All talks held in the TRIUMF auditorium (click for video recording)
Tuesday, February 26
09:00-09:15 Jens Dilling, Associated Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences, Welcome
Chair: Petr Navratil
09:15-09:45 Kai Hebeler, Status of three-nucleon interactions and a novel normal-ordering framework
09:45-10:15 Hermann Krebs, Symmetry preserving regularization of nuclear forces and currents
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Gaute Hagen, Recent progress in coupled-cluster computations of atomic nuclei
11:15-11:45 Robert Roth, A Practitioner’s View of Next-Generation Chiral Interactions
11:45-14:00 Lunch
Chair: Bruce Barrett
14:00-14:30 Achim Schwenk, Chiral interactions for nuclear matter and medium-mass nuclei
14:30-15:00 Alexandros Gezerlis, Simplified microscopic and effective interactions in Quantum Monte Carlo
15:00-15:30 Stefano Gandolfi, Recent Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of properties of nuclei
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Roland Wirth, Hypernuclear structure with next-generation nuclear Hamiltonians
16:30-17:15 Poster Jamboree (7+3 min each)
Robert B. Baker, Dominant features of nuclei from the ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell model
Thomas Hüther, Chiral Three-Nucleon Interactions: Local vs. Nonlocal
Peter Gysbers, Calculations of neutrino-less double-beta decay matrix elements with consistently evolved transition operators
Patrick Fasano, Robust predictions of electromagnetic ratio observables from NCCI
Wednesday, February 27
Chair: Jason Holt
09:00-09:30 Sarah Wesolowski, Moving forward with Bayesian parameter estimation in chiral EFT
09:30-10:00 Daniel Phillips, Gaussian Processes as Models of EFT Truncation Errors
10:00-10:30 Charlotte Elster, Ab initio effective potentials for NA scattering based on NCSM one-body densities
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Anna McCoy, An ab initio exploration of 12C
11:30-12:00 Matteo Vorabbi, Ab initio calculations for low and intermediate energies nuclear reactions
12:00-14:00 Lunch
Chair Gaute Hagen
14:00-14:30 Evgeny Epelbaum, The charge and quadrupole form factors of the deuteron in chiral effective field theor
14:30-15:00 Dean Lee, Essential Elements for Nuclear Binding
15:00-15:30 Jerry Yang, Applying new power counting of chiral EFT in ab-initio calculations
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Thomas Papenbrock, Addressing shortfalls of pion-less EFT
16:30-17:10 Poster Jamboree (7+3 min each)
Tobias Mongelli, Spectra and Transitions in the In-Medium NCSM
Laura Mertes, Electromagnetic Strength Distributions from the (In-Medium) NCSM
Michael Gennari, Nuclear kinetic density from ab initio theory
Sota Yoshida, Non-parametric Bayesian approach to the extrapolation in configuration interaction methods
Thursday, February 28
Chair Ragnar Stroberg
09:00-09:30 Calvin Johnson, Looking at the Similarity Renormalization Group through the lens of group theory
09:30-10:00 Heiko Hergert, Multi-Reference In-Medium SRG for Deformed Nuclei
10:00-10:30 Takayuki Miyagi, Towards multi-major-shell effective Hamiltonian from IMSRG
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Alexander Tichai, Tensor-decomposition techniques for nuclear many-body theory
11:30-12:00 Pierre Arthuis, Automated generation and evaluation of many-body diagrams
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 TRIUMF COLLOQUIUM Carlo Barbieri, Ab Initio Approaches to Correlations in Nuclei and their Applications
Chair: James Vary
15:30-16:10 Poster Jamboree (7+3 min each)
Julien Ripoche, Spherical reduction of tensor networks in nuclear many-body theory: Automated symbolic angular-momentum algebra
Stefan Alexa, Continuum Extensions of the NCSM: HORSE and ACCC
Javier Hernandez, The Two-Body M1 operator in Light Nuclei
Matt Martin, Tests of ab-initio nuclear theory via the isobaric multiplet mass equation in T = 1 superallowed beta decay systems
16:10-17:40 Poster Session
19:00 Workshop Dinner at Mahony & Sons UBC
Friday, March 1
Chair Robert Roth
09:30-10:00 James Vary, No Core Shell Model With Consistent Electroweak Interactions and Other Recent Developments
10:00-10:30 Takashi Abe, Alpha-cluster structure from no-core Monte Carlo shell model
10:30-11:00 Mark Caprio, Predictions for nuclear rotational structure from ab initio calculations
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Sebastian Koenig, Eigenvector continuation in nuclear physics
12:00-12:30 Corbinian Wellenhofer, High-order nuclear matter calculations with chiral interactions
12:30-13:00 Xilin Zhang, Extract nuclear scattering phase shifts from ab initio energy spectrum calculation
13:00-14:30 Lunch
