Nuclear astrophysics
Lecturer:
Lars Bildsten (KITP/UCSB), The nuclear physics and astrophysics of exploding stars

Seminar speaker:
Jeff Blackmon (LSU), Astrophysical reactions in the laboratory

Hot and dense QCD
Lecturer:
Helen Caines (Yale), Quarks and gluons under extreme conditions

Seminar speaker:
Dam Son (INT/UW), Strongly-coupled theories and universal aspects

Nuclear structure
Lecturer:
Achim Richter (ECT*, TU Darmstadt), The physics of nuclei - some selected examples

Seminar speakers:
Sonia Bacca (TRIUMF), Halo nuclei: theory and experiment
Geoff Grinyer (NSCL/MSU), High-precision nuclear structure experiment

Hadron structure
Lecturer:
Xiangdong Ji (Maryland), Hadron structure: lattice QCD and effective field theory

Seminar speaker:
Haiyan Gao (Duke), Frontiers in hadron structure

Neutrinos
Lecturer:
Petr Vogel (Caltech), Neutrinos and nuclei

Seminar speaker:
Mark Chen (Queen’s), Underground neutrino physics

Fundamental symmetries
Lecturer:
Krishna Kumar (UMass Amherst), Low energy tests of the electroweak theory and its symmetries with leptons, nucleons and nuclei

Seminar speaker:
Vincenzo Cirigliano (LANL), Effective field theories beyond the standard model