We are delighted to announce the workshop on "Frontiers of ab initio Nuclear Theory", which will be held on Nov 22-Dec 5th, 2026 (Arrival and Registration: Nov 22) at the Central China Center for Nuclear Theory (C3NT) in Wuhan, China. With an anticipated attendance of approximately 40 participants, this workshop will bring together world-leading theorists, computer scientists, applied mathematicians, and experimentalists to: innovate scalable ab initio many-body methods to reach heavier nuclei and describe nuclear reactions; refine chiral EFT frameworks by confronting their predictions with emerging experimental data; develop more robust methods for estimating theoretical uncertainties that account for correlations among observables; search for new physics via precision studies of nuclear matrix elements, such as 0νββ decay, nuclear electric dipole moments and Schiff moments; establish benchmarks for quantum simulator applications in nuclear structure problems; foster systematic synergies between ab initio theory and high-resolution experimental studies.
Registration Fee: The registration fee is 600 RMB per week for each participant and 300 RMB per week for each accompanying family member. For participants attending the full two-week program, the registration fee is 1,200 RMB, or 600 RMB for an accompanying family member.
Participation is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending, please contact the organizers.
Organizers:
James P. Vary (Chair, Iowa State University)
Evgeny Epelbaum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Andrey M. Shirokov (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Takaharu Otsuka (The University of Tokyo)
Giuseppina Orlandini (University of Trento)
Jaume Carbonell (Laboratoire De Physique Des 2 Infinite Irène Joliot-Curie)
Furong Xu (许甫荣, Peking University)
Lisheng Geng (耿立升, Beihang University)
Jiangming Yao (尧江明, Sun Yat-sen University)
Chen Ji (计晨, Central China Normal University)
Xingbo Zhao (赵行波, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xiulei Ren (任修磊, Shandong University)
Peng Yin (尹鹏, Henan University of Science and Technology): pengyin@iastate.edu
