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Description
Breakthroughs in our treatment of the many-body problem and nuclear forces are rapidly transforming modern nuclear theory into a true first-principles discipline. This allows us to address some of the most exciting questions at the frontiers of nuclear structure and physics beyond the standard model.
In this talk I will highlight recent advances which now allow for global converged calculations of open-shell nuclei to the 208Pb region and beyond. In particular, I will focus on key topics in nuclear structure such as predictions of the proton and neutron driplines and evolution of magic numbers throughout the light and medium-mass regions, including new insights on the nature and existence of 28O including continuum degrees of freedom. In addition, I will discuss how correlation of the neutron skin and dipole polarizability in heavy nuclei to 208Pb provide first ab initio constraints on symmetry energy parameters for determining neutron star properties.
