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Talks in 2012

P. Navratil, "Ab initio calculations of light-ion reactions," Workshop on “Electron-Nucleus Scattering XII”, Elba, Italy, June 25-29, 2012.

M. Horoi, "The Double Beta Decay: Theoretical Challenges," International Summer School of Physics”, Sinaia, Romania, June 24 – July 7, 2012.

J. Engel, "Low-Energy Multipole Strength and Fundamental Physics," invited talk at ECT* workshop on "The Nuclear Dipole Polarizability and its Impact on Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics", June 21, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "New perspectives on the atomic nucleus," Public Lecture at Pacific National University, Khabarovsk, Russia, June 19, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio nuclear structure - recent developments," Nuclear Theory in the Supercomputing Era Conference, Pacific National University (PNU) in Khabarovsk, Russia, June 18 - 22, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "From QCD to ab initio nuclear structure with point nucleons and back again," Institute for Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, June 15, 2012.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio calculations of light-ion reactions," 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR REACTION MECHANISMS, Varenna, Italy, June 11-15, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "Atomic Nuclei: Many-Body Open Quantum Systems," Nobel Symposium NS 152 - Physics with Radioactive Beams, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 10-15, 2012.

A. Bulgac, "Real-time vortex generation and dynamics in a time-dependent density functional theory approach," CompStar2012 -the physics and astrophysics of compact stars, Tahiti, June 4-8, 2012.

G. Hagen, "Towards nuclear reactions with coupled-cluster theory," Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics , New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012.

P. Maris, "Large-scale ab initio CI calculations for light nuclei," Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics , New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012.

H. Nam, "A practical guide to accelerating nuclear structure calculations," Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics , New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "Nuclear structure approaches for the 21st century," Conference on Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012.

T. Papenbrock, "Toward model-independent nuclear structure computations," Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics , New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012.

S. Pieper, "Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo," Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics , New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012.

I. Stetcu, "Nuclear structure and dynamics in a unified approach," Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics , New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio no-core solutions for nuclear structure - perspectives and challenges," Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics , New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012.

P. Navratil, "Understanding Nuclei from First Principles," Eleventh Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics CIPANP 2012, St. Petersburg, FL, June 2, 2012.

N. Schunck, "Finite-Size Instabilities in Odd-Mass Nuclei," Linear Response Theory: from infinite nuclear matter to finite nuclei, Espace de Structure Nucleaire Theorique, Saclay, May 30, 2012.

G. Hagen, "Towards nuclear reactions with coupled-cluster theory," The 11'th International Conference on Nucleon-Nucleus Collisions, San Antonio TX, May 27-June 1, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "From QCD to ab initio nuclear structure with point nucleons and back again," Thomas Jefferson Laboratory, May 25, 2012.

T. Papenbrock, "Theoretical Nuclear Structure (4 lectures)," Nuclear Structure Week, TU Darmstadt, Germany, May 21-24, 2012.

S. Quaglioni, "Ab initio calculations of light-ion fusion reactions," JLab Theory Seminar, May 21, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "Information content of a new observable and systematic and statistical errors of nuclear DFT," physics seminar, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, May 18, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "Theory, a Summary," FUSHE 2012 – ENSAR-ECOS Workshop on FUture SuperHeavy Element Strategy, Erbismühle – Weilrod, Germany, May 13-16, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio nuclear structure and reactions - perspectives and challenges," Theory of Nuclear Physics Related to the RI Facilities Workshop, Institute of Basic Sciences, Daejeon, Korea, May 11-12, 2012.

T. Papenbrock, "Neutron-rich isotopes of oxygen and calcium," The Extreme Matter Physics of Nuclei: From Universal Properties to Neutron-Rich Extremes, Darmstadt, Germany, April 30-May 4 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "Science of rare isotopes: connecting nuclei with the universe," Physics Colloquium, Ohio University, Athens, OH, April 27, 2012.

G. Hagen, "Towards nuclear reactions with coupled-cluster theory," The Extreme Matter Physics of Nuclei: From Universal Properties to Neutron-Rich Extremes, EMMI, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, April 26, 2012.

T. Papenbrock, "Toward a model-independent approach to nuclear structure," Theory Seminar, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, April 24, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "The limits of the nuclear landscape," Physics Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 18, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Nuclear Physics -- Bridging from Quarks to the Cosmos," Department of Physics, Colloquium, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, LI, NY, April 17, 2012.

P. Navratil, "Understanding Nuclei from First Principles," Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, April 13, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "Information content of a nuclear observable and systematic and statistical errors of nuclear DFT," Inter-collaboration meeting, CEA Saclay, France, April 10-11, 2012.

H.M. Aktulga, "Sparse Linear Algebra on an SSD-equipped Testbed," CRD All-Hands Meeting, LBNL, April, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "The limits of the nuclear landscape," APS April Meeting 2012, Atlanta, GA, March 31-April 3, 2012.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio calculations of light-ion reactions," DREB 2012, March 26, 2012.

S. Pieper, "Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo," WE-Heraeus Seminar. Nuclear Ground-State Properties of the Lightest Nuclei ," Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, March 20, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Simulating the Atomic Nucleus," Joint Mathematics and Physics Colloquium, Florida International University, Miami, FL, March 2, 2012.

H.M. Aktulga, "Solving Large-scale Eigenvalue problems in Nuclear Structure Calculations," 12th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, CO, March, 2012.

A. Bulgac, "The onset of the pseudogap regime and shear viscosity from ab initio calculations in ultra cold Fermi gases," APS March meeting, Boston, MA, Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2012.

S. M. Wild, "Opening the Blackbox in Simulation-based Optimization," Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, February 27, 2012.

P. Navratil, "Recent developments of the NCSM/RGM approach to nuclear reactions," Workshop on Perspectives on the /Ab Initio/ No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, February 24, 2012.

G. Hagen, "Towards nuclear reactions with coupled-cluster theory," Perspectives of the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 23-25, 2012.

P. Maris, "Large-scale ab initio CI calculations for light nuclei," Workshop on Perspectives on the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 23-25, 2012.

T. Papenbrock, "Role of the particle continuum and of three-nucleon forces in oxygen isotopes," Progress in Ab-Initio Techniques in Nuclear Physics, TRIUMF, Vancouver, February 23-25 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Convergence properties of no-core nuclear calculations," Workshop on Perspectives on the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 23-25, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "Microscopic Description of Fission Process," 2012 SSAA Symposium, Washington DC, Feb. 22-23, 2012.

G. Hagen, "Towards nuclear reactions with coupled-cluster theory," Nuclear Physics Seminar University of Tennessee, February 20, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Recent results in light nuclei with ab initio no core methods," Lecture at the DST-SERC School on "Modern Trends in Nuclear Structure and Dynamics" at the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India, February 17, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Leadership class computing & techniques for large sparse matrix diagonlization," Lecture at the DST-SERC School on "Modern Trends in Nuclear Structure and Dynamics" at the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India, February 16, 2012.

P. Maris, "Ab initio Configuration Interaction calculations for Nuclear Structure," SIAM conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Savannah, Georgia, February 15-17, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Extreme Single-Particle Model," Lecture at the DST-SERC School on "Modern Trends in Nuclear Structure and Dynamics" at the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India, February 15, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "IR/UV Regulators and Renormalization Methods," Lecture at the DST-SERC School on "Modern Trends in Nuclear Structure and Dynamics" at the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India, February 14, 2012.

J.P. Vary, "Realistic NN and NNN Interactions and their range of validity," Lecture at the DST-SERC School on "Modern Trends in Nuclear Structure and Dynamics" at the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India, February 13, 2012.

G. Hagen, "Towards model independent description of nuclei with coupled-cluster theory," Physics Colloquium University of Maryland, College Park, February 8, 2012.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," Physics Colloquium, Virginia Tech University, February, 2012.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Making Sense of Scale- and Scheme-Dependent Observables in Low-Energy Nuclear Physics," NSCL Seminar, Michigan State University, February, 2012.

S. Bogner, "Similarity Renormalization Group and All That," Third UiO-MSU-ORNL-UT School on Topics in Nuclear Physics: The computational quantum many-body problem, Oak Ridge, TN, January 23-27, 2012.

G. Hagen, "Towards model independent description of nuclei with coupled-cluster theory," Physics Colloquium Ohio University, Athens, January 17, 2012.

S. Bogner, "In-medium Similarity Renormalization Group for Nuclei," Facets of Strong-Interaction Physics: International Workshop on Gross Properties of Nuclei and Nuclear Excitations, Hirschegg, Austria, January 15-21, 2012.

A. Bulgac, "Time-dependent density functional theory approach to (induced) nuclear fission and its extension," FUSTIPEN workshop on nuclear fission, GANIL, Caen, France, January 4-6, 2012.

W. Nazarewicz, "Microscopic description of fission process within the Nuclear Density Functional Theory," Topical Meeting on Theory of Nuclear Fission, GANIL, Caen, France, January 4-6, 2012.

T. Papenbrock, "Effective theory for deformed nuclei," XXXV Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Cocoyoc, Mexico, January 3-6, 2012.

I. Stetcu, "Nuclear dynamics in real time," the International Workshop on Nuclear Physics, Stellen¬bosch, South Africa, May, 2011.

I. Stetcu, "Harmonic EFT, the beginning: from nuclei to trapped atoms," ECT* workshop on Effective theories and the nuclear many-body problem, Trento, Italy, March, 2011.

J. Terasaki, "Testing Skyrme energy-density functionals with the QRPA in low-lying vibrational states of rare-earth nuclei," 1st Topical Workshop on Modern Aspects in Nuclear Structure, Advances in Nuclear Structure with Arrays Including New Scintillator Detectors, Bormio, Italy, 2012-02-22.

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Talks in 2011

W. Nazarewicz, "Teoria struktury jadra atomowego w przededniu ery eksaflopow (in Polish)," IX Sympozjum Instytutu Fizyki Teoretycznej, IFT, Warsaw University, Dec. 9, 2011.

