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.

Slides can be found here. 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. Lecture notes can be found here.

* 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