Speaker
Description
The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence in nuclear structure physics due to the advent of radioactive beam facilities around the world. In parallel, there have been tremendous strides in nuclear structure theory that are able to provide highly accurate predictions from first-principle approaches. New phenomena are being discovered and old paradigms challenged resulting in a much deeper understanding of the interplay of single-particle and collective excitations. In this presentation, I will give an overview of some of the new experimental facilities and their capabilities and examples of structural phenomena that have been revealed over the past two decades. I will also give examples of where nuclear structure impacts tests of fundamental symmetries and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.