Lecturers: Scott Bogner, Peter Ring, Nicolas Schunck, Dario Vretenar

Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

* Peter Ring 3: Nuclear forces: Invariance properties, general properties, spin and isospin structure.

* Nicolas Schunck 1: Phenomenological nuclear forces: Skyrme and Gogny forces, concept of energy density functional (EDF), effective pseudopotentials.

A detailed demonstration of the contribution to the energy density coming from the $t_{0}$ term of the Skyrme potential is presented here. If I were you, I would check that the derivation is correct, since I actually forgot some important summations in class…

* Nicolas Schunck 2: Density functional theory (DFT): Existence theorems, Kohn-Sham scheme in electronic structure theory; the energy density functional (EDF) framework in nuclear structure.

* Scott Bogner 3: Need for realistic nuclear potentials, general introduction to Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory, introduction to the density matrix expansion, various techniques for DME.

* Scott Bogner 4: Connections between density matrix expansion of nuclear potentials and Skyrme-like functionals, realistic potentials from chiral effective field theory, strategies for building microscopic energy functionals.