A. Bulgac, "To¬wards an implementation of a real-time path-integral for interacting fermions," Workshop The Stochastic Schroedinger Equation in Selected Physics Problems, CEA/SPhN, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, December, 6-7, 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computational nuclear structure in the eve of exascale," Physics Seminar, Physics Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Nov. 22, 2011.

S. Quaglioni, "From nucleons to nuclei to fusion reactions," Conference on Computational Physics 2011, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Oct. 31 – Nov. 3, 2011.

C. Bertulani, "Direct reactions with rare isotopes," YIPQS Long-term workshop, Dynamics and Correlations in Exotic Nuclei (DCEN2011), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, October 28, 2011.

S. Wild, "Opening the Blackbox in Simulation-based Optimization," University of Colorado-Denver, Operations Research Seminar, Denver, CO., October 25, 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "Challenges in Computational Nuclear Structure," Frontier Issues in Physics of Exotic Nuclei (YKIS2011), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, October 14, 2011.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio calculations of light-ion reactions," Frontier Issues in Physics of Exotic Nuclei (YKIS2011), Kyoto, Oct. 11, 2011.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," Physics Colloquium, Indiana University, October, 2011.

K. Hebeler, "New Applications of Renormalization Group Methods in Nuclear Physics," invited talk at the 2011 Fall Meeting, APS Division of Nuclear Physics, East Lansing, MI, October, 2011.

A. Bulgac, "Real-Time Dynamics of Superfluid Unitary Fermi Gases," Finite-temperature Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, September 18-21, 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "Theoretical nuclear physics," Four lectures at the16th UK Nuclear Physics Postgraduate Summer School, St Andrews, Scotland, UK, Sep. 3-6, 2011.

C. Bertulani, "Reactions at Intermediate Energies," 7th ANL/INT/JINA/MSU Annual FRIB Workshop, INT, University of Washington, Seattle, August 17, 2011.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio reaction theory for light nuclei," 7th ANL/INT/JINA/MSU annual FRIB workshop; INT Program INT-11-2d: Interfaces between structure and reactions for rare sotopes and nuclear astrophysics, Seattle, August 8, 2011.

C. Bertulani, "How robust is big bang nucleosynthesis?," Laboratori Nationali del Sud, Catania, Italy, August 2, 2011.

H.M. Aktulga, "On Reducing I/O Overheads in Large-Scale Invariant Subspace Projections," 2011 High Performance Scientific Software Workshop (HPSS 2011), Bordeaux, France, August, 2011.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Making Sense of Structure/Reaction `Non-observables," 2011 INT/FRIB workshop, INT, Seattle, August, 2011.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Status of Nuclear Theory," Superusers Workshop, Michigan State University, August, 2011.

K. Hebeler, "Chiral three-body forces and neutron-rich matter," INT program ``Astrophysical Transients: Multi-messenger Probes of Nuclear Physics,'' Seattle, August, 2011.

K. Hebeler, "New Applications of Renormalization Group Methods in Nuclear Physics," International workshop ``Renormalization Group Approach from Ultra-Cold Atoms to the Hot QGP,'' Kyoto, Japan, August, 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "Physics with Rare Isotope beams, an overview," Tenth Exotic Beam Summer School - EBSS2011, NSCL/MSU, July 25-30, 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "UNEDF: Building Nuclei from the ground up," INT 11-2a program "Extreme Computing and its Implications for Nuclear Physics/Applied Mathematics/Computer Science Interface", INT Seattle, July 7, 2011.

H.M. Aktulga, "Large-scale Parallel Null Space Calculation for Nuclear Configuration Interaction," 2011 High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference (HPCS 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July, 2011.

K. Hebeler, "New Frontiers in Nuclear Physics," colloquium at the University of Guelph, July, 2011.

J. Terasaki, "Tests of Skyrme energy density functionals in low-energy vibrational states of rare-earth nuclei using QRPA," RUBF ULIC and CNS Symposium on Frontier of gamma-ray spectroscopy, RIKEN, Wako, Japan, June 30 - July 2, 2011.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio calculations of light-ion reactions: Application to 7Be(p,γ)8B capture," IKP, TU Darmstadt, June 29, 2011.

S. Bogner, "Renormalization group methods in nuclear few- and many-body problems," National Nuclear Physics Summer School 2011, Chapel Hill, NC, June 27-29, 2011.

A. Bulgac, "Real-Time Dynamics of Fermionic Superfluid Systems: from Deterministic Petascale to Stochastic Exascale Simulations," INT Workshop on the Nuclear Physics-Applied Math-Computer Science Interface, June 27 -July 1, 2011.

G. Hagen, "Nuclear structure at the neutron drip-line," Gordon Research Conferences, Intersections Between Structure and Reactions: Pushing the Frontiers of Nuclear Science, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, CT, June 14, 2011.

M. Horoi, "Challenges for a reliable shell-model description of the neutrinoless double beta decay matrix elements," MEDEX'11 Workshop, Prague, June 13-16, 2011.

C. Bertulani, "Nuclear physics in the cosmos," Meeting of the Brazilian Physical Society, Iguassu Falls, Brazil, June 9, 2011.

T. Papenbrock, "Toward model-independent nuclear structure computations," ECT* workshop on “Nuclear many-body open quantum systems,” Trento, Italy, June 7, 2011.

J.P. Vary, "Recent progress and new challenges in ab initio nuclear structure and nuclear reactions," Invited talk at the Institute of Nuclear Theory Program on Extreme Computing and its Applications, Seattle, WA, June 6, 2011.

J. Engel, "Charge-Changing Processes and Nuclear Response," collaboration meeting of the DOE topical center on hot-and-dense matter, June 3, 2011.

G. Hagen, "Ab initio calculations of weakly bound nuclei," The first International Conference on Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science (ARIS - 2011), Leuven, Belgium, June 1, 2011.

P. Maris, "No Core CI Calculations for light nuclear systems," INT program on Extreme Computing and its Implications for the Nuclear Physics/Applied Mathematics/Computer Science Interface, Seattle, WA, June 2011.

P. Maris, "Computational Issues in ab initio Nuclear Structure," INT Exascale workshop, Seattle, WA, June 2011.

C. Yang, "Solving Large-scale Eigenvalue Problems in Nuclear Structure Calculations," invited talk at the INT workshop on Extreme Computing and its Implications for the Nuclear Physics/Applied Mathematics/Computer Science Interface, June, 2011.

C. Yang, "Nuclear Configuration Interaction Calculation using ARPACK," Invited talk at the Workshop in honor Danny Sorensen's 65th birthday, Reno, NV, June, 2011.

K. Hebeler, "Chiral Three-Nucleon Forces: From Neutron Matter to Neutron Stars," International Workshop ``Microphysics in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics,'' Waterloo, Canada, June, 2011.

G. Hagen, "Towards a unified description of nuclear structure and reactions with coupled-cluster theory," FUSTIPEN Topical Meeting  "Structure and reactions at the drip lines", GANIL, Caen, France, May 24-25, 2011.

J. Terasaki, "Large-scale calculations of nuclear excited states using density functional method," Computational Science Colloquium, Center for Computational Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan, May 24, 2011.

J.P. Vary, "Hamiltonian Light Front Field Theory: Recent Progress and Tantalizing Prospects," Invited talk at the Light Cone 2011 Meeting, Dallas, TX, May 23-27, 2011.

M.M. Forbes, "Bench¬marking the Many-body Problem: Precision bounds on the Equation of State," INT Program 11-1: Fermions from Cold Atoms to Neu¬tron Stars: Benchmarking the Many-Body Problem, Seattle, May 18, 2011.

S. Wild, "Optimization With Some Derivatives," SIAM Conference on Optimization, Darmstadt, Germany, May 18, 2011.

I.J. Thompson, "Coupled-channels Neutron Reactions on Nuclei," University of Surrey, UK, May 17, 2011.

A. Bulgac, "Real Time Dynamics of the Unitary Fermi Gas," INT Ultra-Cold Atoms Symposium, May, 16-20, 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "Introduction to Nuclear Structure Theory," International Workshop on Nuclear Physics, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch, South Africa, May 16-27, 2011.

P. Magierski, "Pseudogap from Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) on the lattice," INT Symposium: Fermions from Cold Atoms to Neutron Stars: Benchmarking the Many-Body Problem, Seattle, USA, May 14-20, 2011.

P. Magierski, "Thermodynamics and Pairing Properties of a Unitary Fermi Gas," INT Symposium: Fermions from Cold Atoms to Neutron Stars: Benchmarking the Many-Body Problem, Seattle, USA, May 14-20, 2011.

G. Hagen, "Towards ab initio structure and reactions in neutron rich nuclei with coupled‐cluster theory," invited seminar talk at CEA, CEA, Saclay, France, May 13, 2011.

T. Papenbrock, "Model-independent nuclear structure computations," HISKP Colloquium, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany, May 12, 2011.

J.C. Pei, "Coordinate-space HFB description of superfluid Fermi systems," INT-11-1 program “Fermions from Cold Atoms to Neutron Stars", INT Seattle, May 12, 2011.

I. Stetcu, "Nuclear dynamics in real time," invited talk at the International Workshop on Nuclear Physics, Stellenbosch, South Africa, May 2011.

K. Hebeler, "Chiral Three-Nucleon Forces: From Neutron Matter to Neutron Stars," NT program on ``Fermions from Cold Atoms to Neutron Stars: Benchmarking the Many-Body Problem,'' Seattle, May, 2011.

E. Lusk, "Adventures in Load-Balancing at Large Scale:  Successes, Fizzles, and Next Steps," Invited talk at 9th Annual Workshop on Charm++ and its Applications. University of Illinois, Champagne, IL, April 19, 2011.

C. Bertulani, "Spectroscopic information form reactions with unstable nuclei," International Conference on "Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics V", Eilat, Israel, April 5, 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "Frontiers of nuclear physics," IOP Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, April 4-7, 2011.

P. Maris, "Ab initio methods for nuclear properties - a computational physics approach," invited talk, joint DCOMP-DNP session at APS spring meeting, Anaheim, CA, April 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "Information content of a new observable," Colloquium, LBNL, Nuclear Science Division, March 23, 2011.

