigo Navarro Perez,
formerly a NUCLEI postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
and now at Ohio University, has joined the faculty at San Diego State
University as an Assistant Professor.
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Articles in PRL by NUCLEI researchers selected for Physics and as Editors' Suggestions
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NUCLEI researchers Farrukh Fattoyev and Chuck Horowitz and their collaborators
had two recent Physical Review Letters articles highlighted.
"Neutron Skins and Neutron Stars
in the Multimessenger Era" was chosen as an Editor's Suggestion and featured as a
Physics Synopsis.
"Rapid Neutrino Cooling in the Neutron Star MXB 1659-29"
was also chosen as an Editor's Suggestion and featured as a
Physics Viewpoint.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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NUCLEI researcher Pieter Maris elected to NUGEX
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The NERSC Users Group Executive Committee is the voice of the user
community to NERSC and DOE. NUGEX is consulted on many NERSC policy issues
and members
participate in their office's NERSC Requirements Reviews of High
Performance Computing and Storage. Congratulations to Pieter Maris
of Iowa State University on his election
to a three-year term
as an At Large representative.
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Paper by NUCLEI researchers on heavy element oganesson is getting wide attention
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The article "Electron and Nucleon
Localization Functions of Oganesson: Approaching the Thomas-Fermi Limit"
by NUCLEI scientists Bastian Schuetrumpf and Witek Nazarewicz of
Michigan State University and collaborators Paul Jerabek and Peter Schwerdtfeger
of Massey University was
highlighted as the cover story in a recent edition of Physical Review Letters,
and was selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a
Viewpoint in Physics.
Widespread media attention has included
Nature,
Physics Today,
Chemistry World and
Phys.org.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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Article by NUCLEI researchers selected as a Focus article by Physics
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The paper "Cluster formation in precompound
nuclei in the time-dependent framework" by Bastian Schuetrumpf and Witek Nazarewicz of
Michigan State University was
chosen as an
APS Physics Focus article
entitled
"Focus: Video—Nuclear Fusion in Hi-Def".
Congratulations to these scientists!
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NUCLEI Researcher receives 2018 APS Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
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Dr. Matthew Caplan of Indiana University (now a Canadian
Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill
University) was selected for the
2018 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
from the American Physical Society.
He was supervised by NUCLEI researcher Prof. Chuck Horowitz and was
partially supported in his work by NUCLEI.
The citation reads “For a pioneering study of dense
nuclear matter in compact stars that makes surprising connections across
disciplines including nuclear physics and biophysics.”
Congratulations to Dr. Caplan!
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NUCLEI Researcher selected for DOE Early Career grant
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Prof. Heiko Hergert of Michigan State University was selected by the Office of Nuclear Physics
as one of 59 recipients
(out of about 700 proposals)
of an award in the 2017 Early Career Research Program from the Department of Energy
Office of Science.
The title of his proposal is
"Advanced Ab Initio Methods for Nuclear Structure".
Congratulations to Dr. Hergert!
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NUCLEI Project Co-Director awarded Flerov Prize
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Witek Nazarewicz, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Physics at Michigan
State University and FRIB Chief Scientist, has been
awarded the G.N. Flerov
Prize from the
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
for outstanding research in nuclear physics.
He was cited for his theoretical studies of the atomic and nuclear properties
of the heaviest elements.
Congratulations to Dr. Nazarewicz!
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Articles by NUCLEI researchers and collaborators selected as Editors' Suggestions
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The paper "Nuclear
Physics Around the Unitarity Limit" by Sebastian König and collaborators was
chosen as a
Physical
Review Letters Editors' Suggestion.
Dr. König, who recently became a Herzberg Fellow at TU Darmstadt,
led this work as a NUCLEI postdoc at Ohio State University (OSU).
Research by NUCLEI scientists Jordan Melendez, Sarah Wesolowski, and Dick Furnstahl
at OSU entitled
Bayesian
truncation errors in chiral effective field theory: Nucleon-nucleon observables"
was chosen as a Physical Review C Editors' Suggestion.
Congratulations to these scientists!
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NUCLEI researcher promoted at ISU
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Pieter Maris has been promoted by Iowa State University to Research Full
Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, effective July 1, 2017.
Congratulations to Dr. Maris!
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Article by NUCLEI researcher selected for journal highlights
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The article "Challenges
in nuclear structure theory" by Witek Nazarewicz was
chosen by the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics for inclusion
in their "Highlights
of 2016", which showcases the best work published in each section of the journal.
Congratulations to Dr. Nazarewicz!
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NUCLEI researcher leads DOE topical collaboration in nuclear theory
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Nicolas Schunck of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the principal
investigator of the FIRE (Fission In R-process Elements) topical
collaboration in nuclear theory. The collaboration involves scientists at
the University of Notre Dame, North Carolina State University, Los Alamos
National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The five-year award
is jointly funded by the NNSA and DOE Office of Science and will explore the
role that fission recycling plays in nucleosynthesis. The collaboration will
use state-of-the art density functional theory (DFT), nuclear reaction
theory and high-performance computing to compute atomic masses, fission
fragment distributions, fission, beta decay and neutron capture rates and
assess their impact on abundance patterns for each potential astrophysical
site of the r-process. Comparisons of predictions with solar data as well as
spectroscopic data from halo stars will determine the nuclei whose fission
properties are most critical for the r-process abundance pattern. This
project will make an essential contribution to understanding the origin of
elements in the cosmos.
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NUCLEI Project PI awarded 2017 Feshbach Prize
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Joe Carlson of Los Alamos National Laboratory has been
awarded the 2017 American Physical Society
Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics.
