28th Annual Midwest Theory Get-Together 2015

Twentieth anniversary of Argonne V18 Celebration, March 27, 2015

We had a one-day celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Argonne V18 potential. Click on the license plate for more information.

Theory Group

Theoretical research in Argonne's Physics Division addresses a broad range of problems involving the structure and dynamics of hadrons and nuclei. There is a strong emphasis on comparison to data provided by experimental groups at Argonne and at other facilities around the world. A brief overview of our program is available here.

In more detail, the principal areas of research include those described below:

• Nuclear astrophysics
• Nuclear dynamics with sub-nucleonic degrees of freedom
• Nuclear forces and nuclear systems
• Heavy-ion reactions and nuclear structure
• Atomic theory and fundamental quantum mechanics

Several of these projects require major numerical simulations using massively parallel state-of-the-art computers, including the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's IBM Blue Gene/Q (Mira) and the Laboratory Computer Resource Center's Linux cluster (Blues). Many projects also involve collaborators at US and foreign universities, and other national laboratories.

Quantum Monte Carlo for Light Nuclei For a cool poster of current results click here.