J. Holt, "Three-Nucleon Forces and the Evolution of Nuclear Structure in Exotic Nuclei," The Fifth LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop Oak Ridge, TN, March 17, 2011.

M. Horoi, "Updates on Nushellx," LCCI collaboration meeting, BLNL, March 17-19, 2011.

J.C. Pei, "Quasiparticle continuum and resonances in HFB theory," 5th LACM-EFS-JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge, March 17, 2011.

J.P. Vary, "Overview of the Leadership Class Configuration Interaction (LCCI) code development project," 2011 LCCI meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, March 17-19, 2011.

S. Wild, "The Hunt for Missing Derivatives: Reward Offered!," 5th LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN, March 16, 2011.

J. Erler, "Exploration of Fission in Superheavy Elements Using the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock Model," The fifth LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, March 15-17, 2011.

J. Terasaki, "Test of Skyrme Energy Functionals with QRPA in Low-Lying States of Rare-Earth Nuclei," 5th LACM EFES JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN, March 15, 2011.

J.P. Vary, "Origin of the anomalous lifetime of 14C," Fifth LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, March 15-17, 2011.

G. Hagen, "Towards ab initio structure and reactions in neutron rich nuclei with coupled‐cluster theory," ECT workshop on Effective theories and the nuclear many-body problem, ECT, Trento, Italy, March 7-11, 2011.

J. Holt, "Three-Body Forces and Shell Structure in Exotic Nuclei," ECT* Workshop: “Effective Theories and The Nuclear Many-Body Problem”, Trento, Italy, March 7, 2011.

M. Horoi, "Effective Forces Responsible for Enhanced Proton-Neutron Correlations in N ~= Z Nuclei," ECT* workshop on Effective Theories and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem, Trento, Italy, March 7-11, 2011.

C. Bertulani, "Nuclear physics in the cosmos," Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, March 4, 2011.

S. Wild, "Applied Optimization Without Derivatives," SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, Reno, NV, March 3, 2011.

T. Papenbrock, "Model-independent approaches to nuclear structure," Annual NuSTAR meeting, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, March 2-4, 2011.

C.W. Johnson, "Cold atomic gases and effective interactions," Benchmarking the many-body problem, Institute for Nuclear Theory/University of Washington, March, 2011.

P. Maris, "Large Sparse Matrix Problems in Ab-initio Nuclear Physics," invited talk at SIAM/CSE11, Reno, NV, March 2011.

P. Maris, "Update on MFDn," third Leadership Class CI codes workshop, Berkeley, CA, March 2011.

I. Stetcu, "Harmonic EFT, the beginning: from nuclei to trapped atoms," ECT* workshop on "Effective theories and the nuclear many-body problem," Trento, Italy, March 2011.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Renormalization Group in Nuclear Physics," lectures at the Schladming Winter School, Schladming, Austria, March, 2011.

K. Hebeler, "Chiral three-nucleon forces in nucleonic matter," ECT* workshop on Effective theories and the nuclear many-body program, Trento, Italy, March, 2011.

K. Hebeler, "New Frontiers in Nuclear Physics," invited seminar at TU Darmstadt, March, 2011.

T. Papenbrock, "Toward model-independent nuclear structure computations," Physics seminar, Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, February 24, 2011.

J.P. Vary, "What keeps the 14C clock ticking for 5730 years?," EFES-Iowa workshop on the ab initio Monte Carlo Shell Model, Ames, Iowa, February 23, 2011.

C. Bertulani, "Reaction theory for neutron-deficient nuclei," EURISOL topical meeting, Valencia, Spain, February 22, 2011.

H. Hergert, "Similarity Renormalization Group Techniques for the Nuclear Many-Body Problem," Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, February 22, 2011.

P. Navratil, "Ab Initio Theory of Light-Ion Reactions," The 48th Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference, Banff, Alberta, February 18-20, 2011.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," workshop on Perspectives of the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Feb. 10-12, 2011.

C.W. Johnson, "Factorization algorithms in large scale shell model calculations," workshop on Perspectives of the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Feb. 10-12, 2011.

P. Maris, "No-core full configuration calculations for neutrons in a H.O. trap," workshop on Perspectives of the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Feb. 10-12, 2011.

I. Stetcu, "NCSM for trapped few-body systems," workshop on Perspectives of the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Feb. 10-12, 2011.

J.P. Vary, "Origin of the anomalous long lifetime of 14C," workshop on Perspectives of the Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model, TRIUMF, Feb. 10-12, 2011.

J. Holt, "Exploring Neutron-Rich Exotic Nuclei with Three-Nucleon Forces," Nuclear Physics Seminar Instituto de Fisica Teorica Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, February 2, 2011.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," Ohio State University Physics colloqium, Feb. 1, 2011.

P. Maris, "Large sparse matrix techniques in ab initio approaches to nuclear structure," 2nd EFES-Iowa mini-workshop on nuclear structure, Ames, IA, February, 2011.

C. Yang, "Solving Large-scale Eigenvalue Problems in Nuclear Structure Calculation," Linear Algebra Seminar, UC Berkeley, Feb, 2011.

M. Horoi, "Nuclear Structure Theory Relevant to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams," colloquium at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, January 24, 2011.

H. Hergert, "Similarity Renormalization Group Techniques for the Nuclear Many-Body Problem," TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, January 20, 2011.

W. Nazarewicz, "Science Overview - Needs for Large Collaborations in Nuclear Theory," FUSTIPEN Inauguration Meeting, GANIL, Caen, France, Jan. 18, 2011.

A. Bulgac, "Static and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with Applications to Nuclear and Cold Atom Physics," 14th Taiwan Nuclear Physics School, Taiwan, January 17-22, 2011.

A. Bulgac, "Generation and dynamics of vortices in a superfluid unitary Fermi gas," Frontiers of condensed matter physics, Stockholm, Sweden, January 3-8, 2011.

G. Hagen, "The nuclear many-body problem," five lectures at the Second Uio-MSU-ORNL-UT School on Topics in Nuclear Physics: Many-Body Theory, Connections to Experiment and Nuclear Astrophysics, MSU, January 3-7, 2011.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio theory of light-ion reactions," XXXIV Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Cocoyoc, January 3-7, 2011.

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Talks in 2010

W. Nazarewicz, "Information content of a new observable," Invited Seminar, GANIL, Caen, France, Dec. 17, 2010.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio calculations of radiative capture," CAWONAPS 2010, TRIUMF, December 9-10, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing exotic nuclei," Colloquium, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India, Dec. 9, 2010.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," JLab Theory Seminar, Dec. 6, 2010.

T. Papenbrock, "Frontiers in nuclear structure theory," Physics Colloquium, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, December 3, 2010.

J. Holt, "Three-Nucleon Forces and the Evolution of Nuclear Structure in Exotic Nuclei," Nuclear Theory / EMMI Seminar; Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, November 29, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Computational Nuclear Structure and Reactions  - Progress and Opportunities on Leadership Class Computers from a US Perspective," International Symposium “From Quarks to Supernovae”, Izu-Atagawa, Japan, Nov. 28-30, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Introduction to ab initio theory of nuclei - I and II," Workshop preceding conference on NN Interaction and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem, Mumbai, India, Nov. 22-26, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio nuclear theory -- recent progress and future prospects," NN Interaction and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, Nov. 22-26, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Proton-neutron pairing correlations in nuclei: a shell model perspective," invited talk at the International Workshop Probing Proton-Neutron Pair Correlations held at Nishina Center, RIKEN Wako-shi campus, Japan, November 19-20, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio theory - Building bridges from quarks to the cosmos," Theory Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) -Mumbai, India, Nov. 19, 2010.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," Bonn University Physics Colloquium, Nov. 18, 2010.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," EMMI workshop on Strongly Coupled Systems, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, Nov. 15-17, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing exotic nuclei," International Symposium on "New Faces of Atomic Nuclei", Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa, Japan, November 15-17, 2010.

T. Papenbrock, "Ab initio nuclear structure calculations," EMMI workshop “Strongly coupled systems,” GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, November 15-17, 2010.

B.A. Brown, "Configuration Interactions Constrained by Energy-Density Functionals," University of Aizu- JUSTIPEN - EFES Symposium on  Cutting-Edge Physics of Unstable Nuclei, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, November 10-13, 2010.

M. Kortelainen, "Natural units and neutron droplets as constraints in the EDF optimization," Aizu-JUSTIPEN-EFES Symposium on "Cutting-Edge Physics of Unstable Nuclei", University of Aizu (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan), November 10-13, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Information content of a new observable," Aizu-JUSTIPEN-EFES Symposium on "Cutting-Edge Physics of Unstable Nuclei", University of Aizu (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan), November 10-13, 2010.

M. Stoitsov, "Microscopically Based Nuclear Energy Density Functionals Using The Density Matrix Expansion," Aizu-JUSTIPEN-EFES Symposium on "Cutting-Edge Physics of Unstable Nuclei", University of Aizu (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan), November 10-13, 2010.

J.C. Pei, "Superfluidity of Imbalanced Fermi Gas," UTK nuclear physics seminar, UTK, November 8, 2010.

S. Wild, "Estimating Derivatives of Computationally Noisy Functions," INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 7, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Structure Theory for the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams," invited talk at the Annual Meeting of Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 4, 2010.

J. Holt, "Three-Nucleon Forces and the Evolution of Nuclear Structure Towards the Driplines," ECT* Workshop: “The Limits of Existence of Light Nuclei”, Trento, Italy, October 27, 2010.

G. Hagen, "Probing the driplines with ab‐initio Coupled‐Cluster theory," ECT* Workshop on Limits of existence of Light nuclei, ECT*, Trento, Italy, October 25, 2010.

C.W. Johnson, "Add, multiply, divide, and conquer," UCSD Quantum Chemistry Seminar, October, 2010.

P. Maris, "Nuclear Structure Calculations with JISP16 for light nuclei," seminar at the Universtiy of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, October, 2010.

I. Stetcu, "The road from trapped cold atoms to nuclear physics," ECT* workshop on "The limits of existence of light nuclei," Trento, Italy, Oct. 2010.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Operator Evolution for Light Nuclei with the Similarity Renormalization Group," ECT* workshop on The Limits of Existence of Light Nuclei, October, 2010.

