Konwersatorium im. Leopolda Infelda

Understanding nuclei is a quantum many-body problem of incredible richnessand diversity and studies of nuclei address some of the great challengesthat are common throughout modern science. Nuclear structure researchstrives to build a unified and comprehensive microscopic framework inwhich bulk nuclear properties, nuclear excitations, and nuclear reactionscan all be described. A new and exciting focus in this endeavor lies inthe description of exotic and short lived nuclei. The extremeproton-to-neutron asymmetry of these nuclei isolates and amplifiesimportant features of nuclear many-bodyopen quantum systems.

In this talk, experimental and theoretical advances in rare isotoperesearch will be reviewed in the context of the main scientific questions.Particular attention will be given to the worldwide radioactive beamsinitiatives and to the progress in theoretical studies of nuclei due tothe advent of extreme-scale computing platforms.