Nuclear Effective Field Theory has become quite a popular field,
and we have organized several meetings on various, related issues.
We have organized two specialized workshops:
Nuclear Physics with Effective Field Theory,
held at
Caltech in February 1998,
and
Nuclear Physics with Effective Field Theory: 1999,
held at the
INT in February 1999.
Proceedings of both the
first and
second workshops have been
published by
World Scientific.
They offer a good sample of basic developments in nuclear EFT.
A more general workshop on
The Nuclear Interaction: Modern Developments
that included also other approaches
to the nuclear-force problem took place at the
ECT* in the summer of 1999.
(Pictures!)
A second workshop with the same scope,
Theories of Nuclear Forces and Few-Nucleon Systems,
took place in June 2001 at the
INT.
(Transparencies!)
These were followed by a much longer
INT Program
on Theories of Nuclear Forces and Nuclear Systems in the Fall 2003.
(Transparencies!)
The last meeting in this series was
Workshop on Nuclear Forces and QCD:
Never the Twain Shall Meet?, again at the
ECT*,
in June/July 2005.
A related program on the interface with many-body methods
took place in the Spring 2009,
INT Program
on Effective Field Theories and the Many-Body Problem.
(Talks!)
In October 2010, we focused on halo systems
in the ECT*
Workshop on the Limits of Existence of Light Nuclei.
Nuclear EFT is now part of mainstream Chiral Perturbation Theory, and
is included in the periodic meetings on the subject.
For example, we organized the
Working Group on Few-Nucleon Systems, part of the
Workshop on Chiral
Dynamics, Theory and Experiment, held in July 2000;
and the Session on Chiral Physics of the
International Conference on the Structure of Baryons,
held in March 2002,
both at
Jefferson Lab, Newport News.
A more general meeting spanning various energy scales was the
Program
on Effective Field Theories in Particle and Nuclear Physics,
held at the KITPC
in Beijing, August/September 2009.
Various regions of the phase diagram of QCD were discussed at the
Pan-American Advanced
Study Institute on
New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions,
held in January 2002 in Campos do Jordao, Brazil.
An interesting application of EFT is the prediction
of charge-symmetry breaking in the reactions
pn --> d pi0 and
dd --> alpha pi0.
In order to develop the theory for the latter, we
have organized a series of mini-workshops,
starting with
Mini-Workshop on Computing sigma(dd --> alpha pi0)
and Charge Symmetry Breaking
in August 2001 at the
INT.
The most recent one was the
INT Workshop on Charge-Symmetry Breaking in Few-Nucleon Systems in October 2003.