This intensive course will provide an introduction to modern ab initio nuclear theory, focusing on fundamental concepts and state-of-the-art computational approaches to the nuclear many-body problem. The course is designed for graduate students & postdoctoral researchers interested in computational methods, nuclear structure and quantum many-body physics.

Contents
1. Introduction to one-body, two-body, and many-body correlations
2. Pairing correlations: going beyond the Slater determinant(s)
3. Nuclear forces (and how to fake them)
4. Ab initio approaches to the nuclear many-body problem: Quantum Monte Carlo
5. Ab initio approaches to the nuclear many-body problem: No-Core Shell Model
6. Computational Lab: solving the BCS gap equations for neutrons (using Chiral EFT forces) and for cold atomic systems

Organizers / Support
This course is an initiative funded by the Catalonia Quantum Academy and organized by the Hadron and Nuclear Physics group at the ICCUB (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, UB). For any questions, please contact: arnau.rios@ub.edu