P. Magierski, "Pairing properties, pseudogap phase and dynamics of vortices in a unitary Fermi gas," Workshop: Ultracold Quantum Gases beyond Equilibrium, International Institute of Physics, Natal, Brasil, Sept. 27 -Oct. 1, 2010.

P. Magierski, "Spontaneously broken symmetries in nuclear systems -are there any?," 17th Nuclear Physics Workshop, Kazimierz, Poland, 22-26 September 2010.

P. Magierski, "Surprising features of ultra cold atomic gases at BCS-BEC crossover," 27th International Physics Congress (Turkish Physical Society), Istanbul, Turkey, 14-17 September 2010.

S. Wild, "Least Squares Parameter Fitting Without Derivatives," 2nd International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal, September 7, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio theory - Building bridges from quarks to the cosmos," GANIL, Caen, France, September 6, 2010.

P. Maris, "No-Core Full Configuration Nuclear Structure Calculations," Mid--West Nuclear Theory get-together, Argonne, IL, September, 2010.

I. Stetcu, "Nuclear structure and dynamics in a time-dependent SLDA framework," seminars at MSU, Warsaw Inst. Tech., NIPNE-HH Bucharest, Sept.-Nov. 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio nuclear theory – progress and prospects," Plenary talk, Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics, Extremes of the Nuclear Landscape, Zakopane, Poland, August 30 – September 4, 201.

G. Hagen, "Coupled-cluster approach to medium-mass and neutron-rich nuclei," Frontiers In NUclear STructure, Astrophysics and Reactions (FINUSTAR 3), Rhodes, Greece, August 23-27, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing atomic nuclei," NUCL Symposium: Radiochemistry at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), Fall 2010 ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, Aug. 22, 2010.

J. Sarich, "TAO Tutorial," Eleventh Workshop on the DOE ACTS Collection, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, August 18, 2010.

G. Hagen, "Coupled-cluster approach to medium-mass and neutron-rich nuclei," Nuclear Structure 2010 (NS2010), Clark-Kerr Campus, U. C. Berkeley, CA, August 8-13, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio nuclear theory - requirements and science goals for sustained petascale simulations," SciApps - 10 Challenges and Opportunities for Scientific Applications: learning to sustain the Petaflop with eyes on the Exaflop horizon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 6, 2010.

S. Wild, "Optimization Without Derivatives for Expensive Simulation-Based Problems," ICIS Workshop on Optimization in Energy Systems, Snowbird, UT, August 6, 2010.

J. Holt, "Three-Nucleon Forces for Medium Mass Nuclei Towards the Driplines," Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Rare Isotopes, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, August 1, 2010.

A. Bulgac, "Generation and dynamics of vortices in superfluid Fermi gases," Quantum solids, liquids, and gases, Stockholm, Sweden, July 19 - August 27, 2010.

M. Horoi, "The Role of Shell Model Nuclear Level Densities for Nuclear Astrophysics," 11th International Symposium on Nuclei in Cosmos, Heidelberg, Germany, July 19-23, 2010.

J.P. Carlson, "Large-Scale Computations of Nuclear Dynamics," SCIDAC 2010, July 12-16, 2010.

A. Bulgac, "Static Properties and Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Many Fermion Systems," Summer School on Nuclear Collective Dynamics V, F.Gursey Institute for Theoretical Physics, Istambul Turkey, July 4-10, 2010.

J. Holt, "Three-Nucleon Forces for Neutron-Rich, Medium-Mass Nuclei," International Nuclear Physics Conference Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 4, 2010.

T. Papenbrock, "Model independent computation of atomic nuclei: status and perspectives," “The INT at 20 years: The Future of Nuclear Physics and its Intersections,” Seattle, WA, July 1-2, 2010.

B.A. Brown, "Renormalized Interactions for CI constrained by EDF methods and NuShellX@MSU," Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2010, Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics (III), From Nuclei to Stars, Sinaia, Romania, June 20 – July 3, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Nuclear Shell Model Analyses and Predictions of Double Beta Decay Observables," the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2010, Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics (III), From Nuclei to Stars, Sinaia, Romania, June 20 – July 3, 2010.

G.P.A. Nobre, "Coupled Channels: From Nuclear Structure to Reaction Observables," LLNL Post-doc Seminar Series, June 15, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio light-front field theory based on the no core shell model," LC2010, Valencia, Spain, June 13-19, 2010.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Pairing from Effective Field Theory and Density Functional Theory," workshop on "Superfluidity in nuclear matter, finite nuclei and ultra-cold fermion gases", CEA Saclay, June 2, 2010.

P. Magierski, "Pairing in cold atoms from Monte Carlo calculations; finite temperature aspects," Workshop: Superfluidity in nuclear matter, finite nuclei and ultra-cold fermion gases, Saclay, France, May 31- June 4, 2010.

P. Maris, "Scaling of ab-initio nuclear physics calculations on multicore computer architectures," ICCS2010, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Pairing in nuclear systems; observables, phenomenology and microscopic calculations," Workshop on Superfluidity in nuclear matter, finite nuclei and ultra-cold fermion gases, Espace de Structure Nucléaire Théorique at Saclay, May-June, 2010.

A.M. Shirokov, "New developments of realistic J-matrix inverse scattering NN interaction and ab initio description of light nuclei," NPAE-2010, Kiev, Ukraine, June 2010.

A. Bulgac, "Pairing in low density fermion systems: Open problems, Next Frontier - Time-dependent probes," Superfluidity in nuclear-matter, finite nuclei and ultra cold fermion gases, CEA-Saclay, FRANCE, May 31-June 4, 2010.

B.A. Brown, "Renormalized Interactions with EDF Single-Particle Basis States and NuShellX@MSU," 10th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics, New Quests in Nuclear Structure, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, May 21-25, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Novel Computational Aspects of the Shell Model Nuclear Level Densities and Reaction Rates," invited talk at RIKEN, Saitama, Japan, May 20, 2010.

M. Horoi, "New Approaches for Shell Model Level Densities and Reaction Rates," invited talk at University of Tokyo, May 20, 2010.

G. Negoita, "Improving convergence of ab initio no core nuclear structure methods," Nuclear Physics seminar at Washington University, St. Louis, MO, May 14, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Shell Model Predictions of Double Beta Decay Half-Lifes," invited talk at RCNP, University of Osaka, May 12, 2010.

J. Moré, "Computational Noise in Complex Simulations: Theory and Impact," 2010 DOE Applied Mathematics Program Meeting, Berkeley, CA, May 4, 2010.

S. Wild, "Model-Based Derivative-Free Optimization Using Existing Expensive Evaluations," 2010 DOE Applied Mathematics Program Meeting, Berkeley, CA, May 4, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio theory - Building bridges from quarks to the cosmos," Theory Group Seminar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India, May 3, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Frontiers in Nuclear Physics," Physics Colloquium, Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX, May, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing Atomic Nuclei," Physics Colloquium, Ohio State University, May, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Building bridges from quarks to the cosmos," Colloquium at the University of Missouri, Rolla, MO, April 15, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Novel High Performance Computational Aspects of the Shell Model Approach for Medium Nuclei," 6th ANL/MSU/JINA/INT FRIB Theory Workshop, ANL, March 25, 2010.

S. Bogner, "Non-empirical energy density functionals for nuclei," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23-26, 2010.

A. Bulgac, "Some Open Problems in Nuclear Large Amplitude Collective Motion (including fission)," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23-26, 2010.

J. Carlson, "Neutron Matter from Low to High Densities," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23-26, 2010.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Energy Density Functionals for Nuclei," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23 - 26, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Novel High Performance Computational Aspects of the Shell Model Approach for Medium Nuclei," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23-26, 2010.

R. Lusk, "How shall we program very large machines?," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23-26, 2010.

P. Maris, "Ab initio no core full configuration approach to the structure of light nuclei," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23 - 26, 2010.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio many-body calculations of light-ion reactions," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23-26, 2010.

T. Papenbrock, "Ab-initio coupled cluster computations of nuclei," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23-26, 2010.

J. Vary, "Ab initio no core shell model - status and prospects," Computational Forefront in Nuclear Theory: Preparing for FRIB, Argonne National Laboratory, March 23-26, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Frontiers in nuclear structure theory from a FAIR perspective," Nordic Winter Meeting on PHYSICS @ FAIR, Björkliden, Sweden, March 22-26, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Frontiers in Nuclear Physics," KTH Stockholm, Colloquium, March 19, 2010.

A. Bulgac, "What do we know about the unitary Fermi gas?," Invited talk - APS March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 15-19, 2010.

M. Kortelainen, "Natural Units in the Nuclear Energy Density Functional Theory," 4th LACM-EFES-Justipen Workshop, ORNL, Mar. 15, 2010.

T. Lesinski, "Instabilities in the Nuclear Energy Density Functional Theory," 4th LACM-EFES-Justipen Workshop, ORNL, Mar. 15, 2010.

M. Stoitsov, "Augmented Lagrangian Method for Precise Constrained Density Functional Theory Calculations," 4th LACM-EFES-Justipen Workshop, ORNL, Mar. 15, 2010.

J. Terasaki, "Skyrme QRPA calculation of deformed nuclei," 4th LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN workshop, ORNL, March 15-17, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Progress and problems with projected basis CI," Leadership Class CI codes workshop, San Diego State University, March 12, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "MFDn – future prospects as an LCCI code," LCCI development workshop, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, March 11-13, 2010.

P. Maris, "Scalability and performance of MFDn -- recent and future developments," Second Leadership Class CI Codes workshop, San Diego, CA, March 2010.

H.A. Nam, "Computing Atomic Nuclei on the Cray XT5," Proc. 51st Cray User Group Conference 2009 (www.cug.org), March, 2010.

G. Negoita, "Improving convergence of ab initio no core nuclear structure methods," EFES-Iowa mini symposium on the ab initio Monte Carlo Shell Model, Feb. 26-27, 2010.

J.P. Vary, "No core shell model – recent progress and future prospects," EFES-Iowa mini symposium on the ab initio Monte Carlo Shell Model, Feb. 26-27, 2010.

