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

Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

• Dario Vretenar 2: Concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking, nuclear deformation, particle number symmetry and pairing correlations.

• Dario Vretenar 3: Nuclear collective motion: collective variables, residual interactions, configuration mixing.

• Nicolas Schunck 3: Computational nuclear structure: DFT solver schemes, large-scale applications, modern techniques to optimize energy density functionals.

Open questions in nuclear DFT

• Non-empirical functionals, inclusion of collective correlations, symmetries
• Mean-field components of nuclear structure model; time-dependent mean-field and DFT; beyond mean-field - Slides by Peter
• Uncertainty quantification in nuclear DFT, high-performance computing, microscopic description of nuclear fission - Slides by Nicolas

• Student's presentations
• Wrap-up