Uncertainty Quantification in Nuclear Physics

Europe/Berlin
2413/2-430 - MITP Seminar Room (MITP - Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

2413/2-430 - MITP Seminar Room

MITP - Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
40
Description

The studies of the nucleonic systems and the nuclear interaction reveal key scientific connections between phenomena on microscopic and macroscopic scales: from the Standard Model of particle physics and nuclear reactions leading to the creation of the elements, to the equation of state of nuclear matter and neutron stars observed via multimessenger astronomy. Precise and accurate predictions of nuclear observables are called for, along the way. With technological advances and theoretical improvements, nuclear physics is progressively entering a precision era that benefits such studies. In order to improve theoretical explanations and find new experimental designs, assessment of both experimental and theoretical uncertainties is essential. Thus the community of nuclear scientists is working towards the quantification and reduction of uncertainties using different approaches.

The workshop will focus on discussing the challenges and opportunities of this endeavor from different perspectives, including recent progress in chiral effective field theory, many-body theory, and new emulator techniques that facilitate uncertainty quantification. We want to pay special attention to the applications of Bayesian approaches which offer a better framework to deal with uncertainties in nuclear physics.
We aim at providing the community with a forum to learn about new computational tools or ideas from other subfields, so that these can be transferred across subfields and applied to other scientific problems. Among physics questions that require precise nuclear predictions, we plan to address electroweak interactions, tests of fundamental symmetries, as well as the location of neutron dripline across the nuclear chart and the determination of equation of state of nuclear matter.

Contact @ MITP : Dominika Barrington
    • Registration 2413/2-1 - MITP Lounge

      2413/2-1 - MITP Lounge

      MITP - Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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    • Welcome 2413/2-430 - MITP Seminar Room

      2413/2-430 - MITP Seminar Room

      MITP - Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      40
    • 1
      Overview of Uncertainty Quantification for Nuclear Physics
      Speaker: Richard Furnstahl (Ohio State University)
    • 2
      The MESA Physics Chronicles: Precision, perplexities and uncertain tales
      Speaker: Concettina Sfienti (Johannes Gutenberg University)
    • 11:30
      Coffee break
    • 3
      Bayesian methods for uncertainty quantification with complex nuclear-physics models
      Speaker: Christian Forssén (Chalmers)
    • 4
      Recent progress of chiral three-nucleon interactions and applications to nuclei and matter
      Speaker: Kai Hebeler (TU Darmstadt)
    • 13:30
      Lunch
    • 5
      Recent advances in nuclear many-body theory
      Speaker: Alexander Tichai (TU Darmstadt)
    • Coffee break
    • Discussion, share your questions in real-time: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zg4TTE9ZkgI1VhmyES3zCR4jZXI_M2ShBs5irXgz7w4/edit?usp=sharing
    • 6
      Bayesian Truncation Errors and Experimental Design for Compton Scattering
      Speaker: Harald Griesshammer (George Washington University)
    • 7
      Advances and challenges for ab initio calculations of medium-mass to heavy nuclei and nuclear matter
      Speaker: Achim Schwenk (TU Darmstadt)
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 8
      Why modified power counting and does it gives us more predictive power?
      Speaker: ChiehJen Yang (ELI-NP)
    • 11:45
      Lunch
    • Mentoring Event for early-career researchers​
    • 9
      Bayesian estimation of effective field theory parameters and truncation errors
      Speaker: Jason Bub (Washington University in St. Louis)
    • Coffee break
    • Discussion, share your questions in real-time: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zg4TTE9ZkgI1VhmyES3zCR4jZXI_M2ShBs5irXgz7w4/edit?usp=sharing
      • 14:45
        Coffee break
      • 15:15
        Coffee break
    • Physics colloquium: Precision Tests of Fundamental Interactions and Their Symmetries using Exotic Ions in Penning Traps
      Convener: Klaus Blaum
    • 10
      Uncertainty quantification in electroweak reactions
      Speaker: Sonia Bacca (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
    • 09:45
      Coffee break
    • 11
      Recent advances in the description of lepton-nucleus scattering
      Speaker: Noemi Rocco (Fermilab)
    • 12
      Electric dipole polarizability in medium-mass nuclei
      Speaker: Francesca Bonaiti (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
    • 11:30
      Lunch
    • PRISMA+ Colloquium "Uncertainty quantification in nuclear physics"
      Convener: Alessandro Lovato (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • 14:00
      Break
    • 13
      Bayesian uncertainty quantification to nuclear structure effects in atomic systems
      Speaker: Simone Salvatore Li Muli (Chalmers)
    • 15:15
      Coffee break
    • Discussion, share your questions in real-time: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zg4TTE9ZkgI1VhmyES3zCR4jZXI_M2ShBs5irXgz7w4/edit?usp=sharing
    • Conference dinner at Gutsschänke Weyer Mainz
    • 14
      Effects of violation of parity, time reversal and Lorentz invariances in nuclei and tests of unification theories
      Speaker: Victor Flambaum (University of New South Wales)
    • 15
      Uncertainty estimation in low energy fundamental symmetry tests: the case of hadronic parity violation
      Speaker: Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 16
      Uncertainties in lattice QCD spectroscopy
      Speaker: Michael Wagman (Fermilab)
    • 17
      Uncertainty quantification for the nucleon form factors from lattice QCD
      Speaker: Dalibor Djukanovic (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 18
      Uncertainty quantifications for the nuclear equation of state
      Speaker: Hannah Göttling (TU Darmstadt)
    • 19
      Bridging the gap: a Bayesian model mixing approach to the dense matter equation of state
      Speaker: Alexandra Semposki (Ohio University)
    • 15:00
      Coffee break
    • 20
      Bayesian techniques and uncertainty quantification in heavy-ion physics
      Speaker: Sunil Jaiswal (The Ohio State University)
    • Discussion, share your questions in real-time: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zg4TTE9ZkgI1VhmyES3zCR4jZXI_M2ShBs5irXgz7w4/edit?usp=sharing
    • 21
      Nuclear density functional theory: How (un-)certain are its predictions?
      Speaker: Paul-Gerhard Reinhard (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen/Nürnberg)
    • 22
      EDFs for beyond mean-field calculations
      Speaker: Markus Kortelainen (University of Jyväskylä)
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 23
      Implications of neutron skin measurements on neutron stars
      Speaker: Junchen Pei (Peking University)
    • 24
      Nuclear EDFs with pions
      Speaker: Lars Zurek (CEA DAM-Île de France)
    • Discussion, share your questions in real-time: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zg4TTE9ZkgI1VhmyES3zCR4jZXI_M2ShBs5irXgz7w4/edit?usp=sharing