Speaker
Prof.
Dario Vretenar
(Department of Physics, University of Zagreb)
Description
Studies of nuclei far from stability are at the forefront of modern nuclear science. A wealth of new data from radioactive-beam facilities, the exciting phenomenology of nuclear astrophysics, and recent developments in related fields, have stimulated important advances in theoretical nuclear structure physics, evolving from macroscopic and microscopic models of stable nuclei towards regions of short-lived nuclei close to the particle drip lines. Interesting low-energy phenomena being explored include clustering in light nuclei, modification of shell structures, location of the drip-line in neutron-rich nuclei, shape coexistence and quantum shape phase transitions, low-energy resonances and exotic modes of excitations, the formation and stability of superheavy nuclei.
