Phiala Shanahan - From Quarks to Nuclei: Computing the Structure of Matter (April 23, 2025)

In this Presidential Lecture, Phiala Shanahan will explore the role of extreme-scale computation in bridging particle physics to the scale of nuclear physics through systematic calculations. Specific examples will include the very first examples of first-principles computations of nuclear reactions and new theoretical and experimental work revealing the pressure distribution inside the proton for the first time. Shanahan will also explore the growing role of systematically-exact, physics-informed machine learning approaches in this domain. For more information, please visit: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/even...