G. Negoita, "Improving convergence of ab initio no core nuclear structure methods," Nuclear Physics seminar at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, February 10, 2010.

M. Horoi, "Shell Model Analysis of the Double Beta Decay Half-Life," EFES-NSCL workshop on “Perspectives on the modern shell model and related experimental topics”, NSCL/MSU, February 4-6, 2010.

P. Maris, "Ab Initio No Core Full Configuration approach: recent results," EFES-Iowa mini-workshop on nuclear structure, Ames, IA, February, 2010.

P. Maris, "Ab initio nuclear structure calculations with configuration interaction methods," seminar, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Feb. 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Fission Barriers of Compound Superheavy Nuclei," invited talk at the APS April Meeting 2010, Washington, DC, February, 2010.

I. Stetcu, "Universal interactions in atomic and low-energy few-nucleon systems," invited talk at the April Meeting of APS, Washington DC, February 2010.

J. Moré, "Computational Noise in Simulation-Based Optimization Problems," International Conference on Analysis and Applications, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, January 24, 2010.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Density Functional Theory for Atomic Nuclei," Physics Colloquium, Argonne National Lab, Jan. 22, 2010.

B.A. Brown, "Five Lectures on Nuclear Structure Theory," School on Topics in Nuclear Many-Body Theory, from Lattice QCD to Nuclei, Gala, Norway, January 4-9 2010.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio Hamiltonian approach to nuclear physics and to light-front field theory," High Energy Physics in the LHC Era HEP-2010, Valparaiso, Chil, January 4-8, 2010.

W. Nazarewicz, "Microscopic Description of the Fission Process," 2010 SSAA Symposium, Washington, DC, Jan. 2010.

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Talks in 2009

M. Kortelainen, "Extended Energy Density Functionals," Justipen-EFES Workshop, Riken, Japan, Dec. 7, 2009.

M. Kortelainen, "Extended Energy Density Functionals," MSU/NSCL Nuclear Physics Seminar, Michigan State University, Dec. 1, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "The Unitary Fermi Gas: so simple yet so complex!," Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, November 16, 2009.

P. Maris, "Ab Initio Nuclear Structure Calculations of C, N, and other light nuclei," invited talk in the ORNL booth at SuperComputing 2009, Portland, OR, November, 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Designer Nuclei-And How to Use Them," University of Tennessee Science Forum, Knoxville, TN, November, 2009.

M. Horoi, "Spin- and Parity-Dependent Nuclear Level Densities for rp-Process Nuclei," invited talk at the National Superconducting National Lab, MSU, October 22, 2009.

S. Wild, "Estimating Computational Noise in Numerical Simulations," Lehigh University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar, Lehigh, PA, October 16, 2009.

G.P.A. Nobre, "Inelastic and Transfer Couplings in Nucleon Induced Reactions," DNP 2009 Meeting in Waikoloa, Hawaii, October 14, 2009.

A Bulgac, "Some Open Problems in Nuclear Large Amplitude Collective Motion," Scientific Grand Challenges in National Security: the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, Gaithersburg, MD, October 6-8, 2009.

P. Maris, "Relativistic three-body bound state calculations in Bethe-Salpeter and lightfront formalism," ECT* Workshop on Relativistic Description of Two- and Three-Body Systems in Nuclear Physics, Trento, Italy, Oct. 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Microscopic description of nuclear fission," Meeting on Scientific Grand Challenges in National Security: The Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, Washington D.C., October, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "Large Amplitude Superfluid Dynamics of a Unitary Fermi Gas," Finite-Temperature Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems, Durham, September 14-17, 2009.

S. Wild, "Turning Weeks Into Days: Parameter Estimation For Expensive Nuclear Energy Density Functionals," ANLPS, Argonne, IL, September 10, 2009.

J. Moré, "Estimating Computational Noise in Simulation-Based Optimization Problems," Tercer Congreso Latinoamericano de Matem\'aticos, Santiago, Chile, September 1, 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Designer nuclei: Connecting the femto-world with the Universe," Physics Colloquium, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Sep. 2009.

I. Stetcu, "Effective Field Theory and the no-core shell model," plenary talk at the 9th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, University of Bonn, Germany, August-September 2009.

J. Moré, "Derivative-Free Optimization Methods for Simulation-Based Optimization Problems," 20th International Symposium on Mathematica Programming, Chicago, IL, August 25, 2009.

S. Wild, "Variable Numbers of Interpolation Points in Model-based Algorithms," 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Chicago, IL, August 25, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Realistic NN and NNN interactions and the nuclear single-particle basis," Lecture 1, International Summer School on Subatomic Physics, Beijing, China, August 23-27, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "ab initio No Core Nuclear Structure: Progress and Plans," Lecture 2, International Summer School on Subatomic Physics, Beijing, China, August 23-27, 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Frontiers of nuclear physics," The 10th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus collisions, Beijing, China, Aug. 16-21, 2009.

J. Pei, "Fission barriers of compound superheavy nuclei," The 10th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus collisions, Beijing, China, Aug. 16-21, 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing Atomic Nuclei: Status and Challenges," Lecture at the Department of Technical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Aug. 14, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Recent progress in ab initio Hamiltonian approaches to nuclear structure and light front field theory," Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, August 13, 2009.

J. Moré, "Estimating Computational Noise in Simulation-Based Optimization Problems," Linear and Numerical Linear Algebra Theory, Methods, and Applications, Northern Illinois University, August 12, 2009.

J. Pei, "Multi-resolution computing platform of nuclear energy density functional," CScADS 2009 Workshop, CA, Aug.3, 2009.

P. Magierski, "The properties of the unitary Fermi gas at finite temperatures - Quantum Monte Carlo approach," INT Program: From Femtoscience to Nanoscience: Nuclei, Quantum Dots and Nanostructures Seattle, USA, July 20- August 28, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "The Unitary Fermi Gas: so simple yet so complex!," The XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Beijing, China, July 25-31, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "Some Open Problems in Nuclear Large Amplitude Collective Motion (including fission)," Seminar T2, Los Alamos National Lab, July 21, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "The Unitary Fermi Gas: so simple yet so complex!," Colloquium, CNLS, Los Alamos National Lab, July 20, 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Nuclear Structure Theory 2009: Progress Report and Challenges," SUPA Lecture; University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, July 15, 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Discussion and concluding remarks," Workshop on Structure and astrophysics from nuclear reactions with exotic nuclei, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, July 15, 2009.

P. Maris, "Solving ab-initio nuclear structure problems with configuration interaction methods," Invited talk in session on Extreme Scale Computing in Large-scale Scientific Applications at the 2009 SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) annual meeting, Denver, CO, July 6 - 10, 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing Atomic Nuclei," National Nuclear Physics Summer School, June 28-July 10, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio nuclear structure - the large sparse matrix eigenvalue problem," SciDAC 2009, San Diego, CA, June 15-18, 2009.

S. Wild, "Simulation-based Nonlinear Least Squares Fitting," SIAM Conference on Math. & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Leipzig, Germany, June 15, 2009.

P. Navratil, "Ab Initio Reactions of Nucleons on Light Nuclei," UNEDF SCIDAC meeting, Pack Forest, WA, June, 2009.

P. Navratil, "Ab Initio Many-Body Calculations of Light Ion Reactions," TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, June, 2009.

J. Vary, "Ab initio no core calculations of light nuclei," CIPANP, May 25-30, 2009.

S.K. Bogner, "Similarity renormalization group and low-momentum interactions for nuclei," CIPANP 2009, May 25-30, 2009.

T. Papenbrock, "Coupled-cluster theory for medium-mass nuclei," 8th International Conference on Radioactive Ion Beams (RNB-8), Grand Rapids, MI, May 26-30, 2009.

N. Laghave, M. Sosonkina, P. Maris and J.P. Vary, "Benefits of Parallel I/O in Ab Initio Nuclear Physics Calculations," International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2009, Baton Rouge, LA, May 25-27, 2009.

P. Navratil, "Ab Initio Many-Body Calculations of Nucleon Scattering on Light Nuclei," RNB8, Grand Rapids, MI, May 25-26, 2009.

R. Senkov, B. A. Brown, V. Zelevinsky, G. Bertsch and Y.L. Luo, "Exact Pairing in a Deformed Hartree-Fock Basis," 2009 APS April Meeting, Denver, CO, May 25, 2009.

G. Hagen, "Coupled-cluster theory for nuclei," CEA Workshop on Many-Body open quantum systems, Saclay, May 18-20, 2009.

N. Schunck, "Symmetry-Conserving Spherical Gogny HFB Calculations in a Woods-Saxon Basis," Importance of continuum coupling for nuclei close to the drip-lines, CEA Workshop on Many-Body open quantum systems, Saclay, May 18-20, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "Unexpected aspects of large amplitude nuclear collective motion," FISSION 2009, Chateau de Cadarache, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, May 13-16, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio no core nuclear structure: progress and plans," Seminar, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 11, 2009.

R.B. Wiringa, "Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo," INT Program on Effective Field Theory and the Many-Body Problem University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 6, 2009.

W. Nazarewicz, "Fission Barriers of Compound Heavy Nuclei; Pairing Reentrance Phenomenon in Heated Rotating Nuclei," GANIL, Caen, France, May 2009.

T. Papenbrock, "Tentative solution of the center of mass problem," INT Program on Effective Field Theory and the Many-Body Problem, Seattle, WA , May 2009.

I. Stetcu, "Time-Dependent Superfluid Local Density Approximation: A Status Report on the Full 3D Implementation and Applications," Arctic FIDIPRO-EFES Workshop, Saariselkä, Finland, April 20-24, 2009.

B. Gebremariam, "Toward Microscopically Enriched and Constrained EDF," INT Program on Effective Field Theory and the Many-Body Problem, Seattle, WA, April 16, 2009.

T. Lesinski, "Non-empirical pairing energy functional," INT Program on Effective Field Theory and the Many-Body Problem, Seattle, WA, April 10, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "The static and dynamic extension of DFT to superfluid fermionic systems: SLDA, ASLDA and TDSLDA," Effective Field Theories and the Many-Body problem, INT program, Seattle, April 2nd, 2009.

