Natural Science Seminar with Dr. Raul Briceno, March 12

Dr. Raul Briceno from the University of Washington will give a lecture as part of the Natural Sciences Seminar. The lecture is entitled “Nuclear Physics in Finite Spacetime: What’s symmetry got to do with it?” The talk will take place in the Soo Bong Chae auditorium and begins at 4:00 pm.  The event is free and open to the public.

It is a well accepted fact that the dynamics of nuclear matter are governed by theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Nuclear physics is an incredibly rich field, whose phenomenology has been explored for decades. However, there is still a large gap in understanding the connection between QCD and the basic building blocks of nuclear matter. In this talk, I review the role of symmetries in the construction of theoretical models of bound states of QCD, and discuss how computational calculations can help obtain maximal experimental predictability.