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<div align="center"><font color="navy"><b>Old Dominion University<br>
Department of Physics</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#31849B"><b>Fall Colloquium Series<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b>Tuesday October 22, 2013</b></font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b>"Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo"</b></font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1F497D"><b>Dr. Bob</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1F497D"><b> </b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1F497D"><b>Wiringa</b></font></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5" color="#1F497D"><b>Argonne National Lab<br>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="4">Ab-initio calculations of the structure of light nuclei, starting from "bare" two-nucleon interactions that fit NN scattering data, have become feasible over the last two decades using quantum
Monte Carlo methods. Three-nucleon interactions and two-body electroweak current operators are important additional inputs. Present variational and Green's function Monte Carlo methods allow us to study nuclei up to A=12 with unprecedented accuracy. Properties
we can evaluate include binding and excitation energies and the relative stability of neighboring nuclei. We can also study fine details like charge-independence-breaking and isospin-mixing, one- and two-nucleon densities in configuration and momentum space,
electromagnetic moments and electroweak transitions, and nucleon-nucleus scattering. Overall, we have made great progress in understanding how complicated aspects of nuclear structure arise from the pairwise interactions between individual nucleons.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="4">Presentation: OCNPS 200 @ 3:00 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="4">Refreshments: Atrium @ 2:30 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5">More details at
<a href="http://sci.odu.edu/physics/">http://sci.odu.edu/physics/</a></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5">All are Welcome!</font></div>
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