P. Maris, "Ab-initio calculations in nuclear physics," NCCS Users Meeting, Oak Ridge, TN, April 2009.

P. Navratil, "From EFT Interactions to a Unified Ab Initio Description of Light Nuclei," INT Program on Effective Field Theory and the Many-body Problem, Seattle, WA, April, 2009.

E.D. Jurgenson, "Similarity Renormalization Group and Evolution of Many-Body Forces," INT Program on Effective Field Theory and the Many-Body Problem, Seattle, WA, March 31, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Computing the nucleus of the atom from first principles," Colloquium at the Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, March 13, 2009.

M. Horoi, "The Many Facets of the Nuclear CI," invited talk at the UNEDF workshop on Leadership Class CI Codes, San Diego State University, March 11-14, 2009.

S. Wild, "Model-Based Optimization Algorithms for Expensive Simulation-Driven Problems," Iowa State University Nuclear Physics Seminar, Ames, IA, March 5, 2009.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Density Functional Theory (DFT) for Nuclei -- What About EFT?," INT Program on Effective Field Theory and the Many-Body Problem, Seattle, WA, March, 2009.

P. Maris, "Distributed matrix storage algorithms and MFD," Leadership Class CI codes workshop, San Diego, CA, March 2009.

P. Navratil, "TRDENS Density Matrix Code and Importance Sampling," Workshop on Leadership Class Configuration Interaction Code, San Diego, CA, March, 2009.

S. Wild, "Skyrme functional fitting at 13% of the computational expense," The 3rd LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN., February 25, 2009.

J. Moré, "Recent developments in parameter estimation for complex simulations," The 3rd LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN., February 24, 2009.

G. Hagen, "Coupled-cluster theory for nuclei," 3rd LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, JIHIR, Oak Ridge, February 23-25, 2009.

T. Lesinski, "Non-empirical pairing energy functional," 3rd LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, JIHIR, Oak Ridge, .

J. Pei, "Pairing of a trapped unitary Fermi gas," 3rd LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, JIHIR, Oak Ridge, February 23-25, 2009.

N. Schunck, "Getting nuclear DFT ready for the exascale age," 3rd LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, JIHIR, Oak Ridge, February 23-25, 2009.

M.V. Stoitsov, "Recent developments in the large-scale DFT calculations for odd-even mass differences," 3rd LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, JIHIR, Oak Ridge, February 23-25, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Recent ab initio NCSM and NCFC results," LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge National Lab, Feb. 23-25, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio no core approach to the properties of light nuclei," Mardi Gras Nuclear Physics Workshop, Baton Rouge, LA, Feb. 18-20, 2009.

J. Drut, "The Optimized Effective Potential," Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN, February, 2009.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," Nuclear Seminar, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH, February, 2009.

P. Navratil, "Ab Initio Many-Body Calculations of Nucleon Scattering on Light Nuclei," 2009 Mardi Gras Nuclear Physics Workshop, Baton Rouge, LA, February, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "Some arguments for the need of exascale computing for nuclear structure and reactions and for a comprehensive many‐body approach to fermionic superfluid phenomena in general," Forefront Questions in Nuclear Science and the Role of High Perfomance Computing, Washington, DC, January 26-28, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio Nuclear Structure and Reactions - New Science through Extreme Scale Computing," DOE Workshop on Forefront Questions in Nuclear Science and the Role of High Performance Computing, Gaithersburg, MD, January 26-28, 2009.

J.P. Vary, "Today's atomic nucleus -  bridge from quarks to the cosmos," University of Delhi colloquium, Delhi, India, January 9, 2009.

A. Bulgac, "The Incredible Many Facets of the Unitary Fermi Gas," Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, January 4-8, 2009.

P. Maris, "Ab initio calculations for light nuclei and neutron droplets," seminar at Michican State University, East Lansing, MI, Jan. 2009.

P. Maris, "No-Core Shell-Model and No-Core Full Configuration calculations in nuclear physics," Extreme Scale Computing Workshop - nuclear physics, Washington D.C., Jan. 2009.

P. Navratil, "Ab Initio Approaches to Nuclear Reactions," Forefront Questions in NuclearScience and the Role of High Performance Computing, Washington, DC, January, 2009.

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Talks in 2008

M. Horoi, "Nuclear structure input for nuclear reactions," International Conference on Interfacing Structure and Reactions at the Center of the Atom, Queenstown, New Zealand, December 1-5, 2008.

J. Terasaki, "Systematics of the First 2+ Excitation in Spherical Nuclei with Skyrme-QRPA," 5th ANL/MSU/JINA/INT FRIB Workshop on Bulk Nuclear Properties, Michigan State University, November 19-22, 2008.

R.B. Wiringa, "Recent Developments in Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo," 5th ANL/MSU/JINA/INT FRIB Workshop Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, November 19-22, 2008.

C. Yang, "Accelerating Configuration Interaction Calculations for Nuclear Structure," Supercomputing Conference, Austin, TX, November, 2008.

P. Maris, "Ab initio calculations of light nuclei," seminar at the KVI, Groningen, the Netherlands, Nov. 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Science of rare isotopes: connecting nuclei with the universe," Rutgers Physics Colloquium, Rutgers University, NJ, Nov. 2008.

P. Magierski, "UNEDF Project: Towards a Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional," Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, October 28, 2008.

A. Bulgac, "Thermodynamics Properties and Phase Transitions in Dilute Fermion Matter," DNP Meeting, Oakland, CA, October 23-26, 2008.

P. Maris, "Light nuclei without a core," Fall Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the APS, Oakland, CA, Oct. 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing atomic nuclei," Colloquium, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland, October 2008.

J. Moré, "Derivative-free solvers for simulation-based optimization problems," Societa' Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale, SIMAI, Roma, Italy, September 16, 2008.

G. Hagen, "Nuclear Coupled-Cluster approach," The Fifth International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses ENAM'2008, Ryn, Poland, Sep. 7-15, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Summary Talk," The Fifth International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses  ENAM'2008, Ryn, Poland, Sep. 7-15, 2008.

A. Bulgac, "The Incredible Many Facets of the Unitary Fermi Gas," Seminar, Cyclotron Lab, Texas A&M, September 2, 2008.

A. Bulgac, "A unitary quantum supersolid," Seminar, Department of Physics, Texas A&M, September 2, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing atomic nuclei," Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics, Zakopane, Poland, Sep. 1-4, 2008.

P. Magierski, "UNEDF Project: Towards a Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional," 25th International Physics Congress (Turkish Physical Society), Bodrum, Turkey, August 25-29, 2008.

B.A. Brown, "Neutron radii of atomic nuclei and the neutron matter EOS," Lead Radius Experiment (PREX) Workshop and Neutron Rich Matter in the Heavens and on Earth, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, August 17-19, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Theory of neutron-rich nuclei and nuclear radii," Lead Radius Experiment (PREX) Workshop and Neutron Rich Matter in the Heavens and on Earth,  Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, Aug. 17-19, 2008.

M. Scott and M. Horoi, "Parity Dependent Shell Model Level Densities for Nuclear Astrophysics," International Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics ”Nuclei in the Cosmos - IX”, Mackinac Island, July 25 - August 1, 2008.

A. Bulgac, "The Incredible Many Facets of the Unitary Fermi Gas," Extreme QCD 2008, Raleigh, NC, July 21-23, 2008.

M. Horoi, "New Approaches to Configuration Interaction," Hokudai-TORIJIN-JUSTIPEN-EFES workshop & JUSTIPEN-EFES-Hokudai-UNEDF meeting, Hokkaido, Japan, July 21-25, 2008.

M. Horoi, "Accurate Nuclear Level Densities for Nuclear Reactions," Hokudai-TORIJIN-JUSTIPEN-EFES workshop & JUSTIPEN-EFES-Hokudai-UNEDF meeting, Hokkaido, Japan, July 21-25, 2008.

M. Horoi, "Accurate description of the spin- and parity-dependent nuclear level," invited talk at the International Workshop on Statistical Nuclear Physics and its Applications in Astrophysics and Technology, Ohio University, Athens OH, July 8-11, 2008.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Ab initio density functional theory for nuclei," workshop on "Ab-Initio Nuclear Structure - Where do we stand?", Bad Honnef, Germany, July, 2008.

P. Maris, "No-core Full Configuration basis results for nuclei and neutron droplets in external fields," JUSTIPEN--EFES--Hokudai--UNEDF workshop, Onuma-koen, Hokkaido, Japan, July 2008.

P. Navratil, "Ab Initio Many-Body Calculations of Nucleon Nucleus Scattering," 410. WE-Heraeus Workshop Ab-Initio Nuclear Structure - Where do we stand??, BadHonnef, Germany, July, 2008.

T. Papenbrock, "Coupled-cluster theory for medium-mass nuclei," INT Program ``Atomic, Chemical, and Nuclear Developments in Coupled Cluster Methods'', Seattle, WA, July 2008.

T. Papenbrock, "Coupled-cluster theory for medium-mass nuclei," Heraeus workshop "Ab-initio nuclear structure - Where do we stand?", Bad Honnef, Germany, July 2008.

M. Horoi, "Comparison of Nuclear Configuration Interaction Calculations and Coupled Cluster Calculations," invited talk at the International Symposium on "50 Years of Coupled Cluster Theory", INT Seattle, WA, June 30 - July 2.

A. Bulgac, "Static and TD (A)SLDA for cold atoms and nuclei," The second annual UNEDF meeting, Pack Forest, WA, June 23-26, 2008.

R.B. Wiringa, "Nuclear Forces and Spectra (and Scattering)," Elba X Workshop on Electron-Nucleus Scattering EIPC, Marciana Marina, Elba, Italy, June 23-27 2008.

J. Engel, "ENST Lecture series on the Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation," CEA/SPhN, June 18-20, 2008.

Z. Gao and M. Horoi, "Angular Momentum Projected Configuration Interaction of Different Shapes," Nuclear Structure 2008, East Lansing, MI, June 3-6, 2008.

