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

Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

* Peter Ring 3: Nuclear forces: Invariance properties

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

* Nicolas Schunck 2: Density functional theory (DFT): Existence theorems, Kohn-Sham schemes, local density approximation, gradient exchanges, exchange-correlation, self-interaction

* Scott Bogner 3: Realistic nuclear potentials: Introduction to chiral effective field theory, diagrammatic expansions, power counting

* Scott Bogner 4: Non-empirical functionals: Brueckner theory, density matrix expansions, three- body forces