He was cited for his pioneering work on Quantum Monte Carlo techniques
to solve key problems in nuclear structure physics, cold atom physics,
and dense matter theory of relevance to neutron stars.
Congratulations to Dr. Carlson!
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NUCLEI researcher awarded Young Scientist Prize from IUPAP
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Andreas Ekström, former NUCLEI member as a postdoc at the University
of Tennessee and ORNL and now a NUCLEI Foreign Collaborator
as Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology,
was
recently awarded the prestigious
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in nuclear physics
at the International Nuclear Physics Conference in Adelaide, Australia.
The citation reads: "For his groundbreaking contributions in the optimization
of nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory using advanced
physical and mathematical tools in quantifying the theoretical uncertainties.
This has allowed accurate ab initio many-body calculations in the areas of
nuclear structure and reactions, reproducing for the first time both nuclear
binding energies and radii in higher precision and giving realistic saturation
properties of nuclear matter."
Congratulations to Dr. Ekström!
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Recognitions for NUCLEI young scientists
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Congratulations to these young researchers!
- Maria Piarulli has won the Old Dominion University College of
Sciences "Lee Entsminger Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award" for
2015-2016.
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Alumnus Saori Pastore is
receiving the Few-Body System Award for Young Scientists at this year's
23rd European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics
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NUCLEI researcher Bob Wiringa named Argonne Distinguished Fellow
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The
Argonne Distinguished Fellows
"are recognized internationally for their work and show the type of leadership that
impacts Argonne’s future and its mission."
It is the highest scientific/engineering rank at Argonne
National Laboratory, a distinction held by only a few percent of the research
staff, and comparable to an endowed chair at a top-ranked university.
Congratulations to Dr. Wiringa!
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Team led by NUCLEI researcher wins HPC Innovation Excellence Award
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The ACCOLADES scalable workflow management tool developed at Argonne
National Laboratory by a team led by Shashi Aithal and NUCLEI scientist
Stefan Wild is a recipient of the
HPC Innovation
Excellence Award. See
more
details on the announcement
and the project.
Congratulations!
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NUCLEI researchers have key role in new DOE topical theory collaboration
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The topical collaboration "Nuclear Theory for Double-Beta Decay and
Fundamental Symmetries" is one of three recently chosen for five-yea
awards from the Department of Energy. Nine of the fifteen senior
investigators --- Scott Bogner, Joseph Carlson, Jonathan Engel (PI),
Stefano Gandolfi, Gaute Hagen, Mihai Horoi, Witold Nazarewicz, Thomas
Papenbrock, and James Vary --- are members of NUCLEI. The collaboration
will focus primarily on the accurate computation, with quantified
uncertainty, of the nuclear matrix elements that govern the rate of
neutrinoless double-beta decay. Several large-scale experiments to
measure or set limits on the rate are underway or planned. The
collaboration will also work to better understand the nuclear physics
underlying atomic electric dipole moments and the interaction of dark
matter with ordinary matter. For an announcement of the recent awards,
see here.
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Papers by NUCLEI researchers selected as "Editor's Suggestions" in PRC
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These recent papers describing NUCLEI physics
have been highlighted by the Editors of Physical Review C:
- " `Parking-garage' structures in nuclear astrophysics and cellular biophysics"
D. K. Berry, M. E. Caplan, C. J. Horowitz, Greg Huber, and A. S. Schneider,
Phys. Rev. C 94, 055801 (2016).
This paper was also highlighted with a Synopsis on the Physics website
entitled "Neutron Stars in a Petri Dish".
- "Microscopically constrained
mean-field models from chiral nuclear thermodynamics,"
Ermal Rrapaj, Alessandro Roggero, and Jeremy W. Holt,
Phys. Rev. C 93, 065801 (2016).
- "Global description of β− decay in even-even nuclei with
the axially-deformed Skyrme finite-amplitude method,"
M. T. Mustonen and J. Engel,
Phys. Rev. C 93, 014304 (2016).
- "Effective field
theory for nuclear vibrations with quantified uncertainties,"
E. A. Coello Pérez and T. Papenbrock, Phys. Rev. C 92, 064309 (2015).
- "Twist-averaged
boundary conditions for nuclear pasta Hartree-Fock calculations,"
B. Schuetrumpf and W. Nazarewicz, Phys. Rev. C 92, 045806 (2015).
- "Full
weak-charge density distribution of Ca48 from parity-violating electron scattering,"
Z. Lin and C. J. Horowitz, Phys. Rev. C 92, 014313 (2015).
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"Electromagnetic and neutral-weak response functions of He4 and C12,"
A. Lovato, S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, Steven C. Pieper, and R. Schiavilla,
Phys. Rev. C 91, 062501(R) (2015).
Congratulations to these scientists!
Announcements
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Archive)
- Upcoming workshops, conferences, and other meetings
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Please see the Meetings page.
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Faculty and Permanent Research Positions in NUCLEI-related science
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See Job Postings for details.
An FRIB Theory Alliance bridge position at North Carolina State University,
a Nuclear Theory Assistant Professor position as part of a cluster hire at Iowa State University,
and a faculty position in theoretical physics at Yale University have been announced.
See Job Postings for details.
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TALENT course lecture videos available
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The TALENT course Density Functional Theory and Self-Consistent Methods
was held at the University of York in York, UK, from July 17 to August 6, 2016.
The principal lecturers were Jacek Dobaczewski, Andrea Idini, Alessandro Pastore,
and Nicolas Schunck.
Videos of the lectures and written materials are
freely available.