M. Horoi, B.A. Brown and W. Rae, "Application of the Shell-Model Code NushellX to the Structure of 56Ni in the full pf shell and a Truncation within a Diagonlized Proton-Neutron Basis," Nuclear Structure 2008, East Lansing, MI, June 3-6, 2008.

A. Bulgac, "Towards incorporating nuclear pairing on an ab initio basis into the nuclear EDF," Mass Olympics, ECT*, Trento, Italy, May 26-30, 2008.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Effective Field Theory and Density Functional Theory," Conference on "From quarks to the nuclear many-body problem", Oslo, Norway, May 21-24, 2008.

M. Horoi, "Large-scale shell model calculations and coupled cluster calculations," invited talk at the international Conference “From Quarks to the Nuclear Many-Body Problem”, Oslo University, May 21-24, 2008.

S.C. Pieper, "Ab initio studies of light nuclei with Green's function Monte Carlo," Conference on "From Quarks to the Nuclear Many-Body Problem" University of Oslo, Norway, May 21-24, 2008.

E. Ng, "High-Performance Nuclear Structure Calculations," The 9th International Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing, Trondheim, Norway, May, 2008.

G.F. Bertsch, "UNEDF Panel Review: Introduction," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

J. Carlson, "UNEDF SCIDAC ab-initio progress," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Microscopic Input to Energy Functionals," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Using the Functionals: Towards Spectroscopic-Quality NEDF (DFT Applications)," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

M. Horoi, "DFT Extensions for Dynamics, Excited States," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

I. Thompson, "Reaction Theory in UNEDF Optical Potentials from DFT Models," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

R. Lusk, "Computer Science in UNEDF," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

R. Lusk, "The Asynchronous Dynamic Load-Balancing Library," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

J.P. Vary, "Ab-initio Calculations of Microscopic Structure of Nuclei," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

J. Moré, "Computational Infrastructure for Nuclear Energy Density Functional Theory," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

K. Roche, "Computer Science Research and Software Development: Superfluid Local Density Approximation; Coupled Cluster," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "International Impact," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

I. Thompson, "Future Computing Needs for Reactions," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

UNEDF Collaboration, "UNEDF Panel Review: Answers to Homework Questions," UNEDF Panel Review, Rockville, MD, April 17-18, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Science of rare isotopes: connecting nuclei with the universe," Plenary Talk, APS Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, April 12, 2008.

J. Moré, "Derivative-Free Optimization Solvers: A Shootout," Tenth Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, Colorado, April 11-17, 2008.

P. Navratil, "Ab initio no-core shell model with continuum," APS Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, April 11-15, 2008.

N. Schunck, "Odd-Even Mass Nuclei in Energy Density Functional Theory; Steps Towards a Universal Energy Density Functional," APS Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, April 11-15, 2008.

D.J. Dean, "Beyond the shell model: computing nuclei with coupled cluster theory," Invited Talk, APS Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, April 11-15, 2008.

N. Schunck, "Odd-Even Mass Nuclei in Energy Density Functional Theory – Steps Towards a Universal Energy Den," APS Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, April 11-15, 2008.

R.B. Wiringa, "Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei," Theoretical Physics Seminar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, April 4, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Computing Atomic Nuclei," IOP Annual Nuclear Physics Group Conference, Liverpool, UK, April 1, 2008.

P. Maris, "Full configuration calculations of light nuclei," APS spring meeting, St.Louis, MO, April 2008.

A.M. Shirokov, "Ab initio calculations of light nuclei with JISP16 NN interaction," Cyclotron Institute, Texax A&M University, College Station, TX, March 20, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "UNEDF: building a microscopic nuclear energy density functional," Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, March 19, 2008.

R.B. Wiringa, "Dependence of Nuclear Binding on Hadronic Mass Variation," Theoretical Physics Seminar, Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, VA, March 17, 2008.

G. Fann, "Solving 3-D and 6-D Schrödinger's Equations Using Multiresolution Adaptive Pseudo-spectral Methods on Leadership Class Computers," SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Atlanta, GA, March 12-14, 2008.

P. Sternberg, "High Performance Nuclear Structure Computation," SIAM Parallel Processing Conference, March, 2008.

D.J. Dean, "Progresses and challenges in nuclear theory," Colloquium at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, February 20, 2008.

R.B. Wiringa, "QMC vs. Experiment," Physics Division Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, February 18, 2008.

D.J. Dean, "Progresses and challenges in nuclear theory," Colloquium at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, January 31, 2008.

W. Nazarewicz, "Microscopic Description of Spontaneous Fission," SSAA Seminar, NNSA, Washington, DC, January 29, 2008.

C. Bertulani, "Benchmark calculations of nuclear mass tables," DFT-UNEDF Workshop, The 2nd Joint LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, January 25, 2008.

G. Hagen, "Coupled-cluster Theory for Light Nuclei," 2nd Annual LACM-EFES-JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, January 23-25, 2008.

J. Moré, "A Short Guide to Optimization Technology on High-Performance Architectures," JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Jan. 23-25, 2008.

N. Schunck, "Spectroscopy of Odd-Mass Nuclei in Energy Density Functional Theory – Impact of Terascale Computing," JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Jan. 23-25, 2008.

J.P. Vary, "Full Configuration Interaction studies of light nuclei - opportunities and challenges," JUSTIPEN Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Jan. 23-25, 2008.

B.A. Brown, "Strategies for Extracting Optimal Effective Hamiltonians for CI and Skyrme EDF Applications," DFT-UNEDF Workshop on the Determination of the Nuclear Energy Functional: Optimization, Strategy, Essential Experimental Data and Chi-Squared Metrics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, January 22, 2008.

J. Moré, "Parameter Estimation in Nuclear Fission," DFT-UNEDF Workshop on the Determination of the Nuclear Energy Functional: Optimization Strategy, Essential Experimental Data and Chi-Squared Metrics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, January 22, 2008.

J.P. Vary, "Ab-initio calculations with an external field - initial results," UNEDF-DFT Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 22, 2008.

T. Papenbrock, "Coupled-cluster Theory for Medium Mass Nuclei," Hirschegg 2008, International Workshop XXXVI on Gross Properties of Nuclei and Nuclear Excitations, January 13-19, 2008.

B.A. Brown, "Complementary aspects of EDF and CI methods," Hirshegg 2008, Modern Aspects of Nuclear Structure and Reactions, Jan. 13-19, 2008.

G.F. Bertsch, "Density Functional Theory in Nuclear Physics," Colloquium, Rutgers University, January, 2008.

R.J. Furnstahl, "Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution," Physics Colloquium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, January, 2008.

R.J. Furnstahl, "The UNEDF Project," TRIUMF nuclear theory seminar, Vancouver, BC, March 2008.

P. Maris, "Recent Advances in ab initio calculations in nuclear structure," Modern Aspects in Nuclear Structure and Reactions, Hirschegg, Austria, Jan. 2008.

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Talks in 2007

P. Möller, "Unified calculations of nuclear-structure properties: Ground-state masses and deformations, fission," RIKEN, Wako, Japan, December 17, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Full Configuration Interaction (CI) approach - convergence," Workshop on Hamiltonians for ab-initio nuclear physics, ORNL, Tennessee, December 6, 2007.

P. Möller, "New Global Calculations of Nuclear Masses and Fission Barriers for Astrophysical Applications," OMEGO7, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, December 4-7, 2007.

P. Maris, "Convergence of full configuration calculations for N3LO NN interactions," Workshop on Hamiltonians for ab-initio nuclear physics, Oak Ridge, TN, Dec. 2007.

W. Nazarewicz, "Nuclear Structure '07: Exciting, Broad, Relevant," JUSTIPEN, RIKEN, Wako, Japan, December 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Ab initio solutions of the properties of light nuclei," Instituto de ísica Teórica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 23, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Advances in microscopic nuclear theory using ab initio methods," ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 21, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Hamiltonian Light-Front QCD," XIX Reunião de Trabalho sobre INterações HAdrônicas, CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 19-20, 2007.

P. Navratil, "Light nuclei from chiral EFT interactions," INT Program 07-3, Nuclear Many-body Approaches for the 21st Century, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, November 13, 2007.

R.B. Wiringa, "Nuclear Forces and the Destiny of the Universe," Physics Colloquium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, November 12, 2007.

C. Bertulani, "Benchmark calculations of nuclear mass tables," INT Program 07-3: Nuclear Many-Body Approaches for the 21st Century, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, November 7, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Ab Initio solutions of the properties of light nuclei," University of Iowa Colloquium, Iowa City, Iowa, November 5, 2007.

A.M. Shirokov, "No-core shell model with JISP16 NN interaction: spectroscopy of light nuclei and neutron-nucleus sca," INT Program 07-3: Nuclear Many-Body Approaches for the 21st Century, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, November 2, 2007.

G. Arbanas, "Statistical properties of Kawai-Kerman-McVoy T-matrix," Compound Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics Conference, November 2007.

D.J. Dean, "Understanding nuclei: progress and challenges," Compound Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics Conference, November 2007.

P. Maris, "Large Scale Computing for Nuclear Structure," nuclear physics seminar at Kent State University, Kent, OH, Nov. 2007.

S.C. Pieper, "The Illinois Extension to the Fujita-Miyazawa Three Nucleon Force," International Symposium on New Facet of Three Nucleon Force - 50 Years of Fujita-Miyazawa Three Nucleon Force, Tokyo, Japan, October 29, 2007.

R.B. Wiringa, "Nucleon (and Δ) Momentum Distributions in Nuclei," SRC 2007 Workshop on Short-Range Structure of Nuclei at 12 GeV, Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, VA, October 26, 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Local density functional theory for superfluid fermionic systems:the unitary gas," First FIDIPRO-JSPS workshop on energy density functionals in nuclei, Keuruu, Finland, October 25-27, 2007.

W. Nazarewicz, "Nuclear DFT: questions and challenges," First FIDIPRO-JSPS Workshop on Energy Density Functionals in Nuclei, Keurusselka, Finland, October 25-27, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Ab Initio No Core Shell Model (NCSM) and the route to constraints on the Nuclear Energy Density Functional," First FIDIPRO-JSPS Workshop On Energy Density Functionals In Nuclei, Jyväskylä, Finland, October 25-27, 2007.

G. Arbanas, "Kawai-Kerman-McVoy Statistical Theory of Nuclear Reactions," CNR-2007, Fish Camp, CA, October 22-26, 2007.

R.B. Wiringa, "GFMC Calculations of Isospin-Mixing in ⁸Be," 2007 Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society, Newport News, VA, October 11-13, 2007.

D.J. Dean, "Progress and challenges in the theory of nuclei," eRIBS07 International Workshop, Newport News, VA, October 10, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Extracting the continuum limit of the no-core shell model," Mid-West Theory Get-Together, Argonne National Laboratory, Oct 5-6, 2007.

J. Carlson, "Equation of State and Pairing Gaps in Low-Density Neutron Matter and Cold Atoms," MSU Workshop on Mesoscopic Physics, October, 2007.

T. Papenbrock, "Coupled-cluster theory for medium-mass nuclei," INT program ``Nuclear Many-body Approaches for the 21st Century'', Seattle, WA, October 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Local density functional theory for superfluid fermionic systems:the unitary gas," Argonne National Labooratory, Argonne, IL, September, 5, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Ab-initio no-core shell model," XXX Meeting of the Brazilian Physical Society, Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, September 4, 2007.

P. Navratil, "Light nuclei from chiral EFT interactions," 20th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (EFB20), Pisa, Italy, September 2007.

P. Navratil, "Light nuclei from chiral EFT interactions," 19th Indian-Summer School on Few-Body Techniques and Effective Field Theories, Rez/Prague, Czech Republic, September 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Effective interactions and operators – recent progress in the ab-initio no-core shell model," Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2007, Sinaia, Romania, "Advances in Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics", August 31, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Realistic NN and NNN interactions and the nuclear single-particle basis," Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2007, Sinaia, Romania, "Advances in Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics", August 30, 2007.

G. Arbanas, "Optical potentials from CC Calculations," UNEDF Annual Meeting, Pack Forest, WA, August 13-16, 2007.

C. Bertulani, "Benchmarks with HFODD and EV8_ODD," UNEDF Annual Meeting, Pack Forest, WA, August 13-16, 2007.

J. Carlson, "Equation of State and Pairing Gaps in Low-Density Neutron Matter and Cold Atoms," UNEDF Annual Meeting, Pack Forest, WA, August 13-16, 2007.

P. Möller, "Nuclear Masses," UNEDF Annual Meeting, Pack Forest, WA, August 13-16, 2007.

W. Nazarewicz, "Density Functional Theory: Summary and goals for year 2," UNEDF Annual Meeting, Pack Forest, WA, August 13-16, 2007.

S.C. Pieper, "QMC Results for the Benchmark NN Potentials," UNEDF Annual Meeting, Pack Forest, WA, August 13-16, 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Local Density Functional Theory for Superfluid Fermionic Systems: The Unitary FermiGas," First Annual UNEDF general meeting, Pack Forest, WA, August 12-17, 2007.

R.B. Wiringa, "Dependence of Nuclear Binding on Hadronic Mass Variation," Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, August 1, 2007.

P. Navratil, "Ab Initio No-Core Shell Model Calculations for Light Nuclei," International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," Varenna, Italy, July 17-27, 2007.

S.C. Pieper, "Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei," Two Varenna summer school lectures, Varenna, Italy, July 17-20, 2007.

B.R. Barrett, A.F. Lisetskiy, P. Navratil, I. Stetcu and J.P. Vary, "Developing New Many-Body Approaches for No-Core Shell Model Calculations," International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-body Theories 14 (RPMBT14), Barcelona, Spain, July 16-20, 2007.

D.J. Dean, G. Hagen, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and T. Papenbrock, "Coupled-cluster approach to an ab initio description of nuclei," International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories, Barcelona, Spain, July 16-20, 2007.

D.J. Dean, "Progress and challenges in the theory of nuclei," Gordon Research Conference, Salva Regina University, Newport, RI, July 15-20, 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Local density functional theory for superfluid fermionic systems:the unitary gas," Seminar, Institute de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, France, July 11, 2007.

R.B. Wiringa, "Dependence of Nuclear Binding on Hadronic Mass Variation," Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, July 10, 2007.

P. Möller, "Large-scale calculations of nuclear-structure data for simulation databases," Invited Talk, INT Program 07-2a: Workshop on the Neutron Star Crust and Surface: Observations and Models, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, July 3, 2007.

P. Navratil, "Present status of the no-core shell model," Workshop on Advanced Many-Body Methods for Nuclear Structure, EFT*, Trento, Italy, July 2-6, 2007.

P. Möller, R. Bengtsson, K.-L. Kratz, and H. Sagawa, "Large-scale calculations of nuclear-structure data for simulation databases," LLNL, June 28, 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Induced p--wave superfluidity in asymmetric Fermi gases," Conference on "Recent Progress in the Study of Quantum Gases: theory and experiment," Paris, June 27, 2007.

A.I. Mazur, A. M. Shirokov, J. P. Vary, T. A. Weber, "Spectroscopy of light nuclei with realistic NN interaction JISP," LVII International Conference on Nuclear Physics NUCLEUS-2007, Voronezh, Russia, June 25-29, 2007.

J. Moré, "Optimization in SciDAC Applications," Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Conference, June 24-28, 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Local density functional theory for superfluid fermionic systems:the unitary gas," Seminar, Trimestre Quantum Gases, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, June 21, 2007.

D.J. Dean, "Long-Range Planning for Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics," Jefferson Laboratory Users Group Meeting, Newport News, VA, June 18-20, 2007.

R.B. Wiringa, "Taming the Savage Dineutron and the Miller's Correlation Tail," INT-07-01: Fundamental Neutron Physics Seminar, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 7, 2007.

D.J. Dean, "Progress and Challenges in the Theory of Nuclei," International Nuclear Physics Conference, Tokyo, Japan, June 3-8, 2007.

G.F. Bertsch, "Building a Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional," Invited Talk, SciDAC conference, June 2007.

J. Carlson, "Pairing Gaps in Low Density Neutron Matter and in Cold Atoms," INT Program 07-2a: The Neutron Star Crust and Surface, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle WA, June, 2007.

P. Möller, "Large-Scale calculations of nuclear-structure data for simulation databases," Invited Talk, First CARINA-JINA Collaboration Meeting on "Nuclear Physics Data Compilation for Nucleosynthesis Modeling," Trento, Italy, May 29-June 1, 2007.

H. Olofsson and P. Möller, "Nuclear structure calculations for fission cross sections," T-16 Nuclear Data Discussion, May 21, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Ab-initio and ab-exitu no-core shell model," Changing Facets of Nuclear Structure, Vico Equesne, Italy, May 20-24, 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Why strongly interacting fermion gases are inetresting to a many-body theorist?," Bothe colloquium, MPI Heidelberg, May 16, 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Local density functional theory for superfluid fermionic systems:the unitary gas," Workshop, Many-Body Correlations in Nuclear and other Mesoscopic Systems, NIPNE, Bucharest, May 14, 2007.

D.J. Dean, "The nuclear many-body problem: Challenges of, and vision for an an initio approach: coupled cluster theory," Workshop on Open Quantum Many-Body Systems, ECT*, Trento, Italy, May 14-18, 2007.

A. Bulgac and M.M. Forbes, "Improving the self-consistent calculations of Fermion systems," UNEDF seminar, May 7, 2007.

G.F. Bertsch, "Density Functional Theory in Nuclear Binding and Structure," Colloquium, Argonne National Laboratory, May 2007.

J. Carlson, "GFMC Then and Now in Nuclear Physics," Workshop on the 40th anniversary of GFMC, New York, NY, May, 2007.

P. Möller, R. Bengtsson, K.-L. Kratz, and H. Sagawa, "Large-scale calculations of nuclear-structure data for simulation databases," Invited Talk, Proc. International Conference on Nuclear Data and Technology, Nice, France, April 22-27, 2007.

A. Bulgac, "Local density functional theory for superfluid fermionic systems:the unitary gas," Seminar, Physics, UW, Seattle, WA, April 5, 2007.

P. Navratil, "Applications of chiral NN and 3N interactions to p-shell nuclei," Workshop on Three-Nucleon Interactions from Few- to Many-Body Systems, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, March 12-16, 2007.

T. Papenbrock, "Coupled-cluster theory with three-body forces," TRIUMF workshop on Three-Nucleon Forces, Vancouver, BC, March 12-16, 2007.

R.B. Wiringa, "Light Nuclei and 3N reactions," Workshop on Three-Nucleon Interactions from Few- to Many-Body Systems, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, March 12-16, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Long-range phenomena in the No-Core Shell Model," Workshop on Three-Nucleon Interactions from Few- to Many-Body Systems, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, March 12-16, 2007.

S.C. Pieper, "Ab-initio Calculations of Light Nuclei," Texas A&M Colloquium, College Station, TX, March 6, 2007.

G. Fann, R. Harrison, G. Beylk, et al., "Multiresolution Analysis for Solving Electronic Structure," Joint JUSTIPEN-LACM Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN, March 5-8, 2007.

J. Carlson, "Spin Polarized Cold Fermi Atoms," Workshop on the Intersections of Cold Atom and RHIC Physics, Trento, Italy, March 2007.

D.J. Dean, "Atomic nuclei and mesoscopic science: Challenges to an ab initio approach," presented at the "Femtoscience: from nuclei to nuclear medicine" symposium of the AAAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 15-19, 2007.

S.C. Pieper, "GFMC Calculations of Nuclei," Chicago Town Meeting presentation, Chicago, IL, January 20, 2007.

J.P. Vary, "Ab-initio no-core shell model – an overview," Argonne National Laboratory, January 18, 2007.

D.J. Dean, "The nuclear many-body problem: Challenges of, vision for, an ab initio approach: coupled cluster theory," Three-Nucleon Interactions from Few- to Many-Body Systems, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, 2007-03-12.

For more information on UNEDF, please contact witek@utk.edu
For a popular description of UNEDF, see the SciDAC Review article
For a summary of progress, see the Nuclear Physics News article